I am reading The Hunger Games. I rarely read fiction. The ten year old in my life loved this book and asked me to read it. Not exactly riviting for me but, I am very glad to see that a young woman is smart, strong, hero. And, I am touched that the 10 year old wants to share something meaningful to her with me.

the pleasure of reading
 

"Deep Survival" by Laurence Gonzales

"Surviving Survival" by the same author

Read these two this past week and tonight I
am re-reading "Final Gifts" by Maggie Callanan
and Patricia Kelley

Yes, the themes are death, dying, surviving survival
and above all and in all categories...resilience.

What deep pleasure I get from reading...like holding
subtle, and heart-wrenching conversations with intelligent
and sensitive others.

Life is good. Greco

By Wednesday, I hope to be reading a biography about Lincoln's early life. Seeing the movie made me want to read alll about him....

I can't wait to be able to read again just in general. Without the clawing headaches that follow... :)

<<< happy girl..if not a wee bit trepidatious

:eatinghersheybar:

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"Marnie and her little sister, Nelly, are on their own now. Only they know what happened to their parents, Izzy and Gene, and they aren't telling. While life in Glasgow's Maryhill housing estate isn't grand, the girls do have each other. Besides, it's only a year until Marnie will be considered an adult and can legally take care of them both."

hp4
 

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Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, written
by Anne Lamott.

This book is written in the usual Lamott style of dissecting the way we communicate with a Higher Being. She brings the three essential prayers to life as only she can do. This is an easy read as far as time...however, processing of the content can be a bit more tedious. Somehow she weaves the content in such a way one comes away thinking...she just read the thoughts in my head.

Anne Lamott glows again with the publishing of this jewel.

Everything I can get my hands on! <3

I'm reading a childhood favorite right now...The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Before Green Gables.
It's the story of Anne Shirley ( of Green Gables), before she was adopted and brought to Prince Edward Island.

Reading
 

Dancing the Dream-Jamie Sams ( a book on 7 spiritual paths of Native Americans)

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond.

I'm a big fan of Diamond's and I liked this book. It received a lot of negative reviews, and I think one of the issues is that his previous books, while non-fiction, focused on much more dramatic content.
They were entertaining and yet one didn't need an anthropology degree to understand them. The World Until Yesterday has more of a textbook vibe than Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel.

The Laws of Spirit by Dan Millman

The Stand...by Stephen King...only about the 50th time I have read it :blush: but I swear, every time I pick it up, I read something that I don't remember being there the time before...kinda like when you have driven the same route on your way to work forever and something suddenly pops up and you wonder...well when the heck did they build that, or how long has that been there? and someone in the truck with you says...Ohhhh that has been there forever...well holy crackers...I never seen it before...hahahahaha makes me kinda feel dumb, but surely I'm not the only person this happens to, or maybe I am and just don't realize it :|

Fire by Midnight by Lisa Marie Wilkinson

I am currently re-reading a favorite book:

The Color of Water:
A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
(James McBride, 2006; Riverhead Books, New York)


From the New York Times Book Review:

"Complex and moving... suffused with issues of race, religion, and identity. Yet those issues, so much a part of their live and stories, are not central. The triumph of the book - and their lives - is that race and religion transcended in these interwoven stories by family love, the sheer force of a mother's will, and her unshakeable insistence that only two things mattered: school and church....
It's her voice - unique, incisive, at once unsparing and ironic - that is dominant in this paired history, and its richest contribution.... The two stories, son's and mother's, beautifully juxtaposed, strike a graceful note at a time of racial polarization," (The New York Times Book Review).

I happened upon Charlie Rose about two weeks ago and his guest was article and short story writer George Saunders.

His latest publication, In Persuasion Nation, is what I am currently reading.

So far the serious social commentary laced with natural humor has me cracking it open every evening.

I know it may sound pompous of me, yet it's not how I mean it, but few things hold my interest and very rarely, at that, fiction. So, I am quite pleased that I picked this one up.

:)

~Bleu