Just finished Code Blue, A Katrina Physicians Memoir
By Richard E Deichman MD

Love that play but always wish more had been done with Berneatha. I wonder if she made it to med school.

Reading Heart of Darkness. I haven't read it in 20 years so its like reading it for the first time again. Not as interesting as I thought I remembered though.

Rufus

Stephen King's Desperation & Under the Dome
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Coroner's Reports: 1896-1935, Monroe County, Indiana

http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/indiana_room/coroner.pdf

So many sparse stark stories:

08/15/1932 COX, Willis H. 83, 5'11"/200 Suicide by drinking carboric acid. He became furious with his daughter-in-law Arizona Cox, and they had a quarrel. After the quarrel, he went to his room and swallowed the poison.// Nothing of value

There I was wasting away at PerezHilton when I could have been reading coroner's reports.

I wonder what that means? :confused:

Desperation is one of my favorite SK books
:popcorn:

I wanted a Kindle sooooo bad. :( I didn't get one but I have a mini laptop and downloaded Kindle for PC. I LOVE it because I can get books instantly and adjust the font size HUGE making it so much easier for me to read. I still want a Kindle.

so I'm reading a lot these days.

I am now reading Debbie Fords "21 Day Conscious Cleanse" excellent book. I've been having a really tough time the past few months and this is really helping me a lot.

another I'm also reading now is Living in Costa Rica. I want to figure out a way to live part of the year here and part there. I dream about Costa Rica all the time. It keeps calling me.

I have that book. I've read it a couple times, and I feel the same way. It was different at 17 than it is at 37.

Have you seen the movie? "Apocalypse Now". I think it's the movie that has changed the book for me.

And now 'The End' by The Doors is stuck in my head! LOL.


I'm reading over my instructors manual for, Adult, child, and infant first aid, CPR and AED, for a class I have to teach in a couple weeks. Helps to brush up and keep my times in check.

I haven't seen that film, but need to/want to. I forgot how heavy handed the symbolism is in Heart of Darkness. A very dark book but very true. I realized that it still remains popular because we can apply this book and its themes to a lot of what happens today.

I've got the two women knitting with black wool stuck in my head and keep thinking about hounds of hell and gatekeepers of hell. This image is getting mixed up with images from Paradise Lost and the woman/dog hounds of hell stuff that Milton used. Urgh no wonder I didn't sleep well last night. I've got Kurtz, hounds of hell and black wool running round in my head. So remind me what's so uplifting about reading again :)

Rufus

I feel the same as Ryobi--Apocalypse Now helped change how I viewed Heart of Darkness. Conrad's novella is, like Rufus says, pretty heavy handed with the symbolism; the film helped me put all that abstractness into more "real" terms ("The Horror!").

And, if you ever get the chance to see it, I encourage you to watch the mini-documentary by Francis Ford Coppola (and his Ex-wife Eleanor) that they made during the turbulent filming. Between mortgaging everything they owned to make the film, numerous health crises (Sheen almost had a heart attack), a typhoon, and difficulties with Brando, doubled filming time (and six hours of tape to edit)--the film truly was a labor of love.

The new editions of the film probably (and if it doesn't, it should) include the documentary :)

selections from Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face--an excellent read & really wonderful to discuss with others

Alice Walker's “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”--a lovely short piece where Walker discusses her childhood trauma and how it shaped her identity

I am franticly re-reading The Data Valentine stories..

I'm on the last book... To Hell and Back..

Homer's Odyssey By Gwen Cooper

Very good book about a woman who rescued a blind kitten and her life with him. I was totally moved by this book..truly heartwarming story

More info here
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Homers-Odyssey-Gwen-Cooper/dp/038534385X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264438382&sr=1-1"]Amazon.com: Homer's Odyssey (9780385343855): Gwen Cooper: Books[/ame]

Well worth reading for cat and animal lovers

Let's make that the Dante Valentine..

The Franchise Babe-Dan Jenkins

My book club decided they finally wanted to read "The help" so I am re-reading...which i don't mind a bit since it is a wonderful book...and well worth several re-reads.

The sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith is wonderful ...light reading, pleasurable,,make you smile,,make u giggle, make you get a tissue....

Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark, nonfiction, Wonderful easy to read economic history of the world...not dry but not another "Freakanomics" It is better and gives you a comfortable understanding why things that r happening are happening.

Re-Reading Idiot America - How stupidity became a Virtue in the land of the free by Charles Pierce... with all the hate mongering and ignorance being spewed these days it is worth re-reading.....i wold recommend to anyone trying to understand all the current churning of the hate in america directed at everyone and everything that is not just what conservative elitists desire.

So that is it for the weekend, my book budget is expired until monday....so i shall probably find 3 or 4 other things on the gutenberg project to download and read....free books there!

The only things I have been able to read really in the past 6 months is text books for school. But, man, you never know how much you really don't know until you are back in school. It is making me feel like an idiot, really. rofl

Such a romantic.

I'm re-reading a few right now, including:

*[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Interrupted-Susanna-Kaysen/dp/0679746048/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265555785&sr=8-1"]Girl, Interrupted[/ame] by Susanna Kaysen. The memoir is different from the film, which are brilliant in their own rights. This book also makes a great gift.

*[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Gracefully-Insane-Americas-Premier-Hospital/dp/1586481614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265555823&sr=1-1-spell"]Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital[/ame] by Alex Beam is a wonderful investigation into McLean, the mental institution where notables--such as Sylvia Plath, James Taylor, & Susanna Kaysen--visited for treatment. The discussion on (and interviews concerning) 1960s youth culture at McLean is particularly insightful.

I adore Sedaris--and I'm encouraged to hear that you enjoyed Engulfed in Flames because several die-hard Sedaris fans have been less than thrilled. Even though I planned to read it months ago, I'm hoping for the summer now--when school's "out" (lol).

This is going on my reading list!

How awesome! Writing is work.

It's very cool that the amount of paranormal books these days are rising (since it used to be very difficult to find a decent and well researched book years ago).

What I'm reading:
*student papers
*my writing
*(for class, re-read) Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" (freaky!)
*job announcements

Chapterhouse..the last book by Frank Herbert in the Dune series...its a barn burner and i dont want it to end so im savoring the last 100 pages lol

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I really liked this book, a very interesting topic plus a quick and easy read.
I laughed so hard at times one of my co-workers felt compelled to check on me.

I just finished Dead and Gone - the latest in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I must say, I like Eric better in the books than in the show, TrueBlood.

I also just finished a lovely read called Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. It is a lovely look at the 1930's and a beautiful story of the bond of two sisters.

I just started Namah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey. For those who aren't familiar, her Kushiel series is probably in the top 2 of my all time favs. Doesn't hurt that the heroine in the Kushiel's is an anguisette (pain bearer = masochist) and that Carey creates a very tangible world. Its not often I can get absolutely absorbed in a book, and I literally could not put the first six down.

I am also reading Angel Time by Anne Rice. If I am not mistaken, its her first novel since her husband's death and I'm not quite sure it has the same "voice" as all her previous works.

Lit by mary Karr. I love her. The Liar's Club is one of my all time favorite books.

2 books at the moment
 

Ayn Rand ~ Atlas Shrugged

&

Sara Barron ~ People are Unappealing: Even Me
(this book cracks me up!)

Currently reading Money to Burn by James Grippando.

Up next is Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell, a Scandinavian crime writer.

Women Food and God an awesome book! anyone with weight issues or addictions should read this book.