Objects of Our Desire: Exploring Our Intimate Connections with the Things Around Us
Salman Akhtar

This is a brilliantly written book by a psychiatrist that examines why we hang on to stuff and simply can't part with it for various reasons. He explores our rationale for becoming 'collectors.' Here is a quote from the preface..." We are surrounded by things. We are involved with them, indebted to them. We speak to things and things speak to us. To say that we are interdependent is banal. Let us be courageous. Let us admit it: we are lovers."

Easy, delightful read. I recommend it.

Clockwork Orange

The Firebrand
 

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Firebrand-Marion-Zimmer-Bradley/dp/0451459245"]Amazon.com: The Firebrand (9780451459244): Marion Zimmer Bradley: Books[/ame]

an interesting revision on Kassandra and her family and the fall of Troy

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

a quite queer story of intertwined lives moving backwards in time from 1947 (post war) London.

started it on 11-5-2010
 

Beyond Death, The Gnostic Book of the Dead, What you should know about the Afterlife by Samael Aun Woer

Long Time Fav
 

Francis Scovel Shinn wrote “The Game of Life and How to Play It” in 1925, this classic work focused on positive thought and affirmations, one of my favorite exercises is... When you ask for something from the Universe also ask for it's equivalent, that way you get exactly what your soul needs. We may think we know what that is but the creator knows better.

For some reason I knew you would like this book... I remember the first time I read it... also the second time...

working on [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Hour-First-Believed-ebook/dp/B0018QQQFS/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2"]The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb[/ame]


just finished [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Mentor-Memoir-Tom-Grimes/dp/0982504896/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292343856&sr=1-1"]Mentor A Memoir - Tom Grimes[/ame]


I really enjoyed the writers perspective on this book.

about to start [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephants-Novel-Sara-Gruen/dp/1565125606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292343976&sr=1-1"]Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen[/ame]

Trans Liberation Beyond Pink or Blue
By Leslie Feinberg

I'm reading [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Other-Liars-Amy-Bourret/dp/0312586582"]Mothers and Other Liars[/ame] by Amy Bourret. It's good so far.

three
 

"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
not for the faint of heart, but if you've had
a significant loss you'll understand/supportive
in an intense way...but no more intense then
what you've already been through.

"The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri
the Best

and


"Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
Writing, mysterious, something I am
sinking my teeth into.

I loved "The Year of Magical Thinking."

If you don't mind can you say more about the other two books?

of course
 

" Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich's first novel.

She wrote her latest "Shadow Tag" and was the
book I read first. I wanted to explore all of her
writing so I have gone to her first and will
continue from here. It is about family relationships.

Her writing is as real as it gets.


"The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri is for artists
and art lovers well lovers of the creative
process. I understand he was a loved teacher
of art, and he was a painter.

Enjoy if you pick these up.

Greco

"Soul Friend" by Kenneth Leech

finished Lamb. still haven't started Gruen.

got myself a


I'm always gonna love paper books...even old stinky ones.:glasses:

I'm about to start reading 'Room' by Emma Donoghue

In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite its profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's Room is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Edwidge Danticat

Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
The 1st book is, All the Pretty Horses.
I just started the 2nd book, The Crossing.
The 3rd book is, Cities of the Plain.

Hagakure-Book Of The Samurai--Full Text
It's dope as f**

Portia De Rossi's Unbearable Lightness. It was hard to read. I thought she did an excellent job of describing eating disorders and being closeted.

Holiday Reading: A Friend of the Family: A Novel--Lauren Grondstein (it's good!)

Re-reading (teaching it this month): The Bell Jar--Sylvia Plath