What are you reading?

[Kätzchen]

We have very big rivers here in my hometown area. Sometimes our area is called “Bridge City” or “River City” or any number of ‘river’ type names due to all the many rivers here (Columbia, Willamette, Sandy, Clackamas, Nyberg and Tualatin, etc).

Today I bought a book off of Powell’s Books website. It’s going to be a good read, I think, because it’s written by Robert McFarlane, who is known for his documenting natural history and such.

Link to book: Is A River Alive? https://www.powells.com/book/is-a-ri...-9780393242133

[kittygrrl]

'People can't drive you crazy if you don't give them them the keys' by MB...interesting...i could have used this book 10 years ago

[cinnamongrrl]

I’m currently reading Heathen School by John Demos.

It’s supposed to relate to a school for Native Americans that existed in Connecticut. However, the author seems to be taking the long way around with getting to that point.

The book is for book club, but the topic is interesting.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I'm enjoying reading my subscriptions to The New Yorker and The Atlantic. They both had specials and I caved and got them both.

[easygoingfemme]

I'm reading The Perfect Marriage. I was craving something of a thriller/suck you in type of book to go with this cold rainy week. An advertisement for it popped up yesterday morning on my computer and then when I parked at work, it was sitting on the passenger seat of the car next to me. So I figured that was a sign. It's good! I started it after work yesterday and was almost halfway through it when I went to bed last night. There is a sequel so I think I'm going to need to get that for the long weekend ahead.

[Chancie]

I’m reading Homeseeking by Karissa Chen. It tells the story of two children whose lives come together and apart, and their Chinese and Chinese American experience.

I recently read several books by Lisa See who writes about similar themes. Her books are very compelling, sometimes romantic, often very sad.

I’ve been reading a lot by Kate Atkinson. I really enjoyed Life after Life, very interesting, a tiny bit literary. She’s also written a series of books about a detective named Jackson Brodie. I couldn’t put down Case Histories.

I borrow books from the library and read on the kindle app on my ipad.

Reading is my one weakness.

[easygoingfemme]

Chancie, Homeseeking is in my "to read" list. Are you enjoying it?

[Chancie]

Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

Chancie, Homeseeking is in my "to read" list. Are you enjoying it?

I am enjoying it, but it doesn’t lend itself to reading in between chores since the timeline of the story is not linear.

In the last five minutes, I clicked on a footnote and there’s no obvious way to get back to where I was in the book.

[Kätzchen]

Spoiler alert: Rich Cohen, author of the true life story about Jennifer Dulos, mother of 5 children, and her subsequent death by her extremely toxic husband, is featured in the video below.

I’ve been a victim of two very toxic relationships, and I think the author is brilliant in covering the story of a loving, very smart, mother to her five children. Rich Cohen lived in a nearby town, where everyone is still affected by the fallout of what happened to Jennifer and her five children.

I’m fairly certain I will never part with this book. It parallel’s my own life experience with the exception that I got to live, sadly Jennifer has never been found (but with technological advances, one day we will know).

My heart breaks for Jennifer and her five children. 💔

[Kätzchen]

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I am reading a book by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Atmosphere.


Set against the backdrop of the 1980s NASA space program is a story about the extraordinary lengths of lesbian love… It captures your mind from the very beginning and I’m going to finish reading it tomorrow.


LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...e=articleShare

[cinnamongrrl]

I’m currently reading American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche.
It’s difficult to hear some of these things even now, but the entire book is about perseverance and the tenacity of all the people involved with recovery after the terrorist attack.
The author, from what I understand, was a journalist at that time and was invited along to view the ruins with the engineers who were tasked with asserting the stability of the remaining structure in order to safely demolish or salvage what was left.
Engineering in general has become a huge interest of mine of late. Witnessing the post Helene reconstruction has given it a whole new dimension in my mind.