What are you reading?

Chancie · 02-11-2013, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by dark_crystal

I just finished Game of Thrones

and am really really jonesing for the next book: but I have a book club book (The Big Burn) plus the new Jen Lancaster and the new John Green that people are really bugging me to discuss with them

also a big stack of stuff for graduate seminar in British Enlightenment Literature

What I am looking for here is for someone to tell me

"Go ahead and plow through the entire Song of Ice and Fire series- book club can wait, Enlightenment Literature can wait, John Green can wait, and Jen Lancaster can wait"

Is there anyone out there available to do that for me?

You may read books about Fire and Ice after you've finished your homework, and not one minute sooner.

:missy:

JinxieB · 02-12-2013, 03:07 AM

The Stand...by Stephen King...only about the 50th time I have read it

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

DamonK · 02-12-2013, 03:52 AM

Fire by Midnight by Lisa Marie Wilkinson

Kätzchen · 02-12-2013, 02:24 PM

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).

Bleu · 02-12-2013, 03:03 PM

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

Fancy · 02-13-2013, 05:52 AM

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Life-Memoir-Farming-Food/dp/1416551611"]The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love[/ame]
by Kristin Kimball

It almost started out like a romance novel, but thank goodness it went beyond that and I'm currently learning more about farm implements and the milking process than I ever thought possible. So far it's quite inspirational; the tenacity of people united with a dream.

Soon · 02-13-2013, 06:03 AM

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02-12-2013, 02:24 PM	#4
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: May 2010 Location: @ home with my granddaughter, chosen friends & family. ツ Posts: 16,127 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,540 Thanked 33,551 Times in 10,667 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	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). __________________ “Move in silence: Only speak when it’s time to say checkmate,” ~ Lorenzo Senni.

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02-12-2013, 03:07 AM	#2
JinxieB Junior Member How Do You Identify?: lesbian...soft butch Preferred Pronoun?: she/her Relationship Status: married Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 70 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 254 Thanked 242 Times in 60 Posts Rep Power: 2792218	The Stand...by Stephen King...only about the 50th time I have read it 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

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Bleu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Bleu Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: @ home Posts: 2,771 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,565 Thanked 2,699 Times in 733 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	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

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