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The Interestings: A Novel
Amazon: An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013: This knowing, generous and slyly sly new novel follows a group of teenagers who meet at a summer camp for artsy teens in 1974 and survive as friends through the competitions and realities of growing up. At its heart is Jules (nee Julie, she changes it that first summer to seem more sophisticated) Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress who comes to realize she’s got more creative temperament than talent; her almost boyfriend Ethan Figman, the true genius in the bunch (he’s a cartoonist); musician Jonah Bay, son of a famous Baez-ish folksinger; and the Wolf siblings, Ash and Goodman, attractive and mysterious. How these five circle each other, come together and break apart, makes for plenty of hilarious scenes and plenty of heartbreaking ones, too. A compelling coming of age story about five privileged kids, this is also a pitch-perfect tale about a particular generation and the era that spawned it. --Sara Nelson |
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10-20-2013, 07:48 PM
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Last night I finished "To Kill A Mockingbird" and started "Orange Is The New Black" Just as I enjoy a variety of music, anywhere from Bee Gees to Three doors down to Lionel Richie to Linkin Park, I have been enjoying a variety of very different books
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Just to briefly share, tonight:
I have no idea what's up with me lately, but I did not finish the last two books I attempted to read: "Bride of Lammermoor" or Alice Arden's, "She Took To The Woods." I did not enjoy either book. But I forgot that I subscribed to a reader's list, a "Tip Sheet", supplied to me by: Publisher's Weekly. I have been browsing reading materials found on two different lists and thought I would leave links for them tonight, in case anyone else might see something interesting to read. Link no. 1 ~>>> The Big Indie Books of Fall 2013 Link no. 2 ~>>> The 20 Best Books in Translation You've Never Read On either link above, a person can find tabs for: News, Authors, Reviews, Best Sellers, International, Opinion, and other items that might be interesting to learn more about.
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UGH! My reading is in a slump this past week!
Finished a rather boring Kaplan LSAT book. Finished "Dr. Sleep" by Stephen King. It was entertaining but "thin" in places. Finished "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois. Heavy. Beautiful. I just cracked "We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency" by Parmy Olson. Also have this one going: "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State" by Dana Priest
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10-21-2013, 12:21 AM
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Timothy Ferris, Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Astronomers are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe |
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10-21-2013, 07:43 AM
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I've just started "[ame="http://www.amazon.com/And-Mountains-Echoed-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/159463176X"]And the Mountains Echoed[/ame]" by Kahled Hosseini
As with his other books this is an engaging read, from the get-go. snip/ An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand LOVED it!!! If you haven't read by all means please do...
I just picked up (finally) A Train In Winter by Caroline Moorehead, I have been looking for this book for sometime now and finally found it in paperback form.
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11-02-2013, 09:50 AM
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Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude - Joerg Rieger and Kwok Pui-lan
"Occupy religion aims to demystify and debunk religious doctrines and social teachings that provide both religious sanction and justification for economic and social inequality. It critiques religions institutions and structures that silence, discriminate, and marginalize people because of class, race, gender and sexuality, and thus hand the power to the 1 percent. Occupy religion calls religious communities to account and asks them to engage critically in transforming the world to make it just for all and sustainable for the environment."
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Update: Finally finished Memoirs of a Geisha. Took long enough. The movie was awesome, but like all its predecessors, the book is far better.
Currently attempted to read :Tell no one:. And....... I'm bored. But I'll see where it goes.
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Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson
(Days Ahead, The Madness of Lady Bright, This is the Rill Speaking, Say De Kooning) and Parfumerie adapted by E.P. Dowdall (From the Hungarian play Illatszertár by Miklós László) And...on my reading to do list: Divergent by Veronica Roth Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins |
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Juicy Books.
"Running & Being" by George Sheehan, M.D.
This classic finally re-printed...he was a poet in sensibility and his writing has been missed. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami juicy, juicy, juicy writing. Greco |
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The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer Looks like it will be one of those guilty pleasure books because it's not my typical genre to read.  Also reading... As Texas Goes...:How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins This one is biting and fun and scary and true. Love Gail Collins! Last edited by Fancy; 08-19-2015 at 01:27 PM. |
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James McBride's latest novel: The Good Lord Bird (Aug. 2013).
I was a friend's house recently and saw McBrides' book laying on the coffee table and picked it up, browsing the introductory pages and asked if I could borrow it to read. I don't ordinarily read novels but was his first book (The Color of Water) impressed me deeply, so I wanted to explore his latest book. I'm reading it slowly... not just turning page after page, but more along the lines of filtering the story from my own life's narrative, which is not without bias, but I'm attempting to read it from the authors' perspective, with the idea possibly centering around unspoken, least heard perspective, historical narratives that often are not talked about. Like in the book Unholy Night (Seth Grahame-Smith, 2012): Another book, novel, a re-telling of an iconic historical event, via a creative intrepretative approach. Which was a very good book. I'm reading both books (actually).
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More Good Lesfic to Add to Your Reading List
I posted before that I've been reading a lot of lesbian fiction and wanted to add some titles I'm not sure I listed before:
Letters Never Sent by Sandra Moran Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter Miles to Go and Scapegoat, both by Amy Dawson Robertson BBinNYC
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I just finished The Enchanted World... The Book of Christmas. This book seems to cover about every angle of the history behind this holiday. It is amazing how much as sprouted out of that wintry gloom of Scandinavia. I learned that the most common gift in the old days were candles.
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Almost done with Chamber of Secrets. Going to move onto The Prizoner of Azkaban soonish.
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All about love : new visions / Bell Hooks.
Everyone who has witnessed the growth process of a newborn child from the moment of birth on sees clearly that before language is known, before the identity of caretakers is recognized, babies respond to affectionate care. Usually they respond with sounds or looks of pleasure. As they grow older they respond to affectionate care by giving affection, cooing at the sight of a welcomed caretaker. Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients-care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. Learning faulty definitions of love when we are quite young makes it difficult to be loving as we grow older. We start out committed to the right path but go in the wrong direction. Most of us learn early on to think of love as a feeling. When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them, that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called "cathexis." In his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting or neglecting them. Since their feeling is that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love. -------- All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all. Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame. ----------------- Fascinating reading for a snowy day. |
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