What are you reading?

[ONLY]

Originally Posted by ONLY

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

Finished "Orange Is The New Black" couple of weekends ago and have been reading "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris

[Kätzchen]

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).

[BBinNYC]

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

[Shay McGee]

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.

[Bad_boi]

Almost done with Chamber of Secrets. Going to move onto The Prizoner of Azkaban soonish.

[Sparkle]

I just read Neil Gaiman's 'The Ocean at the End of the World' - it was great, very compelling, a modern day fairytale... of sorts, in that Gaiman dark and twisty kind of way. I read it in a few hours.

I'm still thinking about Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' which was AMAZING!!!

And now I'm not sure what I'll read next...maybe Donna Tartt's 'Secret History' I haven't read it since I was 23.

[Venus007]

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

This is the 2nd book in the Ender series. It is very different than Ender's Game in tone and style. I am enjoying it and OSC still has an economy of word that I enjoy.

[Kobi]

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.

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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.

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Fascinating reading for a snowy day.

[fatallyblonde]

I'm making my way through James Patterson's Alex Cross series... crime thrillers and some ugly stuff going on so I may have to take a break soon for a good Tilly Bagshawe bonkbuster or some chicklit! I recently downloaded over 1000 books with lesbian themes to my kindle so I guess I should tackle those one of these days XD I saw others mention the Sookie Stackhouse books... I read all 13 of them this year - so much fun!!!

[sis]

I'm making my way through "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho ..... slowly, as I need to re-read each piece that I section off to reflect on my life and how it relates to the journey the shepherd is making.

Deb

[Kobi]

Feminist theory from margin to center / Bell Hooks.

Black women: shaping feminist theory -- Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression -- Significance of feminist movement -- Sisterhood: political solidarity between women -- Men: comrades in struggle -- Changing perspectives on power -- Rethinking the nature of work -- Educating women: a feminist agenda -- Feminist movement to end violence -- Revolutionary parenting -- Ending female sexual oppression -- Revolution: development through struggle.

[Katniss]

"Art in Science: Selections from Emerging Infectious Disease" by Polyxeni Potter

The journal's highly popular fine-art covers are contextualized with essays that address how the featured art relates to science, and to us all. Through the combined covers and essays, the journal's contents -- topics such as infections, contagions, disease emergence, antimicrobial resistance -- find larger context amid topics such as poverty and war, the hazards of global travel, natural disasters, and human-animal interactions.

[tapu]

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (new translation!)


Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow


No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture by Andrew Ross

[Medusa]

I read "The Fault in Our Stars" yesterday and this morning and was surprised at the decency of the writing. Loved how the author captured the "otherworld" created with two people in love and two people in love and dying.
A nice, if not heart-jerking read.

John Green seems to be the newest author on my "read everything they've done" list.

"Looking for Alaska" is next. Working at home today and always enjoy a good audiobook while coding. Both sides of the brain engaged! WEE.

[Kobi]

The dance of deception : pretending and truth-telling in women's lives / Harriet Goldhor Lerner

Book List Review


While lying is socially taboo, pretending things are other than they are is not only sometimes acceptable but often encouraged and rewarded. Patriarchal culture teaches women to pretend and sometimes deceive, Lerner says, and in her study of the role this dissembling plays in women's lives, she shows how "pretending reflects deep prohibitions, real and imagined, against a more direct and forthright assertion of self." Lerner uses anecdotal examples to illustrate how and why women show the false and hide the real. Her examples and accompanying discussions cover self-deception, protection of others from painful truths, privacy, and family secrets, and each section clearly points out how deception is incorporated into women's lives and how they can learn to purge it from their behavior. She acknowledges that truth telling is not easy, yet her discussion of the many ways women lie and how lying affects them clearly shows the benefits of honesty and makes her prescription appealing. ~--Lindsay Throm

[JAGG]

" The 5 love languages ". by Gary Chapman

[deathbypoem]

Following Atticus By Tim Ryan

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Seal Team Six *Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper*

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[LoyalWolfsBlade]

In real book form Mo Stars Complete Dark by Stephen King

In Kindle form starting the Deviations Series

[Medusa]

Finished only 3 books in December but they were really good. And because of this thread, I am now reading the following:


Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
by Donnie Eichar

and

James McBride's latest novel: The Good Lord Bird (Aug. 2013)


and my current "fluff" (not necessarily a silly book but something I read on and off in sections) is a vintage Thanatochemistry/Embalming manual. It's a tome at over 500 pages and I skip the mathematical equations for fluid levels but the explanations of restorative art are fascinating.

[Kätzchen]

I too am reading, The Good Lord Bird
(I borrowed it from a friend, recently).


After spending my day out and about, I picked up several books to stash away for reading late at night:

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Annotated Frankenstein (2012).
-- Edited by, Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald L. Levao

Written On The Sky: Poems from the Japanese (2009 edition).
--Translated by, Kenneth Rexroth

Dancing Embers (Twisted Spoon Press, Prague: 2002).
-- Poetry and Prose by an ethnic Hungarian poet who resides in Transylvannia, Romania: Sándor Kányádi.

The Poems of Li Ho: 791-817 (Oxford University Press, 1970).
--Chinese poetry by Li Ho translated by, J. D. Frodsham.