What are you reading?

Kobi · 01-13-2014, 08:49 AM

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 · 01-13-2014, 08:59 AM

"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 · 01-13-2014, 09:30 AM

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 · 01-14-2014, 08:40 AM

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.

princessbelle · 01-14-2014, 09:03 AM

I am reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy. I know i am slow on the uptake and it's been around a long time.

But. It's really awesome.

Forever a romantic i am.

Fancy · 01-14-2014, 12:57 PM

Reading a bunch of mind-bending stuff for a general semantics class.
Although, I'm getting pulled in by the works of Alfred Korzybski.

For fun, I'm still trying to find time to finish We Are Water by Wally Lamb. Each time I get to pick up the book I feel as though I'm starting over.

Soon · 01-18-2014, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

I taught "The Fault in Our Stars" this semester to a group of Grade 12s. We all loved it!

puddin' · 01-18-2014, 03:29 PM

finished "the goldfinch", by donna tartt mid-week. (tragic story-line, but a decent read)

finished "innocence", by dean koontz this mornin'. (love me some mr. koontz, a good read)

gettin' ready to start "looking for alaska", by john green.

Kobi · 01-18-2014, 01:34 PM

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 · 02-06-2014, 06:44 PM

" The 5 love languages ". by Gary Chapman

deathbypoem · 02-08-2014, 05:18 PM

Following Atticus By Tim Ryan

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

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Cronopia · 02-08-2014, 05:54 PM

The Corrections - Johonthan Franzen

Next is "S" by j.j Abrams and Doug Dorst anyone read it? The format is pretty interesting.

Butterbean · 02-08-2014, 07:18 PM

Psychological Testing, Principles, Applications & Issues.

Kaplan & Saccuzzo

OMG Dry..so very dry

Medusa · 02-08-2014, 08:38 PM

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

01-13-2014, 08:49 AM	#1
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,611 Times in 7,637 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	Feminist nostalgia continues..... 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.

01-14-2014, 08:40 AM	#4
Medusa Mentally Delicious How Do You Identify?: Queer High Femme, thank you very much Preferred Pronoun?: Mme. Relationship Status: Married to JD. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 10,446 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,995 Thanked 42,677 Times in 7,831 Posts Rep Power: 10000026	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. __________________ . . . Buy ButchFemmePlanet Merch Here: https://teespring.com/stores/butchfemmeplanetcom-merch

01-18-2014, 03:29 PM	#8
puddin' Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: a genderqueer nuisance Preferred Pronoun?: bitchboi Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: new zealand Posts: 7,120 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,467 Thanked 7,962 Times in 2,340 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	finished "the goldfinch", by donna tartt mid-week. (tragic story-line, but a decent read) finished "innocence", by dean koontz this mornin'. (love me some mr. koontz, a good read) gettin' ready to start "looking for alaska", by john green. __________________ be true, be you, be brave.

02-06-2014, 06:44 PM	#10
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,528 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	" The 5 love languages ". by Gary Chapman __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

02-08-2014, 05:18 PM	#11
deathbypoem Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Poetically versed to breathe only truth and bleed certainty Preferred Pronoun?: Kane Relationship Status: Married to Chefnaction Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Finally, home Posts: 1,987 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,900 Thanked 4,733 Times in 1,583 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Following Atticus By Tim Ryan [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Following-Atticus-Forty-eight-Extraordinary-Friendship/dp/B00CVDMARU"]http://www.amazon.com/Following-Atticus-Forty-eight-Extraordinary-Friendship/dp/B00CVDMARU[/ame] Seal Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper [ame="http://www.amazon.com/SEAL-Team-Six-Memoirs-Sniper-ebook/dp/B004OA63JE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391901477&sr=1-1&keywords=seal+team+six+memoirs+of+an+elite+navy+ seal+sniper"]http://www.amazon.com/SEAL-Team-Six-Memoirs-Sniper-ebook/dp/B004OA63JE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391901477&sr=1-1&keywords=seal+team+six+memoirs+of+an+elite+navy+ seal+sniper[/ame] __________________ I need your grace To remind me To find my own

01-13-2014, 08:59 AM	#2
Katniss Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Dame, doll, twist, dish Preferred Pronoun?: Ladylike ones Relationship Status: ***** Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: We drink sweet tea here Posts: 2,903 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,654 Thanked 10,371 Times in 2,089 Posts Rep Power**: 21474851	"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.

01-13-2014, 09:30 AM	#3
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,115 Times in 1,103 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	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

01-14-2014, 09:03 AM	#5
princessbelle Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: femme ones Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 6,100 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,380 Thanked 30,497 Times in 5,198 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	I am reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy. I know i am slow on the uptake and it's been around a long time. But. It's really awesome. Forever a romantic i am.

01-14-2014, 12:57 PM	#6
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,083 Times in 2,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Reading a bunch of mind-bending stuff for a general semantics class. Although, I'm getting pulled in by the works of Alfred Korzybski. For fun, I'm still trying to find time to finish We Are Water by Wally Lamb. Each time I get to pick up the book I feel as though I'm starting over.

01-18-2014, 01:34 PM	#9
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,611 Times in 7,637 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	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

02-08-2014, 05:54 PM	#12
Cronopia Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer, Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Florida Posts: 21 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 15 Thanked 33 Times in 10 Posts Rep Power: 518437	The Corrections - Johonthan Franzen Next is "S" by j.j Abrams and Doug Dorst anyone read it? The format is pretty interesting.

02-08-2014, 07:18 PM	#13
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02-08-2014, 08:38 PM	#14
Medusa Mentally Delicious How Do You Identify?: Queer High Femme, thank you very much Preferred Pronoun?: Mme. Relationship Status: Married to JD. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 10,446 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,995 Thanked 42,677 Times in 7,831 Posts Rep Power: 10000026	Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry __________________ . . . Buy ButchFemmePlanet Merch Here: https://teespring.com/stores/butchfemmeplanetcom-merch

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