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homoe · 12-18-2017, 12:30 PM

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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
by Katy Tur

I got this book about a week ago and I've picked it up and put it down a couple times. Last night I began to read it in earnest and am finally enjoying it.

This book was good in the way it brought back all the crazy ass thing Trump did and still got elected into office! I liked her humor as well! I'd recommend this book if you ever come across it!

QueenofSmirks · 12-20-2017, 07:25 PM

Series 24 General Securities Principal Exam Manual. I want to pull my hair out.

Fancy · 12-20-2017, 10:13 PM

Upstream
Selected essays

By Mary Oliver

It’s like coming home.

dark_crystal · 12-21-2017, 06:12 AM

I just finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, which has been on my list since 2002

It was AMAZING. I am Earthseed now.

ALSO finishing it put me at 52 books this year, which was my goal

Esme nha Maire · 12-21-2017, 06:49 AM

Aside from working my way through the books Mary Wings wrote after "She came in a flash", "Crash into you" the first of a series of roller derby romances by Diana Morland (only just started it, so far, so good) and various degree-related books, of which I'd like to mention:

- the Royal Horticultural Society A-Z of Garden Plants (OK, not a read so much as an extensive and fascinating source of information - warning - it's very big and heavy!)
- and 'Lower Plants (Anatomy and activity of non-flowering plants and their allies) by C.J.Clegg which is an utterly fascinating, slim but stuffed to the gunwales largish paperback with fascinating information and facts. The stuff on bacteria and viruses and other very small stuff is as interesting as it is horrifying..

Honourable mention to "Thing Explainer (complicated stuff in simple words)" by Randall Munroe (the creator of the XKCD website), which I have been dipping into now and then since it was published. Educational, fun, and a comment on language all in one go - what's not to love?

Orema · 12-21-2017, 07:09 AM

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet by John Branch

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...st-deaths.html

In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year later, to find them and bring them home.

homoe · 12-22-2017, 11:07 AM

Tremble and Burn by Anna Furtado

When Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg arrives in San Francisco from Baltimore in December, 1905, to begin a medical practice funded by wealthy matrons, she’s not only running toward a new life-she’s running away from her old one. Threats from a ruthless brother, who threatened to expose her affair with a woman, make Elizabeth determined not to compromise her reputation as she begins this new phase of her life. All is well, until she meets Maggie Weston.

Maggie, a photographer with a thriving studio on Market Street also harbors a secret, which brought her to San Francisco from Boston a few years before. Her work and her independence are fulfilling. She thinks she doesn’t need anything more in her new life other than her photography that is, until Elizabeth Kellogg walks into her shop.
Just started it but so far so good...

12-20-2017, 07:25 PM	#2
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12-21-2017, 06:12 AM	#4
dark_crystal Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: jenny Preferred Pronoun?: babygirl Relationship Status: First Lady of the United SMH Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,445 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,532 Thanked 26,550 Times in 4,688 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I just finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, which has been on my list since 2002 It was AMAZING. I am Earthseed now. ALSO finishing it put me at 52 books this year, which was my goal __________________

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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 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Upstream Selected essays By Mary Oliver It’s like coming home.

12-21-2017, 06:49 AM	#5
Esme nha Maire Member How Do You Identify?: Tomboyish eccentric antique femme Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: UK Posts: 642 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,196 Thanked 2,078 Times in 541 Posts Rep Power: 19310770	Aside from working my way through the books Mary Wings wrote after "She came in a flash", "Crash into you" the first of a series of roller derby romances by Diana Morland (only just started it, so far, so good) and various degree-related books, of which I'd like to mention: - the Royal Horticultural Society A-Z of Garden Plants (OK, not a read so much as an extensive and fascinating source of information - warning - it's very big and heavy!) - and 'Lower Plants (Anatomy and activity of non-flowering plants and their allies) by C.J.Clegg which is an utterly fascinating, slim but stuffed to the gunwales largish paperback with fascinating information and facts. The stuff on bacteria and viruses and other very small stuff is as interesting as it is horrifying.. Honourable mention to "Thing Explainer (complicated stuff in simple words)" by Randall Munroe (the creator of the XKCD website), which I have been dipping into now and then since it was published. Educational, fun, and a comment on language all in one go - what's not to love?

12-21-2017, 07:09 AM	#6
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Moving in a single file Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,577 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,435 Thanked 34,703 Times in 8,932 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	Deliverance From 27,000 Feet by John Branch https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...st-deaths.html In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year later, to find them and bring them home.

12-22-2017, 11:07 AM	#7
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,558 Times in 14,919 Posts Rep Power: 21474890	Tremble and Burn by Anna Furtado When Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg arrives in San Francisco from Baltimore in December, 1905, to begin a medical practice funded by wealthy matrons, she’s not only running toward a new life-she’s running away from her old one. Threats from a ruthless brother, who threatened to expose her affair with a woman, make Elizabeth determined not to compromise her reputation as she begins this new phase of her life. All is well, until she meets Maggie Weston. Maggie, a photographer with a thriving studio on Market Street also harbors a secret, which brought her to San Francisco from Boston a few years before. Her work and her independence are fulfilling. She thinks she doesn’t need anything more in her new life other than her photography that is, until Elizabeth Kellogg walks into her shop. Just started it but so far so good...