What are you reading?

Enigma · 06-01-2010, 11:04 PM

D. H. Lawrence and the Body Mystical
by Frederick Carter

at this moment... this passage:

"...mysticism is the means through which man seeks within himself the secret springs of life that are common to all things alive, existing in the greatest as in the least. It seeks, too, the very extent of life, finding a kinship and the stirrings of a mutual state of being in unsuspected places. Contemplative, the mind withdraws from too close contact, the better to envisage the rushing stream of existence..."

Venus007 · 06-01-2010, 11:29 PM

The Children of Hurin
By JRR Tolkien as compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien

Martina · 06-02-2010, 12:36 AM

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. i think she lives in Ann Arbor. Pretty engrossing. Vampires and research in old archives.

Kätzchen · 06-13-2010, 12:58 PM

Bernard, Ted. (2010). Hope and Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.

rawk · 06-13-2010, 01:03 PM

Severed book about the Black Dahlia murder.

daisygrrl · 06-19-2010, 09:31 PM

I just finished reading Martha O’Conner’s Bitch Posse. Yes, it unequivocally challenges what “chic lit” is—by its preface and conclusion, and it’s “content.” It’s been about three hours since I completed the novel, but I’m still impassioned. And maybe not in the best of ways. Yes, I adored the characters, the plot (or, rather, the supposed, dramatic “pinnacle”)— I predicted. But, I felt depressed and angered during the entire ordeal [and I choose the word “ordeal”] of reading the novel—and maybe that was the point. The novel, to me, feels like a compilation of Duncan Lois (Killing Mr. Griffin and Daughters of Eve, in particular) and any one of Carol Oates’ pieces [I’m thinking of her short story, “Where are you going, Where have you been?”—one of my favorites, in particular]. I’m aggravated, I think (in particular), because I expected to feel empowered by reading this text; instead, I feel like I’ve listened to an entire oeuvre of a music artist and still none-the-wiser—about the artist or myself. Maybe I expect too much from fiction, but I am totally dismayed.

Aggravated bibliophile (or am i just all punk?!),
D---

Gemme · 06-19-2010, 09:43 PM

My housemate brought me a book from the library called Signspotting, because I like stuff like this. Basically, it's what it sounds like....spotting odd/weird/unusual/funny/etc signs.

Some of my faves thus far:

Promised Land: CLOSED
Evacuation Route--Not a Through Street
Forest Closes at 11:00PM
Caution: Please Be Aware that the Balcony is not on Ground Level
To Feed Fish Please Lay Down and Reach for the Water
Dead Peoples Things for Sale
Barf Bed & Breakfast
Toilet ----> Stay in Your Car

The last book she brought home for me? I Haz a Hotdog, the canine version of Lolcatz.

Miss Scarlett · 07-04-2010, 12:28 PM

Elie Wiesel's "And the Sea is Never Full, Memoirs, 1969 - " the follow up to the first volume of his memoirs "All Rivers Run to the Sea."

How I would love to spend a few hours talking with this amazing man.

Fancy · 07-06-2010, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ALovelyKiss

Bernard, Ted. (2010). Hope and Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.

I've read the reviews and this looks like a great read. What do you think so far?

Kätzchen · 07-11-2010, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Freckle-K

I've read the reviews and this looks like a great read. What do you think so far?

Hi there! I just saw this tonight!

Well, the book itself showcases a series of miniature environmental case studies from different regions in the US.

The Bernard (2010) text supplemented the core reading list for my CST 591 Environmental Communication Studies class. At the end of our course, our professor sought out class opinion about whether to keep this book as part of the readings list. I feel that this text is a great resouce; other students felt it should be dropped. It's written from a sociological perspective and not too many understand that type of applied lens. We had students from various disciplines in our class - so this might be a reason why some students felt the way they did.

Bernard's (2010) compilation of various community issues is a snap-shot approach. He gives as much background as possible to each case presented. For example, the case offering on the Wisconsin tribe of the Menominee was useful because here in Oregon we have a similar situation: land issue disputes between two confederated tribes (The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs) and how policy -in the past and present- drawn around gaming, landuse, or other problematic economic issues they face as stakeholders, in a ten-year long dispute process that is very complicated.

I learned a lot about how people come together to solve situations/dilemmas that affect communities and felt this book was indispensible in my learning process!

Thanks for asking me about the book!
Have you read it as well, daisy???

Jesse · 08-08-2010, 09:39 PM

The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics - Working on The ScrewTape Letters for now.

I received this book as a Christmas present and am just now getting around to really reading it.

Fancy · 07-06-2010, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Martina

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. i think she lives in Ann Arbor. Pretty engrossing. Vampires and research in old archives.

It took me awhile and a few attempts to get started with this book (it seemed overly descriptive, long, and rambling). However, once I did get deeper into the book it was well worth it. Enjoy!

The JD · 12-12-2011, 08:37 PM

Count me in for another fan of The Hunger Games. Can't wait to see the movie in the Spring! Disturbing series, especially considering it's for young adults. I got to the end and still couldn't figure out if it was a comedy or a tragedy (you know, in the classic meaning: is there redemption or not?). It's not often I find that.

And... since everyone* on this site writes like David Foster Wallace (at least according to another thread), I'm re-reading his fantastic book of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.**

JD

* Except me
** Maybe if I include more footnotes, my writing will pass for his too...

Glenn · 12-19-2011, 09:51 AM

Just finished Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada"- 626 pages of exquiste and wonderful writing...could'nt let it go...it took me a week to finish reading..it took him a lifetime to finish writing. It was about this great writer's life living among the elite upper class, and his awesome love for Ada.

puddin' · 12-19-2011, 10:15 AM

"a game of thrones" ~george r. r. martin (book 1 in a set)

Sachita · 07-04-2010, 12:54 PM

Mahabharata by Krishna Dharma

leatherfaery · 07-04-2010, 01:40 PM

My Dark Places by James Ellroy

Random · 07-04-2010, 01:42 PM

Chapter House Dune

Get Thin from the inside Out

How to outwit a cat

Dummies guild to Mentalpos..

Miss Scarlett · 07-04-2010, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by leatherfaery

My Dark Places by James Ellroy

I haven't read this one but I have read his first novel "The Black Dahlia". These two works are somewhat related in that the murder of his mother led to his interest in the Elizabeth Short murder. Have you read "The Black Dahlia"? I'd be interested in your comments on the relationship between the two books/murders.

Semantics · 07-05-2010, 05:23 PM

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Passage-Justin-Cronin/dp/0345504968"]The Passage by Justin Cronin[/ame]

It's so deliciously disturbing.

06-01-2010, 11:29 PM	#2
Venus007 Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Serene Highness ;} Relationship Status: Dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Houston area Posts: 1,362 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,417 Thanked 4,745 Times in 1,139 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	The Children of Hurin By JRR Tolkien as compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien __________________ . "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. " Ayn Rand, Anthem "So you'll die happily for your sins. You'd rather die in guilt then live in love?" Timothy Leary

06-13-2010, 01:03 PM	#5
rawk Junior Member How Do You Identify?: queer Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: engaged Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Seattle Posts: 20 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 0 Thanked 25 Times in 11 Posts Rep Power: 63	Severed book about the Black Dahlia murder. __________________ "If you're alright, then I'm alright. And I don't care if everyone knows."~Joan Jett/Kenny Laguna

06-19-2010, 09:31 PM	#6
daisygrrl Member How Do You Identify?: mouthy but adorable; kinky Gerbera Preferred Pronoun?: hey, cutie (or dudette) Relationship Status: xoxo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The South (Gooogia peach) Posts: 475 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,157 Thanked 524 Times in 223 Posts Rep Power: 1065211	I just finished reading Martha O’Conner’s Bitch Posse. Yes, it unequivocally challenges what “chic lit” is—by its preface and conclusion, and it’s “content.” It’s been about three hours since I completed the novel, but I’m still impassioned. And maybe not in the best of ways. Yes, I adored the characters, the plot (or, rather, the supposed, dramatic “pinnacle”)— I predicted. But, I felt depressed and angered during the entire ordeal [and I choose the word “ordeal”] of reading the novel—and maybe that was the point. The novel, to me, feels like a compilation of Duncan Lois (Killing Mr. Griffin and Daughters of Eve, in particular) and any one of Carol Oates’ pieces [I’m thinking of her short story, “Where are you going, Where have you been?”—one of my favorites, in particular]. I’m aggravated, I think (in particular), because I expected to feel empowered by reading this text; instead, I feel like I’ve listened to an entire oeuvre of a music artist and still none-the-wiser—about the artist or myself. Maybe I expect too much from fiction, but I am totally dismayed. Aggravated bibliophile (or am i just all punk?!), D--- __________________ You can’t change that system by just getting your own rights, tinkering with the engine and leaving. You have to take on the whole machine. --Riki Anne Wilchins Hold on to the lessons, let go of the pain. --Leslie Feinberg

06-19-2010, 09:43 PM	#7
Gemme Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM' Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The roads are narrow here Posts: 36,631 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 182,498 Thanked 107,907 Times in 25,665 Posts Rep Power: 21474889	My housemate brought me a book from the library called Signspotting, because I like stuff like this. Basically, it's what it sounds like....spotting odd/weird/unusual/funny/etc signs. Some of my faves thus far: Promised Land: CLOSED Evacuation Route--Not a Through Street Forest Closes at 11:00PM Caution: Please Be Aware that the Balcony is not on Ground Level To Feed Fish Please Lay Down and Reach for the Water Dead Peoples Things for Sale Barf Bed & Breakfast Toilet ----> Stay in Your Car The last book she brought home for me? I Haz a Hotdog, the canine version of Lolcatz. __________________ Gemme's Journal I'm misunderestimated.

08-08-2010, 09:39 PM	#11
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06-01-2010, 11:04 PM	#1
Enigma Junior Member How Do You Identify?: ~ & ~ Relationship Status: Enchanted Join Date: May 2010 Location: The Edge of Eternity Posts: 53 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 384 Thanked 169 Times in 48 Posts Rep Power: 82	D. H. Lawrence and the Body Mystical by Frederick Carter at this moment... this passage: "...mysticism is the means through which man seeks within himself the secret springs of life that are common to all things alive, existing in the greatest as in the least. It seeks, too, the very extent of life, finding a kinship and the stirrings of a mutual state of being in unsuspected places. Contemplative, the mind withdraws from too close contact, the better to envisage the rushing stream of existence..."

06-02-2010, 12:36 AM	#3
Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,284 Times in 4,166 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. i think she lives in Ann Arbor. Pretty engrossing. Vampires and research in old archives.

06-13-2010, 12:58 PM	#4
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: As a very feminine woman. Relationship Status: Busy dating a special someone here at home Join Date: May 2010 Location: In a small community Posts: 16,265 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,369 Thanked 33,632 Times in 10,724 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	Bernard, Ted. (2010). Hope and Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.

07-04-2010, 12:28 PM	#8
Miss Scarlett Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: . Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: . Posts: 5,530 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,478 Thanked 12,947 Times in 3,419 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Elie Wiesel's "And the Sea is Never Full, Memoirs, 1969 - " the follow up to the first volume of his memoirs "All Rivers Run to the Sea." How I would love to spend a few hours talking with this amazing man.

12-12-2011, 08:37 PM	#13
The JD Be the Fearless Bunny How Do You Identify?: Hers. Preferred Pronoun?: he Relationship Status: Medusa’s Snake Charmer Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: This must be the place. Posts: 649 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,740 Thanked 2,676 Times in 540 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Count me in for another fan of The Hunger Games. Can't wait to see the movie in the Spring! Disturbing series, especially considering it's for young adults. I got to the end and still couldn't figure out if it was a comedy or a tragedy (you know, in the classic meaning: is there redemption or not?). It's not often I find that. And... since everyone* on this site writes like David Foster Wallace (at least according to another thread), I'm re-reading his fantastic book of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.** JD * Except me ** Maybe if I include more footnotes, my writing will pass for his too... __________________ I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. ~Flannery O'Connor

12-19-2011, 09:51 AM	#14
Glenn Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Ol butch bones. Preferred Pronoun?: Old thing Relationship Status: Too old to play. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: :rolleyes: Posts: 1,547 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,602 Thanked 3,729 Times in 1,095 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Just finished Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada"- 626 pages of exquiste and wonderful writing...could'nt let it go...it took me a week to finish reading..it took him a lifetime to finish writing. It was about this great writer's life living among the elite upper class, and his awesome love for Ada.

12-19-2011, 10:15 AM	#15
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07-05-2010, 05:23 PM	#20
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