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katsarecool · 11-08-2010, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MrSunshine

The Pilot's Wife ~ Anita Shreve

So far so good.

I love her books!!!! So well written and the way she builds here characters generates concern with the readers.

Kobi · 11-09-2010, 02:57 PM

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris.

Thank to whomever recommended him. I'm enjoying this so far.

LipstickLola · 11-09-2010, 03:36 PM

Ford County, by John Grisham

daisygrrl · 11-12-2010, 06:04 PM

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Chained-Desk-Second-Workaholics-Clinicians/dp/0814775977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289605751&sr=1-1"]Chained to the Desk: A Guide for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians who Treat Them[/ame] by Bryan Robinson.

This is a fantabulous book that I keep on my coffee table; I haven't read it all, yet--but I'm savoring it all. As a teacher (and I consider this to be a "helping profession"), I've always needed help establishing boundaries between work and play.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Where-Hope-Begins-Tragedy--Reporter/dp/B003IWYG84/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289606120&sr=1-10"]Where Hope Begins: One Family's Journey Out of Tragedy-and the Reporter Who Helped Them Make It[/ame] by Alysia Sofios.

Amazing story of trauma--and survival.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/They-Other-Stories-Borzoi-Books/dp/037584323X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_8"]How They Met & Other Stories[/ame] by David Leviathan--how can the world get any lovelier? This is like Mardi Gras for the brain and heart. Damn, I love this author. He's like David Sedaris with a peppermint. Seriously, he's sweet, witty, and...gawd, so adorable. Don't forget his [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Meets-David-Levithan/dp/0375832998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289606514&sr=1-1"]Boy Meets Boy[/ame]. Both of his books that I've mentioned will make absolute heart-warning Valentines' gifts.

Sending my love out to all you bibliophiles!

socialjustice_fsu · 11-12-2010, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Kobi

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris.

Thank to whomever recommended him. I'm enjoying this so far.

Sedaris is a writer that has consistently massaged my every emotion. His storytelling is amazing. For me, I would go from tears to really laugh outloud episodes that literally scared my cats off of the couch. Make SURE you read When You Are Engulfed In Flames. Let me know your critique of his writing style. ~ T.

Wryly · 11-12-2010, 06:36 PM

The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

EnderD_503 · 11-12-2010, 08:44 PM

Losing Control: Canada's Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights by Tom Warner

socialjustice_fsu · 11-15-2010, 01:05 AM

Still Alice
Lisa Genova, author.

This book focuses on a 50 year old Harvard Professor of Psychology Linguinstics. She begins to have some unusual symptoms that lead her to the diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's disease. It follows her descent into forgetfulness, the loss of her dignity and so on. This is a must read for anyone that may be genetically loaded for this disease or if you are caring for anyone in the middle stages of this dreaded diagnosis.
Although the character is fictional the disease facts and the sequential events as the disease progresses is factual. The book has a most unusual ending.

This is worth the time, money and energy to read. I highly recommend it.

afixer · 11-17-2010, 08:09 AM

The Kite Runner -Khaled Hosseini

this book made me cry. loved it.

just finished The Girl Who ___ series. loved it too.

nycfem · 11-17-2010, 08:47 AM

I am reading 'Unbearable Lightness' by Portia de Rossi. This is a memoir of her life with a focus on modeling, Hollywood, family issues, and her eating disorders. What an intense and well-written book. She really pours her soul into the pages. Celeb books are always questionable but this one feels genuine and shows talent.

nycfem · 11-17-2010, 06:49 PM

Oh, and it's also about coming out as a lesbian and being married to Ellen DeGeneres, of course!

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Originally Posted by nycfembbw

I am reading 'Unbearable Lightness' by Portia de Rossi. This is a memoir of her life with a focus on modeling, Hollywood, family issues, and her eating disorders. What an intense and well-written book. She really pours her soul into the pages. Celeb books are always questionable but this one feels genuine and shows talent.

little_ms_sunshyne · 11-17-2010, 07:27 PM

On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex

(for the second time lol)

Outlaw · 11-25-2010, 06:33 PM

Letta Neely [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Here-Poetry-Letta-Neely/dp/0966309758"]Here[/ame]

Friday Nights

Mona nibbling neck in the restroom at the theatre.
Lisa didn't think she would make it
through dinner and a movie without coming.
Mona take her food into her mouth slow, she chew slow,
she smile when she chew. She take in every
taste, look up a Lisa. Swallow when
she ready. Smile again. Chew.

Some Friday nights, Lisa
don't wear no panties.
Some Fridays she like
it when Mona rip 'em off
and she got to search
the Sunday ad pagers
for lingerie sales. Some
Fridays she put Mona's dick
and harness in her purse.
Tell Mona to hold her purse while
she go to the restroom. Tell Mona
her breath stank and to check in
there for some chewing gum or something.
Some Fridays, Lisa flirts with every butch
around while Mona watches. Some Fridays,
she let Mona dance with other femmes,
just so she can interrupt,
take her sweet daddy back
behind the coat rack,
give her something special
special, 'fore they
get home.

katsarecool · 11-25-2010, 11:38 PM

An Indecent Obsession by Collen McCullough~ my alltime favorite author. Written in 1981, this neurologist turned writer can really get into the characters and make them come alive and so human. She also wrote the Thorn Birds a huge bestseller and later made into a movie that was a big hit. This story is about a nurse in the mental ward of a hospital in the South Pacific after WWII; she and all the patients are from Australia and she works her way through their healing and her own.

Colleen also wrote a series of books about Rome; First Man Of Rome, Grass Crown, Ceasar's Women, etc. Seven or eight in all that really capture Rome and it's most famous citizens in all their glory!

Soon · 11-25-2010, 11:42 PM

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Loved-You-Would-Tell-This/dp/1400068576"]If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This.[/ame]

One of the best short story collections I have ever read (and I am not usually a fan of short fiction!).

JakeTulane · 11-25-2010, 11:56 PM

Night - by Elie Wiesel

Knock Out - Catherine Coulter

Awearness (yes that is how it is spelled) - Kenneth Cole

DamonK · 11-26-2010, 12:54 AM

Almost done with "An Interview with a Cannibal: Armin Mewin". Um, it's interesting. It's creepy.

Fixing to start "Holocaust: Eastern Jewry".

Bit of a story: In past 8 wks or so, we've had 10 residents pass away. The last one was a bitter blow for me. So, I'm not a fan of religion, but...picked up a bible, started thumbing through it. It's interesting. So I'm reading that too.

aldebaran · 11-26-2010, 02:04 AM

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

The fascination with Cleopatra has endured through the centuries and Stacy Schiff has written this Pulitzer Prize winning biography that does the most famous woman of the ancient world justice. A brilliant read.

katsarecool · 11-26-2010, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by aldebaran

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

The fascination with Cleopatra has endured through the centuries and Stacy Schiff has written this Pulitzer Prize winning biography that does the most famous woman of the ancient world justice. A brilliant read.

oh I want to read this!!!

katsarecool · 11-29-2010, 03:30 PM

Re-reading The Girls Sappho Goes To Hollywood by Diana McLellan. I love this book! Again! The story revolves around Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Tulluah Bankhead and the women who loved them. Large selection of amazing photograhps as well

11-09-2010, 02:57 PM	#382
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 34,662 Times in 7,652 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris. Thank to whomever recommended him. I'm enjoying this so far. __________________

11-12-2010, 06:04 PM	#384
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 528 Times in 224 Posts Rep Power: 1065209	right now... [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Chained-Desk-Second-Workaholics-Clinicians/dp/0814775977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289605751&sr=1-1"]Chained to the Desk: A Guide for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians who Treat Them[/ame] by Bryan Robinson. This is a fantabulous book that I keep on my coffee table; I haven't read it all, yet--but I'm savoring it all. As a teacher (and I consider this to be a "helping profession"), I've always needed help establishing boundaries between work and play. [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Where-Hope-Begins-Tragedy--Reporter/dp/B003IWYG84/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289606120&sr=1-10"]Where Hope Begins: One Family's Journey Out of Tragedy-and the Reporter Who Helped Them Make It[/ame] by Alysia Sofios. Amazing story of trauma--and survival. [ame="http://www.amazon.com/They-Other-Stories-Borzoi-Books/dp/037584323X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_8"]How They Met & Other Stories[/ame] by David Leviathan--how can the world get any lovelier? This is like Mardi Gras for the brain and heart. Damn, I love this author. He's like David Sedaris with a peppermint. Seriously, he's sweet, witty, and...gawd, so adorable. Don't forget his [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Meets-David-Levithan/dp/0375832998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289606514&sr=1-1"]Boy Meets Boy[/ame]. Both of his books that I've mentioned will make absolute heart-warning Valentines' gifts. Sending my love out to all you bibliophiles! __________________ 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

11-25-2010, 06:33 PM	#393
Outlaw Member How Do You Identify?: Cocksure Preferred Pronoun?: Cotton Candy Swami Relationship Status: Loved and Loving Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Home Posts: 241 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 966 Thanked 498 Times in 126 Posts Rep Power: 6766756	JP Letta Neely [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Here-Poetry-Letta-Neely/dp/0966309758"]Here[/ame] Friday Nights Mona nibbling neck in the restroom at the theatre. Lisa didn't think she would make it through dinner and a movie without coming. Mona take her food into her mouth slow, she chew slow, she smile when she chew. She take in every taste, look up a Lisa. Swallow when she ready. Smile again. Chew. Some Friday nights, Lisa don't wear no panties. Some Fridays she like it when Mona rip 'em off and she got to search the Sunday ad pagers for lingerie sales. Some Fridays she put Mona's dick and harness in her purse. Tell Mona to hold her purse while she go to the restroom. Tell Mona her breath stank and to check in there for some chewing gum or something. Some Fridays, Lisa flirts with every butch around while Mona watches. Some Fridays, she let Mona dance with other femmes, just so she can interrupt, take her sweet daddy back behind the coat rack, give her something special special, 'fore they get home. __________________ All Rivers Lead To The Sea... Last edited by Outlaw; 11-25-2010 at 06:40 PM. Reason: pigish perfectionist

11-25-2010, 11:38 PM	#394
katsarecool Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her, Woman Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Between Athens and Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 1,236 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,849 Thanked 1,765 Times in 734 Posts Rep Power: 323365	An Indecent Obsession by Collen McCullough~ my alltime favorite author. Written in 1981, this neurologist turned writer can really get into the characters and make them come alive and so human. She also wrote the Thorn Birds a huge bestseller and later made into a movie that was a big hit. This story is about a nurse in the mental ward of a hospital in the South Pacific after WWII; she and all the patients are from Australia and she works her way through their healing and her own. Colleen also wrote a series of books about Rome; First Man Of Rome, Grass Crown, Ceasar's Women, etc. Seven or eight in all that really capture Rome and it's most famous citizens in all their glory! __________________

11-25-2010, 11:42 PM	#395
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,118 Times in 3,391 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	just finished this--so good!! [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Loved-You-Would-Tell-This/dp/1400068576"]If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This.[/ame] One of the best short story collections I have ever read (and I am not usually a fan of short fiction!).

11-09-2010, 03:36 PM	#383
LipstickLola Member How Do You Identify?: Happy Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: planet Earth Posts: 682 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,679 Thanked 1,597 Times in 433 Posts Rep Power: 5678216	Ford County, by John Grisham

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11-15-2010, 01:05 AM	#388
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11-17-2010, 08:09 AM	#389
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11-17-2010, 08:47 AM	#390
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11-17-2010, 07:27 PM	#392
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11-25-2010, 11:56 PM	#396
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11-26-2010, 02:04 AM	#398
aldebaran Junior Member How Do You Identify?: trans dude Preferred Pronoun?: he, him, uncle, brother, amigo, paisano Relationship Status: confirmed batchelor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Orlando Posts: 26 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 19 Thanked 18 Times in 10 Posts Rep Power: 530168	Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff The fascination with Cleopatra has endured through the centuries and Stacy Schiff has written this Pulitzer Prize winning biography that does the most famous woman of the ancient world justice. A brilliant read. __________________ "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye." -Stephen King (Roland Deschain/The Gunslinger)

11-29-2010, 03:30 PM	#400
katsarecool Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her, Woman Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Between Athens and Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 1,236 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,849 Thanked 1,765 Times in 734 Posts Rep Power: 323365	Re-reading The Girls Sappho Goes To Hollywood by Diana McLellan. I love this book! Again! The story revolves around Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Tulluah Bankhead and the women who loved them. Large selection of amazing photograhps as well __________________