I was wondering, is that fiction, or non-fiction?

I'm reading The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts by Hanne Blank.

I just started this book last night, and am digging it so far. This is not a cheerleading book. There are no chants of "rah rah! You can lose that weight!" And thank goodness. Aren't there enough books like that already? There's no guilt tripping here, or promises of how much fun it will be, as if fun exercise is some secret I've somehow missed out on.

What this book does well is to offer the radical idea that fat bodies have just as much right to be in motion as any other body (this sounds like it should be obvious, but the glares I've gotten at the gym and the paltry selection of exercise clothes in my size have told me otherwise). This book offers sample goals that are internally driven, and aren't based on peer-pressure and pack mentality that so often dominates fitness books. Most intriguing of all, exercise is presented as a protest act. As a punk rocker (albeit aging), this idea is incredibly appealing.

And tomorrow, I'm going to buy an activity tracker. So fuck off, society! :mohawk:

It is historical fiction set in Germany during the later half of WWII (1941-1944), approximately. And it's written in a somewhat unusual style, with an unusual narrator.

I've not yet seen the film adaptation.

Frankly, I can't imagine how they'll portray some parts and I'm not ready to find out just yet because the magic and beauty of the book is still with me.

I'm a read first, watch later purist, in most cases

Ive spent the last two days reading The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, it's 3 am and I just finished it (and I have to get up in less than 4 hours argh, why did I not put it down)

Either way, I hate it. And I love it. Why! Why did it have to end like that! Why Hall! How could you!

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Tomorrow is going to be balls. Not only will I be tired I'll be constantly haunted by the ending :readfineprint:

I just finished Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy a couple days ago (for the 23421978th time) and am almost done with The Invisible Ring, from the same world.

:stillheart: :stillheart: :stillheart:

Today I received my long awaited cookbook.... Wildly Affordable Organic.

The author conceived the idea of the book when she accepted a challenge to live and eat well on the amount of money the government gives for food stamp benefits.

She found that its actually possible to eat well on under 5 dollars a day. And enjoy nourishing meals at that. All her tricks and secrets of success are in this wonderful book.... :)

author: Linda Watson

Currently reading Soccer vs the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics

Just started it, but looks like it's going to be a good read.

I just started reading Walden....

I didnt know til I started reading it that this book has inspired world leaders...(Ghandi was mentioned). I have found life altering wisdom...and Im not even that far into it....
Thoreau says things that Ive thought and could never word so eloquently....the greatest of which... that we spend more time doing than just BEING....Im going to make a more concerted effort to just BE.... :)

Currently reading 3 books.

Almost finished with "Stolen Innocence" By Elissa Wall

Still reading:

Secrets from the southern living test kitchens :)

Azar Nafisi: Things I've been silent about


They are super thus far

Royal Maladies: Inherited Diseases In The Ruling Houses of Europe. It traces hemophilia (a bleeding disorder) from Queen Victoria through her carrier daughters and into their sons, unfortunately who were heirs to the thrones of Russia and Spain, and close relatives to the German Kaiser. Then it traces porphyria (a metabolic disorder of the blood) from George III of England all the way back to Henry VI, whose bouts of madness led to the Wars of the Roses. The royal lines of Europe were already in bad shape due to marriages of close relatives, and diseases such as these weakened them further just as revolution came.

I'm reading John Muir's Wilderness Essays :)

Half way through "From Dead To Worse" by Charlaine Harris

Winter Tale by Paul Auster

and The Cat who came for Christmas!

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"A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."

This is a first novel that has garnered high praise and I can see why. It is also quite understandable that his second book is poetry. I am relishing this, (started yesterday, will finish today) exceptionally well crafted.

:reader:

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
 

This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.

Women are not small men : life-saving strategies for preventing and healing heart disease in women by Nieca Goldberg MD

Until very recently, no book like this could have been written, because all the knowledge, research, and treatments concerning heart disease were based on findings in men. For too many years, the medical establishment was ignorant of women’s unique needs and physiology and looked upon women as simply “small men.”

But women are not small men. It is now understood that our physiology is very different from that of men, especially when it comes to heart disease. Our hearts are proportionately smaller, and when we develop the first signs and symptoms of heart disease, we are usually ten years older than men. Consequently, to be effective, heart disease prevention and treatment programs for women must be different from those for men.

I started reading Walking the Appalachian Trail by Larry Luxenberg

Its a compilation of various hikers' experiences while traversing the AT.

Im (mentally) training to hike it someday :)

Currently not reading anything b/c I am anxiously waiting my new books!

One of them is called Saving Cinnamon. Can't wait to get my hands on that one!

Also, Church of Lies. Should be interesting.

I've been reading the book "You Don't Know Me but you don't like me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and my misadventures with two of music's most maligned tribes" by Nathan Rabin

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I picked it up for the ICP factor (Insane Clown Posse). I always get a kick out of Juggalos (the lifestyle devotees and followers of ICP). I'm not into Phish, so I skipped around and read only the ICP chapters. The book is a non-fiction book where Nathan follows both bands (in person with their other followers) for a few years and writes about it. I loved the ICP chapters as I thought I would. I found him to be such a good writer for those chapters that I decided to even read the Phish chapters. I got through a few but ultimately got too bored due to not being into Phish. I'm glad I read the Phish chapters, though, because he is simply a cool writer. I enjoyed his description of the role of psychadelic drugs in the fanbase of Phish. I liked how in the book he did not observe but fully integrated himself into the experience with both bands (including taking the drugs). Perhaps my favorite thing about the book was the reactions it got me as I held it and read it on my subway commute. It has a neon cover that says in big letters: "You don't know me but you don't like me." I felt like everyone was drawn to reading that cover. It was kind of funny. I do recommend this book. It was informative, interesting, well-written, weird, and very, very funny. The author had a fucked up childhood in a foster care group home, and I think that informs his experience of identifying with other misfits who find a community of band followers that make life meaningful.

Just Walking: The Zen of the A.T.
-James C. Purdy

"American Gods" Neil Gaiman

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
by Allie Brosh

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche

I Ching
as translated by Taoist Master Alfred Huang

Should be in the news section here at BFP but no time for a search ... hopped on for just a few seconds to provide this link.

I am fuming ...


News article:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/08/us...ml?c=us&page=0



Reparative therapy???

I'm checking out an app that seems to be pretty good. It provides summaries of current non-fiction books written by real editors so that you can get a good idea of the salient points of the book or to decide you want more and go ahead and buy it.

I think it would be great for transit commuting or waiting rooms. Knock out a book or two on a commute. I'm trying it on the three day free trial, it is a little pricey to subscribe but there are a variety of levels to choose from.

It's called Blinkist.

that sounds awesome... I am a chronic non fiction reader....I will bestow upon you the best compliment Ive ever received. "You're smart like McGyver!!"

I've been called a lot of things... But McGyver is probably the best!

I've read two summaries so far (they take 15-20min) and have decided that "The Signal and the Noise" is going to graduate to my pick up at the library and read the whole thing list. Also, "The Power of Full Engagement" looks like a re-hash of a bunch of other books so I'll pass. :glasses:

How cool. I only read non-fiction and a lot of it so do let us know what you end up thinking!

I just finished reading Mary Roach's Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, and now understand why she has been called America's funniest science writer. Personally, I have now lost any romantic notions about space travel, and I know far more about it than I wish I did. Roach's research goes beyond dilligent, yet her writing is accessible, and entertaining. I laughed out loud so many times, I lost count.

I look forward to reading her other titles - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.

Love love love her. Don't forget Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal!

Stiff remains my favorite- I even taught a class on it a few years back :)

"Uganda Be Kidding Me" - Chelsea Handler

I'm about 80% through Dean Kootz "I.P.O' on my Kindle, an early birthday gift from a friend

A biography...
 

Hard wiring Happiness

Also editing/proofing a friend's book.