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I will be picking up,"The Red Tent" from the library today.
I have wanted to read it for quite some time now. It's supposed to rain all weekend, so reading the days away will be a guilt free indulgence! |
i love the red tent! hope you enjoy it :)
just started feminism for real edited by jessica yee and loving it so far. |
I just finished [ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161218281X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=anisoptera-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creative ASIN=161218281X"]"Getting Dunn" by Thomas Schreck[/ame]. It was a mixed bag for me. Strong female ex combat vet but she cries--all the time. I will want to read the next if there is one. I guess this goes down as one of those summer beach reads.
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Re-reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert.. I am not going in sequence, but have read all of them a few times, so I can pick up on the story pretty quick, lol.. Love the series and am wanting to read more of the prequels, but haven't taken that plunge yet.
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I am reading "the Picture of Dorian Gray". I saw the movie on Netflix a couple of weeks ago... This is usually how I stumble across good classic reads.
I love Dune, TenderNight, and have also read Dune Messiah. I have and love the Sci-Fi's version of the Dune movie and won't lend it out to anyone. I need to check out one of the used book stores around here and see if I can trade in for some more of the series. I am currently on a "absolute necessity" with books, as I tried to kill myself moving them last year. |
Plain Wisdom: An Invitation into an Amish Home and the Hearts of Two Women
Cindy Woodsmall & Miriam Flaud |
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The Dune series is awesome.. Wait until you get to "God Emperor of Dune".. It will blow your mind :) The scope of the books is HUGE, and it's cool because it all follows along the main story arch. Enjoy! :) |
The Covenant of Genesis by Andy McDeemott
*** it's an adventure series. |
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I'm currently reading Bitterblue, the 3rd book in the Graceling series. I also have the first four books of Fire and Ice loaded on the Kindle when I get done with this book. |
The novella _Albert Nobbs_ by George Moore. This 1913 novella has key elements that were changed for the film with Glenn Close. It is a good quick read.
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I just finished Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir). There were certainly some laugh-out-loud phrases and anectdotes, but overall, I found it lacking. Jenny Lawson is best known as a blogger ("The Bloggess") who writes snarky and self-referential posts about being caught in (and creating) embarrassing social situations. This sounds like the perfect reading material for a David Sedaris enthusiast (me), but Lawson's snippy blog-style writing just doesn't translate to a longer work. I never really got engrossed in the tales of her manic life; instead, it was more like a stand-up comedy act, complete with SENTENCES IN ALL CAPS where she's actually screaming the one-liners from the page. She constantly got detoured off the main narrative, then made detours off the detours... I felt like I needed a flow chart to keep up.
If you love her blog, you'll probably love her book... but the reason the blog-style of writing works for blogs is because they're meant to be short and irreverent, and it's okay to throw in non sequiturs because each post is less than 500 words. But for a 300 page memoir? Time to modify the writing style. ** Warning: Shameless self-promotion to follow** Now I'm reading Deaf American Prose: 1980 - 2010 (Gallaudet Deaf Literature Series), a collection of essays by Deaf and Hard of Hearing authors. It's a terrific anthology, though I admit I'm biased since I'm one of the authors. |
How about what book am I NEVER reading? Anything else by Orson Scott Card. And that's hard because I really liked his work. Until I read this. He's entitled to his opinion. I'm also entitled to mine. :fastdraq:
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I am currently reading The Twelveth Transforming by Pauline Gedge......fictionalized Egyptian history.....Child of the Morning is an amazing book by the same author
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Academically Adrift by Richard Arum it"s a compelling book, that sure clears up alot of nagging questions, reinforces what I already suspected.
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Thank you for the link on Orson Scott Card, I just had to pull out this quote from the article. "In fact, the scientific evidence we have points in the opposite direction: Same-sex attraction is not a strait jacket; people's desires change over time; gay people still have choices; a reproductive dysfunction like same-sex attraction is not a death sentence for your DNA or for your desire to have a family in which children grow up with male and female parents to model appropriate gender roles." The words "reproductive dysfunction like same-sex attraction" caught my eye and then some. This article is sure to raise some eyebrows and rub people the wrong way. Julien |
Heroes For My Daughter - Brad Meltzer What a sweet book. Love the people he picked as heroes to teach his daughter about life and the power of the human spirit. Short, to the point, stories of the accomplishments of a wide variety of women, men, and kids. |
Trying to finish A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
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Holiness, Truth and the Presence Of God
~by Francis Frangipane |
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