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Only Revolutions: A Novel
by Mark Z. Danielewski


I loved House of Leaves, but I'm struggling not to abandon this one. I don't mind going down a rabbit hole, but I prefer to be dragged in or kicked from behind instead of just slowly being bogged down with pockets full of blather.
Sometimes less truly is more.

re-reading
 

Dry--Augusten Burroughs

Honeymoon with Harry by Bart Baker the movie will be out soon !!! It's a good read :) I highly recommend it !!!!!

I read it, loved it, and now I'm listening to the unabridged audio version of it read by Augusten. it's a powerful addiction memoir, mixed with dark humor, and I just love his voice.

I've just finished 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire

and currently on my nightstand are the following selections:

Italo Calvino, 'Invisible Cities'
Sarah Waters, 'The Night Watch'
A.S. Byatt, 'The Matisse Stories'
Margaret Atwood, 'The Penelopiad'
Jane Hamilton, 'A Map of the World'
Jussi Adler-Olsen, 'The Keeper of Lost Causes'
Alice Hoffman, 'The Doverkeepers'
Carol Birch, 'Jamrach's Menagerie'

some in varying states of started, most accrued from my last trip to the Montague Bookmill ("Books you don't need in a place you can't find" is the tagline)

I'm not sure which to start/re-start next.

Started "Full Dark, No Stars" by Stephen King yesterday morning and just finished. It's classic King with all the creep factor. This one was hard because it was particularly violent in places but still had his famous "catharsis through adversity" thing.

Going to go ahead and get a few pages into "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression" by Andrew Solomon before I nod off.

I love Stephen King I will have to check that one out !!!! Thanks :)

In addition to A Monk's Alphabet (by Fr. Jeremy Driscoll), I came across some other books I had and thought I would read from them again (for pleasure).... I found:

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek (by Annie Dillard)

and

Zen and The Birds of Appetite (by Thomas Merton)

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the summer reading challenge at the library. I ended up winning a raffle of a couple books, and a Bath & Bodyworks gift card. So, now taking a break and giving my eyes a rest (ha - not!). :)

Reading one of the raffle prizes:
Death by Killer Mop Doll by Lois Winston

It's cheesy.

super interesting!
 

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Whip-Smart-Memoir-Melissa-Febos/dp/0312561024"]Whip Smart: A Memoir[/ame]

Febos's candid, hard-slogging debut about her four years working as a dominatrix at a midtown Manhattan dungeon cuts a sharp line between prurience and feminist manifesto. Having grown up on Cape Cod, Mass., then dropped out of high school before moving to New York City and enrolling in the New School in the fall of 1999, Febos slipped into drug use and needed a way to finance it. An attractive law-school graduate neighbor in her Brooklyn apartment building mentioned that she worked as a domme, and Febos decided to give it a go. She spanked grown men, professionals, fathers, and rabbis, sometimes inserted enemas, sodomized them with dildos, and otherwise verbally humiliated them, all for $75 an hour, plus tips. At first, Febos managed the grueling, unsavory work while high on heroin and cocaine, and gained a tremendous sense of confidence, even invincibility at being able to justify her livelihood as one of the few well-paid acting gigs in this city. In time, she also became addicted to her job; she eventually joined AA to help get clean of drugs, but kicking her addiction to sadomasochism was harder, and in this emotionally stark, excoriating work, Febos mines the darkest, most troubling aspects of human interaction. (Mar.)
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Congrat's to you Fancy for winning the reading prize award!


Soon, that book of yours is exactly something I would read:
Febos' journey into slaying her own person dragons is in itself
a courageous act, harrowingly fine tuned to her own complicity.


How excellent the good news is that friends bring! :)

*C h e e r s & Good Morning*

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It's Even Worse Than It Looks - How the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism.

Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein


Going to need more zantac for this one.

Just wanted to leave another note here tonight:

I came across Gilbert King (author of: Devil in the Grove) a few months ago when headline news broke across America about Trayvon Martin - who was robbed of his life in a gated community in Florida.

I highly recommend this book and it is a book I am keeping in my growing archive on literature pertaining to Race, Power & Privilege.

For those of you who are interested:

Gilbert King maintains a blog (found here), supplies updates on his FB page and travels to university and college campuses to speak about racism in America and promote his book.

I bought his book this past spring when it became available for purchase out here on the west coast. His book has been reviewed by The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune - as well as authors such as Kevin Boyle, Wil Haygood and Ira Katznelson.

Here's an excerpt about the book, provided by Amazon.com:

Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in an explosive and deadly case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.

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The Castle -Franz Kafka
I don't recommend reading Kafka.... yet I do:|

Vanish - Tess Gerristen

Its part of the Rizzoli and Isles series (although started reading it before seeing the series). They usually follow the same formula but, it works and keeps me reading.

Oooooo. I didn't know there were books. I got into the tv show this summer. Cool.

School is back in session, and all pretense of reading anything even slightly demanding is gone.

Back to comfort food literature.

Currently, The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea.

It may be a bad sign that I am already reading children's literature.

I am very grateful for this forum thread and for all the people who share their reading materials here.

*Thank You*

I'm still working with all the recent materials I have listed and as well, I have been participating more in our community here. Thank You to members here who share about things in their life and your mindset too.

I learn so much from all of you and feel less lonely in life because of your efforts in our community.

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*treats for our book club readers *

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