Somebody in here, and I can't for the life of me find that post again, recommended a book by Pema Chondron (a buddhist teacher). It must have been the right time for me to see that, I am now reading a second book by her; "Taking the Leap" and enjoying it.

I am also having a re-read of Dr Joel Fuhrmans two book set, "Eat for Health". It stresses a high micronutrient approach to eating.

Getting back on track would seem to be a theme this month. :thinking:

Confederacy of Dunces. Again.

knick-knack.
 

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100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment
Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales.
That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total — making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way.
But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination?

finished living in liberation by cristien storm and the road to assisi by paul sabatier. both were amazing. now reading the reluctant saint, another book about st. francis - it's iffy so far. the author tries to remove all the legendary hagiography stuff which i appreciate to some degree, but the writing makes me cringe.

you should read this... i enjoyed it.



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Wow. What an incredible story (never knew this):

from Amazon:

"The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb’s suggested revisions, Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a box. Years later he suffered a mental breakdown, took a two-month journey across the United States, and finally committed suicide on an inconspicuous road outside of Biloxi. Following the funeral, Toole’s mother discovered the manuscript. After many rejections, she cornered Walker Percy, who found it a brilliant novel and spearheaded its publication. In 1981, twelve years after the author’s death, A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize."

I am currently enjoying The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson, the first book in the Walt Longmire series! The tv show is great, but per usual, the books are better!!!

something fun....
 

the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by michelle alexander. i might have posted about it in here before...i started and stopped it in july and i'm picking it back up :) i agree with a lot of the criticism that exists about the book that she ignores much of black history and the larger context of colonialism, capitalism, eurocentrism and white supremacy. but i do think the book is really good and needed because there are so few really accessible analyses in existence about these issues. i hope her book, along with the growing body of work on transformative justice by other writers, will pave the way for more.

i'm also beginning beyond inclusion, beyond empowerment: a developmental strategy to liberate everyone by leticia nieto. i've heard really good things about it and i have a feeling it's going to be one of those you have to read several times :)

Tactics Of Modern Warfare by Mark Lloyd.

I have set aside all of the other books I've been reading from lately and pulled a book out from back in the day when I took this college class: Greek Tragedy Studies.

I'm turning pages in this book:

Euben, J. P. (1990). The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

The third book in the 50 shades of Grey trilogy...Not too proud about this, but it is mindless and I really love not having to think too much...

One of the books I am currently reading, is a brilliant piece of fiction, titled The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier.

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning

By the gardeners and farmers of Terre Vivante

I had misplaced my reading glasses....soooo Im STILL reading A Country Year: Living the questions by Sue Hubbell... but...

Once UPS gets here.... I will be reading Nutrition 101....and probably little else :|

Top o' the morning all....Let's see what I'm reading...Well I have a crap load of text books...A History of Russia....Astronomy....Literature 102...Foundations of Education...But for enjoyment, I am reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King (turning out to be one of his best ever) and Rachel Maddow's Drift...Both are amazingly good books and so very different that I feel like I'm Bi-Polar when I switch between them...

Wicked appetite by Janet Evanovich

*waiting for SS (f) to get home so we can continue our book together.....Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton......*