Going organic! Wait....not the right thread!
 

New book by Sheri Reynolds! I love her stuff!!

Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

The Curious Human Phenomenon by Peter Masters in book form
and
Scent of Triumph Jan Moran on Kindle app for my laptop

Late at night and into the wee hours of the morning,
I've been reading from new books I bought recently.

I bought 3 books: Two, authored by Rachel Carson (Under the Sea-wind & The Edge of the Sea); and one other book, authored by Susan Steingraber (Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment).


I'm saving, what I think are the best books to be read last: Rachel Carson's books about the sea, the shoreline, and the environmental impact she observed during her lifetime as a marine biologist. I was given two of her books (Silent Spring & The Sense of Wonder) by my grandmother, when I was a young girl. I will be reading them later this week.

Sunday morning, I opened up Steingraber's book, then laid it down to read later after I accomplished all the items on my Sunday chore list. I am only half way through her book, but she presents a strong case for why synthetic food sources and genetically altered seed for meeting food needs are strongly linked to cancerous conditions found in the human body.

If you are attracted to sciences (scientific studies), I highly recommend both authors. Particularly Rachel Carson. Her writings have strongly influenced me and have stayed with me throughout my lifetime.

http://www.rachelcarson.org/BooksBy.aspx

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306818698/rachelcarsono-20#reader_0306818698"]Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment: Sandra Steingraber: 9780306818691: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

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Everything is Illuminated
 

I've finally finished reading this after putting it down several times. No particular reason for putting it down and now that I've finished reading I feel bereft. What a powerful first novel. I feel like I should say something profound about it but can't think of what I could possibly write. It's beautiful, sad, funny, wet-your-pants funny (I especially enjoyed the English as a foreign language parts), and powerfully sad.

Read it.

The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back
- Daniel Wolff




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Just finished, was awesome

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Now reading:
I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and Some that May Not Be Funny at ALL, edited by Judd Apatow. It's a fantastic collection of short stories and essays by people known for their humor (David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Steve Martin, Lorrie Moore) and people who....usually aren't (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor). As a collected work, it's easy to see why Apatow is the king of "cringe humor." :)

Recently read:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I saw the movie on HBO about a month ago, then read the book. I wasn't going to do either, because the topic (a boy who loses his dad in the tower collapse on 9/11) sounded depressing and uninspiring. But it actually *is* inspiring- a powerful story of grief and healing filled with memorable characters. The book's narrative is always told from first person, but it's not always the same narrator so the style changes quite a bit. It also includes photographs and drawings that sometime seem completely random while somehow enhancing the story. The narrative style is perhaps on the more experimental side, but it works. Oh, and I finished the book at the BFP Reunion, so if anyone there saw me sitting in the hotel bar with my face in an iPad looking a bit teary-eyed, that's why. I swear.

The Mortal Instruments series. I'm currently on the book City Of Glass. It's really amazing so far.

The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway..his last book.

"Agorafabulous! Dispatches from my bedroom" by Sara Benincasa

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Agorafabulous-Dispatches-Bedroom-Sara-Benincasa/dp/0062024418/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349531526&sr=8-1&keywords=agorafabulous"]Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom: Sara Benincasa: 9780062024411: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]


I loved this memoir! It was laugh out loud funny and also quite interesting and relatable for any of us who struggle with varying degrees of anxiety, depression, or quirkiness! I wouldn't read it 10,000 times (Yes, some books I do read 10,000 times.), but it was definitely agorafabulous, and I strongly recommend it :)


"If I Am Missing or Dead" by Janine Latus

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/If-Am-Missing-Dead-Liberation/dp/B0046LUM98/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349532574&sr=8-1&keywords=if+i+am+missing+or+dead"]If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love,Murder,and Liberation: Janine Latus: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]


This is an incredibly powerful memoir about coming from a dysfunctional family and how that carried over to this woman's relationship's as well as her sister's relationships. The writing is exquisite (The author is a writer.), and the story is so powerful. I related to it deeply. Here's a quote that I loved:

"When I was at home as a teenager, I could tell that something was always roiling under the surface. It was like walking on smoked glass over something awful, like rushing water or lava or snakes. You're on it and it's fine, but it's glass and it could crack, and you'd drop into that something awful and be sucked down. And even if it doesn't crack, you can feel those snakes, that danger, vibrating under the surface of things."

I highly recommend this book.

The road to grace: the third journal of the walk series / by Richard Paul Evans.

I sometimes take books off the shelf without knowing what it is when I'm at the library. This was one of those.

It's actually pretty good.

Im reading Walt Whitman's biography....one of many I'm sure..interesting fellow...to say the least

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
 

Just finished *Secret Daughter* by shilpi somoya gowda... it was a good quick read.

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Oooh, I didn't know she had a new book out! Love her too. First met her with Rapture of Canaan.

Exciting...