What are you reading?

[Fancy]

Return to the Caffe Cino

A collection of plays and memoirs edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa

...getting ready for a new project next year and selecting plays. This is exciting stuff.

[Fancy]

I really enjoyed this book. Let me know what you thought of it...

I was describing gist of the memoir to a friend the other day as we talked about some of the logistical planning that goes into a long hike. There were several bits in the book that were eye-opening.

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Just started reading the newest book published by Alfred A. Knopf publishers (Vintage):

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed (March 26th, 2013)

Hailed as the best non-fiction book of 2012 by The Boston Globe and Book of the Year by NPR, St. Louis Dispatch and Vogue, at twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her (a brief introduction to Strayed's book provided by Amazon).

[Kobi]

Leading Ladies - Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson

Biographical portraits of 63 American female pioneers in military service, journalism, public health, social reform, science, and politics.

Amazing how many female trailblazers I never knew about.

[cinnamongrrl]

I just started reading The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Welles. I needed a fluffy...and short...book after the uber cerebral biography....and I did love the movie...

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Fancy

Return to the Caffe Cino

A collection of plays and memoirs edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa

...getting ready for a new project next year and selecting plays. This is exciting stuff.

Your book sounds intriguing (you'll have to tell us more about it, when you're ready) and I sense your excitement concerning new projects and plays for the up and coming season!

Originally Posted by Fancy

I really enjoyed this book. Let me know what you thought of it...

I was describing gist of the memoir to a friend the other day as we talked about some of the logistical planning that goes into a long hike. There were several bits in the book that were eye-opening.

I chose Cheryl Strayed's book because.... her story is poignant and her journey took place in the Pacific Northwest, a place that is dear to my heart - the Pacific Crest Trail. Also, I'm reading her memoir rather slowly as I am, like I do so much of the time about anything, analysing tragedy in my own life and revisiting choices I've made over my lifetime. Interestingly enough, I feel a kindred spirit with Strayed's story. I imagine this book was terribly interesting to you Fancy, given your experience with hiking and gps/logistics.

For certain, I want to purchase a copy of the book (I borrowed it from the library downtown).

[PoeticSilence]

Map of Dreams by M Rickert:

From Publishers Weekly

Sorrows, anguish and bitter might-have-beens dominate Rickert's fitfully brilliant collection of fantasy fiction, whose title novella, according to Gordon Van Gelder's afterword, reveals a love of the natural world that wonderfully imbues the author's often enigmatic fiction. Rickert's nature is less illumined by golden daffodils than "red in tooth and claw," rife with the fierce necessary complements of birth and death, reality and dream, sanity and madness. Rickert acknowledges her "magical realism" owes a literary debt to Gabriel García Marquez, but her most powerful passages, like "Moorina of the Seals," a startling ecological hymn, and "Many Voices," the horrific exposé of a women's prison, draw on woman's strengths and weaknesses as maiden, matron and crone. "Leda" and her other subtle retellings of myth, couched in the deceptively prosaic dialogue of America's underprivileged, achieve resonances that plumb the darkest depths of human love and loneliness, and occasionally rise to "the song that both connects, and disconnects us, shared, but never owned, life."
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

[sierragirrl]

The gifts of imperfection
by Brene Brown

[cinnamongrrl]

I wasn't sure what I was going to read next...and then....I went to the post office and found I had a package. I am now reading...

On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimage by Robert Alden Rubin

It details the travels of a man hiking the Appalachian Trail....

[The JD]

I finished The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick a few weeks ago. I haven't seen the movie, so I can't compare...but I'm guessing the movie must be much better. The book was okay, even good in some places. But when it was *finally* time for the Big Reveal, I was a bit disappointed.

After that, I read Castle Waiting, a graphic novel by Linda Medley. It doesn't deviate much from the fairy-tale formula, but it's a good read. I think i picked up some Neil Gaiman influences, which might be why I liked it.

I just downloaded Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman. I just finished episode 8 of the TV show, am completely hooked, and had to get the book to feed my obsession.

[PoeticSilence]

The Surgeon's Tale by Cat Rambo and Jeff VanderMeer

In a world where magic is fading and science begun to ascend, a young surgeon in medical school experiences an obsession so forbidden that its realization will change him forever. "She looked as if she were asleep, still with that slight smile, floating on the thick sargassum, glowing from the emerald tincture that would keep the small crabs and other scavengers from her. She looked otherworldly and beautiful." Sometimes life is not enough. Also including five more stories of dark wonder from Rambo and VanderMeer, from "The Dead Girl's Wedding March" to "The Farmer's Cat." Enter a world of rat suitors, severed arms, and Fungi Et Fruits de Mer, served up with prose both appetizing and uncanny. Dark fantasy has never been quite so decadent . . .(amazon.com)

The author Cat Rambo is someone I know in RL.

[deathbypoem]

Reading a book online that I read in paperback a few weeks ago.

It's about a woman in a polygamist group that fights with her entire might to get the hell out of there.
It's called Escape.

[nycfem]

I loved that book!

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Carolyn-Jessop/dp/0767927575/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376333242&sr=8-1&keywords=escape"]Escape: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer: 9780767927574: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

Originally Posted by deathbypoem

Reading a book online that I read in paperback a few weeks ago.

It's about a woman in a polygamist group that fights with her entire might to get the hell out of there.
It's called Escape.

[deathbypoem]

Originally Posted by nycfem

I loved that book!

Escape: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer: 9780767927574: Amazon.com: Books

oh my goodness. Me too. Little did I know that all of that really existed. I mean to an extent I knew of things here and there but that is beyond disturbing. glad you enjoyed it too

[Soon]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Clean-A-Memoir-ebook/dp/B00B77UDXO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376337146&sr=1-1&keywords=coming+clean"]Coming Clean: A Memoir: Kimberly Rae Miller[/ame]


Both Blurbs Taken From Amazon:

Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room—the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding.
In this moving coming-of-age story, Kim brings to life her rat-infested home, her childhood consumed by concealing her father’s shameful secret from friends, and the emotional burden that ultimately led to an attempt to take her own life. And in beautiful prose, Miller sheds light on her complicated yet loving relationship with her parents that has thrived in spite of the odds.

Coming Clean is a story about recognizing where we come from and the relationships that define us—and about finding peace in the homes we make for ourselves.

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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Paperback
by Lidia Yuknavitch


This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman’s developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.

[KCBUTCH]

The 40 day Prosperity program

[blush]

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Miller
President Garfield spent $150 on his Presidential campaign. It's an amazing account of his presidency.

The Language of Flowers
In spite of the plot holes big enough to drive a Mac truck through, I loved the characters.

The Perfume Collector
It's a great realistic fiction about classic perfumes.

The Cuckoo's Calling
I almost gave up on the stereotypical characters, but they're intentional. I loved the kitten stationary. Very Dolores Umbridge.

[RockOn]

CLR via C# 4th edition 2012 by Jeff Richter

I am very familiar with parts of it but decided today to study/read one chapter a day at work ... I believe it will be beneficial. It is some 900 pages of pure geek.

[Sparkle]

Originally Posted by Sparkle

I'm reading book 1 in the "Game of Thrones" series.
...

It's a just such a huge time investment. I haven't had more than an hour a day, to read, for a couple of weeks; I don't feel I'm making a lot of progress with the book, I'm only 50% through book 1 after 2 weeks of reading. For the first time ever I'm tempted to skip the books and watch the television show. But I *know* I will get much more out of the book. I just can't decide if its worth it yet.

I stuck with book 1 of 'Song of Fire and Ice: Game of Thrones' - based upon feedback from a few of you and now I am totally addicted. I'm currently at 65% of book 3 'A Storm of Swords'; I've just passed the "red wedding" scene.

Definitely worth the time investment, thanks for all the great feedback!

[puddin']

Originally Posted by nycfem

I loved that book!

Escape: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer: 9780767927574: Amazon.com: Books

wow, will hafta check that one out.

"buried (a bone secrets novel)", by kendra elliot

""let's explore diabetes with owls", david sedaris

[ONLY]

Affliction by Laura K. Hamilton (the Anita Blake series)
Excellent series ( I think this is book 21 or so) SS got me hooked on them