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Greco · 12-12-2011, 05:54 PM

"Recollections: An Autobiography" by Viktor Frankl

I started this a while back, put it down, then decided
if he, and his family could have gone through what they did,
I can honor and witness their lives by reading it all.

Its a book of not many pages, but powerful nonetheless.

I found it in one of my old bookstore visits, so it may be
out of print. Check Amazon.

Greco

The JD · 12-12-2011, 08:37 PM

Count me in for another fan of The Hunger Games. Can't wait to see the movie in the Spring! Disturbing series, especially considering it's for young adults. I got to the end and still couldn't figure out if it was a comedy or a tragedy (you know, in the classic meaning: is there redemption or not?). It's not often I find that.

And... since everyone* on this site writes like David Foster Wallace (at least according to another thread), I'm re-reading his fantastic book of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.**

JD

* Except me
** Maybe if I include more footnotes, my writing will pass for his too...

Glenn · 12-19-2011, 09:51 AM

Just finished Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada"- 626 pages of exquiste and wonderful writing...could'nt let it go...it took me a week to finish reading..it took him a lifetime to finish writing. It was about this great writer's life living among the elite upper class, and his awesome love for Ada.

puddin' · 12-19-2011, 10:15 AM

"a game of thrones" ~george r. r. martin (book 1 in a set)

Skittlesluver · 12-19-2011, 10:21 AM

Received "My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne du Maurier as a gift

Tawse · 12-19-2011, 10:40 AM

read a sample of Divergent last night. Pretty sure I'll be dl it tonight for reading...

Apparently I really like Dystopian YA books.

I really hope this isn't as intense as Hunger Games.

Melissa · 12-19-2011, 10:58 AM

I'm reading Prey by Michael Crichton and really enjoying it!

Soon · 12-19-2011, 06:40 PM

New novel from Amazon just arrived that I had read good reviews about: (there's two on the links)

Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner

Looking forward to it .

Kätzchen · 12-19-2011, 06:53 PM

I probably won't be done with the book I'm reading right now until later this week but I'm going to check out The Hunger Games soon!

JD? I've read the book of essays by Wallace: A Supposedly a fun thing I'll never do again. Which of his essays did you appreciate the most?

(gotta go, I'm at work)

Kätzchen · 12-19-2011, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

I probably won't be done with the book I'm reading right now until later this week but I'm going to check out The Hunger Games soon!

JD? I've read the book of essays by Wallace: A Supposedly a fun thing I'll never do again. Which of his essays did you appreciate the most?

(gotta go, I'm at work)

Spark Notes answer to my inquiry
(the essay I appreciated so deeply):

"Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" (Esquire, 1996, under the title "The String Theory").

kittygrrl · 12-19-2011, 11:50 PM

"Beltane" Springtime Rituals, Lore & Celebration..it's a little tame, but I can improvise

MissItalianDiva · 12-20-2011, 12:29 AM

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I didn't want to really read it but it was all that was left in my house that I had not touched and I am pleasantly surprised. Also flipping back to The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver on my Kindle...wonderful read

TheDreadPirateRoberts · 12-20-2011, 01:05 AM

im reading the great gatsby ....i still have my high school copy and its one of those books i go back to read every now and again...

pinkgeek · 12-20-2011, 01:16 AM

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

Mtn · 12-20-2011, 01:20 AM

Rereading Tipping The Velvet, and a stack of Buddha books

pinkgeek · 12-20-2011, 01:24 AM

Mtn: Have you read Dharma Punks or The Heart of the Revolution: The Buddha's Radical Teachings on Forgiveness by Noah Levine?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mtn

Rereading Tipping The Velvet, and a stack of Buddha books

BBinNYC · 12-20-2011, 06:26 AM

I'm reading Jeanne Cordova's memoir, When We Were Outlaws. It's about 1970s LA and the early days of the gay movement from the point of view of a butch lesbian feminist activist. I'm halfway through it and really like it.

The JD · 12-20-2011, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

JD? I've read the book of essays by Wallace: A Supposedly a fun thing I'll never do again. Which of his essays did you appreciate the most?

I think my favorite essay is the title essay, originally published under the title "Shipping Out." His observations on any subject tend to be razor-sharp and so-funny-it-hurts... but in light of his own suicide three years ago, there's something particularly eerie about rereading an essay in which he links observations of cruise travel and dream vacations to despair and death and suicide.

JD

Venus007 · 12-20-2011, 06:55 AM

I am rereading the "Anne of Green Gables" series
Last time I read them I think I was 14

always2late · 12-20-2011, 07:08 AM

Packing up to move has brought on a re-reading frenzy (I think for every 5 books I pack away, I take out at least 3 to read). So, at the moment, I am re-reading several Agatha Christie, a few Anne Rivers Siddons, and, one of my favorites, "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst
(I'm never going to finish packing, am I? lol)

12-12-2011, 05:54 PM	#1001
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12-19-2011, 09:51 AM	#1003
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12-19-2011, 06:53 PM	#1009
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: As a very feminine woman. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Near smoke signals in the sky. Posts: 16,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,450 Thanked 33,611 Times in 10,707 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	I probably won't be done with the book I'm reading right now until later this week but I'm going to check out The Hunger Games soon! JD? I've read the book of essays by Wallace: A Supposedly a fun thing I'll never do again. Which of his essays did you appreciate the most? (gotta go, I'm at work)

12-19-2011, 11:50 PM	#1011
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12-20-2011, 12:29 AM	#1012
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12-20-2011, 07:08 AM	#1020
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Packing up to move has brought on a re-reading frenzy (I think for every 5 books I pack away, I take out at least 3 to read). So, at the moment, I am re-reading several Agatha Christie, a few Anne Rivers Siddons, and, one of my favorites, "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst (I'm never going to finish packing, am I? lol) __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi