What are you reading?

Random · 08-11-2011, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by wolfbittenpoet

American Gods the Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman
Hit List by Laurell K Hamilton

How did you like Hit List?

tapu · 08-11-2011, 09:39 PM

Bonk by Mary Roach

The Curious Coupling
Of Science and Sex

It isn't as good as Stiff.

tonaderspeisung · 08-11-2011, 09:51 PM

just finished
galapagos - kurt vonnegut

Reader · 08-12-2011, 04:24 AM

A Man in Full (1998) by Tom Wolfe

Some interesting characters, thoughts and concepts woven with good writing and a fast-pace story.

daisygrrl · 08-14-2011, 08:29 AM

Finally reading S. Bear Bergman's Butch is Noun along with a fabulous butch--amazing discussions!

Being read to: Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan...yummy, sensuous, prose...

Sparkle · 08-14-2011, 09:05 AM

I've just finished reading

'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' by Catherynne M. Valente

It is YA fiction, it was sweet and quirky and charming; but quite a slow read. Probably best for the 10 and under crowd.

Now I'm thinking perhaps this...

'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' by Philip Pullman
(the author of the His Dark Materials Trilogy including the Golden Compass)

from amazon:
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions.

In Pullman’s own words, “The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.”

Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself."

Sparkle · 08-14-2011, 09:26 AM

Is anyone here a Haruki Murakami fan?

I'm looking for a recommendation.

I enjoyed 'Sputnik Sweetheart' quite a bit -but- couldn't get through the first few chapters of 'Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World' it was incomprehensible to me.

I think I found 'Sputnik Sweetheart' a bit easier because it was more linear with less layers and layers of fantasy and I didn't have to wait so long to "get it".

I love the surrealism & the post-modernism of his writing. I like the themes and his humour. But some of his works feel so barren, so stripped of emotional depth that I just can't get in to them. Or maybe its a cultural thing? Anyone?

Arwen · 08-14-2011, 11:24 AM

Reading "Becoming Marie Antoinette" by Juliet Grey. I'm a sucker for well-written historical fiction. This one is in first person (not my favorite POV).

I'm enjoying this very sympathetic look at the child who was an spoiled archduchess of Austria. She was quite literally recreated for the French court. About halfway through.

I'm also still reading book four of the "A Song of Fire and Ice" quartet. Had to stop to let a co-worker catch up. LOL We are having a mini-book club.

WolfyOne · 08-14-2011, 11:53 AM

J.T. Ellison - The Cold Room
This is one of the books in her series about Taylor Jackson, detective in Nashville.

I'm a little lost in what has happened since I forgot the last book she wrote in my room at last year's reunion.
I'm hoping to be clear on everything by the end of this book or I'll have to get another copy of the the book I forgot.

Massive · 08-16-2011, 07:12 AM

Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson, the second in his third and final chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Seriously trying to get in as much fiction/sci-fi/fantasy as possible before I go back to school and start reading text books, lots of damn text books

tapu · 08-16-2011, 07:46 AM

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

I read it when it came out and then picked it up again this weekend. I bet a lot of people here have read it. No use trying to summarize--any blurb I've seen has trouble describing it.

If you've ever read Infinite Jest--and if you have, you're a better man than I--it's something like that. Except, with Infinite Jest, it didn't matter how much I longed to read it. I just... couldn't... do it. Geek Love has the power without requiring that level of commitment.

Red Dirt Girl · 08-20-2011, 12:02 PM

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Aparthied South Africa by Mark Mathabane.

It is excruciatingly painful and hard to read. I've not gotten to the uplifting parts yet, and I can only read a little at a time b/c it is so heart breaking.

nycfem · 08-22-2011, 06:10 AM

I just read a great book "Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacey Pershall. It's a memoir of a girl who grew up in Arkansas with an eating disorder and was eventually diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. She then came into her own as an alternative type. Her writing is hilarious when it wants to be and very moving. Big thumbs up! I want to be friends with her (always the mark of a great book for me).

I'm also reading Jaycee Duggard's memoir "a stolen life." It's beyond upsetting. I had nightmares about it last night. It's very well-written, also very graphic, and Jaycee is beyond likable. Jaycee has the spirit of a survivor, and that's what gets the reader through the book (at least for me). Some of the proceeds from the book go to her foundation for helping others in traumatic situations. Jaycee was an amazing girl, and now is an amazing woman.

Kobi · 08-22-2011, 04:34 PM

Currently reading The Gallup's Guide to Modern Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Lifestyle series.

Is written for young adults as a primer thing but I'm learning a lot as well. 15 books in the series including stuff like health, coming out, understanding what it means to be transgender, role models, religion, issues and politics, mental health, homophobia, international stuff, new generations, smashing stereotypes, international history and time lines, origins of orientation, POC, gay characters/roles etc.

SecretAgentMa'am · 08-22-2011, 07:24 PM

I tend toward rather trashy reading. Vampires, werewolves, magic users of all kinds, I love them. Unfortunately, all the series I love don't have new books coming out for months, so I'm reduced to reading paranormal romance. Not that there's anything wrong with romance novels, but they're not usually my thing. So I'm currently reading Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling series. I just started book 3, not sure if I'm going to actually make it through this one, much less the whole series.

I'm also listening to the audiobook version of Kitty's Greatest Hits, a collection of short stories set in the Kitty Norville universe by Carrie Vaughn.

afixer · 09-06-2011, 07:19 PM

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839"]a visit from the goon squad[/ame]

Fancy · 09-10-2011, 05:15 AM

46 Things You Can Do to Help Your Teen Manage Stress - Dr Heath Dingwell

and

The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It - Geneen Roth

...no book reports just yet.

08-11-2011, 09:39 PM	#2
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,116 Times in 1,104 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Bonk by Mary Roach The Curious Coupling Of Science and Sex It isn't as good as Stiff. __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?

08-12-2011, 04:24 AM	#4
Reader Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Butch, Dyke, Feminist, Contrarian Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Single Join Date: May 2011 Location: New Jersey, The Garden State Posts: 732 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,308 Thanked 2,229 Times in 586 Posts Rep Power: 0	A Man in Full A Man in Full (1998) by Tom Wolfe Some interesting characters, thoughts and concepts woven with good writing and a fast-pace story.

08-14-2011, 08:29 AM	#5
daisygrrl Member How Do You Identify?: mouthy but adorable; kinky Gerbera Preferred Pronoun?: hey, cutie (or dudette) Relationship Status: xoxo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The South (Gooogia peach) Posts: 475 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,157 Thanked 524 Times in 222 Posts Rep Power: 1065211	Finally reading S. Bear Bergman's Butch is Noun along with a fabulous butch--amazing discussions! Being read to: Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan...yummy, sensuous, prose... __________________ You can’t change that system by just getting your own rights, tinkering with the engine and leaving. You have to take on the whole machine. --Riki Anne Wilchins Hold on to the lessons, let go of the pain. --Leslie Feinberg

08-14-2011, 09:05 AM	#6
Sparkle Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please Relationship Status: Loved Up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Western MA Posts: 2,183 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,001 Thanked 6,551 Times in 1,552 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I've just finished reading 'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' by Catherynne M. Valente It is YA fiction, it was sweet and quirky and charming; but quite a slow read. Probably best for the 10 and under crowd. Now I'm thinking perhaps this... 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' by Philip Pullman (the author of the His Dark Materials Trilogy including the Golden Compass) from amazon: "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions. In Pullman’s own words, “The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.” Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself." __________________ I am made of stars

08-14-2011, 09:26 AM	#7
Sparkle Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please Relationship Status: Loved Up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Western MA Posts: 2,183 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,001 Thanked 6,551 Times in 1,552 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Is anyone here a Haruki Murakami fan? I'm looking for a recommendation. I enjoyed 'Sputnik Sweetheart' quite a bit -but- couldn't get through the first few chapters of 'Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World' it was incomprehensible to me. I think I found 'Sputnik Sweetheart' a bit easier because it was more linear with less layers and layers of fantasy and I didn't have to wait so long to "get it". I love the surrealism & the post-modernism of his writing. I like the themes and his humour. But some of his works feel so barren, so stripped of emotional depth that I just can't get in to them. Or maybe its a cultural thing? Anyone? __________________ I am made of stars

08-11-2011, 09:51 PM	#3
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08-14-2011, 11:24 AM	#8
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,107 Times in 6,411 Posts Rep Power: 21474863	Reading "Becoming Marie Antoinette" by Juliet Grey. I'm a sucker for well-written historical fiction. This one is in first person (not my favorite POV). I'm enjoying this very sympathetic look at the child who was an spoiled archduchess of Austria. She was quite literally recreated for the French court. About halfway through. I'm also still reading book four of the "A Song of Fire and Ice" quartet. Had to stop to let a co-worker catch up. LOL We are having a mini-book club. __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

08-14-2011, 11:53 AM	#9
WolfyOne Magically Delicious How Do You Identify?: Gentle Butch Relationship Status: Single and content Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Minnesota Posts: 6,558 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 22,052 Thanked 15,390 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	J.T. Ellison - The Cold Room This is one of the books in her series about Taylor Jackson, detective in Nashville. I'm a little lost in what has happened since I forgot the last book she wrote in my room at last year's reunion. I'm hoping to be clear on everything by the end of this book or I'll have to get another copy of the the book I forgot. __________________ Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage --- Lao Tzo

08-16-2011, 07:12 AM	#10
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08-16-2011, 07:46 AM	#11
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,116 Times in 1,104 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Geek Love by Katherine Dunn I read it when it came out and then picked it up again this weekend. I bet a lot of people here have read it. No use trying to summarize--any blurb I've seen has trouble describing it. If you've ever read Infinite Jest--and if you have, you're a better man than I--it's something like that. Except, with Infinite Jest, it didn't matter how much I longed to read it. I just... couldn't... do it. Geek Love has the power without requiring that level of commitment. __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?

08-20-2011, 12:02 PM	#12
Red Dirt Girl Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: PrincessPrettyPants, please. Relationship Status: Excellent. Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: near the ocean Posts: 188 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 387 Thanked 265 Times in 94 Posts Rep Power: 4524912	Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Aparthied South Africa by Mark Mathabane. It is excruciatingly painful and hard to read. I've not gotten to the uplifting parts yet, and I can only read a little at a time b/c it is so heart breaking. __________________ Red

08-22-2011, 06:10 AM	#13
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08-22-2011, 04:34 PM	#14
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08-22-2011, 07:24 PM	#15
SecretAgentMa'am Member How Do You Identify?: Redheaded Bellydancing Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Very married Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Portland, OR, USA Posts: 215 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 84 Thanked 778 Times in 171 Posts Rep Power: 15100837	I tend toward rather trashy reading. Vampires, werewolves, magic users of all kinds, I love them. Unfortunately, all the series I love don't have new books coming out for months, so I'm reduced to reading paranormal romance. Not that there's anything wrong with romance novels, but they're not usually my thing. So I'm currently reading Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling series. I just started book 3, not sure if I'm going to actually make it through this one, much less the whole series. I'm also listening to the audiobook version of Kitty's Greatest Hits, a collection of short stories set in the Kitty Norville universe by Carrie Vaughn. __________________ Change the voices in your head Make them like you instead

09-06-2011, 07:19 PM	#16
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09-10-2011, 05:15 AM	#17
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