What are you reading?

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

LQQKS like a good read, dark_crystal!

And, I'll keep that in mind about the end of the Tolstoy book, too.

Miss Katz how long before you reckon you'll be done with that big ass book, any clue?

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by homoe

Miss Katz how long before you reckon you'll be done with that big ass book, any clue?

OMG, *LOL*, .....

<<<<<~ as soon as my vision corrects itself and my migraine disappears. It's been SO hot here....so once the weather cools down, I guess I should be done by early September. And you're right, homoe! What a big a$$ book.

[cricket26]

[Orema]

Unslut, A Diary and a Memoir by Emily Lindin

From the book sleeve: The founder of the Unslut Project uses her actual middle school diary entries to reflect on relationships, bullying, and what it means to be labeled a slut.

[Katniss]

The organization where I work requires all supervisors to take a minimum of 8 hours refresher training on "Team Leading" a year. Today they brought in a guest speaker named Robyn Benincasa. She wrote "How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth." Robyn is a world champion adventure racer and a Guinness World Record kayaker (Not that kind of Guinness ) and a member of an all-female firefighting crew. She is also the founder of "Project Athena" which is a non-profit organization that helps women survivors of medical setbacks live an adventurous dream as part of their recovery.

As part of the training class we were all given a copy of the book which I started this evening. Some of the points seem rather intuitive but overall the book looks promising. I am grappling with a few things, one being her quote "Having a Plan B distracts from achieving the goal of Plan A." I'm not sure how to feel about that as I am a "Plan A, B, C, D,..." kind of gal. However I am keeping an open mind.

Katniss~~

[Medusa]

I've been wanting to read this so I'm about to treat myself:

http://amzn.to/2iyOZIp

[firecat242]

Billionaire Buddha......rags to riches to rags story.

[Fancy]

Originally Posted by cricket26

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this book and if you've watched the movie (or if you'd watch it after reading). 😊

[homoe]

Originally Posted by cricket26

Cricket thank you so much for posting this! I've just ordered a used copy of Britt-Marie Was Here by this same author!

[dark_crystal]

I just finished FLEDGLING by Octavia Butler and started THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula LeGuin and am listening to HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance

[Kobi]

American liberalism fell under the spell of identity politics, with disastrous consequences. Driven originally by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, the left has now unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than in party politics. Lilla goes to show how the left's identity-focused individualism insidiously conspired with the amoral economic individualism of the Reaganite right to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. In the contest for the American imagination, liberals have abdicated.

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This book is fascinating from both a historical and a behavioral standpoint.

If you are curious as to why intersectionalism is problematic in both interpersonal movements and political ways, he explains it well.

[homoe]

Just finished Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas.

This really shed light on how the "good old boy" network stuck together to get him confirmed at almost any cost.

It makes me sad to think Joe Biden was a part of this and that he wasn't a stand up guy!

[Signmypapyrus]

Originally Posted by Kobi

American liberalism fell under the spell of identity politics, with disastrous consequences. Driven originally by a sincere desire to protect the most vulnerable Americans, the left has now unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than in party politics. Lilla goes to show how the left's identity-focused individualism insidiously conspired with the amoral economic individualism of the Reaganite right to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. In the contest for the American imagination, liberals have abdicated.

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This book is fascinating from both a historical and a behavioral standpoint.

If you are curious as to why intersectionalism is problematic in both interpersonal movements and political ways, he explains it well.

Hm, this sounds interesting. I might look at this since this new wave has foregone the collective in favor of the individual, which is worrying.

Is it anti-intersectional or does it examine the issues this new generation is having?

I’m just reading academic stuff, but I hope to start a Coetzee novel soon.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Cricket thank you so much for posting this! I've just ordered a used copy of Britt-Marie Was Here by this same author!

This was OK BUT it was no A Man Called Ove that's for damn sure!

[Martina]

Just got and just started Jacque Barzin's From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present

[Fancy]

What Happened - Hillary Clinton (audio book read by the author)

I’m glad to be listening to this book as read by Hillary, because it adds a depth of understanding about her as a person through her own voice and her own words that I don’t think I would have gotten otherwise.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by cricket26

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[Stone-Butch]

"Of Crows and Ravens"... The intelligence and ingenuity of these fabulous birds.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

OMG, *LOL*, .....

<<<<<~ as soon as my vision corrects itself and my migraine disappears. It's been SO hot here....so once the weather cools down, I guess I should be done by early September. And you're right, homoe! What a big a$$ book.

I'd appreciate an update Miss Katz.....

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by homoe

I'd appreciate an update Miss Katz.....

....... I am half way through the book....I left off on page 305....and it's not an easy read, for me, due to the way I read a book first.

When I read Big Little Lies, I made notes on the edge of the pages, noting interesting things which were not a part of the HBO series.

In Anna Karenina, it's a slow process because of interesting ideas I find that center on power, status, diction, rules of civility, rules concerning romantic overtures...etc.

Once I am done taking notes, first, then I begin again and read the story for the second time....bypassing all my notes because I've taken the time to study the intricate maneuvers between characters in the story....like a good chess game.



Ps/ I love both of the books I have been reading!