What are you reading?

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kobi

It was very good and also very sad. Didn't realize how many elderly people are doing this just to survive.

I would love to read that book but I know it would break my heart hearing of how older and less fortunate people are being taken advantage of!

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by homoe

I would love to read that book but I know it would break my heart hearing of how older and less fortunate people are being taken advantage of!

I hear ya. Reading about people in their 60's and older hoping for the chance to pick sugar beets for a few weeks was disturbing. Harvesting doesnt begin until after the first hard frost.

Others dont even get paid for their work. They are just thankful to have a place to park with free hook ups.

And these folks arent taking to the road by choice or to see America. They just cannot afford the costs of having non mobile places to live.

After reading what Amazon does to them in their only open during peak season warehouses, I'm shying away from using them.

Kind of wishing I never read it myself. LOL.

[Kobi]

For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "Fuck positivity," blogger Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is fucked and we have to live with it."

This book is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited: "Not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault."

Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can care about, so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear.

While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with stories and profane, ruthless humor.

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That is a pretty cleaned up synopsis of this book.

After about 2 chapters, my brain was just seeing this:




Will I finish reading it. Fuck no.

[Kobi]

iGen : why today's super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy--and completely unprepared for adulthood (and what that means for the rest of us) - Jean M. Twenge, PhD

Analyzes how the young people born in the mid-1990s and later significantly differ from those of previous generations, examining how social media and texting may be behind today's unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

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Just started this. Hoping it is a worthwhile read.

[homoe]

Sweet Bitter by Stephanie Danler


I ran across this at a used bookstore, and seeing how I'd always wanted to read it picked it up for a mere buck! I'm only on page 52 but I'm somewhat disappointed! Hopefully it'll pick up.

[bright_arrow]

The Secret of Spellshadow Manor by Bella Forest

[Kätzchen]

I am currently reading The Jane Austen Book Club (by Karen Joy Fowler), but recently mY sweet Santa gifted two other books to me, which I can hardly wait to read!

I received Mildred Pierce (by James M. Cain) and The Rackateer (by John Grisham)!

I actually saw the HBO miniseries called Mildred Pierce back in July, when I was house sitting for my BFF. MP was incredibly rich with memorable times of the past (The Depression era, etc).

I have read lots of books by John Grisham and I've yet to ever be disappointed by any crime novel or historical era novel that he's ever written, so I'm definitely going to enjoy reading The Rackateer! I just recently learned tho, that Grisham just had another story published and I can't recall the title of the book right now, but the story centers upon an lawyer prosecuting an case pertaining to For- Profit schools being held accountable for crimes again people and society.

In other reading news, Tom Hanks just wrote his first book ever. It's called Uncommon Type, which is an collection of an variety of stories and interwoven throughout the book is his life long hobby of collecting interesting typewriters! This book looks like an great book to read and keep in your private collection of books at home!

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Sweet Bitter by Stephanie Danler


I ran across this at a used bookstore, and seeing how I'd always wanted to read it picked it up for a mere buck! I'm only on page 52 but I'm somewhat disappointed! Hopefully it'll pick up.

Never picked up.......

[homoe]

I don't have it in my hot little hand yet but come Nov 7th I'll be reading Donna Brazile's 'Hacks'

[Fancy]

Just finished The Innocent by David Baldacci. It kept me guessing until the end… but the very ending got a little too perfect and sappy while wrapping things up.

[dark_crystal]

Activities around Veterans Day got me interested in 21st century military history, so i am reading Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, by Robert M Gates (SECDEF under Bush and Obama, CIA director under the other Bush)

I figure this is a good source for the establishment version of both Iraq wars and Afghanistan. I have further reading planned giving the soldiers' version and then more that gives the anti-war version.



Also i have to read The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse, for December's Book Club meeting. November's title is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, which i finished on Sunday

[VintageFemme]

Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider & a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer & a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women.

-The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

Sweet Bitter by Stephanie Danler


I ran across this at a used bookstore, and seeing how I'd always wanted to read it picked it up for a mere buck! I'm only on page 52 but I'm somewhat disappointed! Hopefully it'll pick up.

This is being turned into a TV Series. I'm thinking it's Starz but not positive! The previews I've seen, look WAY better than the book!