What are you reading?

Lady_Wu · 06-13-2010, 09:25 AM

For study, I'm reading Taoist yoga: Alchemy and Immortality by Lu K'uan Yu and Holding Yin, Embracing Yang trans. by Eva Wong. For fun, I'm listening to Off Season by Ann Rivers Siddon and reading Digging to America by Anne Tyler. All highly recommended!

Linus · 06-13-2010, 09:33 AM

I'm still slogging through The Elegant Universe. I want to get through that before I start others. I am also going through some manuals/PDFs for work as well in preparation for a new course.

No fiction or other books for the time being.

Semantics · 06-13-2010, 09:45 AM

I'm reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

It's about a two dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes. One of the main characters, a square, discovers another dimension and sends everything into an uproar.

It was written 125 years ago and while it's a book about science/ math/ physics it also touches on a lot of the sociological issues of that time.

Kätzchen · 06-14-2010, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Semantics

I'm reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

It's about a two dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes. One of the main characters, a square, discovers another dimension and sends everything into an uproar.

It was written 125 years ago and while it's a book about science/ math/ physics it also touches on a lot of the sociological issues of that time.

I bet I would like this book (story) a lot!

waxnrope · 06-14-2010, 07:31 AM

I'm reading Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance by Helen LaKelly Hunt.
There's a reason that I read this, that is not a topic for this thread. However, there is an introduction by Gloria Steinem. The usual proclamations of universality, which caused grief for second wave feminist, such as Steinem, continues in bits of this book ~ and that creates some angst for me. Otherwise, it is early on so far in the reading, it is informative and challenging at times.

Lady_Wu · 06-14-2010, 05:09 PM

Flatland has a sequel, though I cannot remember the name of it. I don't believe that the sequel was written by the same author, since it was written many years after Flatland. I'll try to find out the name of it. I have my very own personal librarianat the Library of Congress in Charleston.
I have added a book to my studies: Holding Yin, Embracing Yang trans. Eva Wong. This is really helping me understand the Taoist Yoga trans. Lu K'uam Yu.

My thanks to everyone who responds to this thread. As a longtime addict to bookdust, I'm always curious to know what others are reading.

I am writing again these days. You can find my poems in the POETRY section of the forums. I am writing a book by way of a blog called THE NAMELESS GATE. This is a series of reflections started by words of different authors. You can find it at URL:
http:/thenamelessgate-returntothewuchi.blogspot.com
Comments, both on the poems and the blog entries, will be much appreciated!
Namaste!
Lady_Wu

Lady_Wu · 06-14-2010, 05:17 PM

I'd already said I was reading Holding Yin, Embracing Yang! My apologies for the repetition.

I blame on my poor short-term memory!
Lady_Wu

afixer · 06-15-2010, 07:38 PM

The Te of Piglet

Semantics · 06-15-2010, 07:50 PM

I just finished a book today called In the Woods by Tana French.

It was awful. I trudged my way through it to try and find out the answer to the mystery and, well, I'm just going to stop there because I don't want to ruin it for anyone.

My advice? Don't bother.

JakeTulane · 06-17-2010, 07:46 AM

Well, I am now 6 chapters into the 4th Harry Potter book - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I am still truly amazed at how much I am enjoying the read of this series. I had serious doubts.

Oh, and My list is still the same as the earlier post. Just the Harry Potter change-up.

Passionaria · 06-18-2010, 12:31 AM

I just started The claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice

It's Squirmy good..........

Kätzchen · 06-18-2010, 03:41 PM

I'm reading from four texts and various scholarly literature available for collaboration studies.

Bernard, T. (2010). Hope and Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration & Sustainability. Canada: New Society Publishers.

Cox, R. (2010). Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.

Brick, P., Snow, P., Van de Wettering, S. (Eds.). (2001). Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West. Washington, DC: Island Press Publishers.

Gray, B. (1989). Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

And 9 sources of scholarly literature to include authors: Deetz (2008), Fischer, Ury & Patton (1991), Heath & Frey (2004), Heath (2010, in press), Levinas & Buber (2004), Lukensmeyer & Brigham (2005), Spano (2001), Barge (2002), Kennedy (2006, Congressional Testimony doc).

Enchantress · 06-19-2010, 11:21 PM

Eat Pray Love (again)

Elizabeth Gilbert (author)

chefhottie25 · 06-19-2010, 11:31 PM

the yellow heart a collection of poems by pablo neruda...in spanish

Lady_Wu · 06-21-2010, 12:52 PM

I like giving and reading book reviews in this cozy little book club of our on the Planet. My thanks to you who give book reviews! I finally finished Anne River Siddons Off Season and found it to be better than good! I always like her books. They are what I call "women's books": not chicklit, not romances (in the Harlequin sense) but well-written books for women who have lived a bit. They always make me think, and the ending on this one will have me considering its ramifications for a while. Then I moved on to listening to Life Laid Bare:The Survivors in Rwanda Speak. This book presents 14 Tutsi survivors accounts of the 1994 Hutu genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. This will be a book that I will have to listen to in small amounts. Aside from being extremely graphic, it presents the survivors thoughts on WHY the genocide happened, how it changed forever their views of life and death, and how they live now. Most so far seem to have found no reason for why it happened and speak disparaging of the views put forth by sociologists. It happened; that is all one can say. I'd love to discuss this book with someone else. May I put it forth as as the first book for our emerging Book Club? Then I found EXACTLY the right book for my life now: Rightsizing Your Life by Cigi Ware. This book is giving me hope that I CAN change my life! That, nomatter that I am ill, I do have resources upon which and whom I can draw! Thank you, Ms. Ware! Happy reading, all!!!
Namaste,
LadyWu

Melissa · 06-21-2010, 01:03 PM

Just started Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Fancy · 08-18-2010, 07:08 AM

Orpheus & Eurydice by Gregory Or

(clip)

When Eurydice saw him
huddled in a thick cloak,
she should have known
he was alive,
the way he shivered
beneath its useless folds.

But what she saw
was the usual: a stranger
confused in a new world.
And when she touched him
on the shoulder,
it was nothing
personal, a kindness
he misunderstood.
To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love.

(/clip)

theoddz · 08-18-2010, 08:53 AM

I bought a Kindle a few months ago and have been getting back into reading. I had slacked off on my reading the past few years, primarily because my eyes have been getting weaker when it comes to seeing things up close. I HATE having to scramble for reading glasses, so when I found out about Kindle and the fact that I could enlarge the print and see more easily, well, I bought one and have been reading a lot these days!!

My mother recommended a book that's been on the international Best Seller's list in Europe. It's called "Hanna's Daughters" and is written by Marianne Fredricksson. Generally, it's about the volatile ties that bind the relationship between mothers and daughters. I'm just getting into it, but so far, it's a real page-turner and I don't want to put it down!!

~Theo~

Fancy · 12-30-2010, 11:52 AM

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Edwidge Danticat

06-13-2010, 09:25 AM	#1
Lady_Wu Member How Do You Identify?: OFOS Queer Stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: M'Lady Relationship Status: given up looking sigh Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: somewhere buried under a pile of books Posts: 197 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 285 Thanked 300 Times in 105 Posts Rep Power: 155956	What are you reading? For study, I'm reading Taoist yoga: Alchemy and Immortality by Lu K'uan Yu and Holding Yin, Embracing Yang trans. by Eva Wong. For fun, I'm listening to Off Season by Ann Rivers Siddon and reading Digging to America by Anne Tyler. All highly recommended! __________________ I'm the Yin in the Yang and the Yang in the Yin.

06-13-2010, 09:33 AM	#2
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06-14-2010, 05:09 PM	#6
Lady_Wu Member How Do You Identify?: OFOS Queer Stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: M'Lady Relationship Status: given up looking sigh Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: somewhere buried under a pile of books Posts: 197 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 285 Thanked 300 Times in 105 Posts Rep Power: 155956	Re: Flatland and other books Flatland has a sequel, though I cannot remember the name of it. I don't believe that the sequel was written by the same author, since it was written many years after Flatland. I'll try to find out the name of it. I have my very own personal librarianat the Library of Congress in Charleston. I have added a book to my studies: Holding Yin, Embracing Yang trans. Eva Wong. This is really helping me understand the Taoist Yoga trans. Lu K'uam Yu. My thanks to everyone who responds to this thread. As a longtime addict to bookdust, I'm always curious to know what others are reading. I am writing again these days. You can find my poems in the POETRY section of the forums. I am writing a book by way of a blog called THE NAMELESS GATE. This is a series of reflections started by words of different authors. You can find it at URL: http:/thenamelessgate-returntothewuchi.blogspot.com Comments, both on the poems and the blog entries, will be much appreciated! Namaste! Lady_Wu __________________ I'm the Yin in the Yang and the Yang in the Yin.

06-14-2010, 05:17 PM	#7
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06-18-2010, 12:31 AM	#11
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06-13-2010, 09:45 AM	#3
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06-14-2010, 07:31 AM	#5
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06-15-2010, 07:38 PM	#8
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06-17-2010, 07:46 AM	#10
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06-18-2010, 03:41 PM	#12
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06-21-2010, 12:52 PM	#15
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06-21-2010, 01:03 PM	#16
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08-18-2010, 07:08 AM	#17
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08-18-2010, 08:53 AM	#18
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12-30-2010, 11:52 AM	#19
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