What are you reading?

Kätzchen · 02-16-2024, 06:30 PM

I spent the afternoon reading a 92 page court document which documented the many ways that a particular person and members of their family defrauded the banking industry, real estate industry and made a mockery of the fine art of accounting. This court document may well become part of text book case law on the many ways con artists commit fraud by moving the goal posts and deliberately lying about all things those in the field of accounting consider cardinal sins worthy of being barred for a lifetime or more.

Three cheers for the judge, his staff, the state of New York and the Office of The Attorney General for their hard work in holding the orange weasel and his co-conspirators accountable.

Kätzchen · 02-22-2024, 03:25 PM

Today, because as Americans we are experiencing horrific levels of Dis- and Mis-information and also because democracy is under attack by a once-revered political party (the GOP, Republican Party) — the political party that hates social order, they hate immigrants, they hate anybody who is not white, they’re in love with lining their pockets with ill gotten means of income, they hate paying taxes, they just plain hate anybody that does not swallow their load of toxic bullshit, I am reading a post made by a law professor from George Mason University, concerning the most worst dictators who have committed mass murders and starved people to death or just horrifically done brutal things to others, just so they can be “powerful.”

Here is Ilya Somin’s (George Mason Law Professor) post: https://fee.org/articles/who-was-the...er-in-history/

And soon, over on a major news outlet, I’m going to read how a federal court judge denied T——p’s latest request to delay his comeuppance for lying about his taxes and business dealings since the early 1980s (decades of intentional lying).

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...y?id=107433418

GeorgiaMa'am · 02-22-2024, 10:18 PM

I need some bubble gum for my brain - something not taxing, something relaxing, something comforting. So I am re-reading an old favorite, Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey. Basically a fairy tale, which I have always loved.

cinnamongrrl · 04-27-2024, 06:30 PM

I’m reading “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah. It was given to me by a coworker who is also an avid reader.

I had complained the other day that I day that I don’t read enough fiction and she brought it in for me!

It’s a historical fiction based on 1930s Northern Texas just before the Dust Bowl. I’m loving it thus far.

Kätzchen · 06-02-2024, 10:04 PM

The Secret Life of Sunflowers 🌻
By Marta Molnar.

—————————————————————.

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers: A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law (Light & Life Series).

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-S.../dp/1940627494

Bèsame* · 08-09-2024, 03:19 PM

I'm reading this book that's going to be a movie.
Three Women written by Lisa Taddeo

I have a wonderful origami butterfly bookmark! Thank you Georgia Ma'am

GeorgiaMa'am · 08-09-2024, 05:19 PM

I'm reading Chestnut Street, a collection of short stories by Maeve Binchy. I believe they must have been published posthumously, because they're not quite as cleanly written as most of her work. Still, they're enjoyable.

I'm also behind everybody else, it seems, and I am finally reading White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo. I thoroughly expected it to be hard to read, but it's proving not to be quite as difficult as I thought. It has answered some questions that I've been unwilling to ask my black friends, for fear that it would offend them or make them uncomfortable. It has also explained some of the reactions I have gotten from white friends when I try to discuss something like white privilege. It's been, not quite eye-opening, because I knew that some of these problems existed. But it's been reassuring in a way, because I know I'm not the only person out there having these feelings - even if it seems, according to this book, that most white people aren't having these realizations yet. Apparently though, there are a lot of white people who are and who are also doing the work. It's a good read.

Kätzchen · 08-16-2024, 10:44 PM

Link to book review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...y_Night_Lights

02-16-2024, 06:30 PM	#1
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: May 2010 Location: @ home with my granddaughter, chosen friends & family. ツ Posts: 16,137 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,544 Thanked 33,565 Times in 10,676 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	I spent the afternoon reading a 92 page court document which documented the many ways that a particular person and members of their family defrauded the banking industry, real estate industry and made a mockery of the fine art of accounting. This court document may well become part of text book case law on the many ways con artists commit fraud by moving the goal posts and deliberately lying about all things those in the field of accounting consider cardinal sins worthy of being barred for a lifetime or more. Three cheers for the judge, his staff, the state of New York and the Office of The Attorney General for their hard work in holding the orange weasel and his co-conspirators accountable. __________________ “The way someone treats you is not a reflection of your worth: It’s a reflection of their emotional capacity,” ~ Jillian Turecki. “The work that is called for is the construction of our “More Perfect Union”(Obama). That job will never ever be completed: it’s one that requires rigorous attention and unfading wherewithal and all hands. The work is the keeping of the promises of our promised land. The practice of decency, the protection of freedom, and the promotion of liberty for all. With no exceptions. That takes a lot of work done on multiple job sites, every single day. And you can call each of them a battle for truth, justice and the American way,” — Tom Hanks.

02-22-2024, 03:25 PM	#2
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: May 2010 Location: @ home with my granddaughter, chosen friends & family. ツ Posts: 16,137 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,544 Thanked 33,565 Times in 10,676 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	Today, because as Americans we are experiencing horrific levels of Dis- and Mis-information and also because democracy is under attack by a once-revered political party (the GOP, Republican Party) — the political party that hates social order, they hate immigrants, they hate anybody who is not white, they’re in love with lining their pockets with ill gotten means of income, they hate paying taxes, they just plain hate anybody that does not swallow their load of toxic bullshit, I am reading a post made by a law professor from George Mason University, concerning the most worst dictators who have committed mass murders and starved people to death or just horrifically done brutal things to others, just so they can be “powerful.” Here is Ilya Somin’s (George Mason Law Professor) post: https://fee.org/articles/who-was-the...er-in-history/ And soon, over on a major news outlet, I’m going to read how a federal court judge denied T——p’s latest request to delay his comeuppance for lying about his taxes and business dealings since the early 1980s (decades of intentional lying). https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trum...y?id=107433418 __________________ “The way someone treats you is not a reflection of your worth: It’s a reflection of their emotional capacity,” ~ Jillian Turecki. “The work that is called for is the construction of our “More Perfect Union”(Obama). That job will never ever be completed: it’s one that requires rigorous attention and unfading wherewithal and all hands. The work is the keeping of the promises of our promised land. The practice of decency, the protection of freedom, and the promotion of liberty for all. With no exceptions. That takes a lot of work done on multiple job sites, every single day. And you can call each of them a battle for truth, justice and the American way,” — Tom Hanks.

02-22-2024, 10:18 PM	#3
GeorgiaMa'am Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: High Femme Ma'am Preferred Pronoun?: Ma'am Relationship Status: widowed - involved, poly Join Date: May 2010 Location: Georgia Posts: 6,452 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,634 Thanked 28,505 Times in 5,821 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	I need some bubble gum for my brain - something not taxing, something relaxing, something comforting. So I am re-reading an old favorite, *Arrows of the Queen* by Mercedes Lackey. Basically a fairy tale, which I have always loved. __________________ -GeorgiaMa'am It's true that you are blessed and lucky It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you. -10,000 Maniacs

04-27-2024, 06:30 PM	#4
cinnamongrrl Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: cleverly disguised as a responsible adult* Preferred Pronoun?: wild woman Relationship Status: No, thank you. Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Home in NC..gonna dig in like a tick this time… Posts: 7,662 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 15,233 Thanked 27,600 Times in 6,957 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	I’m reading “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah. It was given to me by a coworker who is also an avid reader. I had complained the other day that I day that I don’t read enough fiction and she brought it in for me! It’s a historical fiction based on 1930s Northern Texas just before the Dust Bowl. I’m loving it thus far. __________________

06-02-2024, 10:04 PM	#5
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: May 2010 Location: @ home with my granddaughter, chosen friends & family. ツ Posts: 16,137 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,544 Thanked 33,565 Times in 10,676 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	The Secret Life of Sunflowers 🌻 By Marta Molnar. —————————————————————. The Secret Life Of Sunflowers: A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law (Light & Life Series). https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-S.../dp/1940627494 __________________ “The way someone treats you is not a reflection of your worth: It’s a reflection of their emotional capacity,” ~ Jillian Turecki. “The work that is called for is the construction of our “More Perfect Union”(Obama). That job will never ever be completed: it’s one that requires rigorous attention and unfading wherewithal and all hands. The work is the keeping of the promises of our promised land. The practice of decency, the protection of freedom, and the promotion of liberty for all. With no exceptions. That takes a lot of work done on multiple job sites, every single day. And you can call each of them a battle for truth, justice and the American way,” — Tom Hanks.

08-09-2024, 03:19 PM	#6
Bèsame* Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femm Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: loved by many Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Closer to the waves Posts: 15,401 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,157 Thanked 40,971 Times in 10,751 Posts Rep Power: 21474865	I'm reading this book that's going to be a movie. Three Women written by Lisa Taddeo I have a wonderful origami butterfly bookmark! Thank you Georgia Ma'am __________________ kisses A kiss is a whisper in your mouth. Can I borrow a kiss? I promise to give it back.

08-09-2024, 05:19 PM	#7
GeorgiaMa'am Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: High Femme Ma'am Preferred Pronoun?: Ma'am Relationship Status: widowed - involved, poly Join Date: May 2010 Location: Georgia Posts: 6,452 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,634 Thanked 28,505 Times in 5,821 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	I'm reading Chestnut Street, a collection of short stories by Maeve Binchy. I believe they must have been published posthumously, because they're not quite as cleanly written as most of her work. Still, they're enjoyable. I'm also behind everybody else, it seems, and I am finally reading White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo. I thoroughly expected it to be hard to read, but it's proving not to be quite as difficult as I thought. It has answered some questions that I've been unwilling to ask my black friends, for fear that it would offend them or make them uncomfortable. It has also explained some of the reactions I have gotten from white friends when I try to discuss something like white privilege. It's been, not quite eye-opening, because I knew that some of these problems existed. But it's been reassuring in a way, because I know I'm not the only person out there having these feelings - even if it seems, according to this book, that most white people aren't having these realizations yet. Apparently though, there are a lot of white people who are and who are also doing the work. It's a good read. __________________ -GeorgiaMa'am It's true that you are blessed and lucky It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you. -10,000 Maniacs

08-16-2024, 10:44 PM	#8
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: May 2010 Location: @ home with my granddaughter, chosen friends & family. ツ Posts: 16,137 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,544 Thanked 33,565 Times in 10,676 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger Link to book review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...y_Night_Lights __________________ “The way someone treats you is not a reflection of your worth: It’s a reflection of their emotional capacity,” ~ Jillian Turecki. “The work that is called for is the construction of our “More Perfect Union”(Obama). That job will never ever be completed: it’s one that requires rigorous attention and unfading wherewithal and all hands. The work is the keeping of the promises of our promised land. The practice of decency, the protection of freedom, and the promotion of liberty for all. With no exceptions. That takes a lot of work done on multiple job sites, every single day. And you can call each of them a battle for truth, justice and the American way,” — Tom Hanks.