What are you reading?

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Originally Posted by Anomaly

So for years everyone has been trying to get me to read Harry Potter and Twilight and stuff, and I'm like "Hmmm, no. How about I read some Mian Mian or Dostoyevsky or Michelle Tea because I'm a grown-up, no thank you." I'm pretty embarrassed about it, but I'm kinda super into the Hunger Games now. I had to buy the third book in hard copy, and I wanted to wear sunglasses and a trench coat to the juvenile fiction section. But I guess I don't care... I love those books.

I bought all three at once, figured if they were so popular I would love them.. Honestly, it took me a lot to get into the first book. It was so hard I even asked the wife if I should just return them! Glad I stuck it through because I liked them. I don't love them per say, but they are a good read. I am not fond of the movie, not sure why, I think I built up District 9 as more glamorous in my mind, and did not imagine the other districts looking so.. old-fashioned?

Either way, glad you are enjoying it. Our 9 year old has finished the Harry Potter series I believe, and is now reading The Hunger Games.

[Anomaly]

Originally Posted by desd

Either way, glad you are enjoying it. Our 9 year old has finished the Harry Potter series I believe, and is now reading The Hunger Games.

Haha, see, I'm reading the same books as 9 year old, that's what I was worried about! Oh well, your 9 year old has good taste.

Just finished the Doomsday Prepper's Pocket Guide, which was unsuprisingly weird and poorly written. Don't laugh! There's a civil emergency going on outside my window right now! The roads are closed, the government buildings. About half of the commercial buildings are closed, too. Second or third time this winter, and my friends are still speeding their cars into telephone poles on their way to the grocery store like a bunch of dummies, because they don't even have 24 hours worth of ramen noodles in their apartments. The whole world shuts down here, regularly, and I'm always just fine.

And I just started This is How by Augusten Burroughs.

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Originally Posted by Anomaly

Haha, see, I'm reading the same books as 9 year old, that's what I was worried about! Oh well, your 9 year old has good taste.

Just finished the Doomsday Prepper's Pocket Guide, which was unsuprisingly weird and poorly written. Don't laugh! There's a civil emergency going on outside my window right now! The roads are closed, the government buildings. About half of the commercial buildings are closed, too. Second or third time this winter, and my friends are still speeding their cars into telephone poles on their way to the grocery store like a bunch of dummies, because they don't even have 24 hours worth of ramen noodles in their apartments. The whole world shuts down here, regularly, and I'm always just fine.

And I just started This is How by Augusten Burroughs.

Don't feel bad - she is in third grade reading at a seventh grade level.. and thinks anything aimed towards kids is stupid [and has told me so numerous times!].

[Kätzchen]

The Summer We Got Free
-- Mia McKenzie

(Oakland, CA: Black Girl Dangerous Press)




I just ordered it online today @ Amazon.
I'm looking forward to reading McKenzie's book
(it's an early birthday present for myself).

[Joness]

I have just started reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Love it already and struggling to put it down. Love the way her writing transcends space, time and sexuality. I love the way she writes, daring and brave of her time. Full of blurred lines and the ever shifting male/female continuum.

Can't stop moving forward but don't want it to end at the same time . . . . argh! Passion . . . breathy breath breathe . . . love it!

Off to read some more, always moving too fast, need to slow down xx

[Genesis]

I am re-reading for the umpteen time: Cien años de soledad (One hunded years of solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez
and 更級日記 (As I cross the bridge of dreams) by Sarashina,Nikki

[Mari]

I'm currently reading two books as I'm want to do: one for my edification and one for pure pleasure. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker, and A Dance with Dragons by the great bearded mountain, George R.R. Martin.

[cinnamongrrl]

I'm actually reading two books, because SOMEONE stole my book while camping...

Animal Farm by George Orwell. I THINK this was required reading in high school...but I don't remember reading it.

Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.[1] Orwell, a democratic socialist,[2] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, especially after his experiences with the NKVD and the Spanish Civil War.[3] The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin "une conte satirique contre Stalin",[4] and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".

and for my new selection whilest I wait for this one back I am reading,

The Reluctant Saint: St. Francis of Assisi by Donald Spoto

Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archives, plus Francis's own letters, Spoto places Francis within the context of the multifaceted ecclesiastical, political, and social forces of medieval Italy, casting new light on Francis and showing how his emphasis on charity as the heart of the Gospel's message helped him pioneer a new social movement. This nuanced portrait reveals the multifaceted character of a man who can genuinely be said to have changed the course of history.

[Teddybear]

Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl

I'm actually reading two books, because SOMEONE stole my book while camping.....

I did NOT steal ur book. U told me on the way that u were ALREADY reXing another book. I'm almost done with it. U should have it back tonite. R u going to finish it as quick as I????

[lusciouskiwi]

[cinnamongrrl]

I am now reading...

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer

Spanning seven decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. Modoc is a captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure, to be treasured by animal lovers everywhere.

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This is what I'm currently reading

[cinnamongrrl]

I just got...(and am only glancing through atm)

No Impact Man:The adventures of a guilty liberal who attempts to save the planet and the discoveries he makes about himself and our way of life in the process.

By Colin Beavan

And that is the entire title!

Colin Beavan is No Impact Man. Dismayed, worried, and angered at worsening global climate conditions, and sorely confused and frustrated about what one individual can do to alleviate—or reverse—such threatening trends, Beavan decided to do something. His choice: to lead a life of no impact for one year. That is, in everyday living his goal was to create no negative impact on the environment. In New York City. And he dragged his Starbucks-addicted wife, one year-old daughter, and trusty dog along for the ride. A no impact transition meant no transportation use that required the power of fossil fuels (subways, taxis, planes, elevators), no takeout food (wasteful containers), no bottled water, no new purchases, no use of disposable items (like razors), and eventually, no electricity. Big things (travel) and little things (cooking) and private things (hygiene) and everything in-between fell into this phased-in project.

Along the way, Beavan blogged about his trials. His book, No Impact Man (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009), made of recycled paper and produced by a plant powered by biogas, tells the tale—at turns comical, revealing, and emotional—of a family at first hesitant, then fully embracing of this project. It is also peppered with startling, eyebrow-raising statistics on global manufacturing, consumption patterns, and waste production. (The documentary on the project is out now too).

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The Interestings: A Novel

Amazon: An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013: This knowing, generous and slyly sly new novel follows a group of teenagers who meet at a summer camp for artsy teens in 1974 and survive as friends through the competitions and realities of growing up. At its heart is Jules (nee Julie, she changes it that first summer to seem more sophisticated) Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress who comes to realize she’s got more creative temperament than talent; her almost boyfriend Ethan Figman, the true genius in the bunch (he’s a cartoonist); musician Jonah Bay, son of a famous Baez-ish folksinger; and the Wolf siblings, Ash and Goodman, attractive and mysterious. How these five circle each other, come together and break apart, makes for plenty of hilarious scenes and plenty of heartbreaking ones, too. A compelling coming of age story about five privileged kids, this is also a pitch-perfect tale about a particular generation and the era that spawned it. --Sara Nelson

[ONLY]

Last night I finished "To Kill A Mockingbird" and started "Orange Is The New Black" Just as I enjoy a variety of music, anywhere from Bee Gees to Three doors down to Lionel Richie to Linkin Park, I have been enjoying a variety of very different books

[Kätzchen]

Just to briefly share, tonight:

I have no idea what's up with me lately, but I did not finish the last two books I attempted to read: "Bride of Lammermoor" or Alice Arden's, "She Took To The Woods." I did not enjoy either book.

But I forgot that I subscribed to a reader's list, a "Tip Sheet", supplied to me by: Publisher's Weekly.
I have been browsing reading materials found on two different lists and thought I would leave links for them tonight, in case anyone else might see something interesting to read.

Link no. 1 ~>>> The Big Indie Books of Fall 2013

Link no. 2 ~>>> The 20 Best Books in Translation You've Never Read

On either link above, a person can find tabs for: News, Authors, Reviews, Best Sellers, International, Opinion, and other items that might be interesting to learn more about.

[Medusa]

UGH! My reading is in a slump this past week!

Finished a rather boring Kaplan LSAT book.

Finished "Dr. Sleep" by Stephen King. It was entertaining but "thin" in places.

Finished "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois. Heavy. Beautiful.

I just cracked "We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency" by Parmy Olson.

Also have this one going: "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State" by Dana Priest

[StillettoDoll]

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Originally Posted by ONLY

Last night I finished "To Kill A Mockingbird" and started "Orange Is The New Black" Just as I enjoy a variety of music, anywhere from Bee Gees to Three doors down to Lionel Richie to Linkin Park, I have been enjoying a variety of very different books

Finished "Orange Is The New Black" couple of weekends ago and have been reading "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris

[Kätzchen]

James McBride's latest novel: The Good Lord Bird (Aug. 2013).



I was a friend's house recently and saw McBrides' book laying on the coffee table and picked it up, browsing the introductory pages and asked if I could borrow it to read. I don't ordinarily read novels but was his first book (The Color of Water) impressed me deeply, so I wanted to explore his latest book. I'm reading it slowly... not just turning page after page, but more along the lines of filtering the story from my own life's narrative, which is not without bias, but I'm attempting to read it from the authors' perspective, with the idea possibly centering around unspoken, least heard perspective, historical narratives that often are not talked about.

Like in the book Unholy Night (Seth Grahame-Smith, 2012): Another book, novel, a re-telling of an iconic historical event, via a creative intrepretative approach. Which was a very good book.

I'm reading both books (actually).