What are you reading?

Fancy · 08-07-2012, 01:34 PM

10 more days until the library summer program ends!

Now reading:
Farther Away - Jonathan Franzen

Favorite passage in the book so far, "If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you've despaired of being loved for who you really are. And if you succeed in manipulating other people into liking you, it will be hard not to feel, at some level, contempt for those people, because they've fallen for your shtick. Those people exist to make you feel good about yourself, but how good can your feeling be when it's provided by people you don't respect?"

Buddhism for Beginners - Thubten Chodron

and two in the kitchen for a little light summer canning:
175 best Jams, Jellies, Marmalades - Linda Amendt

Pickles to Relish - Beverly Alfeld (her full name is longer than the title)

08-07-2012, 02:56 PM

Just got a Kindle today and can't decide whether to start the first of the Hunger Games trilogy

Lost London - Richard Guard
A Race for Madmen - Chris Sidwells (non-fiction about Tour de France)
The Stranger's Child - Allan Hollinghurst

or

The first in the Marketplace series - Laura Antoniou

clay · 08-07-2012, 04:56 PM

Am enjoying this set of books...a gift to me...smiles....

Reader · 08-07-2012, 05:31 PM

"In One Person", by John Irving.

Funny, well-written and interesting. How can you beat that?

Semantics · 08-07-2012, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pajara

About to start The Difference Engine.

I got this book for Kindle after seeing your post and I'm curious about how you liked it. I liked it a lot- but the charm is definitely in the details.

Right now I'm reading Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson. It's hysterical.

tonaderspeisung · 08-07-2012, 05:57 PM

starship troopers - robert a. heinlein

i have to admit - for a book written in 1960 it still reads very modern
and i totally get why the odd man at the va hospital was so keen to recommend it

Fancy · 08-10-2012, 07:49 AM

Ok, quoting my own, but who cares, right?

I'm tickled that the library just received a copy of Adrienne Rich's Dream of a Common Language! Heading to the library today to check it out before anyone else. How nerdy am I?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fancy

10 more days until the library summer program ends!

Now reading:
Farther Away - Jonathan Franzen

Favorite passage in the book so far, "If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you've despaired of being loved for who you really are. And if you succeed in manipulating other people into liking you, it will be hard not to feel, at some level, contempt for those people, because they've fallen for your shtick. Those people exist to make you feel good about yourself, but how good can your feeling be when it's provided by people you don't respect?"

Buddhism for Beginners - Thubten Chodron

and two in the kitchen for a little light summer canning:
175 best Jams, Jellies, Marmalades - Linda Amendt

Pickles to Relish - Beverly Alfeld (her full name is longer than the title)

nycfem · 08-10-2012, 10:46 AM

Wow, one of my favorite authors, David Rakoff, a gay humor/political writer (similar to the style of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs) just died at age 47. I'm so very sad about this. I would not only read his writing but listen to him read it on the radio and on CDs. The death of an author we love is it's own grief, and a deep one at that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/bo....html?emc=eta1

Jesse · 08-10-2012, 06:50 PM

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Katniss · 08-11-2012, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fancy

Ok, quoting my own, but who cares, right?

I'm tickled that the library just received a copy of Adrienne Rich's Dream of a Common Language! Heading to the library today to check it out before anyone else. How nerdy am I?

My copy is falling apart I have had it for so long. Good choice and some great lines in there. "Only she who says she did not chose, is the loser in the end." Love it and enjoy the read.

Katniss

Medusa · 08-12-2012, 08:59 AM

I just started "LZR-1143: Perspectives". It was a free Zombie novel thing download for the Kindle. I'm about halfway through it and the writing is terrible but I can see where it could have been really good. I think it's part of a series but, needless to say, I won't be reading the rest of the series.

Up next, "Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical"

tonaderspeisung · 08-14-2012, 06:25 PM

why are all the book recommendations from this thread checked out from the library - whyyyyyy?

i'm in wait list purgatory

i was able to snatch up 1q84 by haruki murakami

i'm only 6 chapters in but so far it's very promising

Fancy · 08-14-2012, 08:04 PM

Last week to get a couple more books in before the big finale at the library.

How to be Lost
by Amanda Eyre Ward

Dream of a Common Language
by Adrienne Rich

“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.

-from "Transcendental Etude”
― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Kätzchen · 08-14-2012, 09:55 PM

I was at Powell's Bookstore the other day and found a book that I think will prove useful to me.

I'm reading:

A Monk's Alphabet: Moments of Stillness in a Turning World
(Authored by poet, theologian and Benedictine Monk: Fr. Jeremy Driscoll)

It's a collection of 187 meditations.
I have already read a few of them since I bought the book
and can say that sometimes I find myself thinking about the
proposed subject of thought and find myself wondering in my
own mind: Asking myself if what I have read seems true or
if I have abandoned my own existential existence and considered
adopting a new realm of thought.

I like this book and I will keep it, too.

08-07-2012, 01:34 PM	#1
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08-07-2012, 02:56 PM	#2
Daktari Guest Tournaments Won: 1 Posts: n/a My Photo Gallery	Just got a Kindle today and can't decide whether to start the first of the Hunger Games trilogy Lost London - Richard Guard A Race for Madmen - Chris Sidwells (non-fiction about Tour de France) The Stranger's Child - Allan Hollinghurst or The first in the Marketplace series - Laura Antoniou

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Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Last week to get a couple more books in before the big finale at the library. How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich “The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude” ― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

08-14-2012, 09:55 PM	#14
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow ツ Posts: 16,050 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,111 Thanked 33,507 Times in 10,638 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	I was at Powell's Bookstore the other day and found a book that I think will prove useful to me. I'm reading: A Monk's Alphabet: Moments of Stillness in a Turning World (Authored by poet, theologian and Benedictine Monk: Fr. Jeremy Driscoll) It's a collection of 187 meditations. I have already read a few of them since I bought the book and can say that sometimes I find myself thinking about the proposed subject of thought and find myself wondering in my own mind: Asking myself if what I have read seems true or if I have abandoned my own existential existence and considered adopting a new realm of thought. I like this book and I will keep it, too.