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I'm finally back from my day, gazelling about the universe, and stopped by my favorite library to check out and bring home a few books, to read during the holidays. I found two at the library and one is on the way: I had to order it on an inter-library loan because not many people ordinarily want to read it, but I do.
Czeslaw Milosz: Legends of Modernity (1996; trans. in 2005), A Treatise On Poetry (begun in the winter of 1955, finished by spring of 1956; published and trans., in 2001), and The Captive Mind (1953; trans: Vintage International; NY, NY: 1990). Here's an interesting article (LINK), authored by Tony Judt, concerning Milosz' book, The Captive Mind, which appeared in The New York Review of Books (September 30th, 2010 issue).
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The golden notebook / Doris Lessing
I don't ever remember reading this classic. The Golden Notebook is the story of writer Anna Wulf, the four notebooks in which she records her life, and her attempt to tie them together in a fifth, gold-coloured, notebook. The book intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Molly and Anna, and their children, ex-husbands and lovers—entitled Free Women—with excerpts from Anna's four notebooks, coloured black (of Anna's experience in Southern Rhodesia, before and during WWII, which inspired her own best-selling novel), red (of her experience as a member of the Communist Party), yellow (an ongoing novel that is being written based on the painful ending of Anna's own love affair), and blue (Anna's personal journal where she records her memories, dreams, and emotional life). Each notebook is returned to four times, interspersed with episodes from Free Women, creating non-chronological, overlapping sections that interact with one another. This post-modern styling, with its space for "play" engaging the characters and readers, is among the most famous features of the book, although Lessing insisted that readers and reviewers pay attention to the serious themes in the novel. |
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Trying to get this done before I see the movie but my reading time is limited. Maybe the movie will stay in the theaters until I am done or Christmas can wait so I can finish.
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The Actress (A Rita Farmer Mystery) by Sims, Elizabeth
i read every lesbian mystery/detective book that comes my way. i read all of Elizabeth Sims Lillian Byrd Mysteries. i was impressed by her framing of Lillian so real and like me flawed. l. i am hoping Rita Farmer will be as charming as Lillian. This is the first of a series of mysteries. The Extra and On Location follow.
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I am reading this fasinating article about phantom sensations in people who are transsexual
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/p...-gender-brain/
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
It's finally out: my favorite blog is now a book! If you're already a fan of the blog Hyperbole and a Half, you'll no doubt recognize most of the content of this book, but will love it all the more. There were a few chapters/posts that I didn't recognize, but I'm not sure if I missed it in the blog or if it's actual new content created just for the book. Either way, it was an unexpected bonus. Each chapter/post is on different colored pages, which is good when skipping around: it would be hard to distinguish one story from another, just based on the artwork, which looks like a 5 year drew it (which is, of course, part of the blog's brilliance)… so the color-coded chapters are really handy. The placement of art on the page is nice too. Allie Brosh has launched dozens of hilarious (to me) catch phrases that cause mostly blank looks in those around me when I say them…which is often ("I made food! I'm magical!" "Cake is the only thing that matters." "Can't anyone see how dead these are?" "Clean ALL the things!") Now maybe the rest of the world will catch up and recognize the manic brilliance they've been missing.
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All about love : new visions / Bell Hooks.
Everyone who has witnessed the growth process of a newborn child from the moment of birth on sees clearly that before language is known, before the identity of caretakers is recognized, babies respond to affectionate care. Usually they respond with sounds or looks of pleasure. As they grow older they respond to affectionate care by giving affection, cooing at the sight of a welcomed caretaker. Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients-care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. Learning faulty definitions of love when we are quite young makes it difficult to be loving as we grow older. We start out committed to the right path but go in the wrong direction. Most of us learn early on to think of love as a feeling. When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them, that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called "cathexis." In his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting or neglecting them. Since their feeling is that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love. -------- All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all. Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame. ----------------- Fascinating reading for a snowy day. |
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I'm making my way through James Patterson's Alex Cross series... crime thrillers and some ugly stuff going on so I may have to take a break soon for a good Tilly Bagshawe bonkbuster or some chicklit! I recently downloaded over 1000 books with lesbian themes to my kindle so I guess I should tackle those one of these days XD I saw others mention the Sookie Stackhouse books... I read all 13 of them this year - so much fun!!!
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In real book form Mo Stars Complete Dark by Stephen King
In Kindle form starting the Deviations Series
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I'm making my way through "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho ..... slowly, as I need to re-read each piece that I section off to reflect on my life and how it relates to the journey the shepherd is making.
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Finished only 3 books in December but they were really good. And because of this thread, I am now reading the following:
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar and James McBride's latest novel: The Good Lord Bird (Aug. 2013) and my current "fluff" (not necessarily a silly book but something I read on and off in sections) is a vintage Thanatochemistry/Embalming manual. It's a tome at over 500 pages and I skip the mathematical equations for fluid levels but the explanations of restorative art are fascinating.
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I too am reading, The Good Lord Bird
(I borrowed it from a friend, recently). After spending my day out and about, I picked up several books to stash away for reading late at night: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Annotated Frankenstein (2012).
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Joyland by Stephen King & One Degree of Separation by Karin Kallmarker
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Gone by Jonathan Kellerman ... it is one in his Alex Delaware (AD) series. I love the characters, they are all familiar to me since I've read so many of the AD ones. I have had it awhile now. In real life, Jonathan Kellerman is a child psychologist.
I am a very active person and lately it has been difficult to be still and read - would rather be outside tooling around (woodworking) or indoors assembling a gadgie. My current on going indoor project is making a lamp for the fun of it. I am sure I will give it to someone, don't know who yet, when completed. I think I am finished with it and then get another idea to do something more to it. About a week ago, I found the neatest switch (very unusual looking) on a sale table at Home Depot. It works great and is so cool. I like using my hands to create things. |
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Common Murder: A Lindsay Gordon Mystery by Val McDermid
A series about a journalist who turns detective on occasion. This is book two in the series. A good read set in Scotland and England.
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I discovered the Ender series and loved the writing style. I had grand plans to read the whole thing and I was SO excited to have found a new series. Then Orson Scott Card turned out to be a giant homophobic, racist weirdo. I feel dirty that I gave him money for this books with the way he spews vitriol.
Thank goodness I just got "The Wolves of Midwinter" by my dear Anne Rice, it seems a perfect antidote for that hateful Card. Anne Rice publicly denounced the Catholic church for their antigay foolishness. My kinda girl.
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Yes OSC is terrible person!!
I just downloaded a whole bunch of books about Marilyn Monroe to my Kindle so I am super pleased about that! Will take a break from Alex Cross soon to give them a read! |
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