What are you reading?

[Kätzchen]

Congrat's to you Fancy for winning the reading prize award!


Soon, that book of yours is exactly something I would read:
Febos' journey into slaying her own person dragons is in itself
a courageous act, harrowingly fine tuned to her own complicity.


How excellent the good news is that friends bring!

*C h e e r s & Good Morning*

[apretty]

[Kobi]

It's Even Worse Than It Looks - How the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism.

Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein


Going to need more zantac for this one.

[Kätzchen]

Just wanted to leave another note here tonight:

I came across Gilbert King (author of: Devil in the Grove) a few months ago when headline news broke across America about Trayvon Martin - who was robbed of his life in a gated community in Florida.

I highly recommend this book and it is a book I am keeping in my growing archive on literature pertaining to Race, Power & Privilege.

For those of you who are interested:

Gilbert King maintains a blog (found here), supplies updates on his FB page and travels to university and college campuses to speak about racism in America and promote his book.

I bought his book this past spring when it became available for purchase out here on the west coast. His book has been reviewed by The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune - as well as authors such as Kevin Boyle, Wil Haygood and Ira Katznelson.

Here's an excerpt about the book, provided by Amazon.com:

Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in an explosive and deadly case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.

[Glenn]

The Castle -Franz Kafka
I don't recommend reading Kafka.... yet I do

[cheekyali]

Vanish - Tess Gerristen

Its part of the Rizzoli and Isles series (although started reading it before seeing the series). They usually follow the same formula but, it works and keeps me reading.

[Martina]

Originally Posted by cheekyali

Vanish - Tess Gerristen

Its part of the Rizzoli and Isles series (although started reading it before seeing the series). They usually follow the same formula but, it works and keeps me reading.

Oooooo. I didn't know there were books. I got into the tv show this summer. Cool.

[Martina]

School is back in session, and all pretense of reading anything even slightly demanding is gone.

Back to comfort food literature.

Currently, The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea.

It may be a bad sign that I am already reading children's literature.

[Kätzchen]

I am very grateful for this forum thread and for all the people who share their reading materials here.

*Thank You*

I'm still working with all the recent materials I have listed and as well, I have been participating more in our community here. Thank You to members here who share about things in their life and your mindset too.

I learn so much from all of you and feel less lonely in life because of your efforts in our community.

-XXXX-

*treats for our book club readers *

[Kelt]

Somebody in here, and I can't for the life of me find that post again, recommended a book by Pema Chondron (a buddhist teacher). It must have been the right time for me to see that, I am now reading a second book by her; "Taking the Leap" and enjoying it.

I am also having a re-read of Dr Joel Fuhrmans two book set, "Eat for Health". It stresses a high micronutrient approach to eating.

Getting back on track would seem to be a theme this month.

[Estella]

Confederacy of Dunces. Again.

[vixenagogo]

100 EXTRAORDINARY STORIES ABOUT ORDINARY THINGS SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS: A Literary and Economic Experiment
Can a great story transform a worthless trinket into a significant object? The Significant Objects project set out to answer that question once and for all, by recruiting a highly impressive crew of creative writers to invent stories about an unimpressive menagerie of items rescued from thrift stores and yard sales.
That secondhand flotsam definitely becomes more valuable: sold on eBay, objects originally picked up for a buck or so sold for thousands of dollars in total — making the project a sensation in the literary blogosphere along the way.
But something else happened, too: The stories created were astonishing, a cavalcade of surprising responses to the challenge of manufacturing significance. Who would have believed that random junk could inspire so much imagination?

[aishah]

finished living in liberation by cristien storm and the road to assisi by paul sabatier. both were amazing. now reading the reluctant saint, another book about st. francis - it's iffy so far. the author tries to remove all the legendary hagiography stuff which i appreciate to some degree, but the writing makes me cringe.

[afixer]

Originally Posted by AscotButch

I am currently revisiting one of my favorites, A Confederacy of Dunces by Johh Kennedy Toole. It is perfection.

you should read this... i enjoyed it.

Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

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[afixer]

There Are Things I Want You to Know About Stieg Larsson and Me
- Eva Gabrielsson

[nycfem]

Wow. What an incredible story (never knew this):

from Amazon:

"The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb’s suggested revisions, Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a box. Years later he suffered a mental breakdown, took a two-month journey across the United States, and finally committed suicide on an inconspicuous road outside of Biloxi. Following the funeral, Toole’s mother discovered the manuscript. After many rejections, she cornered Walker Percy, who found it a brilliant novel and spearheaded its publication. In 1981, twelve years after the author’s death, A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize."

Originally Posted by afixer

you should read this... i enjoyed it.

Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

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[AnnRkey]

I am currently enjoying The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson, the first book in the Walt Longmire series! The tv show is great, but per usual, the books are better!!!

[StillettoDoll]

[aishah]

the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by michelle alexander. i might have posted about it in here before...i started and stopped it in july and i'm picking it back up i agree with a lot of the criticism that exists about the book that she ignores much of black history and the larger context of colonialism, capitalism, eurocentrism and white supremacy. but i do think the book is really good and needed because there are so few really accessible analyses in existence about these issues. i hope her book, along with the growing body of work on transformative justice by other writers, will pave the way for more.

i'm also beginning beyond inclusion, beyond empowerment: a developmental strategy to liberate everyone by leticia nieto. i've heard really good things about it and i have a feeling it's going to be one of those you have to read several times

[Talon]

Tactics Of Modern Warfare by Mark Lloyd.