BOOKS: What are you reading?

[brick19]

I'm currently bouncing in between "Self Inflicted Wounds" by Aisha Tyler (because she is my inspiration and also EVERYTHING!) and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Johnathan Safran Foer because I like a little sadness in my lit sometimes. lol

 

[JackinSea]

TUDOR, by Leanda de Lisle. Public Affairs Books 2013.

The story of the Tudors' reigns from before the Battle of Bosworth through to the Stuarts.

Hey! I'm the resident nerd around here -- if anyone's going to be bandying about non-fiction titles, it'll be MY job! You just go back to your American Chop Suey!

(disclaimer: author is an Orono grad)

 

[Rolyo85]

Struggling with Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Very very very very slow going...

 

[JackinSea]

Fans of the cooking program Two Fat Ladies would appreciate the memoir of one of its stars, Clarissa Dickson Wright: Spilling the Beans. Her story of overcoming a dysfunctional youth, followed by alcoholism so severe I wondered how she made it out alive! She's honest, not at all self-pitying, and has a terrific dry sense of humor.

 

[Yuki Sohma]

Tonight I am reviewing the 5 Volume The Expositor's Greek Testament, Edited by the Reverend W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A., LL.D, published by WM. B. Erdman's Publishing Company of Grand Rapids Michigan.

Yesterday I read The Life of Saint Issa, written by Virchand R. Gandhi published by Kessinger Publishing of Whitefish, Montana, as extracted from The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ also written by Virchand R. Gandhi.

 

[MJEH89]

I like to read books that are deep, meaningful, and which possess a significant cultural learning experience...

 

[JackinSea]

Started this one today at lunch: Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family by Joel Derfner. It's a fucking riot, especially the story of his grandmother's nine husbands!

 

[Kulindahr]

On a personal note, I've never understood the hysteria surrounding religion and science. A lot of people treat them as if they were mutually exclusive. The truth is that Dawkins cannot say God is an illusion any more than I can say He isn't.

And in the spirit of including fortune-cookie quotes at the end of posts, here's one:

'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' -Albert Einstein.

I agree, and I like it.

I'm currently reading The Naked God. It's part three of the epic sci-fi trilogy entitled The Nights Dawn by Peter F. Hamilton.

Definitely 'yay'. This trilogy is the greatest piece of science fiction literature I've ever read. Even greater than my previous favourite, the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds.
....
That said, the series is incredibly deep and extensive, deciding to read them all is quite the commitment, but it is a commitment well worth making.

By "deep", do you mean there is some serious philosophy to be pondered? I like sci fi (and fantasy) that tackles philosophical issues or makes a philosophical point to consider -- as an example, the entire Belgariad can be viewed as a meditation on the concept of the nature of creation.

 

[Kulindahr]

My current ones (yes, I read multiple books at once):

The Imager Portfolio

 

[Thad1527]

I finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It's a tale of survival in a dreary cold post-apocalyptic world. And I was surprised that it made me cry...at the end.

Esquire magazine included it on their additional "Books Every Man Should Read" list in their recent 80th anniversary issue.

 

[Kulindahr]

Picked this up:

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

by Alexandra Horowitz

 

[Irish Queer]

Dexter's Final Cut.

 

[vapour]

Suicide note by mitchell heismann. Interesting stuff.

 

[Kulindahr]

Natural Order-Mage
L. E. Modesitt

 

[goldenmoth]

I'm trying to find something good at the moment. Something gay for a change. I devoured the Christopher Isherwood books and gaysia. Hopefully not something that's cheap mills and boon crap or one where everyone dies at the end

 

[Kulindahr]

Mage-Guard of Hamor
L.E. Modesitt

 

[zoltanspawn]

Two things I never make time to do are exercise and read real literature.

So I've been listening to audiobooks in attempt to shore my meager will. Just finished Nabakov's Lolita, and just starting Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. (Listened to a bit of Marcus Aurelius, Nagarjuna, Rabindranath Tagore).

If I bump this thread up every so often you will know I am persisting in my effort at fitness.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I have to find a sunny meadow in the trees and way away from other people to appreciate the spellbinding Virginia Woolf.

 

[alxwhtmr95]

Just finished the first 3 Tales of the City books Tales, More Tales, Further Tales...I'll try to get to the next, what 6 or 7- a new one just came out....first 2 TV mini series very close to books, but 3rd mini was very different- the whole Anna's dad/Mother Mucca stiry in Further was made just for TV- not in book...but Maupin wrote and co produced, so I'm sure it was the way he wanted it.

 

[Kulindahr]

Since my last post, I've read about twenty books, from a sci-fi series to a history of the first civil rights efforts in the US (Fourteenth Amendment and all getting passed) to a very dishonest argument for gun control being constitutional to a veterinary guide on raising a dog.