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What book(s) are you reading now?

Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Monta, your book selections sound very, very interesting!

You may like "The Woman with a Worm in Her Head." I am pretty sure that's the title. I read it a few years ago. It's a book about true medical mysteries and it's well written. Easy read - the doctor who wrote it is kind of sarcastic but he's not nasty about his patients.

I get on these reading tears myself, which is why my husband is buying me a Kindle for Christmas - we have no more room for books in our house! (We had about 2000 till we gave six boxes away to the local women's shelter here.) I am reading "The Virgin of Small Plains" right now. It's a novel and I don't usually read fiction, but this one is good.

I recently finished "The River Where America Began" about the history of the James River. It was GREAT! I got on a river binge after reading "The Thames" which was one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

Books - yummy. I love em!
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Smoke said:
That sounds very interesting.
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Smoke - I just finished that book (Island of the Lost) and now my husband is reading it. Now HE can't put it down.

It's one of the best books I've read in several years. In fact, I'm going to read more of her books (can't recall the author's name, but she lives in New Zealand and writes non fiction about sailing the high seas). She has won a lot of literary awards for her historical writings and I really, really like her writing style - never dry, and lots of insight into personalities, which I always like when reading history.

Dang it, I wish we both had one of those Barnes and Noble Nooks - then I could let you borrow it for two weeks! But I'm getting a Kindle for Christmas rather than a Nook.
 
monta

monta

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I am on an unbelieveable binge, worst I've had, combination of bad weather and time off work with no plans and no intention of spending too much money.

Since the previous post I ploughed through, various books of poetry, No Earthly Estate, Poems for refugees, the complete works of W.B Yeats, 1000 years of Irish Poetry, complete works of T.S Elliot and A small fat boy walking backwards, I never count poetry though and they were all re reads,I also read ''The Unfolding of Language'' by Guy Deutshcer, ''The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Part 2 , The Fall'' ''Lords of Human Kind'' and ''Women Who Kill'' and Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, the only one of the non poetry books I would recommend is The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Part 2, not as upbeat as part 1 :D but still very interesting.

I think all the books I have read recently were all gifts, I like Oliver Sacks' books like Musicophilia and The man who mistook his wife for a hat but I don't really enjoy the gorey surgical stuff.

I loved reading EM Forster when I was younger I tore through the lot of them with gusto, he is a good story teller but he can get a bit samey, in my opinion.

I am reading The Call of Cthulhu by H.P Lovecraft at the moment the perfect accompaniment to the dreary winter weather, and then The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie, is next on the list, I hope it is funny, I'm expecting funny and I may be building myself up for some major dissapointment .

I am seriously starved for adult conversation at this stage :eek:
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Wow, Monta - you ARE on a rampage! And I thought I was an addict at just two books a week.

I just read "The Road" and it was very well written and interesting but depressing as hell.

I need to get me some Forster. I don't know why I haven't read his stuff before.

Let me know if the Hugh Laurie book is funny - I think he's a genius!

I think I should tell you something. My obsessive/compulsive disorder manifests itself in reading rampages - reading nonstop is often the first sign of what I call an "attack." It usually happens when I'm stressed out about something else - I think the reading starts as an escape from an uncomfortable reality, and ends up something I cannot control without meds.

I generally like my little edge of OCD - it makes me "me" and it doesn't disrupt my life when I'm able to control it (which is 90 percent of the time) - but in times of stress, it can spiral out of control pretty quickly. This has only happened twice in my life but it was two times too many.

I'm telling you this just to give you info in case you may - MAY - see something of yourself in it. At the height of one of my OCD reading frenzies, I was nearly unable to do anything but read - the rest of my life was literally paralyzed. Not a good, balanced situation. Thank God for Luvox.

When my life is happy and fulfilling, it doesn't get out of control and I'm able to function quite nicely without meds - but the meds really help me moderate my OCD when it flares back up.

I hope I don't offend you with this! It's probably not the case with you, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

By the way - we have very similar reading interests. May I commend you on your excellent taste?

Peace!
 
sandandfoam

sandandfoam

Veteran Member
I'm just coming to the end of 'Rebels The Irish Rising of 1916' by Peter De Rosa.
It's a really good read, riveting. It seems to present all sides fairly and I've stayed up waay too late a few nights because I couldn't put it down.
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Stephen, that sounds VERY interesting - I like a book that presents all sides of something divisive like that.

Hope you're feeling a lot better these days.
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
I wish I could happily contribute to this thread, but I don't get to choose the books I read. 8^( They come in the mail, I read them, and then I interview the author. Don't get me wrong, I love writing articles (passionately), and some of the authors are fun to chat with, but it's hard to get excited when I get an email that says: "hi michael, I've shipped you 2 books by our most recent authors ------- & --------. Let us know when we you've finished reading them and we'll arrange interviews with the author. Thank you!" Ugh, great, another business management "how-to" book and another actor who thinks the world cares what he has to say about life. Gee, I just can't contain the excitement.
 
Kathryn

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Msizer - wow that sort of sucks. I HATE being forced to read something that I find dull or stupid!!! I can't imagine having to do so for a LIVING!

I'm all about doing something you love for a living - but I also like to keep my recreational and work stuff sort of separated - why pressurize something you LOVE to do with HAVING to do it, ya know?

That's why I've never really considered painting murals or decorative art (stucco, stencils, etc) for a living - I would rather do them for fun.
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
Interesting perspective. Maybe I made it sound worse than it is, don't get me wrong, I do love writing articles, it's just that I wish I had more control over my subject matter sometimes. I hadn't thought of that though, how doing what you love for a living might actually spoil it. Interesting thought. I only write part-time now, but I think it will go full time soon after christmas. Hopefully then I'll have a wider variety of authors to explore.

Thanks Kathryn for the insight.
 
Renji

Renji

Well-Known Member
2012 survival guide handbook (though I don't really believe on the EW scenario on that year)
 
Anti-thesisofreason

Anti-thesisofreason

Explorer
The Decline of MEN by Guy Garcia

A book about how men have lost their traditional definitions of what it is to be a "man" and how this lack of definition and societies mixed and twisted ideas of what a man is is causing more harm to men than good.
 
V

Vile Atheist

Loud and Obnoxious
Anti-thesisofreason said:
The Decline of MEN by Guy Garcia

A book about how men have lost their traditional definitions of what it is to be a "man" and how this lack of definition and societies mixed and twisted ideas of what a man is is causing more harm to men than good.
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You need a book to tell you that?

It's just drinking beer, watching AMERICAN football, lathering your hairy, naked, rotund frame with bacon grease, and beating your chest like a babboon.

Oh, and chasing beaver.
 
Mr Cheese

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
Anti-thesisofreason said:
Nope I certainly don't need a book for that. What I'm interested in is how I can help re-define "men" and help find a better path.
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gnomon

gnomon

Well-Known Member
The Family - Jeff Sharlet
Republican Gomorrah - Max Blumenthal
The Complete Bloom County, Vol. 1 - Berkeley Breathed
 
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