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#427
Posted: 2/4/11 at 11:35pm
I just finished (minutes ago)Rock Hudson:His Story by Sara Davidson. It is rather dry, but good if you are interested in him.
#428
Posted: 2/4/11 at 11:38pm
I just finished "Freedom". Totally get what you mean about the narrative shifts. I found myself thinking of a slightly burned cake- just when you take a bite and its good, you chew abit and get a burnt bitter taste- not bad enough to spit out so you swallow take another bite and its goood and then burnt and you get where I'm going. His eye for detail and his descriptions are marvels ( the description of the sisters' apt in New York was too spot on for me- i laughed out loud!) But then we get a whole long chapter on the son Joey and I still can't figure out what the caused the kid's epiphany. Patty both fascinated and aggrivated me ( something I think was intended). Walter w all his limitations was in the end the only "good" character. ( I really would have liked more about the daughter Jessica but the dang book would have rivaled War and Peace for length w one more character/chapter POV!
#429
Posted: 6/6/11 at 7:17pm
Just finished reading Mandelbaum's "Not Since Carrie..." and am currently reading "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#430
Posted: 6/6/11 at 7:26pm
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and Caucasia by Danzy Senna.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#431
Posted: 6/6/11 at 7:40pm
The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold. I like it so far!
Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$
#432
Posted: 6/7/11 at 10:59am
Caucasia looks interesting.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#433
Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:17pm
Finally getting around to The Handmaid's Tale and wondering why I never read it before. What a gorgeous book.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#434
Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:54pm
Caucasia is a very intriguing book. I am currently teaching a course of women's literature about passing, so I'm reading a lot of novels that deal with the subject.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#435
Posted: 6/8/11 at 3:22pm
Just started The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I like it, but i wanted a quick read to kick off my summer reading and it is more dense than I had assumed it would be.
#436
Posted: 6/8/11 at 4:23pm
uncageg, one of my professors in grad school has worked with Verghese for years as an editor. We read My Own Country in her class (Folklore and Medicine) and watched the movie. Cutting for Stone is on my post grad school reading list.
Right now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban trying to get through the series one more time before the last movie comes out.
Right now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban trying to get through the series one more time before the last movie comes out.
#437
Posted: 6/8/11 at 5:09pm
I'm currently working my way through The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks (some light summer reading), but have plenty to keep me occupied this summer. My local library recently had a summer book sale where I got 14 books for $8, and my copy of Catching Fire recently came in the mail. I can't wait to start that one -- I read The Hunger Games in March but didn't want to read the next one until I could get a paperback copy.
#438
Posted: 6/8/11 at 8:32pm
Mitch Albom's "Five People You Meet in Heaven". Tripe. Utter tripe.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#439
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:22pm
The Mouse that Roared, by Leonard Wibberley
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#440
Posted: 6/8/11 at 10:41pm
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#441
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:21am
Simultanously (as ever)
Falling Man by John Dellio-for work related to some other 9/11 work I may teach next year, so far it isn't gripping me but the moments he captures are quite effective.
The Versuvius Club-Mark Gatiss, finally now getting to read his novels and I love it! Fabulous wit. I have such an intellectual crush on the man anyway so I'll spare you the gushing.
Falling Man by John Dellio-for work related to some other 9/11 work I may teach next year, so far it isn't gripping me but the moments he captures are quite effective.
The Versuvius Club-Mark Gatiss, finally now getting to read his novels and I love it! Fabulous wit. I have such an intellectual crush on the man anyway so I'll spare you the gushing.
Maybe I'm on nobody's side
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#442
Posted: 6/9/11 at 3:36pm
I'm part of the way through A Singular Woman by Janny Scott. It's a biography of Obama's mother. I'm finding it to be fascinating. She had so many dimensions and lived an unusual life. She clearly had an extraordinary love for her children and was dedicated to them receiving the best possible education, but at the same time, she made choices, as a mother, that were (are) controversial. (Full disclosure: I'm "reading" this as an audiobook. I have a much longer commute now that we've moved and I get motion sickness when I try to read print. And YES, I'm a tad defensive because this is an ongoing argument in my family as to whether listening to an audiobook is really reading.)
Sueleen Gay: "Here you go, Bitch, now go make some fukcing lemonade." 10/28/10
#443
Posted: 6/9/11 at 3:42pm
I'm reading "The Love Story Behind Gone with the Wind", about the relationship between Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh. Long (about 600 pages), but very readable and engrossing.
#444
Posted: 6/9/11 at 3:56pm
yoda, I was going to read "My Own Country" first but the evening I was told about these two books, standing in the SRO line for Book of Mormon, I didn't get a ticket and went over to see "The Normal Heart". I decided to read Cutting for Stone First after that. I didn't know there was a movie.
"Cutting for Stone" is good but pretty detailed. It is going to take me a while to get through it.
"Cutting for Stone" is good but pretty detailed. It is going to take me a while to get through it.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#445
Posted: 6/9/11 at 4:34pm
I am in the middle of A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin. In the past 7 weeks I have read A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. I have book 4, A Feast for Crows on deck. I can't put them down! Book 5, A Dance of Dragons comes out in July. It takes him YEARS between books, so after that, I will be a sad little pup.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#446
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:35pm
"Exit Ghost" by Philip Roth.
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#447
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:38pm
"The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold. I like it so far!"
That book was depressing, but it was good.
Right now I'm reading a book called Natural Born Charmer by Sarah Elizabeth Phillips. It's cute.
That book was depressing, but it was good.
Right now I'm reading a book called Natural Born Charmer by Sarah Elizabeth Phillips. It's cute.
KFTC!!!!!
#448
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:50pm
I quite liked Exit Ghost.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#449
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:01pm
I have been wanting to read 'Some Sing, Some Cry" but while I was moving, the stores seemed to run out of the hardback and the paperback doesn't come out until September.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#450
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:04pm
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare
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