Watcha Readin'

[MarieDelta]

Mainly because I'm nosey

I just finished this book:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - by Alison Bechdel (http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0618477942)



It was good, and a most interesting read. I highly recomend it.

Basically autobiographical history of her and her familly as she recalls them. Format is graphic novel and, in this case, the word novel isn't just an excuse here to sell a comic book for a higher price, this book is a novel.

Warning: There is female frontal nudity the book and dicusion of graphic activities.

If you are familiar with "Dykes to Watch Out For" , yes this is the same artist.

Two thumbs way up for this book.



So... what are you reading?

[happyjoe68]

Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler
A memoir of a liberal German who decided to stick to his moral principles and leave his country, friends, family and lover whilst the Nazis were in power in Germany rather than be sucked down into their black hole of self-destruction

Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye Berlin
"I am a camera ..." nuff said

Hammer's Guide to German Grammar and Usage, 4th Edition
Ditto

[Herbwoman39]

As usual, Anatomy and Physiology. Still working on my herbalism degree.

Oh! Ken brought me part 2 of Firefly: The Official Companion by Joss Whedon. So I've been reading that for entertainment.

[littlerayofsunshine]

Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

:nrrdgrrl:


Next.... I'm not sure yet

[kitten]

Finished Harry Potter...working on the Diaries if Anais Nin.

[Sarasvati]

The poetry of Edward L Ferraunt, an obscure Englishman from other times. Must recommend him.

[Skater Boy]

I've got several books going at once. I'm re-reading La Rochefoucauld's book of aphorsisms called "Maxims"; a book on Love called "The Art Of Loving"; a book of Poems by Jewel Kilcher called "A Night Without Armor" and book on Neuro-Linguistic Programming called "The NLP Workbook".

Real variation there...

[zanybrainy]

Just finished listening to Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris, Just finished reading Lost City by Clive Cussler. She is reading Can't Wait To Get To Heaven by Fannie Flagg.

Time to make stocks in Barnes and Noble go up again!!!

:tongue:

Aub

[shameless agitator]

Finished Harry Potter, about to finish "The inhabited world" by David Long, a novel about a man whose ghost is stuck in his house and has no idea why. Looking for some more Nick Bantock novels

[Azrael]

Eye Scream by Henry Rollins, The Air Condidioned Nightmare by Henry Miller and I'm fixin' to start reading Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique :cool:
Also, every few days I like a Rimbaud or Whitman poem. Sometimes Ginsberg.

[MarieDelta]

I think my next book is gonna be Whipping Girl by Julia Serrano (http://www.juliaserano.com/whippinggirl.html)

[wanderingrichard]

like some others here, i'm reading several books at once;

In the Company of Heroes, by Michael Durant

Dune: the Machine Crusade

The Reagan Diaries

and that great treatise;

Wave Propogation of Mobile Satellite Transmitters [ i use this one to put myself to sleep]

[Azrael]

Wave Propogation of Mobile Satellite Transmitters [ i use this one to put myself to sleep]
I use 'Relativity: Special and general theory' for that purpose :bigrin:

[wanderingrichard]

I use 'Relativity: Special and general theory' for that purpose :bigrin:

lMAO.. it might not be so bad, but it's one of the books i have to use in my current employment.. i have to cert test on this in about 3 months.. don't even think i'll pass, most of this is waaaayyy beyond me

[the mage]

Currently reading Clive Cussler's Polar Shift. Just finished Hannibal Rising

Prior to that was a reread of all 4 books about Hobbits. First time thru them was the early 70's way before it was fashion.

I have a Tom Clancy waiting and intend to Reread the whole Sherlock Holmes series after that.....

I love reading, have read 100's of novels, mostly Sci Fi and mystery.

[Azrael]

lMAO.. it might not be so bad, but it's one of the books i have to use in my current employment.. i have to cert test on this in about 3 months.. don't even think i'll pass, most of this is waaaayyy beyond me

I understand some of it, but the Geometric aspects blow my mind.

[cand86]

Right now, I'm sort of balancing between Daphne Scholinski's "The Last Time I Wore a Dress" and Julia Serano's "Whipping Girl". Mostly because the latter is a little heavy and intellectual and I like to take a break with the former's poetic style. I picked up both at the same time on a business trip.

But I'm still reeling from the very awesome "The First Man-Made Man"- a fascinating tale of the first FtM guy's life. It was utterly captivating.

And Harry Potter, of course. Just finished that puppy.

[timepga50]

I just finished Stuart Woods's Dark Harbor.Currently reading Jonathan Kellerman'sGone.

[Ally Kat]

getting back into student mode so lots of Scottish and Irish history lately, esp during the time all the protestants were sent to colonize No. Ireland, and the Potato Famine era when so many came here to the US.

[onewhocares]

Went to Barnes and Noble on Wednesday...got a few new ones...I first started When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron and Urban Tantraby Barbara Carrellas. Both most interesting, and honestly a nice dual read.

Belle

[canuckotter]

Just finished Blue Mars, the last book in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, in that order). Wading through American Fascists, not too thrilled with it (interesting material, but would be better being a little less passionate and a little more rigourous. After that... I'm thinking of re-reading Good Omens from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, or possibly the Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, or maybe some Shakespeare (I do eventually want to read all of his work), or possibly even The Canterbury Tales.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I should just make up my mind... :tong:

[darkeyes]

Shadow Behind the Sun by Remzije Sherifi. Bout ethnic cleansing in Kosovo an a womans family's involvement in it... an is a triff read.

[ForbiddenWindow]

Currently pouring through all my white dwarf hobby magazines for inspiration and painting advice....Currently planning on building another army to which to conquer the galaxy...


"LET THE GALAXY BURN!" Warmaster Horus - Siege of Terra.

[wanderingrichard]

Just finished Blue Mars, the last book in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, in that order). Wading through American Fascists, not too thrilled with it (interesting material, but would be better being a little less passionate and a little more rigourous. After that... I'm thinking of re-reading Good Omens from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, or possibly the Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, or maybe some Shakespeare (I do eventually want to read all of his work), or possibly even The Canterbury Tales.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I should just make up my mind... :tong:

love the MARS series, total immersion in the characters is a good thing! but the higher end math was a cast iron bitch to even read let alone comprehend.. if i could have gotten thru those formulas i probably would have enjoyed the books even more.

[wanderingrichard]

shameless bump

[MarieDelta]

Oh yeah and for work

Specifications 03000(concrete), 07000(roofing materials), 15000(mechanical and HVAC)

talk about a snooze fest http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z84/mariesophia66/rulez.gif

[biwords]

A snooze fest sounds pretty good to this insomniac.

[Azrael]

Bi Any other name, again
Eye Scream By Henry Rollins, again (my wounded soul's nectar)
Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass
Allen Ginsberg- later works
Henry Miller- The Air Conditioned Nightmare
that's all right now

[HighEnergy]

I highly recommend Christopher Moore's books. So far I think [I]A Dirty Job[I]/ was the best, but the vampire stories are hilarious too.

[the sacred night]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Currently book 3, Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[canuckotter]

Hitchhiker's was great. The first book was incredible, the second was fantastic, the third was great, the fourth was OK, and the fifth just felt like a total waste of time to me. I just totally didn't dig it. :( But the first three in particular just make me laugh my ass off every time I read them... great books. Have you read his Dirk Gently books? I found those a little more clever... Very fun.

And Azrael, how's that Henry Rollins book?

[Azrael]

Oh, and I just started 'The Feminine Mystique'.

[shameless agitator]

I love the Dirk Gently series! I actually started a paper for socoilogy of religion with the question "What kind of god would be waiting at terminal 49 of the Oslo international airport for a flight to (wherever the hell he was going)?" Just got Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine trilogy and a new novel from A.S. Byatt from the library.

[MarieDelta]

Currently reading Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back (http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665)

"The disguise that former Los Angeles Times op-ed columnist Vincent employed to trick dozens of people into believing her a man was carefully thought out: a new, shorter haircut; a pair of rectangular eyeglasses; a fake five o'clock shadow; a prosthetic penis; some preppy clothes. It was more than she needed. "[A]s I became more confident in my disguise... the props I had used... became less and less important, until sometimes I didn't need them at all," Vincent writes."

It is a good read for anyone wanting to understand trans issues.

[Skater Boy]

Currently reading Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back (http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Journey-Manhood/dp/0670034665)

"The disguise that former Los Angeles Times op-ed columnist Vincent employed to trick dozens of people into believing her a man was carefully thought out: a new, shorter haircut; a pair of rectangular eyeglasses; a fake five o'clock shadow; a prosthetic penis; some preppy clothes. It was more than she needed. "[A]s I became more confident in my disguise... the props I had used... became less and less important, until sometimes I didn't need them at all," Vincent writes."

It is a good read for anyone wanting to understand trans issues.

Sounds interesting, Marie! Although would the above imply that gender issues are "all in the mind", at least to some degree?

[MarieDelta]

yes, as much as being gay, bi or heterosexual is in the mind.

FWIW: She eventually was hospitalized with severe depression after her experiment...

On the other side of the coin is: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as A Girl (http://www.amazon.com/As-Nature-Made-Him-Raised/dp/0060192119)


"Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a mesmerizing story of a medical tragedy and its traumatic results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following a botched circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant son, Bruce, as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next 14 years trying to transform him into a her. Brenda's childhood reads as one filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are present on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain is caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man attempting to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant treatments."

[void()]

At present I'm not actually reading anything. recently read parts of _Les Miserables_ by Hugo, _Are You afraid of the Dark_ by Sheldon, and was reading _Call of The wild_ by London. I am still 'thumbing through' _Ancient Mysteries_ & _Ancient Inventions_ both are encyclopedic type of works that make interesting bathroom reads. I may pick up _Call of the Wild_ again, but I'm not really in a reading mood of late.

[MarieDelta]

Anyone read this?

Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (http://www.amazon.com/Nearly-Roadkill-Infobahn-Erotic-Adventure/dp/1852424184)


"Nearly Roadkill apparently takes place in the not-so-distant future, where Internet users are required to register online and all transmissions can be policed by government agencies. Big brother is watching our hero/heroines (you make the call), Winc and Scratch, as they lead the charge against government intervention in cyberspace. The text is written as a series of online dialogues, much like what you'd see in a chat room. You'll also get a fly-on-the-wall experience reminiscent of Nicholson Baker's Vox as these rebels with a cause take time out to participate in graphic cybersex. But except where the sex thing gets in the way, Nearly Roadkill's intent is to raise questions about gender issues, censorship, and who should have authority over the Internet. "

Sounds like my cup of cappuccino
;)

[Skater Boy]

Ok, my latest one is a bit of fun. Its called "How to say Fabulous in 8 Different Languages: A Travel Phrase Book For Gay men"

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/JBASHORUN/fab.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/How-Say-Fabulous-Different-Languages/dp/1594740909/ref=sr_1_1/002-4181633-2417635?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188816458&sr=8-1

Its full of essential phrases that one might need on one's travels. Highly recommended!

[heatherlee]

Has anyone read Clive Barker's Abarat Yet? I just got done reading the first one for the 2nd time and I'm getting ready to embark on the next book in the series Abarat: days of magic nights of war

the first book was really really good if you like fantasy type stuff- its like alice in wonderland/harry potter smooshed together except horror master clive barker is writing the story lol...

i really suggest it:)

*heatherlee*

[leelee62]

Just been reading The A to Z of murder so my husband better behave himself :cool::eek:

[12voltman59]

Right now--since I am so much getting hooked on taking photos--I have been reading just about every book I can get my hand on regarding how to take good quality digital photographs--not exactly very exciting--unless you get bitten by the photo bug like I have of late!!! LOL

[shameless agitator]

The Bantock books were amazing. Couldn't really get into the Byatt but that's just because I haven't been in the right mood. No reflection on the book. Currently reading "The Man Behind The Iron Mask" by John Noone. It's exploring the question of the identity of the man in the iron mask. Also just picked up "Cyberactivism" edited by Martha McCatghey and Michael Ayers. It's a collection of essays on the role of the internet in activism and protest. Next I think it's time for mental junk food. See if I can find any Jasper FForde I haven't read yet. Highly recommend him. His Thursday Next series is basically Hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy for bibliophiles

[DiamondDog]

I'm reading books from my youth for nostalgia and a fun retrospective.

[Fresia]

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Funny, funny, funny

[charles-smythe]

Mainly because I'm nosey

I just finished this book:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - by Alison Bechdel (http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0618477942)



It was good, and a most interesting read. I highly recomend it.

Basically autobiographical history of her and her familly as she recalls them. Format is graphic novel and, in this case, the word novel isn't just an excuse here to sell a comic book for a higher price, this book is a novel.

Warning: There is female frontal nudity the book and dicusion of graphic activities.

If you are familiar with "Dykes to Watch Out For" , yes this is the same artist.

Two thumbs way up for this book.



So... what are you reading?... Nora Roberts book..

[elian]

A friend turned me some time ago to Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series - very funny satire. "Hogfather" and "Interesting Times" were two of my favorites.

I don't read as much as used to - these are the last few books..

"Car Guys vs. Bean Counters" - about GM in the early 2000's
"Dealers of Lightning" - about XEROX PARC
"What the Dormouse said" - about computers and the 60's counterculture
"Homer's Odyssey" - about a lady's experience adopting a blind cat
"Player Piano" by Kurt Vonegut

"Sweet Thursday" - from Steinbeck (to go along with Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat - there's just something about the way he describes the characters that I like.