Guest st*****ens**ors Report post Posted January 9, 2016 I searched for threads on books and reading recommendations and didn't find any (though my Luddite tech skills may have made me miss them) so I thought I'd start one What are you reading right now? I'm pretty omnivorous as a reader, grabbing everything from pulp mystery to poetry to Renaissance Drama to sci-fi if it crosses my path. At the moment I'm reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods for the sixth or seventh time. It just gets better. If you haven't read this before, you're welcome. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AUTUMN RAINE 15548 Report post Posted January 9, 2016 HaHa I'm reading " Spanish for Dummies " god knows i need help with the language lol 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest H**t*****n Report post Posted January 9, 2016 I recently finished reading the five (large) book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" which led to the HBO television series "A Game of Thrones" by George RR Martin and it is excellent reading. If you like adult fantasy and are prepared to take your visual cues from the written word then this is your cup of tea. I found the books more graphic than the four seasons I watched on DVD. The books are the perfect escape!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest H**t*****n Report post Posted January 9, 2016 If you enjoy MMA and in particular women's MMA which is now in the forefront "My Fight/Your Fight' by Ronda Rousey (former UFC Bantamweight Champion) is a good read. She will be back!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest w***bt Report post Posted January 9, 2016 Two good mysteries by my favourite authors. Michael Connelly & Robert Crais. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest *Ste***cque** Report post Posted January 9, 2016 In the last few months I've read several non fiction and a few fiction. The fiction was the "Power of the dog" and "The Cartel" both by Don Winslow. They are about the drug wars in Mexico and read like a documentary of actual events but with a fictionalized back story. Really good! Non fiction recently read were Heretic by Hirsi Ali about the need for a Muslim reformation. Also read "The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains" by Nicholas Carr. The title pretty much sums up the subject matter. I'm currently half way through "A Troublesome Inheritence" by Nicholas Wade which controversially addresses ongoing human evolution and race and social behaviours distinct to those societies. He makes the point that there is no superior race right out of the gate but also suggests our differences may not just be cultural. Judgement reserved til I'm finished reading it. Next up is "Rewire" by Richard O'Connor and it's about changing your brain to break bad habits, destructive behaviours, procrastination, etc. I love to read! Additional Comments: Edit: I just realized I have a copy of American Gods sitting unread on my shelf. Sounds like I should dust it off? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest w***bt Report post Posted January 9, 2016 If you like those by Winslow read savages & Kings of Cool. Savages was made into a pretty good movie. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MightyPen 67414 Report post Posted January 10, 2016 On a bit of a Bernard Cornwell kick after watching The Last Kingdom on Netflix: The Last Kingdom A really neat look at the goings-on in what's now England, when the Danes very nearly took the whole place over back in about 900 AD. I have the first three books in the series; partway through this one so far. Cornwell writes with a lean, descriptive, engaging style. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles 'Cause hey! Why not read Cornwell's only non-fiction history. This one is well balanced between historical depth and a quick pace... but is strangely repetitive in times, like it needed one more pass by an editor ("uh, Bernard, you made this exact point two pages ago.") 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
timeforchange 726 Report post Posted January 10, 2016 The Introvert Advantgage by Laney. I've never read anything that has so completely described me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GentMada 2181 Report post Posted January 10, 2016 Furiously Happy! Just started reading it and so far so happy :-) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848559-furiously-happy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicolette Vaughn 294340 Report post Posted January 15, 2016 I've got a couple of books on the go right now... Seth Speaks - Jane Roberts The Teachings of Abraham - Esther and Jerry Hicks The Lightworker's Source: An Enlightening Guide to Awaken the Power Within - Sahvanna Arienta Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Victoria Phoenix 3403 Report post Posted February 19, 2016 A heart wrenching, emotionally disturbing book, " A Child Called It", This Is a True story, told by the author, as He takes us back to his childhood- beatings upon beatings from his alcoholic deranged mother- countless days of no Food, mind games, cruelty, unjust punishments,, horrific acts, no child should Ever have to go through- even in their nightmares!! The story tells the tale of how one boy, survives against All odds-and reclaims his life! A Must Read Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest N***he**Ont**y Report post Posted February 19, 2016 Rereading "A Dance With Dragons" before the new season starts.Its beena couple of years since I read it and I am slowly making my way through it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest st*****ens**ors Report post Posted February 20, 2016 14 by Peter Clines. A surrealist puzzle that starts in California, and ends in a horrifying H P Lovecraft landscape. Great characterization and dialogue. Highly recommended. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VedaSloan 119179 Report post Posted February 24, 2016 Idiocy. A Cultural History- Patrick McDonagh Madness and Civilization-Michel Foucault The Female Malady. Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980.-Elaine Showalter Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 -Julia Laite The Lost Sisterhoood. Prostitution in America 1900-1918-Ruth Rosen From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency. Historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities. ed. David Wright and Anne Digby. Critically Queer-Judith Butler Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification-Judith Butler Performing Disidentifications-Jose Esteban Munoz The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now-Scott Lauria Morgensen Settler Homonationalism. Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities-Scott Lauria Morgensen Queer Theory and Native Studies. The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism- Andrea Smith Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics: Settler Homonationalism, Pride Toronto, and Two-Spirit Subjectivities-Cameron Greensmith and Sulaimon Giwa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrgreen760 37785 Report post Posted February 24, 2016 Currently Sinatra The Chairman, James Kaplan Life, Keith Richard's bio Peace MG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest st*****ens**ors Report post Posted February 25, 2016 Idiocy. A Cultural History- Patrick McDonaghMadness and Civilization-Michel Foucault The Female Malady. Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980.-Elaine Showalter Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 -Julia Laite The Lost Sisterhoood. Prostitution in America 1900-1918-Ruth Rosen From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency. Historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities. ed. David Wright and Anne Digby. Critically Queer-Judith Butler Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification-Judith Butler Performing Disidentifications-Jose Esteban Munoz The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now-Scott Lauria Morgensen Settler Homonationalism. Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities-Scott Lauria Morgensen Queer Theory and Native Studies. The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism- Andrea Smith Challenging Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Queer Politics: Settler Homonationalism, Pride Toronto, and Two-Spirit Subjectivities-Cameron Greensmith and Sulaimon Giwa Looks like a course syllabus, and makes me grateful I am done developing and evaluating them. Hope you're enjoying it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VedaSloan 119179 Report post Posted February 25, 2016 Looks like a course syllabus, and makes me grateful I am done developing and evaluating them. Hope you're enjoying it! The first half is stuff I'm reading for a paper I'm writing about the historical intersections of disability and prostitution and the latter half was my course readings for this week. And after this term, I'm done coursework forever. It'll be comps and then dissertation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicolette Vaughn 294340 Report post Posted February 25, 2016 How to Get Out of This World Alive - Alain Forget Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crankF 12893 Report post Posted February 26, 2016 Recently read whodunit "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Julia Spencer-Fleming, alternative history "The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove, and recommend both. I have just started "1775" by historian and poli-sci guy Kevin Phillips. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ninaamour 451 Report post Posted February 27, 2016 I am reading Bob Beckle I should be dead amazing walk through this mans life. he is on the FOX FIVE @ 5pm the only Democratic on a panel of republicans lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amelia Fox 9064 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 Vogue magazine . I love fashion so hit up all magazines online & in print :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Prufrock Cummings Report post Posted March 4, 2016 I'm reading Porno, by Irvine Welsh. I heard they are making it into a movie soon and I love Trainspotting so much that I thought I should read Porno before the movie comes out. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EmilyRushton 253372 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 Fast Girl - from olympian to high end call girl - EXCELLENT read so far.... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanda-Lee 11094 Report post Posted March 4, 2016 I am on the second book of Fifty Shades Darker by E.L James It is amazing. Can't wait to read the others. (I am also excited for the second movie to come out) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites