Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren
I simply could not resist the premise.
"The day I left for Brunei I took the subway uptown to Beth Israel, schlepping behind me a green flowered suitcase."
page 283
I love it. I should be finished with it by the end of the weekend. It's a coming of age story couched as a memoir, essentially.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
Hi!
1. Freakonmics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
2. wanna know 'the hidden side of everything'
3. Anyone living in the United States in the early 1900s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin.
4. 129/211
5.through case studys of cheat,crime and data often neglected or ignored to be considered, this book exposes the in-depth analysis using critical thinking instead of blindly following others
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
It's kind of a dense work, but very engaging nonetheless.
Eco is an acquired taste.
"We look at the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with more freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with counter-Death, also known as Chemistry." -- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
1. author + title: Don Delillo Point OmegaOriginally Posted by faith
2. why u desided to read the book: I've liked most of what I've read by Delillo: Underworld, White Noise, Mao II. Deadpan prose reminds me some of Barthelme.
3. first sentence in the book: There was a man standing against the north wall, barely visible.
4. page u are on: 50 something---I'm not home right now.
5. what u think of the book till now: dry, arid, like the desert where characters are. Some suspense, now that daughter's gone missing.
It would be really nice to know what people are reading and their opinions on the books...!: Also reading The Voyeur by Robbe-Grillet & my usual helping of sociology, alt. sociology, history: Behavior in Public Places, Goffman; Psychiatry & Anti-Psychiatry, Cooper; Harvey Sacks, Silverman; Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815, Rude; From Hegel to Nietzsche, Lowitz (which I've been reading off & on for 40+ yr); Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics & Politics in Germany 1815-1871, Hamerow.
1.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
2.Curiosity
3. Who is John Galt? The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish the light on the bum's face.
4. 50
5. To be perfectly honest, It has bored me...
The Settlers by Vilhelm Moberg. It's the third book of the Emigrant series of novels. It's not a terribly challenging work but it's interesting and the characters are likeable.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
It's not fiction, but if you're over 30, it's worth reading Overdiagnosed, which points to some dangers in navigating our (so-called) health care system.
Waiting to get a book called Broken English: literary essays. That literature shapes itself around its broken places. Interesting?
zero db by madison smart bell
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
I am reading "The sound and the fury" by William Faulkner and a collection of poems by Robert Creeley.
^that was from April 14th.
Still slogging my way through Scott and Brown, though I have made progress; about 2/3 through Scott and nearly half way through Brown...oh d**n that's just Vol I.
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“Never take a picture of a Sasquatch foot print without a scale!”
Dr. Jeff Meldrum (From 2013 Texas Bigfoot Conference)
Sheesh! I'd rather take a poke in the eye with a sharp stick than read that book, Gill. Tell me how it comes out.
Am reading: Stone Arabia, by Dana Spiotta
-so far, so good.
Say it ain't so, Joe.
Best American Short Stories of 2011
Best American Short Stories of 2010
Best American Short Stories of 2009
Best American Short Stories of 2008
Best American Short Stories of 2007
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore (great writer-especially short stories)
"Don't Drink Drive Smoke and Fly"
Man to Computer:"did we bring batteries?" Computer: ......
Art doesn't look as good when it goes down in value"
"jimmy crack corn and I don't care"
Mockingjay.
I have several on the go at the moment.
1. author + title: David Simon, Homocide: A Year on the Killing Streets
2. why u desided to read the book: I used to like The Wire and Homocide the TV series.
3. first sentence in the book: Pulling one hand from the warmth of a pocket, Jay Landsman squats down to grab the dead man's chin, pushing the head to one side until the wound becomes visible as a small, ovate hole, oozing red and white.
4. page u are on: 250
5. what u think of the book till now: Superb, David Simon's a genius. If you're thinking of committing a crime in the US, read this book.
1. author + title: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
2. why u desided to read the book: I studied this book at school, but never really finished it. I am on a classic literature kick at the moment.
3. first sentence in the book: There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
4. page u are on: 40
5. what u think of the book till now: Not sure, I didn't warm to it at school and so far I haven't warmed to it this time around. It could be an interesting compare and contrast with Dickens' Great Expectations which I read recently. Poor Jane Eyre's childhood seems even worse than Pip's
1. author + title: Michel Daniek, Do It Yourself 12 Volt Solar Power
2. why u desided to read the book: I am interested in sustainability issues.
3. first sentence in the book: We all know about the problems of CO2 and radioactivity.
4. page u are on: 19
5. what u think of the book till now: Not sure, the author is coming from a deep-green, alternative-lifestyle point of view. He has so far made several contentious assertions, including one about 'electrosmog', a hazard I was certainly not aware of. OTOH solar power is a difficult subject and this book explains it far more straightforwardly than any other, while still providing practical advice.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite a big job to take on but it's the summer holiday so I'm just going to tackle it.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The Great Gatsby
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice - Polonius (Hamlet)
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