I'm reading Jacquelyn Mitchard's "Cage of Stars." I'm enthralled, and at the same time, I'm contemplating the theme of child murder in recent novels. I read "The Lovely Bones" and enjoyed it, but somehow I feel badly that this kind of tragedy creates a compelling story for me. It's not the only theme I read about by any means, but I feel wrong "enjoying" these books. What do you think?
By the way, I love Barbara Kingsolver, especially "Prodigal Summer." I would also recommend "The Secret Life of Bees."
Happy New Year everyone! I hope it is filled with happiness for all of you.
I read "The Lovely Bones" a fews back-quite compelling - got a little strange but made an impression. The sick thing is...I've read about a true incident where a sicko had a den in the ground like in the book.
I'm reading "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis - I'm about 1/2 through and it's like a tragic scene you pass in a car - leaves you a little sick but need to look.
I'm also reading "Mary Called Magdalene" by Margaret George and "Raising your Spirited Child" by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka because I have a very spirited 4-1/2 year old.
Happy New Year! Peace!
"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes" ~ M Kuhn
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. its a hell of a ride so far.
also have, but havent yet read, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
the bell jar; sylvia plath, never read it as a kid, thought i'd try it out, bought it during an 'i feel like killing myself' week, and thought somehow that she'd be the one to understand, pretty fast read, like it so far
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein
Right now I'm rereading 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland. I'll probably finish it sometime tomorrow.......it'll give me a clean outlook on things going into the new year, that's for sure!!! I really love that book. I've probably read it 4 or 5 times and get something new out of it everytime.
by Donna J. Haraway
Monkeys, cyborgs and women: The reinvention of nature (That's my translation from Slovenian title)..
It's well writen but with a feminism flavour...
The worst enemies of music? Money and Mathematics. Combined with music, they both do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. Money makes music cheap, mathematics makes it stupid and predictable.
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Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you,...
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word I stil believe
And it's Love
I'm reading the fourth book of "Malhorne" from a french autor, Jerome Camut. Great story...
2006: Antwerp, Paris
2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
thres so much reading i want to get through, both for my degree and for pleasure. im currently reading 'growing up poor' by Anna Davin about childhood poverty in Britain and Roddy Doyle's new one, 'Paula Spencer' which is a sequal to 'the woman who walked into doors' I loved that book, killed a train journey in one go with it, so now i feel obligated to see how the character develops.
I read tc Boyle's 'talk talk' recently and thought it was just superb. I am looking to read all of his novels...ambitious? so far i read the tortilla curtain, drop city and started worlds end. anyone else like his books? Also read most of 'stories' the short story collection.
whoever said 'scar tissue' is like a car accident I agree, you feel as if you are intruding, Kiedis has certainly lived a colourful life...
By the way, i love this thread, almost no one i know bothers to read...
Right now I'm rereading 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland. I'll probably finish it sometime tomorrow.......it'll give me a clean outlook on things going into the new year, that's for sure!!! I really love that book. I've probably read it 4 or 5 times and get something new out of it everytime.
i just finished, 'all families are psychotic'.
i was on this site sometime recently and this person said they couldn't read generation x cause it had a pink cover and they couldn't deal with the colour pink.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
ive been doing a lot of catch up over break now that i can read for fun again. since finals ended i've read:
a long way down- nick hornby, disgrace- jm coetzee, maybe a miracle- brian strouse (i LOVED this book), white noise- don delillo, the stranger- albert camus
right now im reading:
the big over easy- jasper fforde
i also have copies of the following for reading over the rest of this break, next break, or summer:
handmaid's tale- margaret atwood, straight man- richard russo, la confidential- james ellroy, brothers karamazov- fyodor dostoyevsky, love in the time of cholera- gabriel garcia marquez
whew. i also need to buy another book shelf... the 2 i have are full
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It's sort of an odd auto-biographical sequal to Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction. Worth checking out if you liked those two.
awesome book. one of the few ive read more than once. do you like it so far?
ya its excellent but i keep having bad dreams, did you know bram stoker is Irish?
"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
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I read "The Lovely Bones" a fews back-quite compelling - got a little strange but made an impression. The sick thing is...I've read about a true incident where a sicko had a den in the ground like in the book.
I'm reading "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis - I'm about 1/2 through and it's like a tragic scene you pass in a car - leaves you a little sick but need to look.
I'm also reading "Mary Called Magdalene" by Margaret George and "Raising your Spirited Child" by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka because I have a very spirited 4-1/2 year old.
Happy New Year! Peace!
also have, but havent yet read, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac.
I give it a 3/5 rating.
★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
Albert Einstein
Monkeys, cyborgs and women: The reinvention of nature (That's my translation from Slovenian title)..
It's well writen but with a feminism flavour...
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Zagreb 2006/ Munich 2007/ Venice 2007/ Berlin 2009 / Venice 2010 / 2 x Berlin 2012 / Stockholm 2012 / Milan 2014 / Trieste 2014 / Vienna 2014 / Florence (EV) 2019 / Padova 2018 / Prague 2018 / Imola 2022 / Budapest 2022 / Vienna 2022 / Prague 2022
That when all is lost there will be you,...
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word I stil believe
And it's Love
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2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
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2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
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I read tc Boyle's 'talk talk' recently and thought it was just superb. I am looking to read all of his novels...ambitious? so far i read the tortilla curtain, drop city and started worlds end. anyone else like his books? Also read most of 'stories' the short story collection.
whoever said 'scar tissue' is like a car accident I agree, you feel as if you are intruding, Kiedis has certainly lived a colourful life...
By the way, i love this thread, almost no one i know bothers to read...
i just finished, 'all families are psychotic'.
i was on this site sometime recently and this person said they couldn't read generation x cause it had a pink cover and they couldn't deal with the colour pink.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
a long way down- nick hornby, disgrace- jm coetzee, maybe a miracle- brian strouse (i LOVED this book), white noise- don delillo, the stranger- albert camus
right now im reading:
the big over easy- jasper fforde
i also have copies of the following for reading over the rest of this break, next break, or summer:
handmaid's tale- margaret atwood, straight man- richard russo, la confidential- james ellroy, brothers karamazov- fyodor dostoyevsky, love in the time of cholera- gabriel garcia marquez
whew. i also need to buy another book shelf... the 2 i have are full
awesome book. one of the few ive read more than once. do you like it so far?