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  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    i'm currently reading The Honey Thief, and really enjoying it. it's a bit heavier than i thought it would be, but very good.
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    releaselauren wrote:
    "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by K. Hosseini. So far, so good.

    After that, I have about ten books in my "to read" stack.

    oh, i want to read that one also. did you read The Kite Runner?
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    i just bought Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. it's next up.

    then will be Haven Kimmel's new novel, The Used World. I loooooooove everything she writes, she's brilliant and very, very funny. check out A Girl Named Zippy if you haven't read it. laughed my ASS off. :D
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • releaselauren
    releaselauren Posts: 384
    sweetpotato wrote:
    oh, i want to read that one also. did you read The Kite Runner?


    I loved "The Kite Runner". I think it was the *only* book that moved me to tears.
    "you shall be released" ~ EV
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    For an introduction to Iran-USA relations I would recommend "Iran Awakening." The author, Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, she brought a case in front of the US courts so that her book could be published (If I understand it correctly, it was part of a case many publishers were pursuing). Basically, an Iranian woman's decision to defend the publication of her book in the US helped to decrease censorship in the US.

    It's not poetry, but I marked passages that seemed interesting to me, and after rereading them, I realized how much information I gathered from the book. It was presented like a teacher to a class. If you liked "Reading Lolita in Tehran" you would like this basically because of the subject matter. The same scene where there was an failed assasination attempt on literary types is included in both books. That was interesting to read of that story again.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    For an introduction to Iran-USA relations I would recommend "Iran Awakening." The author, Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, she brought a case in front of the US courts so that her book could be published (If I understand it correctly, it was part of a case many publishers were pursuing). Basically, an Iranian woman's decision to defend the publication of her book in the US helped to decrease censorship in the US.

    It's not poetry, but I marked passages that seemed interesting to me, and after rereading them, I realized how much information I gathered from the book. It was presented like a teacher to a class. If you liked "Reading Lolita in Tehran" you would like this basically because of the subject matter. The same scene where there was an failed assasination attempt on literary types is included in both books. That was interesting to read of that story again.

    oh i did like reading lolita in tehran. access to books is something i take for granted, i know it.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    catefrances wrote:
    oh i did like reading lolita in tehran. access to books is something i take for granted, i know it.
    If you want a review of Iran Awakening I posted mine on my blog http://nextstopgraduateschool.blogspot.com.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    I just started Prep by Curtis Sittenfield

    Anyone read it?

    http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812972351
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    started Dracula the other night, had it on the shelf for years, been one of those Ive always been meaning to read and now wonder why I waited so long.
  • Mel1979
    Mel1979 Posts: 17
    elmer wrote:
    started Dracula the other night, had it on the shelf for years, been one of those Ive always been meaning to read and now wonder why I waited so long.
    I love that book.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I just started Prep by Curtis Sittenfield

    Anyone read it?

    http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812972351

    I read it last year. I enjoyed it. It was more serious than I thought it would be. Let me know what you think of it.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • oil alternative
    oil alternative Posts: 192
    The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
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    To break down borders and realise that we are one species and then the true patriotism comes from pride and love of the human race, not from the tribes of which we currently are divided, open your eyes your mind will see! - ME
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i just finished the time traveller's wife. it made me cry which means it was a good book by my measure. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • jocelyn
    jocelyn Posts: 67
    catefrances wrote:
    i just finished the time traveller's wife. it made me cry which means it was a good book by my measure. :)


    Very cool...one of my favorite books.

    I've just started World War Z.
    "I can only be as good as you'll let me."
  • Pearler
    Pearler Posts: 191
    Big Shots.

    The inside story of Carl Williams and the gangland murders.
  • lisam
    lisam Posts: 75
    Just finished Jim Morrison's bio and now onto Iggy Pop's bio
    Shot me with your funk gun
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    jocelyn wrote:
    Very cool...one of my favorite books.

    I've just started World War Z.
    Oh I loved that book...
    Re-reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman before I go see the movie...
    A human being that was given to fly.

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  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,650
    Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

    picked it up again the other day, started it a while ago and never finished it.
    Nice shirt.
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I'm re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,377
    I was rereading Snow by Orhan Pamuk, and I couldn't get through it in time for the book club at my local library. I remember that it was work to get through it the first time.

    Now, I'm reading Under a Flaming Sky:The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown. So far so good.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird

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