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Permalink Reply by the outsider on February 7, 2012 at 4:23pm

Right now, I'm starting to read 32 Candles by Ernessa T Carter. I haven't started it yet but it sounded like a good story with a lead character I can relate to, the "nerdy ugly duckling". Starting a new book is hard for me but I'm looking to reading it.

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Permalink Reply by Rochelle on February 9, 2012 at 12:55pm

I've been on an insane reading kick these past couple of months. Normally, I only read maybe one or two books a month in addition to all of the other things I read, but lately, I've been spending a lot more time at the library.

For the past two months, I've read:

"The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking (If you like reading about particle physics, this is the book for you)

"Worms Eat My Garbage" by Mary Appelhof (Vermicomposting made simple!)

"Wrinkles In Time" by George Smoot (Very interesting accounts of the lead-up discoveries to the big bang theory)

"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Fiction about geometry in a very entertaining way)

"Symmetry: A Journey Into The Patterns of Nature" by Marcus Du Sautoy (Not so much about patterns in nature as it is about theoretical mathematics. Not a light read)

...along with various perzines I've gotten in the mail, and botanical and astronomy field guides.

Some of the other books in this thread sound awesome! I'm going to have to add them to my list.

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Permalink Reply by Mamadoc on February 9, 2012 at 12:59pm

I'm finishing up "Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany" and am so glad that I finally pulled it out of my boxes. I hadn't read it before because honestly I just hadn't been in the mood for a sad story, but I was oh so wrong. This book is so interesting. It's one that I haven't heard before. You would think you've heard all there is to hear about Hitler's reign but this book brings such an incredibly unique perspective. I'd most definitely recommend it! So glad I bought it and finally opened it up.

http://www.blackbooksdirect.com/9780060959616.html

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Permalink Reply by leisuresuede on February 24, 2012 at 8:27pm

Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music - Amiri Baraka
John Milton's Paradise Lost: In Plain English - Joseph Lanzara

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Permalink Reply by Powter Whyte on February 27, 2012 at 11:43am

The last books I read were re-reads of "Fledgling" by Octavia Butler and "Let the Right One In" by John Lindqvist. I was on a vampire kick. Both excellent books with off the beaten path takes on the genre.

A friend just gave me a book called "Stiches" by David Small which I'll be reading next. It's a memoir/graphic novel which looks interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Powter Whyte on March 26, 2012 at 4:42pm

"Nothing" by Janne Teller.

This book is fucked all the way up. It's bad enough reading or watching grown folk doing horrible shit but when the subject is children it becomes even more unbearable. The story is about a kid who discovers or decides how ever you want to look at it, that life has no meaning. So in a desperate attempt to get him to come back around to society his friends and classmates start sacrificing the things most near and dear to them. It starts out of course with the most mundane of objects etc but quickly snowballs into some pretty terrifying concepts. A pretty damned good read but very disturbing when you really think about it which is what you're supposed to do with a book like this one.

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Permalink Reply by Catherine Collins on April 5, 2012 at 6:14pm

John dies at the end

Guns,Germs, and steel

Dream Catcher and

Hunger Games

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Permalink Reply by Chelsea on April 7, 2012 at 1:13am

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Permalink Reply by Powter Whyte on April 11, 2012 at 3:30pm

Right now I'm reading the Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner.

One of the homies and I are considering putting together a workshop for the summer or maybe fall if we can't get it together quick enough. It's going to be a basic dating 101 type workshop for young men and women. We've grown TIRED of seeing couples who are clearly out on their first date and shit's just raggedy as hell. He's pretty much gonna be running it as he's a Phd in literacy with a minor in women's studies but I'm doing a lot of the ground work as far as required reading etc. Should be decent.

No feedback on the book yet as I just started reading it.

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Permalink Reply by Rochelle on May 2, 2012 at 10:19pm

Some more books I've been reading...

Fished a copy of Micheal Crichton's "Jurassic Park" out of a pile of books destined for the dump. I am a little more than halfway through and it is very entertaining. If anyone is wondering, the movies did a fairly decent job sticking to the story, but they do differ on several important points.

"Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth" by Trevor Norton was not a read for the faint of heart. I absolutely loved it! The book is basically about scientists who did self-experimentation in various fields. It was inspiring, and also made me glad that I was born in the latter half of the twentieth century, and not a moment earlier!

"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach was also a crazy read. If you like the idea of learning a ton of facts about the physiology behind sex, or the crazy things people get themselves into over sex, this is a great book. Besides, Mary Roach is hilarious and has a dark streak several miles wide. ^_-

Going to have to check out that Sistah Vegan book...it looks awesome! ^_^

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Permalink Reply by Powter Whyte on May 4, 2012 at 12:15pm

The Lover by Marguerite Duras.

This is my third time reading this book. I recently watched the movie again so I figured it's a pretty short read so why not? Besides it's a great book and story. It's a real life Lolita type story that took place in Vietnam back in the 30's. A poor 15 year old French girl meets and has an affair with a 33 year old wealthy Chinese man. Both the book and the movie were controversial and both good standalone.

I love the way she writes. It's like a person with an idiosyncrasy to their speech. A person who repeats the last few words of their sentences or tags a "you know what I mean?" to the end of what ever they're saying. It's like she's actually speaking to you rather than you reading her written words. Good stuff.