NVR - What are you reading right now? (Fiction or non-fiction)
Posted by Beans and Greens on May 12, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
I'm reading 'Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World' by Erin Pavlina.
I'm curious what everyone else has their nose in at the moment! :)
Jane Eyre
I bought last night The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. I'll keep you posted when I'm done. I've heard a lot about it and I've just about everything else she's written, so I'm hoping it'll be a good read.
Here's the link to her page. ----------> http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Let me know if this is any good, or at least if it's significantly different from No Logo. I really liked No Logo, but at the same time had the feeling of "Ok, now tell me something I don't know". I'd be interested in reading this if it were different from No Logo.
I read No Logo not long after it came out and I was like 19 at the time and my political knowledge was low. So for me, it was really eye opening. I am certain that if I were to read it now I would feel the same way. But she's a good writer, she talks about hard subject, but it's very easy to understand, which makes it so accessible.
I'm reading The Shack by William P. Young. Not really my thing, at all. But it was a gift from a friend who went to the trouble of finding it and mailing it from the states for me sooooo...I said I would read it. I'm just happy to read anything that isn't for school right now though. Next up: Rape by Joanne Bourke.
we read this book for our book club. I got about half way through. Everyone says to stick with it and it ends up being good. I will finish it eventually.
Right now, I'm in chik lit mode, I'm reading Chasing Harry Winston, and then I'm gonna read Twilight
I'm trying really really hard to finish it but hhmmm...it's just outside of anything that I can even remotely relate to...AND my boyfriend just bought me Snuff by Chuck Palaniuk (her wrote Fight Club, Survivor, other amazing things...) so I've been all over that instead. Heard Twilight was not so great, but give it a go, I hope it's alright.
Twilight might bore you. I listened to Twilight on audiobook.
I think of Harry Potter more like the Little Prince. It's written with simple enough words, but the concepts involved are for all ages. Twilight is more of a straight fantasy teen romance.
Speaking of Twilight... I'm on the second one right now. Yep, straight up fantasy romance for teens. Curious how it's so addictive...
I'm about half way through it. It's ok, so far. I've heard it gets better, so I'm gonna read the whole thing just to see what the fuss is about.
Speaking of Twilight... I'm on the second one right now. Yep, straight up fantasy romance for teens. Curious how it's so addictive...
After I listened to the audiobook I wanted to read the other books, so I went online to reserve them at my library. There are, like, 40 requests for each book. I ordered a hardback set of them (because that's what was available) online. I'm going to read them and then, if there are still a crazy amount of requests, I might donate them to the library.
Speaking of Twilight... I'm on the second one right now. Yep, straight up fantasy romance for teens. Curious how it's so addictive...
After I listened to the audiobook I wanted to read the other books, so I went online to reserve them at my library. There are, like, 40 requests for each book. I ordered a hardback set of them (because that's what was available) online. I'm going to read them and then, if there are still a crazy amount of requests, I might donate them to the library.
That's such a great idea - how generous of you!
Speaking of Twilight... I'm on the second one right now. Yep, straight up fantasy romance for teens. Curious how it's so addictive...
After I listened to the audiobook I wanted to read the other books, so I went online to reserve them at my library. There are, like, 40 requests for each book. I ordered a hardback set of them (because that's what was available) online. I'm going to read them and then, if there are still a crazy amount of requests, I might donate them to the library.
i looove twilight. it's so good. i'm not a teen (24) but my sister and friends were obsessed with it and i fought them for a while then finally gave in and read the 1st book had the series finished in 2 weeks. for me though, i pretty much started reading it because the guy playing Edward in the movie (robert pattinson) is freakin hot and it was all romantic and exciting. i personally like the 4th book best. i had to skip like 200 pages in the middle of the 2nd book cuz Jacob was pissing me off
I've started drinking Diet Coke again. I went to the bookstore to get a health book that would make me intellectually want to stop drinking it. I ended up with Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman. I chose it because all of the other books devoted half the pages to meat and dairy and this book didn't. I don't remember if we've ever discussed Fuhrman. I don't remember any discussion about him or his book. It's a great book. He basically advocates a vegan diet and stresses that a vegan "junk food" diet of processed foods and sweets is BAD. So, not only is he getting me off of soda, but I'm feeling more encouraged to continue making whole foods and freezing them in individual ready-to-go portions.
A lot of books for storytime (Dr. Seuss, Marc Brown's 'Arthur', etc..) and for me Jane Austen and Dr. Joel Fuhrman.
Computer Synthesis
I'm reading Fortuna's Daughter by Isabel Allende (Just looove her! :))
Just before I finished The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho.
I'm reading Fortuna's Daughter by Isabel Allende (Just looove her! :))
Just before I finished The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho.
I love the House of the Spirits and the Alchemist by Allende and Coelho-- I need to read more works by them. They're awesome!
House of Spirits is great. I love all of Allende's books until "Paula" which made me very, very angry. After that she seemed to be repeating herself.
YESSSS! The book I ordered from France arrived!! So right now I am reading the Last Conversations of St. Therese of Lisieux. In French.
Also some of my students are giving me lit books they aren't going to want to keep. I can trade them if we ever get down to the coast again. Yesterday I read Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye." I didn't like it, but that's only because it is so true to the people I grew up amongst it gave me the screaming meemies. I swear she modeled Mrs McTeer on my mother, rants and all.
I'm about half way through Bram Stoker's Dracula. It took me a minute to get into it but i'm glad i stuck with it.
YESSSS! The book I ordered from France arrived!! So right now I am reading the Last Conversations of St. Therese of Lisieux. In French.
Interresting... :)
All of her family - I mean her four sisters - went religious as well...
And I disagree with the fact that Allende repeats herself now... Her last book (Ines de Mon Ame = Ines of My Soul ???? ???) wasn't as good as the others though...
I devoured the City of The Beasts... The whole trilogy actually... :P
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
As well as Anne of Windy Poplars and I am about to start a large tome of some of the collected works of H.P. Lovecraft.
I'm reading Pride and Prejudice (again!)
YESSSS! The book I ordered from France arrived!! So right now I am reading the Last Conversations of St. Therese of Lisieux. In French.
Interresting... :)
All of her family - I mean her four sisters - went religious as well...
Three of her four sisters and one of her cousins all lived in the same monastery with her. How they worked that out, I don't know, since I thought most orders would have wanted to split them up to avoid forming a clique. But maybe because they were a wealthy and influential family in that small Normandy town...
Her other sister, Leonie, was a Salesian nun in Caen.
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