What book are you reading?

[zugor]

Originally Posted by IheartWA

I'm just starting "This Life Is In Your Hands" about a back-to-the-land couple of the 70s that tries homesteading in Maine and ends in tradegy. I have a feeling it will lead to interesting discussions in the Self-Sufficiency forum.

Sounds interesting and my branch of my library has it. I'll have to check it out next time I'm there to return the current batch.

[floridarebel]

Just started reading The Lost Sex by Marynia Farnham and Fernidad Lundberg. It was originally written in 1947 but still rings well with modern day society and explains why things are the way they are; people have lost touch with their natural roots and it has negatively affected society as a result.

I also started reading 1984 several months ago but haven't read it since I've been busy with relocating. I'm going to finish it up now that I'm getting settled down. Afterwards I'm going to read Generation of Vipers.

[fromupthere]

Originally Posted by DawnMTL

YAY!!! Crow Lake. I loved that book! Don't read her others -- they won't match up (in fact, they go from mediocre to plain old feh) -- but Crow Lake, which was her FIRST novel, shines! YAY!!! Enjoy!!!!

I loved Crow Lake too. I still want to give a try to one of her others (can't remember which it was) as I thought it sounded really good. If I do give it a shot, I'll be going in with low expectations so that could mean I like it okay.

[TamaraSavannah]

"Blood Rush" by Patricia Springer

One of those books on a real life killer, in this case being Texan Ricky Lee Green (since executed). 368 pages or so, done in about 5 hours or so, with interruptions for kitten petting.

Read more as just a function of my life, where one absorbs knowledge to have in the memory banks.

[ylisa7]

I just started Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brun. It's too soon to tell how it is.

[Marlow]

Originally Posted by younglisa7

I just started Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brun. It's too soon to tell how it is.

I enjoyed that book, but didn't think it was as awesome as some people did. In my head, it's in the same category as Come, Thou Tortoise, which I completely loved.

[strawberrykiki]

Unbroken. I'm about a third of the way finished and I can't believe anyone could survive this. I think I would rather be dead than suffer that way.

[cloven]

“The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death” by Jill Lepore (2012)

It's a collection of essays from the author's articles in The New Yorker magazine,
which means it turned out that I'd read them all before-
which was a disappointment, but the material was still pretty good.

“Senescence was, for [G. Stanley] Hall, the flip side of adolescence.
You’re either growing up or growing down. For him, there was-there had been-very little in between.
Old age takes everyone by surprise, and no one really ever comes to terms with it.
Hall thought that this was because old age is the only stage of life we never grow out of, and can never look back on-not on this earth, anyway.”

[i_love_autumn]

While I've been waiting for the books Welcome To Serenity,and No Place to Hide Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State to come into my library,I have been enjoying the western romances by Rebecca Winters. Loved two about Yosemite Park rangers~ The Chief Ranger and The Ranger's Secret and also enjoyed The Rancher's Housekeeper.Rebecca Winters is a new favorite author for me. The romance sizzles,but she closes the bedroom door.Can't wait to read the other two books in the Daddy Dude Ranch trilogy.

Will be picking up my reserves from the library tomorrow.

[Marlow]

I gave up on A Man Called Ove. None of the characters were acting like I think real people act and it read sort of like a children's story. I've moved on to A Sudden Light by Garth Stein.