What are you currently reading?

[Tea Cake]

Great Thread!---CJ, Danielle, Rebecca and of course Kersten Lee---I want you all to know that your writing voices have set my thoughts to such a focused-rythm.

My oh my how time flies since this thread( which I missed in my abscence)---


A very quick read I enjoyed lately was " The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"

wonder if anyone here has come across it?---I enjoyed it---though a week or so after I read it I did feel its concepts slowly disolve some---like a ghost back to the shelf---Danielle's thoughts on that kind of thing prompted this post!

I do like to think that some of its thoughts swim just below the surface of my mind.

I especially like where it says that we Human-beings can only truly think of one thing at a time----and that if we can manage to focus ourselves on some sort of extraordinary project, then the world starts to swirl and propel us ---as the world especially loves when we have the courage to follow the paths of our hearts, no matter how untravelled they may be. Now that's my kind of a world view!


Be well!---8) Tea-cake

[Alexandra]

This spring my therapist convinced me that the help and friendship I get here, IS DEFINITELY VALUE ADDED.

I didn't notice this comment before and I thought it would be appropiate to quote and highlight it so that other girls can see this! Yay for us!

[Eloise Goth]

.no one here gets out alive' - the biography of the great jim morrison.

[Lawren]

I'm also an avid reader. We had very little television growing up so we got our television form books and our imaginations. I read mostly SciFi and am currently reading "The Dark Crystal" by A. C. H. Smith. Not sure if the book or the movie came first.

lawren

[Jadeanne]

Hi all,

I recently finished the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. I originally bought it for my wife and we now have dvds of the first 2 books. It was good, but I'm not really a fanatic.

This morning while I had Remicade infusion for my arthritis, I started a book on Civil War Savannah Georgia. I bought it directly from the author who signed it for me. It's good so far.

Jadeanne

[Jessie]

I am currentaly reading Broken Cresent by S. Andrw Swann. I have read every book that he has published. I have also recentaly bought the the first 5 years of the Harry Potter books in papper back (now I got both) that is my next read again.

Jessie

[Mellissa]

At the moment i dont read anything not mutch of a reader myself
But when i do read its mostley historical books i'm kinda intrested in history
Last book i finished was a book about Hitler (yeah i know but i dont like him)
It was a book on how he got in power in Germany and how he played the people (i hate to say it but he was very clevar)
but thats the kind of books i read when i read historical books
next book i'm buying is the one from Bill Clinton i always liked him so want to read he book
The books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are very good i always liked Sherlock Holmes there well put together and always suprise you in the end
And i like the victorian settings
wrighter ive liked Stephen king , James Clavell (shogun and tai pan are great)

Mellissa

[CJ]

Hi all,

Alexandra,

Thanks for highlighting Kersten's thoughts on the value of the forum. I'm sure she's not alone in feeling this. I know that I, for one, feel the same way. Like Rebecca said, what we learn here about being ourselves, and about being in relationships with others here, is most definitely a "transferable skill" when it comes to how we are and who we are in the world "out there."

---

Just finished: Deja Dead, by Kathy Reichs (the action takes place in Montreal!)
Currently reading: Headhunter, by Michael Slade (a police procedural set in Vancouver--I once had a chat with half of Michael Slade, on South Pender Island)
Next on my list: The Second Angel, by Philip Kerr (I still need an occasional science-"fix"-tion)

Love,
CJ

[SophieLawson]

Burnout 3 manual

Sophie xx

[Lydia]

A great thread. It's an inspiration to see what my sisters here are reading.

I just got about 1/3 through Ludlum's latest, and gave up after realizing I had read several versions of the same plot before.

Now I just re-read the Da Vinci Code. This time concentrating on the theological and philosophic parts, rather than the cinematic action. Next week, we start a course here at an adult education school on the artistic and social implications of the Dan Brown thesis.

Speaking of re-reading, I picked up off my shelf on an impulse: Catch 22. After a few years, it is even better than I thought. Truly a classic of American literature. He never wrote anything after that to compare.

BTW, I have discovered that I am more comfortable reading when I am dressed en femme. Curious.

Love,
Willy

[Terri(SO)]

Willy:
"BTW, I have discovered that I am more comfortable reading when I am dressed en femme. Curious."

How funny! At least to my twisted sense of humor. I have complained to some of my friends that it is so very hard to find a straight man who reads. So now I realize I need to find some way to look at this again. While my CDer doesn't read like I do, one of the things that drew me to him was him introducing me to the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera). If for nothing else (of course there's is so much more), I will remember him for that.
I tend to read in themes. I'll read something that will lead me to the next book. For example. I read a poem which contained alot of allusions to Dante, so I read Inferno, which contains alot of allusions to Virgil, so I read The Aednead, which contains allusions to Homer, so I read the Odyssy. Or I was on a classics kick and read Moby Dick (again) which led me to The Life of Pi and In The Heart of the Sea. Right now I'm reading Anna Karenina.
My Husband Betty was pretty interesting too. I took a break last weekend and read The GodMother, the story of the Colombian cocaine queen of the 80's who recently got released from prison.

[Terri(SO)]

Willy:
"BTW, I have discovered that I am more comfortable reading when I am dressed en femme. Curious."

How funny! At least to my twisted sense of humor. I have complained to some of my friends that it is so very hard to find a straight man who reads. So now I realize I need to find some way to look at this again. While my CDer doesn't read like I do, one of the things that drew me to him was him introducing me to the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera). If for nothing else (of course there's is so much more), I will remember him for that.
I tend to read in themes. I'll read something that will lead me to the next book. For example. I read a poem which contained alot of allusions to Dante, so I read Inferno, which contains alot of allusions to Virgil, so I read The Aednead, which contains allusions to Homer, so I read the Odyssy. Or I was on a classics kick and read Moby Dick (again) which led me to The Life of Pi and In The Heart of the Sea. Right now I'm reading Anna Karenina.
My Husband Betty was pretty interesting too. I took a break last weekend and read The GodMother, the story of the Colombian cocaine queen of the 80's who recently got released from prison.

[Mellissa]

Burnout 3 manual

Sophie xx

LOL any good the game???
i never read the manual lol i find out along the way


Mellissa

[Terri(SO)]

oops, I misspelled The Aeneid and The Odyssey. What a dope!

[Connie]

MariasGirl(SO):

oops, I misspelled The Aeneid and The Odyssey. What a dope!

That's OK, as we learned in another thread, we don't need the letters in the write order to understand it.

Connie