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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 4, 2011 17:14:30 GMT -5
Dumbdumbdumb read this book at the pool "A Thousand Sisters", actually scanned it looking for a point. Basically a writer who gets sponsered by Oprah somehow to go to the Congo and ask women how they feeeeel. For gawd, Doctors without Borders, human rights groups send in someone who can actually help people while they talk...this dumb butt is busy taking pictures and patronizing these women who have watched their villages and bodies destroyed and here's this way total white person getting interviews...I'd be pissy too
More cheerful title-"How to Raise a Jewish Dog"-"Oy sniffing butts? Nu, you didn't learn that from me."
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Post by suziriot on Sept 4, 2011 17:21:57 GMT -5
Hehehe, "How to Raise a Jewish Dog" sounds like it might be funny. Maybe I'll pick that up for my grandparents before I go visit them next week. Actually, my grandfather could probably write his own book on that topic. His approach is calling their adorable but naughty little JRT as many bad names in Yiddish as he thinks he can get away with before my grandmother tells him knock it off! ;D
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 7, 2011 8:20:51 GMT -5
A new book I'm going to look for today "Blue Nights". Sometimes when we're in a difficult space it helps to read about someone who's been somewhere far darker. Course that can go both ways... can help reflect gratitude...or it can encourage one to jump
"The Year of Magical Thinking" is such an excellent book, stream of conscious narrative about widowhood. In "Blue Nights" she loses her daughter as well.
There's a picture of Joan Didion in the new Vanity Fair, even if you've never read her fiction you just look at her and think "How?".
Then you read a Mad Magazine at the newsstand to debrief...whew...
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Post by sugar on Sept 7, 2011 15:10:12 GMT -5
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 7, 2011 20:30:36 GMT -5
The Pollan book was good, as is "The Way We Eat, Why Our Food Choices Matter"- Singer/Mason
Just starting "I Killed Scheherazade" by Joumana Haddad
also "I Am a Jew"-inspired by Daniel Pearl, many different perspectives
Blue Nights is on reserve at the library-must be patient
In case you're wondering I have books stashed all over...in my purse, in the car for traffic, by the bed, at the table for breakfast, by the bathtub...
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Post by sugar on Sept 22, 2011 15:43:58 GMT -5
Not really a book, but a comic book. Its called WE3. Its about a dog, a cat and a bunny that have been mechanically altered and just want to find their way home. Seriously. Its brilliant. Plus, when they say things like "I gud, yes?" It will make you cry. Just go read it now. www.amazon.com/We3-Deluxe-Grant-Morrison/dp/1401230679/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316724250&sr=8-1"Bandit, Tinker and Pirate are three pets who just want to go home. This collection of Vertigo's three-issue release tells the tale of a dog, a cat and a rabbit, who, like their Incredible Journey–style forebears, work together as they travel through a hostile human world. The difference here is in the awful loss of innocence wreaked by human ingenuity upon the animals. They've been bioengineered to act as military killing machines, but, as the covers reveal, they started out as house pets, and readers will feel heart-tugging empathy even as the former pets are driven to acts of shocking violence while escaping from the military. Morrison, perhaps the greatest writer in comics today, endows his animals with synthesized cyborg speech in which they express their most basic desires for warmth, food and love, as well as their attempts to process their unnatural capacities for violence. "Bad dog," Bandit repeatedly scolds himself after taking down yet another soldier. Quitely's art consists of lucid images of mayhem and sweetness that, in the most impressive spreads, fractalize to express the way these animals "experience time and motion differently." It's a groundbreaking and bravura performance. This is Morrison's most accessible tale ever, and one that is destined to be a classic." |
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 22, 2011 19:05:16 GMT -5
That sounds like something for my son for the holidays,cooool!
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Post by suziriot on Sept 22, 2011 19:50:13 GMT -5
That sounds like it's probably totally awesome. But no way could I deal with how emotional it would make me. I never used to be this way until the dogs. And it only got worse when I started working in social services and then started rescuing. It all builds up and then just one movie scene with a sad puppy dog or a neglected child, and I lose it. Depressed for days.  |
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 22, 2011 20:51:01 GMT -5
Sometimes it's cathartic and thats a good thing. If I'm in a really dark place, books about the Holocaust...survivors who have truly seen worse than we ever will...helps you find some perspective
Reading "Brother Ray", memoir in his words-especially if you've see the movie, thoughts a movie can't begin to explain...quite a life, yep getting busted for a DUI when you're blind. Quite an amazing life.
May I recommend paradise for the avid readers out there? There is a bookstore just off Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair. Definitely worth taking the drive. It's two storefronts and a basement filled floor to ceiling with new books, used books, out of print books, records, a whole wing of art books, antique, first editions, romance, sci fi, any topic you can think of and nice prices n staff that know their stuff. You need a few hours to browse, but surpasses any other bookstores in the area
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Post by melonie on Sept 22, 2011 22:42:56 GMT -5
I just finished the first two harry potter books. (again) I've watched the movies so many times because of my kids, that I forgot how much more detail is hidden within the pages of the books.
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 23, 2011 11:57:32 GMT -5
Oy we did Harry Potter for a few years, Capt Underpants, Wimpy Kid...two writers aimed at kids but really aimed at grownups that I still love-Ronald Dahl, very witty plays on words and situations and Shel Silverstein, a superhip Dr. Suess. We had all their books and Harry Potter too
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Post by melonie on Sept 23, 2011 14:53:53 GMT -5
The only other kids books I've read are the Lemony Snikets ones, and of course the Twilight saga. Oh, and Artemis Fowl series, also Inheart and Inkspell. Probably a lot more  |
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Post by sugar on Sept 23, 2011 15:03:27 GMT -5
If we are talking young adult books, its Weetzie Bat all the way  |
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 23, 2011 15:26:42 GMT -5
Youngest boy did all of Lemony Snicket, tried to explain it to me but I get lost easy...
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 25, 2011 9:28:12 GMT -5
One of those read in the bookstore, brighten your day books-"Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves"-it's humor, a photo caption book of over-dressed snookums. With the Halloween season upon us it might give you costume ideas too
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Post by melonie on Sept 25, 2011 11:31:53 GMT -5
lol
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Post by sugar on Sept 25, 2011 16:22:28 GMT -5
Is that like the Book of Bunny Suicides?
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Post by fureverywhere on Sept 26, 2011 12:36:48 GMT -5
Oh I know the book you mean-yeah my boy was reading the bunny book next to me at Barnes and Noble and totally blew his coolness cred laughing
A serious one I just finished "Paradise General", it's in the ballpark of MASH. gallows humor and graphic. Cover to cover read about a medic in Iraq
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Post by fureverywhere on Oct 9, 2011 22:35:44 GMT -5
Another book especially for those of us who remember his talk show-Dick Cavett's book that came out last year. Just finished it and one of those people with quite an amazing life (including the guy who died on his show). And on pg235
"P.P.S. Could I buy someone in Philadelphia a season ticket to boo Michael Vick for me?"
Don't know his reasons, but what a man!
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Post by melonie on Nov 19, 2011 2:31:16 GMT -5
I just finished a new book by Nicholas Sparks, Best of Me. Usually I avoid his books because they're too much for me. But this one intrigued me. It's bittersweet, and I can't stop thinking about it.
I have Stephen Kings 11.22.63 I've gotten through about half of it... and I had to sit it down, so I can read it when I can focus more fully on the book.
I haven't read much from him lately, and I missed him, so I may play a bit of catch up this winter.
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