What Are You Reading Right Now?

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Comment by Lillian Gaffney on January 23, 2011 at 3:04pm

Awakening The Dreamer by Raehel Bratnick... a spiritual & psychological book on ...creative and practical...delving deeper into our authentic-selves...interesting thus far.

Comment by Rick Reiley on January 23, 2011 at 2:19pm

I have just finished the biography of Jim Harrison- later contemporary of Kerouac etc.. A screenwriter, poet. Great book. I also finished 'Saving Jesus from the Church' by Robin Meyers. Also a great read for those liberal minded folks who find Christianity interesting.

Comment by Bettina Woolard on January 16, 2011 at 3:45pm

Yes, lucky for us, isn't it?

Comment by wiffledust on January 16, 2011 at 11:39am

ohhhhh that is fascinating! thank you so much for that factoid!! it makes so much sense, doesn't it? i mean why she wouldn't want to leave the house? man, people haven't even BEGUN to understand women under the second half of THIS past century!!!! i'm sooooo glad i didn't live back then!!! i'm so glad she put her energy into poetry!

Comment by Bettina Woolard on January 16, 2011 at 11:30am

Lyndall Gordon (author of the Emily D bio) makes a very good & convincing case for ED being epileptic, which was the reason for her not leaving her property. In those days it was shameful & one didn't discuss it, esp in the case of women, because it was thought that seizures were caused by sexual thoughts! Duh, duh, duh!

Comment by wiffledust on January 15, 2011 at 8:20pm

oh and si! io capisco!

Comment by wiffledust on January 15, 2011 at 8:20pm

oh! hi bettina! i had no idea that franzen could be funny...really? i'm going to have to read him if i can just get some extra time. but i always read several things at once,so you reading more than one thing doesn't phase me at all! i've heard good things about the kite runner, but upsetting stuff is freaking me out lately. so i'll skip that one for now. but i think it'll be a fave with folks here. i didn't know there was a new bio of emily dickenson..that must be fascinating! was she agoraphobic or just a recluse? they are very different things...

Comment by Bettina Woolard on January 15, 2011 at 8:07pm

Oh, & A Thousand Splendid Suns is also a recent read. Very good, very upsetting. Same author as The Kite Runner. Can't remember his name & am too lazy to look it up right now.

Comment by Bettina Woolard on January 15, 2011 at 8:05pm

Right now working on 2 books, very different from each other. One is Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (very funny in spots) & the other is Lives Shot from a Gun, by Lyndall Gordon. It's a hew bio of Emily Dickenson & super interesting. The reason I'm reading both is that the ED one is from the library & I have to return it soon, but I'd already started the other one. Capiche?

Comment by wiffledust on January 15, 2011 at 7:42pm

thanks so much, paul and rick! i would never have thought of these or known about them and i bet i'm not alone. that's what i love about this group. i'm so glad you're participating!

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