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What Are You Reading Right Now?
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This is a group where you can tell us what you're reading and what you think of it to give others some ideas. Your choices can be fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, blogs, whatever. Tell us what it is and your opinion of it!
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Comment by wiffledust on September 7, 2010 at 2:46pm
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jen ,some of dyer's books are better than others, although they all have some inspiration in them.the most recent one is "excuses begone", and that one doesn't do it for me so much. but his "spiritual solutions" is a good one. so is one that has magic in the title.i can't remember it right now. I think it's called "Real Magic". and he has one called "Inspiration" that's good.
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Comment by Lillian Gaffney on September 7, 2010 at 2:30pm
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Come Home to Your Body is a health/exercise/movement workbook to help regain power and connection with spirit- your "body wisdom" through movement. The author, is a Feldendrais practitioner.
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Comment by Jen on September 7, 2010 at 12:47pm
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I agree that books on tape are wonderful! Especially for long car rides. Lillian, what sort of book is Come Home to your Body? Is it yoga-based? I still haven't read Dyer, although I have many friends who love his work.
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Just finished Come Home to Your Body by Pamela J. Free...great reminders of movement & breath. Now, reading Wayne Dyer... Inspiration, my spiritual buddy. I am sure this book will inspire my spirit.
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well kids must like it for a reason. they sure do seem to prefer it to doing it themselves! at least when they're little. i like listening to lectures and such online.i like good radio shows too. we're bombarded with visual media. audio allows us to use our imaginations! storytelling is hard to find these days, and being read to is like that....and yes, it was UNBEARABLY hot!!!
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mary catherine! you're back!!! great to see you!!!! what's wrong with listening to the books??? it's the story that counts!
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welcome to the reading group, jen! i wish i had more time to read like the rest of the members. but i think i was one of the c.s. lewis lovers. i also love alot of american lit....fitzgerald for sure, but i love steinbeck. east of eden for sure. you have such great books on here....thanks for that!!! so great to have you.....!
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I'm new here and kind of jumping in. I've skimmed the thread and saw many of my favorites. I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo recently and loved it. I'm waiting to go to the other two when I have more time. I also read Faithful Place by Tana French and was absolutely wrenched by it - the characterizations were amazing. I'm reading her Walk in the Woods right now, but I've heard it's not as strong. In the middle, I read Mikael Niemi's Popular Music - a huge hit in Sweden and fairly big in the UK, but hasn't hit here in the States. I found it very odd but compelling - kind of a Swedish version of A River Runs Through It. To Susie - I think you mentioned the classics? I teach a three-year lit. sequence for 11th and 12th graders, rotating between American Lit. (this year), World Lit. (next year) and British Lit. (the third year). Some of my faves in general would include Austen, Fitzgerald, Rostand, Hemingway, anything by Shakespeare. I also love C.S. Lewis for whomever was mentioning him, and Stephanie Plum, and too many others to mention. Always fun to find fellow readers!
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Comment by Maggie Friend on September 6, 2010 at 2:32pm
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I felt similarly about The Lacuna--wasn't terribly committed to it in the beginning but in the end really loved it! Now I am reading Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Like the Lacuna, it is part historical fiction. Interesting that both deal with the second world war--The Lacuna from the perspectives of Mexico and the United States and Wind Up Bird Chronicles from the perspective of Japan. Murakami's writing and structure is unusual but I am intrigued. A friend and I concluded that it reads like Japanese Magical Realism if you can imagine that.
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Comment by Dorraine Darden on September 6, 2010 at 1:17pm
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Read Eat Pray Love and also just finished Go Down Together, The True Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde by Jeff Guinn. Highly recommend both books. :-)
First Eat Pray Love: I know this one has been mentioned in discussion here, but I'll just add that it was inspiring to read about a woman brave enough to stand up for what she needed, even though she wasn't sure what that was. I've heard it said, that this book was nothing but a selfish exploration, but I disagree strongly with that. I loved the whole inner process work she went through to come out stronger, wiser and joyful. Warning: you will want to eat non-stop after reading this book. At the very least go have yourself some fine Italian food!
Bonnie & Clyde: This was a heart warming, honest portrayal of two of America's most notorious bank robbers and murderers. I say heart warming because Jeff Guinn brings their personalities to the table, and because of that, I was attached to both Bonnie & Clyde by mid-book. I knew how it was all going to go down, but wished it didn't have to be so. The research he did for this book was unbelievable. And it shows. Don't miss this one if you enjoy a great piece of history. But don't blame me if you cry in the end. :-(
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