The last book I read was,,,,,


And I'm currently reading....


Some of the stuff she's saying leaves me gifted woman, but def a walking contradiction,,,,then again, aren't we all?

Currently, nothing.

Currently:

Aelis said:

Read that, too! Seen the movie too, ages ago. With Orson Welles, I think.

Phishanga said:

I'm curious to see if I will like it in the end. I do so far.
I'm also supposed to read Metamorphosis (for school). Curious about that too

Patertje Pispaal van Toon Kortooms

The Red Tent

current reading:

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer

Currently:
If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone last night. I'ma read the whole series

The Road
Wicked
Son of a Witch
The boy in the stripped pyjama's
The Reader

history of cannabilism

looking for something palatable to my mind - and its just not workin
however i am on the look out for books on Comte St Germain and Jacques St Germain.... and looking for some gnostic writings - if you can recommend anything i'm all ears...

@ Kathy Groffin. Didn't know she had a book.

I just finished these two







Great author


Just started this

Harlepolis said:

I have a copy of that that she signed for me.

This was the last book I read:

Last book i read:



Currently reading:

vainandy said:

What a cute kid!

re-reading this.

Imago said:

Too cute!

evenstar3 said:

Oh, I loved this one

just finished re-readin six sacred stones by matthew reilly...

follow up one week away

b4 that the twilight series...all of them

vainandy said:

Great book!

jstar69 said:

Have you read the 3rd one in the series? And have you read his other books? They're all really good.

Have you read it? I always wondered if anyone outside of Mississippi had heard of it.

I'm not a book reader at all and never have been, but a friend of mine told me about this book and a lot of the author's reference to different places and incidents that occurred locally in Jackson, MS in the book. She lent me her copy and I couldn't put it down. I read it in less than a week.

It's a true story about the author's life as a gay man growing up as a child in the 1960s and a teen in the 1970s in an extemely homophobic and racist Mississippi. As I read the book, I immediately remembered the TV shows he mentioned and the places that he mentioned and some of them still exist today such as the gay club, Mae's Caberet, which later became Jack and Jill's and still was owned by Jack Myers. And the author's description of the homophobia and racism surrounding him during those years was dead on the money, not to mention his relationship with his own family who he loved but didn't share the same views. I almost felt like I was reading a story about myself.

I've never cared for books but if I could find more books like this one, I'd be a regular bookworm.
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Aelis said:

I just got to the part where he meets charlotte for the first time

Undoubtedly the strangest and most bizarre book I've ever read.




Amazon.com Review

In the opening pages of Under the Skin, a lone female is scouting the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men: "Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her." At this point, the reader might be forgiven for anticipating some run-of-the-mill psychosexual drama. But commonplace expectation is no help when it comes to Michel Faber's strange and unsettling first novel; small details, then major clues, suggest that something deeply bizarre is afoot. What are the reasons for Isserley's extensive surgical scarring, her thick glasses, her excruciating backache? Who are the solitary few who work on the farm where her cottage is located? And why are they all nervous about the arrival of someone called Amlis Vess?

The ensuing narrative is of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description. The one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under the Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. Faber's control of his medium is nearly flawless. Applying the rules of psychological realism to a fictional world that is both terrifying and unearthly, he nonetheless compels the reader's absolute identification with Isserley. Not even the author's fine short-story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, prepared us for such mastery. Under the Skin is ultimately a reviewer's nightmare and a reader's dream: a book so distinctive, so elegantly written, and so original that one can only urge everybody in earshot to experience it, and soon. --Burhan Tufail

noimageatall said:

I'm gonna have to read that now too!