I am currently reading Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, & The Marriage of the Century (2011) by Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger. It's a real page turner I give it a 3 out of 5

Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone (2008) I was expecting a total bitchfest .....but it wasn't too bad 3.5 out of 5

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The Ciccone book on Madonna is pretty decent. It's a bit bitchy in it, but you know - he was there for it. It it what it is, and frankly no one would know anything about him were it not for his sister.

In recent weeks I've heard Troublemaker by Leah Remini, and Darkly Dreaming Dexter from Jeff Lindsey. I probably won't read the rest of the Dexter books. Remini's book was fascinating, as is her docuseries.

I started Peter Criss' book, and might go back to it.

Right now, I am reading Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard. Not to convert - far from it. I'm actually trying to educate myself on it when I do discuss it, I have a better grip of the beginnings of it. Much of Dianetics became Scientology. The engrams, the reactive mind, etc., etc., blah, blah. It's already giving me some weird-ass dreams at night.

By the way, I still read this every few years. It's a favorite.

recording unhinged.... sylvia massey

'bout half-way through 'caliban's war', book 2 of the epic 'expanse' series by james s. a. corey.

'bout a third of the way through the first book of alan moore's 'jerusalem'...it's a pleasure to read, but it's fucking exhausting.

throwing in some comics, a la 'concrete' by paul chadwick and 'usagi yojimbo' by stan sakai for a little variety.

also been hitting 'the smithsonian book of newspaper comics' edited by bill blackbeard for quick fixes.

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I'm finishing up Middlesex by Jeffrey Eudenides. Overall, it was very, very good! Part coming of age story (an unknowingly intersex girl with a genetic mutation who at puberty discovers that she is genetically male when her body begins to change) and part family saga of a Greek couple building their life in Detroit after fleeing their war torn homeland.

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stuff!

I listen to someone reading "A Christmas Carol" on podcast, does that count?

Ive been reading that you are on the org... and I think I know you!

I didn't even know you'd left Florida.

I'm reading, I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

During this holiday season, I have been reading Alice Walker's Temple of My Familiar and Christiane Bird's The Sultan's Shadow.

My last three books:

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by Heather Ann Thompson

Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
by Jean Casella (Editor), James Ridgeway (Editor), Sarah Shourd (Editor)

The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
by Laurence Leamer