i just finished Jack Fritscher's biography on Robert Mapplethorpe called ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY CAMERA.

cuz i love biographies.

this one is really good because Fritscher had a relationship with Mapplethorpe and he writes a lot of background essays on art, photography and leathersex. it also features interviews with lots of people who were important in Mapplethorpe's career. i found the book really cheap in the american book centre in Amsterdam, and it is signed by the author.

i also read a biography about Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe, and that one was really clean, semi-scientific. The two make a nice complete picture.

Carrie Fisher "The Best Awful There Is"


ive always been intrigued by Carrie's tv show appearances..but this book takes the cake..this lady is crazy...clinically and otherwise....

i'm reading school books

they are all about social work, international issues, ethics and organizational theories...

WHEEEE!

sosgemini said:

postcards from the edge was a great read -- i'll probably pick up this one.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Description? So hard to describe Marquez' writing, other than perhaps as: brilliant, colorful, romantic, historic, loving, honest. He is the best at recounting family history of fiction.

I am reading the following book:



Overall, it's good. Though not enough pictures of me.
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I am reading 9 Plays by Black Women.

Check this out: A Black Woman Speaks


And they sold you here, even as they sold me. My sisters, there is no room for mockery. If they counted my teeth, they did appraise your thigh. Sold you to the highest bidder the same as I.And you did not fight for your right to choose whom you would wed. But for whatever bartered price that was the legal tender, you were sold to a stranger's bed in a stranger land.

Remeber? And you did not fight. Mind you, I speak not mockingly, but I fought for freedom; I'm fighting now for our unity. We are women all. And what wrongs youmurders me... eventually marks your grave. So we share mutuak death at the hand of tryanny.

Beah Richards

BwnLadyBug

It's about a paranormal investigator who's soulmate died in an accident. Since her death the main character goes around trying to kill himself and ghost hunting, basically looking for a way to meet up with his lost love on the other side. There is lots of subplots and the story is woven together in away that you can't even guess at what's going to happen next. It's beautifully written and I'm really enjoying it.

I'm currently reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

I just finished Quirkyalone. Google the term. It's about feeling that romantic relationships are optional, basically. . .about feeling like a whole person all by yourself. I loved it and definately identified with it.

Question society's Relationship Rules!

Also just finished The Fat Girl's Guide to Life, which was fabulous. . .I've come to a lot of the conclusions in the book on my own over the years, but it's nice to see that somebody agrees with me and I'll be passing the book around.

AND Clan of the Cave Bear. Not sure I think it's the best book ever written, but dammit, I couldn't put it down. Think I'm going to have to read the rest of the series, even though it feels like SUCH literary junk food.

"eyewitness to a genocide: the united nations and rwanda"-michael barnett

uh huh, a real feel good book

ok, considering that the "what are you listening to now" threads tend to have hundreds of responses, it is really sad that no one is apparently reading anything!

y'all some illiterate bitches up in here

I tend to read a few books at a time. One for on the train to and from work, one for garden when i get a chance or the lav, and one or two others - i guess i'll put in the category, 'boredom time'. Train one gets read a helluva lot quicker than the others.

At the moment:

Train: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Non-fiction book which tries to explain what factors in history have contributed to the developmental differences in different continents.

Garden / Lav: Terry pratchett - 'Monstrous Regiment'. Typical pratchett - funny and insightful.

Boredom time: Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Books'. Never get tired of reading these stories.

NCC2012 said:

Hey! I read that one, just book one: "The Mandolorian Armor"

I haven't read many of the Star Wars books, but I liked that one!

endorphin74 said:

If you think this one is good, pick up the Thrawn Trilogy and/or the whole New Jedi Order series. Great stuff and true to the characters! Then go and expand your collection to get everything else.

Interesting...veeeery interesting.

I'm rereading two books at the moment.

"Success" by Martin Amis - I think Martin Amis is the coolest man on the face of the planet. I wish I was like him. However, I often find his novels to be a little unsatisfying. Success is probably his most complete, well-rounded book.

"Free to Choose" by Milton and Rose Friedman - I realize this is a daft thing to say, but this book absolutely changed the way I think about the world and politics. When I was younger I was an NDP member (Canadian socialist party), a hard-core leftist. This book definitely woke me up. If I had one wish, it's that every person would read this.

Next up for me is "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek. I can't wait to tear into this one - it's probably one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
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NCC2012 said:

well, I guess you planned out my summer reading material!

I jsut started reading "the key to midnight" by Dean Koontz (once again) . Its been about 6 years since I last read this novel.

Im waiting for his new release in July "the talking" I know its gonna be good.
His novels always are