Got stressed out so I read a pile of children's books off my kid's shelf. She never reads the fiction anyway. Dr Dolittle, a picture book about talking animals who learn to take turns listening, a collection of stories about red squirrel (from peter rabbit), a short novel about a kid who has asthma and has trouble in school, um, idk what else and next on tap is The BFG by Roald Dahl.

Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt by Megan Nicolay

Quote from: Constance on February 02, 2013, 11:00:17 AM
Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt by Megan Nicolay

That's very cool. I hope the get along shirt isn't in it. That one kinda creeps me out.

So I read an old fairy tale book last night that was labeled as a read aloud book for young children and beginning readers. Lol it was the most gruesome and riveting stuff I've read in a long time. There was a scene where a princess was trying to help a prince escape an evil magician, and she removes her fingers and four of her toes so the prince can use them as a ladder to climb a tree, and two children get their heads smashed on rocks by a giant who is tricked into thinking each one is the prince, and people are getting poisoned and charmed and drowned left and right...oldschool kid's fiction is sick stuff.

I just finished reading Mother Night by Vonnegut. Loved it!!!! I am undecided as to which book I will read next...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's good so far.

Sisterhood of Dune
Babylon 5: Thirdspace (Novelisation)
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (Novelisation)

Twitter for Dummies and Pregnancy for Dummies ... I kid you not.

Quote from: Constance on February 11, 2013, 09:33:35 AM
Twitter for Dummies and Pregnancy for Dummies ... I kid you not.

Was "Twitter for Dummies" limited to 140 characters?

Quote from: EmSchuma on February 11, 2013, 09:34:23 AM
Was "Twitter for Dummies" limited to 140 characters?

I'm currently reading Edge, by Koji Suzuki.  It seems to be getting really close to treading the same territory as Loop and Promenade of the Gods, but it's still great.  Oh, also, this seems to be the worst translation yet of his work... and it's still amazing.

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. 

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

I am about to finish the last 10 pages of Guru Sant Singh Kahlsa's Confessions of An American Sikh: Locked Up In India, corrupt cops, and my escape from a tantric yoga cult which I downloaded for free on Amazon. Then I am moving onto Yann Martel's Life of Pi because I wanted to see the movie but didn't get the chance to go, and because I couldn't help it, I also bought Alexandra Horowitz's Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know.

Quote from: Kayla on February 09, 2013, 08:04:42 PM
I just finished reading Mother Night by Vonnegut. Loved it!!!! I am undecided as to which book I will read next...

I love that book, Kurt Vonnegut is such an amazing author.

Quote from: Silver on February 21, 2013, 05:29:47 PM
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

I haven't read that one, but hear it's good too, let us know what you think about it.

I'm rereading Luna by Julie Anne Peters.

I'm actually listening to an audio book with Chaz Bono's voice: his book, Transition: The Story of How I Became A Man.

Quote from: Silver on February 21, 2013, 05:29:47 PM
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Awwww... You should try "Timequake" - It's a bit cheesy, but delivers a very powerful message (one that arrived in a timely manner for myself, and really precipitated a bit of a lateral shift in my outlook... not often that a book does that...).

Currently reading "Conservatives Without Conscience", by John W. Dean. I'm about halfway through, but thus far not finding it particularly good: for one, he has an axe to grind - which shows itself throughout the book - leading to a loss of objectivity... Secondly, he has very little of a point to make - instead engaging in a bit of circular logic, reliant on a small resource pool (he largely cites one study). If this book were titled "Why The Sky Is Blue", it would read something like: It is self-inherent that the sky is blue... it is also blue because people believe it is is blue.

Nice try, Mr. Rogers.

I'm also working on "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler And Stalin", by Timothy Snyder. I'm not too far into it, but it's reading okay right now (if I overlook the map on every other page: looking at pictures of shifting geographical and political boundaries doesn't do much for me... I'm more of a concept kind of gal... same when I read military history: my eyes just glaze over at glossy pictures of little blue and red cannons arranged along a forgotten brook...). I'm kinda putting the cart in front of the horse on this book - I wanted to make a biography on Stalin my next book, as my interest in him was piqued by the book I most recently completed - "FDR", by Jean Edward Smith (a superb book, except for the frigging footnotes on damn near every page... work it into the text if it's that damn important, but don't make me chase down asterisks and crosses...) - in which the characterization of Stalin was presented as being a bit more complex than the murderous brute I have always filed him away as being...

Anyhoo - Thanks for letting me get this off my chest! 

Ivanhoe, my kinda hoe!  Great story!

Quote from: Sadie May on March 03, 2013, 10:46:39 AM
Awwww... You should try "Timequake" - It's a bit cheesy, but delivers a very powerful message (one that arrived in a timely manner for myself, and really precipitated a bit of a lateral shift in my outlook... not often that a book does that...).

Possibly my favourite Vonnegut that, the bit when he goes to buy a stamp is one of the most moving pieces of writing I have ever read (the mundanity of the activity is a big part of the effect).

I am reading David Simple by Sarah Fielding, Henry's sister. It's a little bloodless so far, I might need something with more bite next.

Harry portter for the 20 th time

Genetics textbook.