A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson

Quote from: DianaP on March 03, 2013, 06:09:00 PM
Genetics textbook.

OMG don't envy you.  I remember all the fun with crosses, alles and false positives etc. Enjoy!

I will enjoy. 

I am reading "Pet Sematary" by Stephen King

The Female Brain by Dr. Louann Brizendine.

Guaranteed a NOT TO BE MISSED, by those transitioning MtF. A similar title by the same author, The Male Brain for FtM.

Written by a neuropsychariast with many years of research and clinical experience it provides and astonishing insight into the effects of marinating the brain in your preferred gender hormones.

on with City of Bones, then I'll start on City of Ashes

I'm reading through Julie Rose's Les Misérables translation after remembering how much I loved the musical when I was younger... I'm like 400 pages in and not even halfway through.

I was disappointed by the recent movie with the two notable exceptions of Fantine (Anne Hathway killed it) and Marius (I've never cared that much for the character, but Eddie Redmayne made me bawl during Empty Chairs at Empty Tables).

Quote from: Catherine Sarah on March 05, 2013, 08:08:05 AM
The Female Brain by Dr. Louann Brizendine.

Guaranteed a NOT TO BE MISSED, by those transitioning MtF. A similar title by the same author, The Male Brain for FtM.

Written by a neuropsychariast with many years of research and clinical experience it provides and astonishing insight into the effects of marinating the brain in your preferred gender hormones.

That's odd, I found the book to be incredibly insulting, suggesting that women were trapped into their minds by their hormones and unable to ever escape. I also found that it provided an awful lot of legitimising evidence for all the narrowing rubbish that has been forced on women the last thousand years or so.

Just had a tear as another Johnson biography ended, read a few biographies on mad eighteenth century poet Kit Smart and giving Casanova's third volume a go - so far not as entertaining as the other two.

Come On All You Ghosts, poetry collection by Matthew Zapruder.

Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian

About to start on 'Cold Granite' by Stuart MacBride, on a friend's recommendation.

A biography of Calvin Coolidge, which is pretty good (but could have stood some proofreading) - and Bush At War, by B. Woodward... which is also pretty good.

I was mostly rushed for time at the library, and had to grab a coupla things on the fly (I'm completely miserable without something to read).

I'm currently dipping in and out of the last published "A Song of Ice and Fire" book when I get time, but I'm partially not wanting to finish it because who knows when G. R. R. Martin will feel kind enough to give us the next installment?  I would say the name of it, but I'm not sure where my copy has run off to and I get completely confused seeing as some are split into two by some publishers and others aren't.  I don't know how it would be possible to comfortably read the versions which aren't split into two books though, magnifying glasses perhaps?

I need to get down to the library before the 18th to pick up a book I've got reserved there as well though, "Sacred Country" by Rose Tremain for two reasons, one, the character is trans, and two, it's set in my county.

Quote from: AlexanderC on May 13, 2013, 08:25:47 AM
I need to get down to the library before the 18th to pick up a book I've got reserved there as well though, "Sacred Country" by Rose Tremain for two reasons, one, the character is trans, and two, it's set in my county.

It's a moving, if rather bleak book. Well written though.

George R.R. Martin's vampire book Fevre Dream

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

The Ego and It's Own Max Stirner

And the Autobiography of Malcolm X

kinda a book spazz

Quote from: Kia on May 13, 2013, 06:47:20 PM
George R.R. Martin's vampire book Fevre Dream

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

The Ego and It's Own Max Stirner

And the Autobiography of Malcolm X

kinda a book spazz

Wow ... thats a lot of books. I am still stuck on 50 Shades of Grey

Quote from: Alexia6 on May 14, 2013, 02:28:46 PM
Wow ... thats a lot of books. I am still stuck on 50 Shades of Grey

Read that one, the author certainly had a vivid imagination about male sexual prowess. 

I'm reading a modern book for once. It's called 'Our Tragic Universe' and is by Scarlett Thomas.

I'm finding I have to read it slower than I am used to because it feels like I have walked in on a group of friends having an interesting conversation that I wasn't there at the beginning for. Perhaps this is what reading modern novels feels like.

Currently Reading:

Jean-Paul Sartre "Existentialism and Humanism"
Albert Camus "The Rebel"

Quote from: Sadie May on May 12, 2013, 06:54:39 AM
A biography of Calvin Coolidge, which is pretty good (but could have stood some proofreading) - and Bush At War, by B. Woodward... which is also pretty good.

I was mostly rushed for time at the library, and had to grab a coupla things on the fly (I'm completely miserable without something to read).

I like Woodward's works. Since you are reading "Bush At War", make sure you read "State of Denial" the third part.  Not only is it a great insight into the Iraq war, but it also really highlights conditions in the State Department under Rumsfeld.  Interesting for political and history junkies. 

QuoteAlbert Camus "The Rebel"

oooh I really want to read that, I'm a big Camus fan just haven't got around to reading his bigger works