Quote from: Just Gwynne! on November 02, 2013, 08:18:37 PM
Every great city should have a Jane's Walk.

+1

Quote from: Gina Taylor on November 04, 2013, 06:57:46 PM
I just finished reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 and I found it to be a very interesting novel about the possibilities of not assassinating JFK and the reprocussions of what could happen if he had lived.

Right now I've just started reading John Grisham's "The Brethren."

Just finished reading John Grisham's "The Brethren", and I really didn't like it

One of his best books was "A Time To Kill."

I'm reading "Indexing," a Kindle Serial by Seanan McGuire. It's about a world where fairy tales are real and recurring nightmares. The main character identifies as Snow White.

There are TONS of quotes that fit us... and, surprise... we just ran into a trans* character! Seanan is pro trans* and into LGBT+ rights.

The book isn't too deep... but it's quite entertaining!!

Rounded with Sleep by Rob Chilson

The synopsis on the back made me think it was written about Malachite.

"Shadowboxer" by Paula Sophia...
I bought it to read because I was going to meet the author, who is a local trans woman.  I was expecting to be unimpressed; after all, Oklahoma is not known as a hot spot for the literary elite.  And the book is a cop novel.  Not even on the radar for my preferred genre.

I am continually being blown away.  The prose is stark and compelling, the character (a macho police trainee, just out of the academy) is identifiable, tough, and still vulnerable.  And his struggle as he learns he is transgendered is all too real, too close for comfort.

Having met the author, my suspicions are confirmed.  She has blood in this story, her heart's blood was poured into it. 


Highly, HIGHLY recommended.

I am re-reading "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse and enjoying it even more than I did when I read it for the first time (~ 3 years ago). Very looking forwards to start the second part of her Languedoc trilogy "Sepulchre" and "Citadel" (the third one).
It is archaeological mystery novel, there are two main storylines, which set out in 1209 and 2005 and they are interlinked - both protagonists are female   It is a good adventure read, where action (Albigensian Crusade and the Grail storyline) is nicely balanced with emotional life of both heroines (romance, love, betrayal).

I'm so happy. They've reprinted my favorite vampire novel series, Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman, because he just released the fourth book.

"ARAMIS or The Love of Technology" by Bruno Latour

All The Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
by William H Rehnquist

(A)n insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime

Quote from: Jamie D on December 05, 2013, 01:25:09 AM
All The Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
by William H Rehnquist

(A)n insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime

I have a deep respect for Rehnquist, even though I disagree with him on many points.

For Yourself : The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality; by Lonnie Barbach, PH.D

WOW!!!!      Ah-hummmm  Yes. IT does work. And very well thank you. 




<Can someone turn the A/C on please. It's hot in here. >

Quote from: Catherine Sarah on December 10, 2013, 10:37:48 AM
For Yourself : The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality; by Lonnie Barbach, PH.D

WOW!!!!      Ah-hummmm  Yes. IT does work. And very well thank you. 




<Can someone turn the A/C on please. It's hot in here. >

'It's always a pleasure to pleasure someone who knows how to pleasure herself. A journey through new territory is best when at least one of you has a good map and an idea of how to get there." -Maddie

I am loving Julia Serrano,Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive. (2013, Seal Press).

Outstanding framework for understanding and combatting all forms of sexism-based marginalization, especially cissexism and transmisogyny.

Quote from: MadelineB on December 10, 2013, 11:00:44 AM
'It's always a pleasure to pleasure someone who knows how to pleasure herself. A journey through new territory is best when at least one of you has a good map and an idea of how to get there." -Maddie

Thank you. It's interesting to experience how all this new stuff works. And how well it works. Completely different to the previous model

Quote from: MadelineB on December 10, 2013, 11:00:44 AM
I am loving Julia Serrano,Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive. (2013, Seal Press)

Sounds like my next one to read. Information is power.

You're doing great things Maddie. Keep up the awesome work. But don't bite that tongue. It was looking intense.
Love you
Catherine

Quote from: Catherine Sarah on December 10, 2013, 11:12:14 AM
Sounds like my next one to read. Information is power.

Me too! I just finished Whipping Girl and it's excellent (though extremely technical). I expect to reread it at least a time or two.

I am currently reading "Kafka by the Shore."

Quote from: Catherine Sarah on December 10, 2013, 11:12:14 AM
Thank you. It's interesting to experience how all this new stuff works. And how well it works. Completely different to the previous model

Sounds like my next one to read. Information is power.

You're doing great things Maddie. Keep up the awesome work. But don't bite that tongue. It was looking intense.
Love you
Catherine

Love you too. Have to keep tonguing to think though; I lose 50 IQ points when my tongue is inside my mouth and not sticking out.

Regulatory Discourses in Education: A Lacanian Perspective (R. Atkinson)

I'm reading Colbert's American Again, and also a Nebula awards collection from I forget what year. Sometime in the last decade.

Been on a Kit Smart binge and reading his letters at the moment.

John Hattie - Visible Learning

Hey!

I'm rereading Electroboy by Andy Behrman for the fourth time, rereading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh for the second time, and reading The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai for the first time.