Readers thread: what or who are you reading right now?

[blackemerald1]

Dr Steve Ellen & Catherine Deveny, Mental Everything You Never Knew You Needed To Know About Mental Health, 2018, Black Inc.,

Good book! Candid and an easy read on complex issues.

Looks at a lot of disorders and the authors give their personal struggles. Ellen is a Psychiatrist and Deveny is a writer, comedian, social commentator & public speaker.

 

[DharmaGirl]

The Last Tribe. Another post-apocalyptic fiction but without all the violence and big gangs of bikers.

Starting to write my book of chicken stories.

 

[LuckiLee]

I just started Tom Hanks' "Uncommon Type... Some Stories". It's a book of short stories and I've only read the first two. It's pretty good so far. An easy read.

 

[blackemerald1]

Another post-apocalyptic fiction but without all the violence and big gangs of bikers.

A post-apocalyptic novel without violence and bikers... @DharmaGirl - surely not? lol....

Bring on the chicken stories...

 

[cherileisman]

"The Gun" which is an un-put-downable Pulitzer Prize winning history of the AK-47 and how the assault rifle changed the world;
"The Revenant", after which I watched the film and am still still shaking my head over it;
Marukami's "1Q84" which I gave up on after 600 pages;
and a biography of Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice.

Pick of the week goes to Chivers and The Gun

 

[Ronin]

Starting to write my book of chicken stories.

I got so excited for post apocalyptic warrior chicken before it got clarified.

 

[DharmaGirl]

apocalyptic warrior chicken

That's a great idea!

 

[ILoveLife]

News from Tartary, by Peter Fleming.

A 1935 travel book about his travels between Beijing and Kashmir.

 

[Changing4Best]

Anne Lamott
HELP THANKS WOW The Three Essential Prayers

I could not put it down. I read it in 3 hours.

 

[The Albatross]

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu says that it is better not to fight than to be involved in a conflict, but if you are going to have to fight, then you have to do it to win, and these are the various strategies, often brutal, that will get you that result.

To the mystification of both my brother and I as we were recovering my mom's burned/damaged items... this was among them. To which she replied, "Oh YES, I need another copy it is my favorite book." That explains a lot.

 

[blackemerald1]

post apocalyptic warrior chicken

:playful::hungry: Yes!

hat's a great idea!

:laugh: For a Title? :roflmao: It would work you know!

The Mirror Thief, Martin Seay, Melville House Publishing, 2016.

Hmm. Really interesting but I haven't read it all yet p. 238 of almost 600 pages. I hope it keeps up it's intensity by stealth. I am intrigued at this point with the plot. Three stories weaved into one... but haven't got to where they join yet. Very olde worlde language and lots of new words I have to stop and look up. I have thrown it down and read a couple of other books because it's not the usual read where I turn the page and distract. I have to be in this or if I do get distracted and turn even 2 pages...go back and find somewhere before I started reading without reading. I hope it is worth it. Shall let you know and more to the point what it is all about! :cautious::p

 

[Changing4Best]

POWER PRAYERS FOR WOMEN by Jackie M. Johnson

So far I have just read a little bit, but the prayers are helpful in giving me more ideas about how and what to pray! One can always learn more about that.