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

[mumstheword]

The Trauma Cleaner; One woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster. By Sarah Krasnostein
The tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
Introduction to Written Texts, Study Guide, for the writing unit I'm doing at uni now

 

[Rani G2]

Robert Heinlein is philosophical,

Thanks. . Bit hesitant to read him because he was pretty much right wing....

 

[DharmaGirl]

Really? Hmm, I thought he was a free thinker, but I was a Scientologist at the time, so I will have to reread some of his stuff to see what I think now that I'm no longer in a cult.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Iceberg Slim

What's it about? Is it a mystery? I love hearing about books from others. I read The Book of Harold that Alby had read, but I have to think some more on it. I don't think I got the point that was meant.

 

[Deleted member 44579]

What's it about? Is it a mystery? I love hearing about books from others. I read The Book of Harold...

Hi it's about hussling, just getting by.... Life stories... Ghetto type stories... No bullshit.. Just real life..

 

[DharmaGirl]

Sounds good. I'll check it out. Real life is a bitch, nothing like facebook, lol.

 

[The Albatross]

Needed something light and not too heavy... so started Crafty Cat Crimes - 100 Tiny Cat Tale Mysteries. A collection of short stories in the crime/mystery genre involving cats. A gift from my friend Arlene, whose mom unbeknownst to me had a penchant for these. I had no idea cat crime/mystery novels or stories were even a "thing"! Anyways... At a hefty 600 pages with really small print, I'll be chipping away at this for the first couple weeks at the new job I expect.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Those Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

If you are prone to nightmares, don't read this. Not only did I have them all night, I had the war one that has been recurring for as long as I remembered. Ugh.

I think Crafty Cat Crimes sounds perfect right now.

 

[ms spock]

I am reading Daring Greatly : How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

 

[DharmaGirl]

@Disco Dancing Queen, I have some of her books on hold at the library. I got them out of the library on kindle, but I didn't have time to listen to them all. I like the books better from the library, since our library says keep them until you are done, and there are no late fees. Now I am reading A Distant View of Everything by Alexander McCall Smith. I enjoy his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, and his Isabel Dalhousie novels. They are soothing after that nightmare book, although I had calmer nightmares (if that makes sense) last night. All the dead people I know were in it except my 2 brothers.

 

[Teasel]

I love that book @Disco Dancing Queen :)

Am reading Self Compassion by Kristen Neff.

And revived reading a page a day of the al anon book Courage to Change.

Must get back into reading the DBT skills workbook too.

 

[DharmaGirl]

@Bearlinda, The DBT skills workbook changed my life.

I'm now reading a mystery set in the 1800s, I forget the title and it doesn't matter because in the first chapter the characters talked about how they didn't believe in shell shock. I read the entire thing regardless, and I knew who done it right away. Good thing it was free.