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Summer reading -- July

I'm reading Under the Tuscan Sun, which is a lot less fluffy than the movie would make you think.

I may pick up The Gulag Archipelago and have another run at it. I've tried twice and gotten distracted both times, but I now have a system for reading books which are good but dense.

I've discovered the local used book shop! How have I lived here for two years without going in there?

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I am reading Lessons in Taxidermy and I am loving it! : )
Regina
"Karma is a boomerang"
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By Recoveringme at Thu, 08/18/2005 - 6:04pm |

two...

"Z" which is a novel based on the murder of a popular pacifist politician in Greece. It's really a macho book--all men, lots of violence.

And then i just started Susan Douglas's "Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media" last night. Very much the opposite in tone to "Z."

By PhoenixRising at Tue, 08/09/2005 - 8:30pm |

Just finished a ton of

Just finished a ton of Michel Odent books for research on my book. Also reading a silly but sweet old book called Marigold just because it's called that.

By Lone Star Ma at Wed, 08/17/2005 - 2:42pm |

some good books I've read

some good books I've read lately-- "Three Junes" by Julia Glass (this was simply outstanding), and "Crescent" by Diana Abu-Jabar (novel that smoothly went from heartbreaking to lovely, interesting picture of Iranian/Iraqi community in Los Angeles, multiracial main character who's a female chef).

Also, I'm starting to think that I'll never ever read all the books that I keep adding to my Amazon wishlist, but still I can't help myself from adding more!

By splendid at Tue, 08/09/2005 - 4:41pm |

ooh- found a good one!

"Sex, Death and Other Distractions" by the Kensington Ladies Erotica Society

A group of women now in their 60's and 70's who write women's erotic literature. I can't believe I didn't know of them sooner.

By ripemama at Wed, 07/27/2005 - 3:10pm |

The new Harry Potter(:

The new Harry Potter(:

By Lone Star Ma at Thu, 07/28/2005 - 3:54pm |

Fruitful. How did I not know

Fruitful. How did I not know about this?

By Lone Star Ma at Fri, 07/29/2005 - 4:44pm |

Still reading Fruitful. I

Still reading Fruitful. I like it. Also just finished Permanant Rose, the latest YA book about the Casson family who I wish my family was more like. And some breastfeeding politics books that are scaring me...did you know there's only one antibiotic that is effective against the pneumococcal bacterium?

By Lone Star Ma at Mon, 08/08/2005 - 9:42pm |

Just read

The Autobiography of my Mother by Jamiaca Kincaid. Bittersweet. She is a beautiful writer.

By ripemama at Fri, 07/22/2005 - 7:58pm |

currently - Meet the Beatles:

currently - Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender and the World by Steven Stark. interesting and enjoyable, but i'm not noticing any brilliant revelations so far...

next (if i can get to it before it's due back to the lib) - the new Jeanette Winterson book, Lighthousekeeping.

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tenderfoot zine * mamaphiles!

By tenderfoot at Fri, 07/15/2005 - 9:51pm |

Just finished Embroideries by

Just finished Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi and King of the Middle March by Kevin Crossley-Holland. It's the last in a fabulous trilogy about a 12th century boy whose adventures are told in parallel with those of King Arthur. Short chapters that are bursts of glorious, hair-raisingly imaginative writing. (LSM, I'm sure you've read these, haven't you?)

Miranda: a zine about motherhood and other adventures

By Miranda at Tue, 07/19/2005 - 2:10am |

I just finished the first one

I just finished the first one at your recommendation.

By Lone Star Ma at Fri, 07/22/2005 - 7:19pm |

slogging

I'm still slogging through Minstry's "A Fine Balance". So long but so good. Also read "Broken for You" b/c it has a similiar plotline to the novel I'm trying to get published. It was good writing but the story was, as I told my husband, "the feel TOO good story of the year."

Heather
The Mombomb zine

By artchair at Fri, 07/15/2005 - 1:27am |

Murder Plays House Abarat (s

Murder Plays House
Abarat (still)
The Seeing Stone
Mars (Bova)

By Lone Star Ma at Thu, 07/14/2005 - 8:06pm |