Mamaphonic - What Are You Reading?

Last HipMama With Ariel As Editor

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:15:25 -0700

I keep weeping.

Crocuses come - what are you reading?

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:58:33 -0700

Re-reading Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski, just started reading The Girl With The Pearl Earring or something like that, reading the new Brain, Child and Med School Mama

where do you go for your daily news?

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:34:57 -0800

Hey mamas,

Where do you go to find out what's happening in the world? What newspapers, magazines, websites, etc., do you go to?

Being a mama with her head in the clouds a lot of the time, I realize I have no idea where people go for their daily/weekly/regular news fix. And now, of course, I'm working on something that requires that I at least have *some* idea of how people other than me are perceiving current events.

Hot chocolate and good coffee -- what are you reading by the fire?

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:50:28 -0800

What are you cuddling up with this winter?

No library trip for me, but I've gone through the partially-read stuff and picked out A Conspiracy of Paper. I got started a while back but then got distracted, or maybe I chickened out on reading the constant portrayal of the casual anti-semitism of the era. It's told from the point of view of a Jew, so you get it with the full impact of what it feels like to be the target, especially in a situation where it's usually necessary to ignore it for survival's sake.

A new website to read (and write) and download positive stories for young people

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:22:47 -0800

Hello Everybody

A few years back our son wrote a lovely book called The Day before Christmas. Many people looked at it and loved it, but the picutre book market being what it is there was little chance of it being published.
A short while ago I picked it up again and still loved the immediacy of the pictures and the gentleness and happiness of the story and thought it at least deserved to be seen.

what are you reading to your kids, part 2?

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:33:51 -0700

part 1 got buried way back there, but it probably was time to start part 2 anyhow...

Just finished reading "Riding Freedom" to dd. It's a fictional biography of Charlotte Pankhurst (aka "one=eyed Charley"), a woman who disguised herself as a man and drove stagecoaches in the 1800s. She was also the first woman ever to vote--55 years before women won the right to vote in the U.S. Her gender wasn't discovered till after she died.

Almost Autumn -- what are you reading?

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:18:01 -0700

Anybody read Life of Pi? What do you think of it? I haven't picked it up yet, but it's next on the list (after I finish the fluffy fantasy I'm currently using to numb my brain.

What else are you all reading? Anybody going serious in honor of the beginning school year?

Summer

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:56:17 -0700

So what's your "beach reading" this summer? Beach Blanket Passion or War and Peace? Do you read "improving" or "important" books, or do you read Miss Marple?

I'm partway through Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy. Shaman's Crossing was pretty good, but I've put down Forest Mage in distaste, and I don't know that I'll pick it up again. The main character is turning into the male version of an earth goddess and going through emotional agony because his family and society are pushing him into self-hatred over it. It's really, really upsetting to read, and I'm not sure that there are enough compelling reasons for me to continue in the face of that.

mama zine readers - what do you look for?

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:35:55 -0700

i'm going to be putting together an index of mama/parenting zines. this would enable readers to find articles in various zines on specific topics and/or by specific authors.

if you would be so kind as to answer a couple of questions i'd appreciate it!

what do you look for in a mama zine? are you interested in particular genres or subjects? if so, which ones?

i have the feeling that - if you're like me - you may be interested in mama zines in general and wouldn't necessarily be looking for specific topics. if that's the case, if you could just let me know which types of articles you like the best or that you tend to strongly identify with, in general.

springtime reading!

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:25:28 -0700

December is long-gone. So too (hopefully) is the snow and the cold and the frozen-over puddles.

So...

What are you reading now that you can leave the house without fear of frostbite?

I'm reading issue 10 of Kachorrit@s, a punk parenting zine from Argentina. My friend got off the plane from buenos aires, came to the anarchist bookfair and gave me two rumpled issues. China and I were both superpsyched to find out that yay!

The Latest issue of "Hip Mama" !!!!

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:44:34 -0800

It is really great! And so many of our local mamaphonic mamas are staring in it!!!!!!!!! Don't y'all look Beautiful laid out like that. Hip Mama really does the mama writing justice! So impressed.
xoxo

December What Are you reading?

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:56:48 -0800

I just finished Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, her memoir of being one of the Litle Rock Nine. It was quite riveting.

Enrique's Journey

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:07:29 -0800

I am about halfway through and I feel I can already recommend it. But you will need a tough stomach because it is really hard to take at times. In general it is about a boy from Central America who puts himself through increddible torture in order to find his mother who is in the US. It is about what a child will go through to be reunited with their mother.

Bodies by Val Holtz

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:33:56 -0700

the poem thats up on the front of mamaphonic - right now. Bodies by Val Holtz

I really reallly like it

Man, that thread was long -- what are you reading now?

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:18:38 -0700

I just finished Marion Zimmer Bradley's Thendara House. I picked it out randomly from a shelf full of her books at the library, and was surprised and pleased to discover that it's the sequel to The Broken Chain. Good read, and some thoughtful ideas about women in a patriarchal society.

Now I'm in the middle of One More for the Road, a collection of shorts by Ray Bradbury. A friend was reading Fahrenheit 451 for a grad-level class on science fiction, and when he talked about it, it reminded me that it's been on my "wanna read" list for a *very* long time (like since I was a teen.) Reading that made me curious about the rest of his books, and here I am. Definitely something very different from The Martian Chronicles.