February 2009 - What are you reading?

Fiction. Reading Brian Keene's zombie series again, Fangoria's new issue, Aftershock and How to Survive a Horror Movie. I read five to six books at once.

I am reading Breaking down from S. Meyer

I am reading a not too exciting murder mystery novel. I read it one day a week while babysitting my grandkids and it gives me a way to pass the time.

I hardly ever read fiction, but I sat down and went through all the "Little House on the Prairie" books this winter - again. I know they're children's books, but they lift my spirit and they're real escapism in this world.

Right now I'm reading Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food."

"Blind" is excellent Th book is by far better than the movie.
And for an easy relaxing yet interesting murder mysteries....Lisa Scottoline has a series of 13 books. They are about lawyers in Philadelphia and the cases they defend and procecute. Fiction but author was a Philly lawyer at one time.

I'm wrapping up Bill Bryson's "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" - it is due back at the library soon so I've got a deadline!

Marianne,
I just started an anthology called American Earth, which turns out to have song lyrics and visual stuff as well as essays -- Joni Mitchell, George Catilin, Thoreau, and Mary Oliver, to give an idea. and I am reading Krista Tippett's book speaking of Faith for the second time. In fiction, though they are both a bit light, I've recently liked Debbie Macomber's Twenty Wishes and Carol Higgins Clark's Dashing through the Snow.

Julia,
what do you think of Bill Bryson? I've not been able to get into his stuff myself. something about his tone, I think, puts me off.

"Within the story of Christ we find another tradition, in which culture and nature are not opposed, in which there is not a crucifixion but a transformation, in which matter has meaning and flesh has spirit. In this version of the story of Christ, he was not the son of God, but a son of God among many daughters and sons of goddesses and gods, who was divine simply because he admitted his own divinity into his idea of himself. And that he knew himself to have spirit within his body was the blasphemy for which Christ was crucified. For if he had denied his own divinity, he would have gone free from the sentence of death." from "PORNOGRAPHY AND SILENCE, Culture's Revenge Against Nature", Susan Griffin / [PORNOGRAPHY AND SILENCE, Copyright 1981 by Susan Griffin. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations emobodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto.]

A little more than halfway through the text of PORNOGRAPHY AND SILENCE, I am borrowing quotes from a book report I intend to write.

"Therefore, within the tragedy of human suffering a memory speaks to us, a memory of what we have lost, and thus a hope of finding ourselves again." from PORNOGRAPHY AND SILENCE, Susan Griffin