Let's have a fun thread. What are you reading?

[Zerbie]

I'll start:

Recently finished:
"Inequality Matters: the growing economic divide and its poisonous consequences" editors Lardner and Smith.

Almost done with:
"The Ear and the Voice" by Alfred Tomatis (thanks Daniel, for the cool book rec!)

Just starting:
"Our Endangered Values" by Jimmy Carter

and
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The summer looms ahead and I've a list of wanna reads a mile long!!!!!

So, what're YOU reading?

[Lydia]

Originally Posted by Zerbie

I'll start:
and
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I loved that book.

[Lydia]

I haven't been to the library in a while, so I'm only reading one book as of now:

Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe."

He attempts to explain all things paranormal by comparing our universe to a hologram.

[Venari]

I tend to read several things at once ... the side effect of being in school too long.

So here the list;

The Bible, Currently reading though Mark.

A Question of Truth: Christianity and Homosexuality A good, that is to say un-biased debate/discussion, over scripture and sexuality.

Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism Political Satire at its best, in my opinion anyways.

Searching for God Knows What I'm a huge fan of Donald Miller, I highly suggest checking out his first book Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Firstborn : Elven Nations Trilogy: Volume One I read this when I was 11 and came across it in a box of old books... have a soft spot for cheesy Sci-fi/Fantasy.

I have a few more ... but those are mostly in queue until I finish these.

-Venari

[Rick336]

I'm reading:

"50 Things You Can Do to Fight the Right" by Earth - Works Action

"The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America" by Kimberly Blaker

"The Sins of the Scripture," by John Shelby Spong

"I Know This Much is True" by Wally Lamb

Zerbie, I gave my brother "Our Endangered Values" by Jimmy Carter, for Christmas. I plan to borrow it from him when he's done.

Rick

[keltic63]

Horton Hears a Who

Pat the Bunny


The little Engine that Could











Really:

My Big Fat Queer Life Michael Thomas Ford

and a stack of other titles like Anam Cara, The Path of the Green Man, The Divine Proportion

[Daniel]

The Art of Civilized Conversation by Margaret Shepherd

The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt

Tab Hunter: Confidential

Love's Coming of Age by Edward Carpenter

A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation Paramanada

Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife by Harold Kooden

[Dash]

Just finished: Montgomery Clift: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
Currently obsessed with all things Monty Clift. So beautiful...so much talent...so much pain. Oy!


Just starting: Fugitive Shoes by Erin O'Rourke (pseudonym)
Second book by an old friend. He didn't speak to me for year after I told him I was gay. We've made up. Fiction on a very timely subject...immigration...which is changing the cultural landscape of my home state. Talked to my mom today and she said people were starting to call my home town "Little Mexico," which is funny because one of the early stories of the naming of the town, says that it was almost called "Little Moscow." It was settled by German/Polish Mennonites that had left Catherine the Great's Russia.

[awediot]

I am PATHETIC and attentionally stunting as I type maybe made up words I just think I read somewhere a long time ago...

A year or so ago I became serious (read business like and pragmatic) about my art work. My literacy was the first to pay the price. I lazered in on producing and selling and mastering TV as merely a white noise generater... I used to read voraciously. "Atlas Shrugged" was the last, half assed, finally get around to it effort. Flashbacks to the "Fountainhead", in one, out the other ear multiple reverse re-readings to refresh what I lazily took for a plot, and the guilt and pressure to create got me little more than half way through. (ironic it was probably about such distracting things)...

Then THIS, this, wasteland of instantaneous genius and retardation we wire into, leaving nervous, smart Angels to tread the other way... I have read more, and probably learned less of significance in the past carpal tunnel, fiber optic blinding year than in my life... I recall reading, in them halcyonesque moments, From Tal Brookes' "Virtual Gods" how we in the future will master not knowledge, but accessing knowledge, plugging its synapsi in, tweaking it as it demands, then tabbing on, accomplishing amazingly complex, over our head things while getting stupider with every success... That was nine years ago...Its looming, decade anniversary's got at least one poster boy right here...

(PS- Rick, lighten up. Keltic, hang with Rick )

[Vanessa White]

I just finished "Marley and Me" for you dog owners and/or lovers out there, it is a must read, for laughing and crying, by John Grogan. It helped me out of a pretty serious funk last week, I read it in two days. I am still trying to get fully involved in Harry Potter book six "Half-Blood Prince", but I also tend to read many things at once and have not given fiction much time lately. I have been reading "Finding Your Own North STar" by Martha Beck, and otherwise just browsing some of my dozens of books on Self-help, etc. kind of themes....

[morningrob]

I'm reading Sex Lives of the Saints by Virginia Burrus- it's for class

[kimmyd]

I'm read Velocity. So far so good.

[Mia14]

Just finished Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - and I love his books. Read the DaVinci Code first, but I would have reversed the order if I'd known better.


I'm also reading through and highlighting parts of Gay and Lesbian Weddings: Planning the Perfect Same-Sex Ceremony by David Toussaint and Heather Leo. I picked up this book just for fun, but that's not to say that I'm not planning some happy things in the next year or so... It's a great book for anyone who's planning or dreaming...

[Daniel]

Originally Posted by Rick336

"The Sins of the Scripture," by John Shelby Spong

I met Spong many years ago when I sang for the ordination of a Episcopal priest in Morristown New Jersey- this was when he was still the Bishop of Newark, now retired.

We processed down the aisle to start the service. He was in front of me and I was singing away with the choir trying not to trip on my surplice and drop my music. The service took an hour and a half. At the end, we processed out. Now I was in back of him again. We got halfway down the aisle and he turned to me and paid me the most wonderful compliment on my singing. It stunned me.

While this seems like a small thing, his words came at a time in my life when I most needed to hear them- and from someone I admired and respected and even revered. His writing, more than anyone else's at the time, showed me- by its fearlessness and fierceness- that love and action weren't two separate things. He dared to address what no one had done up till then. He, more than anyone else I can think of, deserves the credit for starting the conversation on GLBT persons of faith and the church.

Bravo Right Rev John Shelby Spong!

[tdogg]

Just visited Barnes and Noble last night (YIKES!). They have expanded their gay and lesbian section by another whole bookshelf! I can't visit that store without making a purchase!

Anyway, picked up Making Gay History by Eric Marcus, sounds very interesting. And Same Sex in the City (So Your Prince Charming is Really a Cinderella) by Laruen Levin & Lauren Blitzer, it looked amusing.

Don't read as much as I used to, eyes went south - can't see with my glasses and can't see without! But, I do regularly read several magazines including Curve, Birder's World, Arabian Horse Times and recently found Advocate (Barnes & Noble - thanks for the tip Keltic!). And of course my ongoing studies of the Bible, and research books such as Christianity, Homosexuality and Social Tolerance. I have a lot of catching up to do!

[Zerbie]

Originally Posted by tdogg

And Same Sex in the City (So Your Prince Charming is Really a Cinderella) by Laruen Levin & Lauren Blitzer, it looked amusing.

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That title alone makes me grin from ear to ear! Come back when you've read through it some and let us know how it is! It sounds like something I would enjoy reading, even though I spent my life dreaming of meeting a Cinderella and ended up with Prince Charming!

[tdogg]

I will certainly let you know how I liked it Zerbie! It did sound like a fun book which is why I bought it. After some of the reads I've been into, I was ready for fun! Many are heavy with all the issues I'm dealing with some of my Christian/AG relatives!

Yeah, I liked the title too!!