NVR - What are you reading right now? (Fiction or non-fiction)
Posted by Beans and Greens on May 12, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
I'm reading 'Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World' by Erin Pavlina.
I'm curious what everyone else has their nose in at the moment! :)
Well, yeah, there was "pressing", aka "the question." When a person was "pressed" or "put to the question" it meant that they put a heavy oak plank or door on top`of you and then piled huge heavy stones on it until you either a) confessed or b) were crushed to death, whichever came first. It's just the way the assassin put it that gave me the giggles.
NTS: Find Derek Jarman film. The Eng Lit dept here is obssessed with Jacobean drama. Have you seen Eddie Izzard and Derek Jacoby in "The Revenger's Tragedy"? Seriously surreal.
Wait, Eddie Izzard? I have to see that!
Um, yeah...so Edward II had a much nastier death than just "pressing." They do say his torturers put a red-hot poker up his...um, yeah. And then strangled him. Nice. Sure makes the haters seem more mature than him, dunnit? :o
Um, yeah...so Edward II had a much nastier death than just "pressing." They do say his torturers put a red-hot poker up his...um, yeah. And then strangled him. Nice. Sure makes the haters seem more mature than him, dunnit? :o
Yeah, that's what I had read. I had never heard of the "pressing"--which sounds awful enough.
When watching the Derek Jarman film on Edward II, I usually skip that scene. :(
Currently reading George Macdonald's "Sir Gibbie." It gets good when Gibbie leaves the town and Macdonald stops preaching about the evils of drink. Not that I don't recognise them...but they make dreary reading.
Also, "The Second Confession" by Rex Stout.
Next up: Elizabeth and Her German Garden. I never got the chance to finish this so I'm excited to have access again.
Currently reading The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. This is a great book!
Listening to the Count of Monte Cristo on tape--helps me stay on track in the studio.
Also chugging away (still) through a book called "History of the German Language". I got it at the free bookstore, and it sounds dry, but it's actually hugely fascinating. Love it.
Currently reading The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. This is a great book!
There's a movie somewhere with Julianne Moore in it. Recommend it.
I'm reading The Disappearing Spoon. It's about the periodic table. Right now I'm at the beginning, and I'm skipping a lot of the basic info (I have a chem background), but I've peeked ahead and it's looking pretty good. It's an easy, fun read, and I can still convince myself I'm learning something!
I'm probably going to start reading "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America" by Matt Taibbi
Currently reading The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. This is a great book!
There's a movie somewhere with Julianne Moore in it. Recommend it.
Saw the movie since you recommended it and I liked it =)
just finished the continuum concept. good.
Naked by David Sedaris. Really funny, as expected.
I've always enjoyed film adaptations of Graham Greene books, but I have yet to read one.
Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers. Still trudging through "Sir Gibbie" off and on. I now understand why they abridged his work for modern libraries...can you say "digressions and tangents that add nothing to the story?"
Lousia May Alcott's Hospital Sketches. Her style is totally different to her children's books, much less saccherine and very amusing. Maybe that's why the book wasn't well-recieved when it came out...women were supposed to be "angels" in those days in that situation, and she pokes sly fun at the idea.
Oooh Hospital Sketches sounds interesting. I used to be obsessed with Louisa May Alcott. I visited her home and everything.
I haven't been reading as much lately for some reason. Just haven't gotten really into the books I've started. But I am now reading The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham. It's a post-apocalyptic novel about a fundamentalist Christian society's dealings with human mutations and the young protaganist who tries to come to terms with his own difference.
It's SO GOOD!
Oooh Hospital Sketches sounds interesting. I used to be obsessed with Louisa May Alcott. I visited her home and everything.
Everything she ever wrote, including the penny dreadfuls, is available on Gutenberg for free.
Gutenberg is full of treasures. I am currently reading Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste. It's full of little side-notes and anecdotes. I had no idea that he lived in Boston before the Revolutionary War for a few years, teaching French and playing the violin in the Park Theatre orchestra. He liked the Americans very much, though what he thought of their cooking I haven't found out yet.
Essence and Alchemy by Thomas G. Aylesworth
Someone mentioned a religion based on alchemy and it got me interested in what it is so I ordered over 10 books on it from my library. It's actually quite interesting reading about so many theories and how people actually believe in this type of stuff.
You mean they still do? I thought it kinda went out when modern science got more developed. I know Newton was an alchemist. It had a lot to do with the cosmology of the times.
I'm reading a couple of books right now. The first is Energy Medicine and I can't remember who it's by. Donna something I think...I had started reading it about 1 1/2 years ago and just didn't have time to finish it after my daughter was born. So I started back at the beginning, it's pretty interesting. Second book is Ishmael. I'm only on the second chapter but I can already tell this is a book that's going to have a profound effect on me!
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