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! :)
Finished "Skinny Bitch" in one day. Their "attitude" made me chuckle. Had to force myself to finish chapter six-- made me both nauseous and want to cry. Good overview of veganism, both for your health and for the inhumane treatment of the animals, with an entertaining dose of attitude and an easy read.
Finished "Skinny Bitch" in one day. Their "attitude" made me chuckle. Had to force myself to finish chapter six-- made me both nauseas and want to cry. Good overview of veganism, both for your health and for the inhumane treatment of the animals, with an entertaining dose of attitude and an easy read.
YAY, Fire!!! I also made myself read 6 and I have awful pictures in my head, still. Truth hurts, I guess, huh?
I'm currently reading:
You Don't Need Meat
The Vegan Sourcebook
12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Addiction to Cooked Food (My raw vegan friend just gave me this today, after we had a FABULOUS raw un-cookout!)
Drop The Rock
And probably a few more, I start then start another then restart the first, etc. The last one I read cover to cover, uninterrupted, was Skinny Bitch. :)
I love summer because I'm off work so I do a LOT of reading (in between doing the many household jobs I can't get done when I'm working). If you read The Kite Runner and liked it you have to read A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's such a great story and it really opens your eyes to what women in Afghanistan when through when the Taliban were in power. It's not often that a book brings tears to my eyes but that's what happened at the end of this one. And as of tomorrow I'll be reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Um Im reading the alchemist for school but, im not sure i like it even thought its supposed to be like a really great book.
Is that Ben Jonson's play? If it is, I was seriously underwhelmed...
But then I've just waded thru Shadwell's "The Virtuoso." The 17th century version of crap TV! :D
Currently reading "Buried Alive"--too lazy to get up and cite the author but it's excerpts from journals and letters from the soldiers and others in the First Three Fleets transported to Australia. A friend lent it to me to piece out my new books so they'll last longer.
Oh man, I just today bought Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine and i'm SO excited about it. It's basically essays, rants and raves from the magazine Bitch which is a super fun fem-zine.
Has anyone read The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Perspective by Carol Adams? It was published in 1990 and re-released in 2000. It's a bit pricey for me right now but I've been wanting to read it for some time. Just wondering what it was like if anyone had the pleasure of reading it.
YAY for books!!
i'm reading 'a thousand splendid suns' by Khaled Hosseini
then i'm on to Harry Potter 8)
I'm reading Omnivore's Dilemma right now. I'm in the section about Big Organic. Pollan brings up some really interesting points about whether or not industrial organic agriculture (as we know it today) is really that much better for the environment (massive tilling, large amounts of fossil fuels still used for transport/refridgeration, etc.). Definitely worth the read. Pollan is an omni, but he brings up good points about the whole "free range" concept that is basically just a marketing thing and has nothing to do with actual living conditions.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (fiction - ish)
ecoholic: your guide to the most environmentally friendly products, information and services in canada (non-fiction)
I got a secondhand copy of The Poisonwood Bible a couple of weeks ago since someone on here recommended it and am enjoying it. I wish I had the moxie to lend it to a particular missionary couple of a certain age, here, who do a lot of talking about how wonderfully they've adapted to the culture and language here--something which is not bourne out by anyone who knows them. ::) But then they probably wouldn't read it, saying it's "too negative".
John Steinbeck - The Pearl
I read it in middle school and I can actually really appreciate it now.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (fiction - ish)
Because I have to mention Arcata and Humboldt whenever possible, toward the end of the book they stop in Arcata and get a burrito. :)
Plato and Platypus walk into a bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes -Cathcart & Klein
Shoot the Moon -Billie Letts
Member of the Club - Graham Lawrence Otis
Lake Monsters - Joe Citro ...so far, its really lame, but ive been trying to read it after reading Patricia Cornwall's very dense forensic true life book on Jack the ripper. which was very good, if not very biased.
I was at the bookstore and I almost bought (the line was way too long) A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. He exlores beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coke as signature beverages during different parts of world history.
John Steinbeck - The Pearl
I read it in middle school and I can actually really appreciate it now.
A great choice. I too read and reread "The Pearl."
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (fiction - ish)
Because I have to mention Arcata and Humboldt whenever possible, toward the end of the book they stop in Arcata and get a burrito. :)
Hey Humboldt! I just found out a great friend of mine who moved here a year ago (the same time I did) moved from Humboldt and went to school in Arcata! She had always said, Northern California, but I never realized where. When she told me I thought of you! They lived in an isolated cabin with no indoor bathroom-were caretakers for a wealthy couple's home while they were away, I think. They had to walk like a mile through the woods from where they parked to get to the cabin. They did this for like 2 years and then she decided she needed out of isolation so they moved to NC. THey now live way out in the middle of nowhere again (in my opinion), but at least they have some modern conveniences they did not have. They loved it there but needed a change I guess. Small world!
They lived in an isolated cabin with no indoor bathroom-were caretakers for a wealthy couple's home while they were away, I think. They had to walk like a mile through the woods from where they parked to get to the cabin.
Awesome! That sounds like the life to me, but I can see it getting old after a while. I now have someone to confirm that it's a great place to live. :)
Well, I lived in Arcata proper. A fung shui master had converted the top level of her two story to a seperate living area and I rented a room overlooking her very cool garden, so it was a much different experience for me than for your friend.
I just finished "Till Death do us part" by Vincient Bugolsi, the same guy/lawyer who wrote Helter Skelter, so it's a true crime book. Now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!! :)
Charles Mingus - 'Beneath The Underdog'
Very... interesting. Written largely in third person, he describes himself. You're never sure where the exagerration begins or ends, but definitely an engaging read so far.
Uh, at the risk of being dubbed the board pervert, I'm reading Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica.
I got a secondhand copy of The Poisonwood Bible a couple of weeks ago since someone on here recommended it and am enjoying it. I wish I had the moxie to lend it to a particular missionary couple of a certain age, here, who do a lot of talking about how wonderfully they've adapted to the culture and language here--something which is not bourne out by anyone who knows them. ::) But then they probably wouldn't read it, saying it's "too negative".
hahahahaha...to funny that book is...yes...
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