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! :)
I'm reading "Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life" by Brendan Brazier. I'm hoping it will help me recover from runs so I can train harder and get better at rock climbing. I've felt so lethargic lately, and I hope this will help me fix the problems. And it's all vegan based, mostly raw!
I've just finished reading The Face on Your Plate (The Truth about Food) by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Absolutely fantastic! I super highly recommend it! He's vegan and basically encourages people to learn more about factory farming and then decide if eating meat is worth it. There's a chapter on denial that I saw so many of my meat-eating friends in. Though the information he's sharing is nothing new to people who have already educated themselves, it still has great impact. Along with how cows, pigs and chickens are treated he also explores fish - which was something I hadn't read a lot about. If I wasn't already on my veg / vegan journey, this book would convince me to start!
I just finished All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. Now I'm trying to decide what to start next. The choices are,
A. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
B. The Inner Voice by Renee Fleming
C. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
C. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Awesome book! I'm a big fan of Oliver Sacks. If you're into neuroscience/psychology/brainy non-fiction, I also highly suggest Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself. His writing style is very similar to Olver Sacks' in that he weaves lots of narrative in with his reporting of the science.
If you're into neuroscience/psychology/brainy non-fiction, I also highly suggest Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself. His writing style is very similar to Olver Sacks' in that he weaves lots of narrative in with his reporting of the science.
I've added this to my shelfari 'plan to read' shelf -- thanks for the recommendation! looks interesting. Neuroplasticity is cool! ;)b
just cracked open the china study that i've been hearing so much about
I am reading Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald its ok, not the best book I have ever read. I am also reading No Self No Problem by Anam Thubten and Buddhism for Mother of Young Children by Sarah Napthali.
That Sarah Napthali book looks good. I am on a three week break from school and am trying to fill in as much fun reading as possible, because during school I can barely read my textbooks and feel too guilty for reading for fun....I am reading the Dead Until Dark, book, (don't judge me.) Its a very easy read, so its fun, I barely have to think to read it. I've read 3/4 of it over the course of 1 toddler naptime. I'm also reading Coercion and Its Fallout, by Murray Sidman, which is kinda more of a work/school book, but I've been wanting to read it. Last week I re-read Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, which was an old favorite of mine in high school, and I also re-read Huck Finn, by Mark Twain, of course. I also want to start reading Verbal Behavior, by B.F. Skinner, which is definetly not a fun, easy read, but it is also a very important book for those in the field of Applied Behavor Analysis, so I am going to try my best to plow through it. I love reading! I was an English major for my BA, but I hardly read for fun currently.
I just finished All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. Now I'm trying to decide what to start next. The choices are,
A. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
B. The Inner Voice by Renee Fleming
C. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
I recommend continuing on with All Things Bright and Beautiful!
Finishing off The Bell Jar, then heading off to start on the Sookie Stackhouse novels (aka true blood).
Just started 'Seasick', by Alanna Mitchell... about the sad state of the global ocean, due to short-sighted human stupidity (and this was published PRE-Gulf-spill, grr)... I'm only a couple chapters in; so far it's good but maddening. :-/
Finishing off The Bell Jar, then heading off to start on the Sookie Stackhouse novels (aka true blood).
I just finished the first one, Dead Until Dawn, it was a fast read for sure, I want to watch the show now. I found the Twilight series to be a little "better" ,so far, but the Sookie Sackhouse ones are a little more adult centered so thats kinda fun. And she isn't all whiney like Bella-(this is just shameful for me to be talking so seriously about these books, but they should be classified as guilty pleasures) I've heard the show is awesome
the Book of Dave, by Will Self.
I'm readinig "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein and I'm loving it so much! The narrator is a dog named Enzo who is certain that he will come back as a human in his next life and is training himself for it.
Check out "Enzo's Song (The Moment when you fall):
http://www.garthstein.com/media/video/enzos_song.php
I'm readinig "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein and I'm loving it so much! The narrator is a dog named Enzo who is certain that he will come back as a human in his next life and is training himself for it.
I gave that book to my mom for Christmas. I didn't know anything about it but it looked good. She's going to lend it to me when she gets it back from my sister in law.
Just finished "Geisha" by Liza Dalby, who apparently became a geisha for a few months in about 1976, for her anthropology grad work.
She mentions dreaming of being the Margaret Mead of geisha. I wonder, did her subjects tell her as many porkies as the Samoans did Ms Mead? Also I was amused at how scathing she was about young Japanese girls "playing at being maiko (apprentice geisha) for a few months" and then dropping out to get married or whatever. She herself was only acting as a geisha for less than a year. And then she went away and wrote her thesis. The irony of this vis a vis her comments seems to have been lost on her.
Just finished "Geisha" by Liza Dalby, who apparently became a geisha for a few months in about 1976, for her anthropology grad work.
She mentions dreaming of being the Margaret Mead of geisha. I wonder, did her subjects tell her as many porkies as the Samoans did Ms Mead? Also I was amused at how scathing she was about young Japanese girls "playing at being maiko (apprentice geisha) for a few months" and then dropping out to get married or whatever. She herself was only acting as a geisha for less than a year. And then she went away and wrote her thesis. The irony of this vis a vis her comments seems to have been lost on her.
I read this book, it was ok. I love learning about Geisha culture though.
I just finished Ben Okri's "The Famished Road" for my monthly book group. Has anyone else read it? It was one of the most bizarre, strange books I've ever read.
I'm half way through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's really good.
'Don't Know Much About Mythology' by Kenneth C. Davis
I really recommend this one. It is fun and facinating. Not too in depth, so don't be scared if you, well, don't know much about mythology. It's surprisingly fresh and fun for nerds like me who do know their myths... and great refresher and it's great at putting these myths into a usable context.
Up next: Epic of Gilgamesh.
"Nella Last's War", the wartime diary of Nella Last who contributed to the Mass Observation Project until the late 60's. It's so good I think I'll order "Nella Last's Peace" as well. It was the basis of the film "Housewife, 49" but she doesn't come through as quite so downtrodden as they showed in the film. They made her husband out to be a right bastard in the movie and I think they exagerrated a lot of the class separation etc for effect. Either that or the editors cut the diary to shreds. Of course if they had printed it all it would have been as long as Pepys as she wrote every day and they may give you 3 days per week.
Because my mom is a jr. high teacher, she suggested I read the young adult book, House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo. She says it's really intense for a young adult audience but
says it's a great read, nonetheless. I'll start reading the book in the next few days.
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