I guess since there is a never-ending post about "What are you listening to?", that there should be one about books as well. Right now, I'm reading The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's an awesome book about Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of 17 to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived alone with no modern provisions and basically just living off the land.
I have a looooong list of other books I want to read.... Any other good ones I should add to it?
What are you reading?
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What are you reading?
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our mind. ~Bob Marley
So many books, so little time. I read a couple of interesting books about women in WII recently:
The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII -- by Marcus Binney (this is a spy book)
And If I Perish : Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn Monohan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Bill Bryson's travelogues are all really interesting too.
The Women Who Lived for Danger: Behind Enemy Lines During WWII -- by Marcus Binney (this is a spy book)
And If I Perish : Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn Monohan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Bill Bryson's travelogues are all really interesting too.
I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby.
~ Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
~ Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
- Robert McCloskey
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
- Emo Philips
- Robert McCloskey
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
- Emo Philips
Catch 22 one of my all-time favorites. Have you read Good as Gold by Heller? It's as good in my opinion. Hey, I'm leaving the biners on Friday... I swear this time.meetVA wrote:Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.
I've had just about enough of this shit.
I'm gearing up for a trip to escalante and remote canyons of utah...
so: Desert Solitaire and Secret Knowledge of Water (i like the Childs book better than Abbey for some reason)
Gearing up to work out my own damn salvation...
so: Blue Like Jazz, Walking on Water (L'engle), anything by Buechner
Feeding my Wind Rivers obsession...
so: Sky's Witness, the Kelsey guidebook and the Bonney guide to Wyoming mountains.
Learning about sustainability and simplicity:
so: Wendell Berry
so: Desert Solitaire and Secret Knowledge of Water (i like the Childs book better than Abbey for some reason)
Gearing up to work out my own damn salvation...
so: Blue Like Jazz, Walking on Water (L'engle), anything by Buechner
Feeding my Wind Rivers obsession...
so: Sky's Witness, the Kelsey guidebook and the Bonney guide to Wyoming mountains.
Learning about sustainability and simplicity:
so: Wendell Berry
[size=75]i may be weak, but i have bad technique[/size]
I have such a stack of half read books its not funny.
currently
Survivor - Chuck Palhniuk
The Bible - I've answered Christian for years when asked about my beliefs but I have never read the whole book.
currently
Survivor - Chuck Palhniuk
The Bible - I've answered Christian for years when asked about my beliefs but I have never read the whole book.
"there's a line between self improvement and self involvement"
"Dogs are nature's pooper scoopers ."
"Dogs are nature's pooper scoopers ."