What are you reading?

I thought I would revive this thread. I am on spring break, so
I have a little, very little, time to read for fun. I am reading
"The Biceps of Death" a gay mystery, by Dennis Stukas.
He is hysterical and incorporates elements of AF into
his narration. If you need a smile you should ready this!
CareWren

I finished rereading A Separate Peace so now I'll read a trash book.

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 00:14:02 –0700, "ahmward"
<nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> choked out these words:
god, i had to read that in middle school and also in high school.
i thought it was sofa king boring. i tried to read his other
book "Peace Breaks Out," but it was boring, too, IMO.
david
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It's wonderful to absolutely fall in love with a book. I read the Tom
Wolfe essays when they were first published and they established his
place as an American writer of American culture. It's actually better
IMO than some of his recent writing. Perhaps growing up with those cars
made it more appealing for me.

"David RL Gärtner, RMT" <derbarb...@ggmail.com> wrote in message
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I forgot all about her. Thanks!
DH and I are going to Lima, Cusco and Machu Pichu.
http://tinyurl.com/hr2et This is where we are staying in Machu Pichu.
He had a South America tour when he was in the Navy but this will be my
first trip there.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:41:05 –0700, "ahmward"
<nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> choked out these words:
oh, i'm so jellus!
PLEASE get me the cheesiest postcard you can find! i will send
you my physical address via email. you can wait til you get back
from Peru to send it if you like.
david
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2 books
the new one Free Gift wi Purchase from Jean Godfrey June, of Lucky
Magazine (podcasted her this am)
and also the new Daily Candy book. will be podcasting them too
Stevie

2 books
the new one Free Gift wi Purchase from Jean Godfrey June, of Lucky
Magazine (podcasted her this am)
and also the new Daily Candy book. will be podcasting them too
Stevie

I thought I would revive this thread. I am on spring break, so
I have a little, very little, time to read for fun. I am reading
"The Biceps of Death" a gay mystery, by Dennis Stukas.
He is hysterical and incorporates elements of AF into
his narration. If you need a smile you should ready this!
CareWren

"Q is for Quarry" and "Snow Falling on Cedars."

"C" is for Corpse by Sue Grafton

"H" is for Homicide by Sue Grafton

So we English teachers plod on teaching
those same books.

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:21:39 –0700, "ahmward"
<nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> choked out these words:
great. i said what i did to an English teacher. freaking
teriffic.
i did like the somewhat homosexual relationship between Phineas
and what's–his–name. the narrator.
david
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http://tinyurl.com/cq76v (ebay sales)
http://www.cafepress.com/derbarbier
http://shops.half.ebay.com/derbarbier

"David RL Gärtner, RMT" <derbarb...@ggmail.com> wrote in message
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It's a deal. My daughters have started sending extremely cheesy
postcards to each other and some are hilarious. In the summer I usually
go to the central CA coast and one of our alt.fashion posters was born
in the city where I stay. A few years ago I sent her cards from the
aquarium built in the 1950s that is still in business as well as some of
the other really old cards the stores were still selling.

"David RL Gärtner, RMT" <derbarb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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You aren't the first to say that to an English teacher. Reading
selections are always questioned, and now some think we should have
schools without books to be more relevant to today's students. Technology
is replacing books.
Gene Forrester That's the other thing kids today don't understand, the
closeness of students in single sex prep schools. It doesn't have to be a
homosexual relationship. There is just a bonding because there are no
parents and they form very close relationships.
Audrey

Gene Forrester That's the other thing kids today don't understand, the
closeness of students in single sex prep schools. It doesn't have to be
a homosexual relationship. There is just a bonding because there are no
parents and they form very close relationships.

Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
CareWren

"KarenCannoli" <XFra...@cannolicast.net> wrote in message
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How do you like this, Karen? I thought Running with Scissors was hilarious.
Smokey

Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert
A woman journeys through Italy, India and Indonesia.

"ahmward" <nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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What? No Ireland? :) :)

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen
–stars

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That's a fabulous book, a classic.
Audrey

"H" is for Homicide by Sue Grafton

I am rereading Eleven on Top because I bought it mistakenly for a second
time. I'm reading a few books about Peru and I have to gather my stack of
unread books for our two weeks at the beach.
Audrey

"ahmward" wrote:

What? No Ireland? :) :)

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:33:19 –0800, "KarenCannoli" wrote:
Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert
A woman journeys through Italy, India and Indonesia.
Iran and Iraq are right on the path!

I am rereading Eleven on Top because I bought it mistakenly for a second
time. I'm reading a few books about Peru and I have to gather my stack
of unread books for our two weeks at the beach.

Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
King Lear by some guy
and in the car, on tape: The Glass Menagerie
CareWren

i had to abandon The Kandy–Kolored Tangerine–Flake Streamline
Baby. oh, it was sofa king boring.
now i'm starting The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren. i
read her other book, The Fancy Dancer just recently and it blew
me away. i was going to post the link to one of my blogs about
the book, but i can't get a link for it. so here are a few
paragraphs from The Fancy Dancer, if anyone is interested:
the following paragraphs are from a book called "The Fancy
Dancer" by Patricia Nell Warren. published in 1976, it's a story
about a priest who has a relationship with a half–breed Blackfoot
Indian. at first i thought it was going to be really stupid – the
premise being what it was. but it turned out to be a genuinely
amazing book. anyway, here are the paragraphs i'm quoting, which
come very near the end of the book:
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a sweet peace came pouring into my
empty heart. It came so unpredictably and so fully that I knew
right away what it was. I'd never been one for big religious
experiences, for the great lights and illuminations that
spiritual writers wrote of – never thought of myself as seeking
after them. These were more for people like Doric. And yet now,
at this unlikely moment of my life, I found myself in the grip of
one.
That breath of divine love came gently and coolly to my fevered
flesh and soul. It blew away the emptiness and the aloneness like
the white fluff from a last dandelion on some Cottonwood lawn.
Loving presences crowded around me, holding me, speaking to me –
thousands of them. Not only Our Lord and His blessed Mother, but
the saints and souls of the departed, and the souls of those
still living and those still unborn. They jostled me, whispering:
Father, will you serve?
I sank on my knees at the altar rail. I felt an unutterable sense
of oneness with that godly love, that Lover, all those celestial
lovers, who accepted me as I was and raised all my senses to a
higher order, purifying them and turning them to His purposes.
All the shocks and anxieties of that long summer in a small town
had finally emptied out all my fears, stupidities, hesitations.
And, as the spiritual writers will never tire of telling you,
divine love can fill only an empty place.
My Beatrice in a fancy dancer's costume had led me to the very
beginning that Father Matt had always scolded me about. For the
rest of my life, I would pray that his Beatrice – the blond stud
in the cassock – would lead him to his own beginning.
After a while the rapture died, just the way a breeze dies. I
came back to reality.
But my soul was saying with words: Yes, I will serve.

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:18:05 –0700, "ahmward"
<nospam.ahmw...@yahoo.com> choked out these words:
are you going to Peru? don't forget to listen to Yma Sumac:
http://www.myspace.com/virgenesdelsol

DH and I are going to Lima, Cusco and Machu Pichu.
http://tinyurl.com/hr2et This is where we are staying in Machu Pichu. He
had a South America tour when he was in the Navy but this will be my first
trip there.

"KarenCannoli" <XFra...@cannolicast.net> wrote in message
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Sounds like summer school. My son passed Shakespeare with plays on tape.
Audrey