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Post by maurinsky on Mar 10, 2019 13:59:33 GMT -5
Finished Drive. I thought it was well-written and the theories about motivation rang true to me.
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Post by marianparoo on Mar 12, 2019 7:00:45 GMT -5
I just finished "Virgins" by Diana Gabaldon. That Nice Jewish Girl was sure a tough cookie!
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 18, 2019 19:09:15 GMT -5
Started Brene Brown's Dare to Lead.
I don't know how people can read only non-fiction. I feel like my brain is starting to deteriorate from not being properly fed and watered by make believe stories.
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Post by Peachy on Mar 18, 2019 19:12:16 GMT -5
I started and finished The Haunting of Hill House. Frankly, I preferred the movie.
Just started One Day in December tonight.
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Post by marianparoo on Mar 19, 2019 4:24:58 GMT -5
Just received Black Moon and The King in Yellow on my Kindle. Now if only the books I ordered from Better World Books and Book Depository would come!
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 19, 2019 6:26:54 GMT -5
Dare to Lead is very good conceptually, but I hate the language of these "branding" books, where the author is commodifying their brand. I will never pull my team together and say "let's rumble this vulnerability".
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Post by Yogagirl on Mar 20, 2019 13:56:48 GMT -5
Currently reading: Brain Rules- John Medina (mostly for work but I am enjoying it) A Rule Against Murder- Louise Penny (for fun. I do like the Inspector Gamache series) When Things Fall Apart-Pema Chodron (for my spirit or whatev)
IDK I don't seem to get much reading in lately.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 20, 2019 16:59:13 GMT -5
Started Brene Brown's Dare to Lead. I don't know how people can read only non-fiction. I feel like my brain is starting to deteriorate from not being properly fed and watered by make believe stories. That's why I always read one of each at the same time
I've been doing a lot of reading for Canada Reads which starts on Monday - I just have one book to wrap up. The two that I liked the most were:
Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung - Bakr is a Syrian refugee who came to Canada during the big wave of refugees a few years ago. His story is mostly about his time in Syria and should be mandatory reading for every asshole who says refugees should stay in their own country and try to make it better. It was particularly poignant for me because he's the same age as my son (17) so when my son was 13 and playing Minecraft this kid was cleaning blood off the sidewalk in front of his house after a car bomb so it didn't smell bad .
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By Chance Alone by Max Eisen - Eisen is a holocaust survivor. He was Hungarian who were some of the last people sent to the camps - but at 15 he entered Auschwitz. He lost his entire family. What I liked about the book was that it took us beyond the holocaust. So many books that I've read end with liberation - but there was no easy re-integration afterwards and Eisen was no exception. After surviving the holocaust he ended up a political prisoner in Czechoslovakia after the USSR invaded! He eventually made it to Canada and now is a holocaust educator (in his retirement).
Fiction wise I read the City of Brass which is an adult fantasy book that takes place in a Persian world - with djinn! I like reading fantasies that don't take place in medieval England . I enjoyed it - I had a hard time keep track of some of the history/lore of the world but I'm definitely reading the sequel which came out in February.
I also read The Girl He Used to Know which comes out on April 2nd. It's an adult contemporary romance and I LOVED it. Annika and Jonathan were college sweethearts who broke up and the story is told from both of their perspectives across two different timelines. It starts in 2001 when they bump into each other after 10 years and goes back and forth between 1991 when they met. Annika is clearly on the autism spectrum - I felt she was handled with sensitivity and not just a caricature but someone close to someone on the spectrum might disagree.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Mar 22, 2019 17:27:16 GMT -5
I just can’t seem to get in a good reading groove. I’m working on a re-read of Cold Sassy Tree for one bookclub, & I still need to read The Great Gatsby for the other.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 23, 2019 12:17:25 GMT -5
I started The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - it's a YA fantasy (surprise surprise ) but it's new - it just came out in February and is getting a lot of buzz. I'm not too far into it but it's holding it my interest. It's quite large for a YA book (over 800 pages) and it's cute watching the YA community prattle on about how big it is
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Post by Mabel on Mar 23, 2019 21:00:49 GMT -5
For fiction I’m reading the newest ACOTAR book, A Court of Wings and Ruin, and for non fiction I’m reading Victoria’s Daughters, which is all about the daughters of Queen Victoria.
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Post by Peachy on Mar 23, 2019 23:07:14 GMT -5
The book about Queen Victoria’s daughter’s sounds interesting, Mabel! How are you liking it?
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Post by Peachy on Mar 23, 2019 23:07:26 GMT -5
Double post
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Post by emmjay on Mar 24, 2019 5:18:24 GMT -5
I just started On the Come Up, by Angie Thomas (author of The Hate U Give). I am also working on the Carnegie Medal shortlist books. Three of them are novels in verse, which isn’t my favorite, but I will still read them.
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Post by Mabel on Mar 24, 2019 10:26:19 GMT -5
The book about Queen Victoria’s daughter’s sounds interesting, Mabel! How are you liking it? I’m not far into it but so far enjoying it!
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Post by Inky on Mar 25, 2019 18:26:49 GMT -5
I just finished "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. It was excellent - goes into what happens when someone is publicly shamed, via the internet (stupid twitter posts) or plagiarism, among other things, and the toll it can take on them. It was especially interesting in view of the recent college scandal with celebrities being shamed for their illegal behavior.
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Post by maurinsky on Mar 27, 2019 6:30:42 GMT -5
Started Crucial Accountability, which looks like it was written by a committee. Good information in it, so far.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Mar 27, 2019 14:14:58 GMT -5
I just finished "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson. It was excellent - goes into what happens when someone is publicly shamed, via the internet (stupid twitter posts) or plagiarism, among other things, and the toll it can take on them. It was especially interesting in view of the recent college scandal with celebrities being shamed for their illegal behavior. I read that a few years ago and remember really like it.
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Post by maurinsky on Apr 5, 2019 9:55:06 GMT -5
Will start reading The Fifth Discipline this evening after I write 5 pages about the benefits of a racially diverse workforce in public sector entities.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Apr 5, 2019 10:12:43 GMT -5
I'm still reading Priory of the Orange Tree. I'm only half way in and I've been reading it for two weeks. It's just sort of meh - definitely not living up to they hype. I'm also reading Homicide by David Simon (creator of The Wire, Homicide Life on the Street, and the Corner) and it's brilliant (disclaimer - it's brilliant if you liked those shows ). He spent a year embedded with the Baltimore Homicide Unit and this is the book that came from that (and led to the shows).
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