Just curious......who is reading what these days? Are you peeps peering at paranormal periodicals or perhaps some other works you would like to share? Fiction, biography, mystery, comedy? Let's have some good book discussion.
This is what I'm reading:
Kris Carr: "Crazy, Sexy, Cancer Tips". Incredibility inspiring. Even if you have never had or known anyone with cancer (which isn't very many of us) this book is amazing.
http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/13-inspiration.html (her website is: www.crazysexylife.com but because of the title, I cannot access it at work) also found this: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=living-with-cancer-kris-carr
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy): "Make Your Creative Dreams REAL - A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, Avoiders, and People Who Would Rather Sleep All Day" Been reading her stuff for years. I needed something to kick me in the butt with my art and get me in gear (as well as figure out why I'm scared of success and why I don't just "go for it")
http://www.planetsark.com/eshop_products_books_feat_00.htm ( website: www.planetsark.com )
Forgive me....I've taken a break from paranormal periodicals....for a bit
Okay...your turn.
I'm reading The Courts of Love, about Eleanor of Aquitaine (mid-1100's Europe), by Jean Plaidy.
and After Prophecy; Imagination, Incarnation, and the Unity of the Prophetic Tradition, by Tom Cheetham. It's about the mystical teachings of the Sufi prophets and their relationship to the alchemical tradition & poetic imagination.
Facing the World with Soul, by Robert Sardello. It's bout Gnosis, Sophia, and rebuilding community with a harmonic relationship with all life.
I just finished Innocent Traitor about Lady Jane Grey (thank you, Debra...I need to get that back to you), and still thumbing through Ghost Hunting by Jason and Grant (albeit ever so slowly), and have started reading In Harm's Way which is the story of the USS INDIANAOPLIS and it's aftermath.
Innocent Traitor was a really good book about Lady Jane Grey who was only 16 years old and Queen for only 9 days when she died. I had heard her name before but never knew who she was or anything about her. The only control she had over her own life through the courswe of her life were those 9 days. Very good read!!!!
In Harm's Way brought me to tears just reading the dust cover. It's about the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS, the men's survival and death in the shark-infested water, the courts-martial of the ships Captain (the only Naval Officer to ever be courts-martialled after a sinking during wartime), and the aftermath leading up to his suicide over 20 years later. The inside of the front and back covers list all of the names of the crew aboard the INDIANAPOLIS when it sunk and who survived. This one's gonna be a tough but good read as well.
Forgot to add this one. I read it last month.....in two days. I couldn't put it down. Loaned it to a friend and she did the same thing. Loaned to a co-worker...same thing.
Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back Claire and Mia Fontaine
http://www.imperfectparent.com/books/articles173.php
A nightmarish saga of a teenage runaway in L.A. ends triumphantly thanks to love and support from her screenwriter mom and stepdad. At 15, Mia gets involved in a dangerous drug and Wicca scene, stunning her successful, controlling mother, Claire, and stepfather, Paul. But the signs were in place earlier, after Mia's history of being sexually abused by her biological father, a violent, vindictive drug user whom Claire left with difficulty. Sent to Indiana to live with Claire's sister, Mia starts using cocaine heavily and even gets arrested. When the destructive behavior (including self-mutilation) accelerates, Claire and Paul send Mia to the unlikely Morava Academy, in the Czech Republic, a kind of Spartan military institution where 50 teens are rigorously monitored and reprogrammed. Meanwhile, back in L.A., the parents undergo an intensive group therapy called Discovery to learn to shed guilt for their daughter's behavior, and also forgive her. Oddly, Morava is soon shut down after allegations of staff abuse, but Mia goes through a brilliant turnaround at Spring Creek Lodge in Montana. Mia's desperate diary entries appear between Claire's lively, angry, sarcastic narrative, allowing mother and daughter to maintain a heart-wrenching, honest dialogue.