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Just finished Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama .

Started C. J. Cherryh's Tracker .

Alex wrote: "Just finished Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama."

How did you like it Alex? I've heard it's fantastic!

Just finished The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi - My Review

I'm reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

I'm reading 4000 Years of Uppity Women by Vicki León. I think my favorite so far is Locusta, who made a living by hiring herself out to people who needed someone poisoned in ancient Rome.

Greg wrote: "Alex wrote: "Just finished Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama."

How did you like it Alex? I've heard it's fantastic!"

I liked it fine, but it's less about her mother and more about Winnicott and her therapy sessions. I find Fun Home more moving.

Thanks for the tip Alex!

The lovely bones and the art of being normal

The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks: Poetry as a Source for Iranian History. Ghulams (slave soldiers) were so in fashion as love objects that 'Turk' became a synonym for 'beloved'.

I just start reading `Affinity`Sarah Waters, only few pages but if I have more time I deffinetely want read all, I heard that this book is fine, I hope so that it is because a imtroduction don`t drag me into action yet.

Amy and Matthew.
And Let the right one in

I'm just finishing up Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction, a book of non-fiction essays exploring race (specifically Black, Latin American and Native American) in science fiction works and fandom.

Zach wrote: "I'm just finishing up Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction, a book of non-fiction essays exploring race (specifically Black, Latin American and Native Am..."

Was this a good study? I'd like to read similar on Asian in SF/F, as there is a lot to say there.

Bryn wrote: "Was this a good study? I'd like to read similar on Asian in SF/F, as there is a lot to say there."

Most of the essays were pretty good-- there were two essays that touched on racism and Asians (one about The Windup Girl and one which was a basic retrospective that happened to be the first academic essay ever published on race and SF). The collection had a pretty broad net-- albeit an American-centric one-- there were essays touching on Native Americans, Black Americans, as well as Mexican and Brazilian SF.

Thanks Zach.

Finished Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, a wonderful mindbender of a book (with an intriguing trans character as well).

Now I'm reading two books: our group read (A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale) and Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. I'm enjoying both of them.

It's either raining bathtubs here or too hot to be outside, so I am indulging in escapist lit. I am on book 7 of the Star Trek: New Frontier Series and intend to read all 18 published so far.

What fun! No thinking required ;-)

I just started an advance review copy of A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup. It's interesting, although a little bit heavier on the chemistry than I was expecting. But I like learning about deadly stuff, so w/ev.

I am in a fun reading mood so I am reading a couple of horror books. One is called The Flood Blackwater #1 and the other one is a creepy and weird anthology about body modifications gone wrong called Zippered Flesh Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad. I also just finished John Broadley's Books which was a book of artist John Broadley's drawn and self published books that he mostly made for himself. It was excellent and inspiring to see how creative he is. The drawing is a bit crude but that is part of the charm.

Just finished Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s and really enjoyed it.

See my review here

Now reading Drinking Boston: A History of the City and Its Spirits and Gracefully Grayson.

Gianna wrote: "....The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer."

This is something I have great difficulty with. Maybe I should read this book too. How are you enjoying it?

I was hoping to read newer books by Richard Stevenson, which are Don Strachey mysteries, but my library had Death Vows and Tongue Tied. The first was more fun the second. Also this week I've read We Should All Be Feminists, Out of This World, which I loved and Jews vs Zombies. Next up is Osama.

just got oliver sacks' memoirs. he was hot!!!