flight paths discussion

rain battering the windows, clocks see back, the blaze of fall colors is being swept away by the chill winds and we are grateful to be able to retreat indoors, Taking note of all this plus observing the turbulence all over the world and the daily calamities, we are able to keep our spirits up by staking out quality time for reading carefully chosen books.

I'm reading a book by Henry Giroux, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism: it's far more gripping and terrifying than any thriller I've ever read. Plus there's no knowing how things are going to turn out (it's about the U.S. today and our current move towards an authoritarian culture dictated by corporate financial interests).

It's so hard for me to read once I'm back at work but I'm not going to do what I did last year. I stopped reading almost entirely for a while and the stress was terrible. Reading is really essential to my mental health. Or so it seems.

I'm in the middle of The Story of the Lost Child. It's interesting how as much as I love Ferrante, I can't tear through her books. I can't wait to finish and hear all your thoughts on it Magdelanye!

what really gets to me is how extreme the extremes have become. on the one hand, gentrification, on the other is mass displacement. I put that book you are reading on my tbr list but I'm not sure I have the stamina for it. you are brave.
and I experienced something akin to what you describe with the Ferrante in that I couldn't put it down but I didn't want it to end.

AND I'm reading a new Atwood, full blown dystopian comedy of errors, getting more chilling as I progress

Magdelanye wrote: "AND I'm reading a new Atwood, full blown dystopian comedy of errors, getting more chilling as I progress"

Atwood fits right in with what I'm reading. Btw, it's going slowly because I can only bear but so much truth at one sitting.

Ellie wrote: "Magdelanye wrote: "AND I'm reading a new Atwood, full blown dystopian comedy of errors, getting more chilling as I progress"

Atwood fits right in with what I'm reading. Btw, it's going slowly beca..."
YES

just got my reserve from the library, zombie politics, what a cover!

Hope you like it.

just started this,it looks promising, once I could open it up. I am all floppy still over the events of last weekend. also this week working on a performance at the Gibsons art gallery,tomorrow already.
another thing, I can't check your books but Ellie ( and actually anyone reading this) have you read or heard anything about Mathew Quick and Love May Fail?

it's zombie politics I'm referring to. I peeled off the interlibrary loan sticker and put it over the fangs. my deepest fear is people who have renounced compassion and indeed their humanity.

'Twas ever thus', and in Europe those who want war are not necessarily those who have to be combatants.

a pity, that

Magdelanye wrote: "just started this,it looks promising, once I could open it up. I am all floppy still over the events of last weekend. also this week working on a performance at the Gibsons art gallery,tomorrow alr..."

I have not heard of them (I got busy with my birthday and lost track of GR, sorry). Anyway, now I have to look into them

There are many who seem to have "renounced compassion and indeed their humanity," as you so eloquently put it Magdelanye. I find them terrifying, especially as many wield so much power.

hey Ellie!any happy returns! sounds like a big one. hope this year is a more relaxing one for you.
finally got into zombie politics. it took me 2 days just to get through the preface. mostly because I am not that familiar with American politics especially names and events that don't really get a lot of coverage up here.
it seems even worse than I imagined.
I'm very behind on my reviews but will attempt to finish and post the one on Quick's Love May Fail. a lot of women hated the opening so much that they don't even read it. it was very interesting to note the herd mentality overcoming any real dialogue.
you must read if I fall if i die.wish I could check but I don't think you have.
this is already to long...

I have not read If I fall if I die-it's now on my "TBR-soon" list.

Things are quite bad in the States. Neoliberalism is gaining power and the gap between the super-rich (and even the "middle class" and the rest of the country (the majority of people) is staggering and getting worse all the time. And what's happening in education (as a teacher I'm particularly tuned into that) is especially depressing.

That notwithstanding, I'm reading The Girl in the Spider's Web which is a lot of fun (the next in the Millenium series and not by the original author so I'm surprised at how good it is). Also reading The Portable Veblen: A Novel which I think I like (but not love).

It's Thanksgiving Day here (I believe you celebrate Thanksgiving but on a different day? but I could so well be wrong). Just me and the kids but having a great day.

Happy day!

yes we celebrated thanksgiving last month.
,happy to hear you're happy. I'm feeling pretty good myself in spite of everything.
I am reading about 5 books at the moment, which means a certain amount of leaking.
have you. encountered the silent history?

Just reading over past entries: what kind of performances do you do?

I have not encountered the silent history. What is it?

depends what is called for. This was a response to a call out for a tribute to Joni Mitchell in poetry, music and art. I wrote 2 poems for the occasion and also took the opportunity to speak a bit about the Camino World Peace Project. it was very well received. still feel badly never sent you my chapbook. now that I'm settled we could try that again.
the secret history you can check out how it evolved as an interactive online thing...and I can see how that format would work well in this case. in print, its a piece of work to get into. It was only on p243 that I began to love it.

sorry it is the silent history, and its dystopian fiction. are you having more luck thane with writing on your device? I am getting better but I still have to fight with it. if only I didn't have to type every letter on this tiny screen I could go on and on
I'll wait till you read it and then we can have a go
giroux is very thorough it sea but I can't be sure at all about his references

I try never to write on my phone-I'm lousy at it and in addition, for some odd reason, I'm signed on as my daughter and can't get it to change.

I'd love to read your chapbook. Do you still have my address?

I looked up the Camino World Peace Project and it sounds wonderful. Surely we've explored violence enough to know it doesn't work. I feel like the promise of the 60s has been lost (or at least delayed). I will look into the silent history more.

I want to read all of Giroux. I feel like he is a light in the darkness of the U.S. today.

if I had your address I would have sent. much got lost in the shuffle when I left so abrubtly.
if you can give it again, I will do it.
I'm glad you like the project. you can be our new York ambassador!
just finished Song for Nettie Johnson. I will give it a 5 and if you haven't read, you will be thrilled