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"A nation of immigrants" by John F. Kennedy 

 

I picked up a copy after hearing an interview where the author in question referenced it.  Its a quick read with a lot of interesting information.  

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I have been involved in the Brunetti mysteries by Donna Leon.  I must admit to using audio books but there is nothing like putting my feet up next to the wood stove, closing my eyes and visiting Venice to solve a crime.

 

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On 1/20/2019 at 3:51 PM, Cyndee said:

Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly

 

A real life story of a NY socialite who championed a group of concentration camp survivors known as "the Rabbits"

 

C -

 

Ever have a book make you start crying ?

 

This book above hit me hard last night, I must have cried for 15-20 minutes after reading this one chapter about what they did to these poor women at the camps, OMG.

 

Trigger warning with this book, very hard, because you know it was real.....

 

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I'm trying to stay away from heavy stuff.  I'm currently knocking off the Andrea Camilleri mysteries.  They are set in Sicily and while sometimes serious they often give me a good belly laugh at times.

 

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Charlize

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I just finished reading "Tomorrow will be different" by Sarah McBride. Started at around 9 at night and finished it at 2:30 AM. Absolutely riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring and uplifting.

For those unfamiliar with her, Sarah's trans woman who's been very actively involved in politics since she was a kid and has been instrumental in the passing of LGBT and trans specific rights bills in Delaware and nationally. She also spoke during the Democratic National Convention in 2016 making her the first openly trans person to ever speak at a US major party convention.

Great book, highly recommend!

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I just finished And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney.

I visited the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta over spring break and picked up the book there. It was a great and insightful read about one of the numerous dark stains in my state's history. 

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I am reading a book called You are a Badass. By Jen Sincero. It’s an awesome PD book. It was just so fitting since I am in fact a badass. ???‍♀️

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Quantum Magician by Derek Kunsken, it's like that show Sneaky Pete, with the detailed cons, but in a crazy far future setting.  Fun read :).

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I've been doing a lot of reading on trans history and rights. I want to educate myself about trans-misogyny specifically, so I can better understand the struggles of my trans sisters. 

 

Right now, I am reading Transgender Warriors: From Joan of Arc to RuPaul.  The book was published in 1996, so some of the information is outdated, but the author is credited as having popularized the term transgender, even though she isn't the one who coined it. 

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The past year or so I've become very interested in the notion of "presentism", especially as it relates to the imposition of contemporary morality and judgements onto past eras and individuals. 

 

In researching "presentism", I stumbled across the following this collected work:  Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare, edited by E. Gajowski.  It's interesting, but some of the essays take a bit of effort to get through.

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Just finished Whipping girl by Julia Serano, it was ok. Some of it was a to intellectual for me to understand  

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Books I finished this month:

 

Criminal by Karin Slaughter

Guardian by John Grisham

Teeth of Tiger by Tom Clancy

If You Were Here by Alafair Burke

Full Dark No Stars by Stephen King. 

 

Full Dark No Stars is easily the best book I read this year. It is 8 years old book though. 

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Currently reading "Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay

Side reading "Building Underground" by Herb Wade

 

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I finished Dreadnought by April Daniels last week.  It's a superhero novel with a trans protagonist. It is a very touching read, couldn't put it down.  Gender identity and transphobia themes are discussed and there is some content that some could find hard to read, but I found the author handled it in a really good way. It is geared towards YA, so it's not too heavy. The next book in the series, Nemesis, just arrived yesterday, so I will be giving it a read this weekend.

 

I also just read Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst last week.  It's a fantasy novel with a WLW protagonist.  It involved magic, intrigue and finding love.  Really enjoyed it too.  Looking forward to the sequel which releases at the end of the summer.  There is another book set in the same realm, with different characters, it should arrive sometime next week.

 

Happy reading! Hugs!

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I am reading "His dark materials" It's a trilogies

actually movies of it as been released and I was a huge fan of it (only saw the first movie and always wandered of what'll happen in the end)

It's mainly some fantasy I guess, a whole world is described nicely and the characters are really interesting, it also mixes humans and magic let's say (cause it's no magic it's just different from our world), but it's been hard for me to read it cause I already saw the movie and well I know what happens at the end of the 1st book, but it's normal, but basing on the fact of "what if I didn't see the movie,  it's grandiose (that's my opinion)

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SongMaster by Orson Scott Card for the millionth time.There's something so weird and other worldly about it. It has edge and darkness but there's small shades of Pragma that reaches soul deep. I'm an avid reader, I love books and they've been my lifeline since I was 4 years old. 45 years of loving reading. 

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I've always liked medical shows on T.V., both real and scripted, and loved reading MASH years ago.  I recently found a true-life medical novel that is both intense and funny; it's called "The House of God," which is the fictitious nickname of a real hospital in Manhattan.  It tells the story of a first year intern and the horrors that interns are put through.  Very entertaining so far.  It's hard to believe they never made it into a movie.

 

Carolyn Marie

 

p.s. I just found out that this book was made into a movie, but was never theatrically released.  Leonard Maltin said it was a wasted effort.  Too bad.

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10 hours ago, Ethan da potato said:

I am reading "His dark materials" It's a trilogies

actually movies of it as been released and I was a huge fan of it (only saw the first movie and always wandered of what'll happen in the end)

It's mainly some fantasy I guess, a whole world is described nicely and the characters are really interesting, it also mixes humans and magic let's say (cause it's no magic it's just different from our world), but it's been hard for me to read it cause I already saw the movie and well I know what happens at the end of the 1st book, but it's normal, but basing on the fact of "what if I didn't see the movie,  it's grandiose (that's my opinion)

I'm interested in reading this series too. The short live series was a real adventure. The Golden Compass is more kid friendly.

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I'm reading the Library of History by Diodorus Siculus, Loeb Classical Library. He was a Sicilian writer at the time of the early Caesars but wrote in Greek. I'm reading this in my studies of the Eastern Mediterranean mythogenetic zone because so much data I've picked up with respect to the gender-variant priesthoods of antiquity appear to be sourced to Diodorus.

 

Library of History begins with the early Greco-Egyptian accounts of his time and works through the mythological history of the region before approaching the Trojan War, the rise of Rome, and the Gallic Wars.

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Diodorus Siculus in Greek, Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης was an ancient Greek historian and not an Italian writer. Yes he was born in Sicily but that is not making him Italian.

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1 hour ago, Dinaki said:

Diodorus Siculus in Greek, Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης was an ancient Greek historian and not an Italian writer. Yes he was born in Sicily but that is not making him Italian.

 

Exactly where did I say he was Italian? I said he was Sicilian and Sicily was in no way a part of Italy at the time of the Roman Empire. Sicily, like the southern extremities of the Italian peninsula known as "Magnae Graciae" had grown up as Greek colonies.

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