what are you reading right now?

[Grey Marl]

I read the Martin Hannett bio -"Who killed Martin Hannett", a quick weekend read.

A few misgivings re this sometimes morbid book but worthwhile for a look at another prematurely gone eccentric musical genius...

[kara]

[12th house]

My airplane read going down (and back) from Miami was John Grogan's Marley & Me. Total pablum, but also very cute and fun to read.

[baleariksoul]

Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Music Of Life.

For the second time.

Hello dhp btw. First post...

[BrnSuga769]

Greetings, I am reading "Minion" by: L.A.Banks... Its the first book in a series of Vampire Huntress Legends; along with various text books for my classes.
Busy, Busy, Busy.
Peace and Blessings.

[12th house]

After reading Marley & Me on the plane to Miami, I read The Kite Runner, and now I'm reading The Bastard on the Couch...

From Publishers Weekly
Last year's much-ballyhooed The Bitch in the House, edited by Hanauer, collated essays by women on their frustration and rage. Now Jones (Hanauer's husband and a novelist and journalist) offers the male version, wherein guys discuss how they feel about their standing in today's shifting cultural landscape (that is, if they care at all). As Jones notes, "The fact that women are in charge of their own birth control and reproduction may be a gigantic cultural shift, but I've yet to hear a single man complain about it." Divided into sections on "Hunting and Gathering," "Can't Be Trusted With Simple Tasks," "Bicycles for Fish" and "All I Need," the essays vary from somewhat revelatory to unsurprising, but they are almost uniformly entertaining and well written. There are several pieces in the vein of Christopher Russell's droll snippet about being bossed around by his Type A wife. Despite her "officious way," deep down, Russell knows her fussiness is often necessary. Some are more visceral, like Robert Skates's display of his jaded humor about the pain of divorce ("Punching doors seems to help. Throwing phones through windows ain't bad either"), or Jarhead author Anthony Swofford's wry tale of beating up a guy at a bar who was molesting Swofford's passed-out girlfriend. While precious few entries stray from the rested maunderings of educated professionals-there's no real scoop on what guys on the assembly line think-the book still manages to open a window into a place many women are pretty convinced doesn't exist: the male psyche.

[Myron]

I have about a month of pleasure reading before the summer semester begins so I might as well do some reading.

Right now I'm reading:

Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
From Novelist:
Two generations of women--Serafina, a Mexican-Indian girl who emigrates illegally to California, and her daughter, Elvia, separated from her mother when Serafina is deported--struggle to maintain their dignity amidst the frequently brutal world of migrant farm labor. By the author of Aquaboogie. Reader's Guide available.

Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids
From www.amazon.com
Nickelodeon is the highest rated daytime channel in the country, and its cultural influence has grown at an astounding pace. Why are Nickelodeon shows so popular? How are they developed and marketed? And where do they fit in the economic picture of the children's media industry? Nickelodeon Nation, the first major study of the only TV channel just for children, investigates these questions.

Entertainment, Education, and the Hard Sell: Three Decades of Network Children's Television
From An Analysis of Thinking and Reserach About Qualitative Methods
This book is purely an analysis of the diversity of programming for children from 1948 to 1978.

Although the book is an empirical analysis, it does provide a look of the evolution of children's programming on network television (or how Saturday morning became "Saturday Morning."

[baleariksoul]

The Hypocrisy of Disco by Clane Hayward.

Liked the title, so far (50 pages in) it kinda reminds me of Euginides.

San Francisco in the late 70's...

[Tony Mundaca]

http://philologos.org/__eb-tws/

[Monny JcIntosh]

[baleariksoul]

Vince Aletti's - "Disco Files"

http://www.djhistory.com/books/disco-files

Schoolin'...

(I think you'll like it too).

[Edith A. Giles]

I'd just recently finished reading "Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran" by Andy Taylor.

It's REALLY good reading, especially for all you other duranies on DHP....


Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Boy-My-Li...235519&sr=1-1#

[C-King]

Run For Your Life by James Patterson was a good weekend read.

[MaDe]

Carlos Castsneda - "A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with don Juan". Rereading all his books for the 2nd time...

[Disko Ole]

Love saves the day - a history of american dance music culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence

[ngeso]

I'm actually reading, for the first time ever, Love in the Time of Cholera.


I'm not answering phone calls. I'm doing candles, wine, Carlos Gardel, the works. I want to take time off from work.

It's that good.

...

[kara]

I'm actually reading, for the first time ever, Love in the Time of Cholera.


I'm not answering phone calls. I'm doing candles, wine, Carlos Gardel, the works. I want to take time off from work.

It's that good.

...

agreed.

[ngeso]

Cholera was excellent, especially after Zafon's a bit disappointing Shadow of the Wind. One for the island top ten.

I'm currently having a Spanish/Caribbean thing going on, toying with tackling either Marquez' biography Living to Tell the Tale, some Naipaul (Biswas or Miguel Street) or Lezama Lima's Paradiso, the latter a very daunting read, I gather.

As I'm undecided, I'm killing some quick time in Indochina with Jon Swain's River of Time and Duras' Lover.

...

[MaDe]

CARLOS CASTANEDA - Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of don Juan
For the 2nd time. A wonderful experience and revelations

[El Mayimbe]

some Alain De Botton again

[ngeso]

some Alain De Botton again

I need to get that. I've never read Proust. I'm waiting for the right moment.

...

[MaDe]

CARLOS CASTANEDA - Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of don Juan

[ngeso]

Currently acquainting myself with Andalusian history. One thing that strikes me is that either moorism is not an ethnological term, or else it wasn't just Africans that migrated to the Iberian peninsula from 711 A.D. onwards.



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[Bernie]

Finishing up reading the book "Seeds of Destruction" by F. William Engdahl



This book is available via Amazon, but you may be able to get it cheaper from www.GlobalResearch.ca

Quite a read with lots of references of how major corporations (i.e. Monsanto, Dow, Sygenta) are working to control the food supply of nations by holding patents to genetically modified seeds.

The book describes much about the role of the Rockefeller family and their dealings with eugenics, funding Nazi experiments, funding population control experiments, and their role in helping to start "agribusiness".

I also recommend Engdahl's book "A Century of War, Anglo-American Politics and the New World Order"

[kara]

Finished last night:



Based on the Lima Crisis, this book is about a group of terrorists who hold high executives and people of high political standing hostage. It explores how the terrorists and hostages cope with living in a house together for several months. Many of the characters form unbreakable bonds of friendship, while some fall in love.

It took me awhile to get into it, but then ending - whooeey! I was frozen on the sidewalk reading the last pages.


Started this morning: