Literature What are you currently reading?

[Spang]

Finished Still Life with Woodpecker.

Next (already started): Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey.

 

[Spang]

Next (already started): Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey.

This is a really good book so far. I'm only on the second chapter and I've already learned so much about organizing.

An excerpt:

A community union must reflect its community. That sounds simple, but, well, take a look around the labor movement. In Stamford, we talked about race all the time. Our staff organizing team was racially diverse, multi-multilingual and overwhelming female. We had huge, unwieldy meetings with translations in Creole, Spanish, and English. Workers would say there was no place else in Connecticut where people bothered to translate for them. And we paid for child care at all of our meetings--good child care. That might sound trivial, but neither unions nor community organizations typically provide this. We found that if you make child care available, mothers will turn out in droves.

 

[Envy]

The Divine Comedy

 

[Spang]

Next (already started): Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey.

I've got about two or three pages left to read from the epilogue and then I'll be done with this book. I'll finish it later tonight when I get home from work, so I don't have to bring two books to work.

Next: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn.

 

[Pirate]

Flowers for Algernon. Really enjoying it so far. I think it's required reading in America but not here so somehow went under the radar til recently.

 

[Mikkel]

Just started on "A Clash of Kings".

 

[ledboots]

Flowers for Algernon. Really enjoying it so far. I think it's required reading in America but not here so somehow went under the radar til recently.

:, (

 

[Spang]

Next: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn.

This book is really good. I'm almost done with it and I don't know what to read next.

Also, this book will be a movie, David Fincher directs. It will be released in October and stars that guy who had sex with Jimmy Kimmel. It will be the first movie I've seen after reading the book.

 

[Spang]

Correction: I am done with the book. It is very dark, but very good.

 

[kibbleforlola]

Spang, have you read the sexual politics of meat ? I think it'd be a book you'd enjoy.

 

[beancounter]

Avoiding the Trap of Being Offended
http://www.amazon.com/Avoiding-Bein...qid=1400600152&sr=8-1&keywords=being+offended

 

[Envy]

Oedipus.

 

[Spang]

Spang, have you read the sexual politics of meat ? I think it'd be a book you'd enjoy.

Not yet, but I'll look for it at the bookstore when I go later.

 

[Spang]

Not yet, but I'll look for it at the bookstore when I go later.

Local bookstore doesn't have it, not surprisingly. Amazon has it, used, along with Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn, and Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris. Ten dollars for all three. Shipping was slightly more. Order placed.

 

[Cerebellion]

I started reading Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield.

 

[Spang]

For the moment I'm reading The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, by Sarah Silverman. When the other books arrive, I'll continue reading this at home, when I poop or sit down to pee.

 

[Spang]

The Bedwetter is finished. My other books have not arrived yet.

 

[Spang]

My books haven't arrived, but I remembered that I had a book that I never read, From Perverts to Fab Five: The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians, by Rodger Streitmatter, one of my old professors. I bought it a long time ago to do a bit of research before interviewing the author for a paper I had to write. I skimmed through it then; now I'm going to read it.

I tried reading it at work on Memorial Day, but we were busier than a bee in a bed of flowers.

 

[shyvas]

Healing Your Headache which was highly informative.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heal-your-headache-david-buchholz/1005054827?ean=9780761125662

 

[Spang]

Fab Five is mostly done--just gotta read the conclusion. Next: The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory.