What are you reading?

[*Deidre*]

Chain of Gold, by Cassandra Clare

This is part of a fantasy trilogy, and I'm a little obsessed with fantasy and sci-fi books these days. I've tried reading about average everyday people with their drama and problems, but I keep coming back to magicians, vampires and wizards. This has a romantic twist to it as well. I've heard great things about it, so hopefully, I'll enjoy it, too.

Now, there are some good books out there about everyday people with their drama and problems, but I've been liking the backdrop of these fantasy worlds. It'd be cool if parallel universes existed like those in these novels.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Yeah, just finished fours books of "We Are Legion, We are Bob" on audible. Kind of of sucker for good hard SF.

[Macoleco]

Anne of the Green Gables.

I’m enjoying it so far

[LinuxGal]

Dahlgren by Samuel Delany.  More than 800 pages.  Major mind-fuck.  Third time through.
Imagine a David Lynch film, but in book form.

[brewer]

Atheistforums posts. Obvious should be obvious.

[Fake Messiah]

I am reading "Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany" and one interesting thing is how a regular army officer shuns theology and tops a priest.

Several weeks after the Christmas party at Glatton, a few local girls showed up at the office of the commanding officer. They had gotten drunk and pregnant at the party and couldn’t remember “what had happened—or with whom.” The commanding officer organized a relief fund, with each soldier in camp ordered to contribute $10 a week until the guilty parties came forward. The men eventually turned themselves in to the battalion chaplain, who somehow talked them into agreeing to marry the girls. “No dice,” declared the commanding officer. “Those guys were drunk and didn’t know they were going to make themselves fathers—better that they’re moved out of sight.” The guilty parties were transferred to another post, and the girls, one of them barely sixteen, never saw them again.

So there you go. Would this typical Christan theology ruin these men's and women's lives or not? Probably so, and yet these people are still roaming around giving unqualified advice.

[arewethereyet]

I am still working my way through audiobooks. I listen to a lot of memoirs, especially those of people with really screwed up childhoods and/or being raised in extreme religious homes.

My latest was a diversion from that. I listened to 'The Egg and I' which is a book I have read every couple of years for decades. Also a memoir but not dark.

Recently listened to a book by Dolly Parton and found out that just about every song she ever wrote was one of her favorites. LOL It was narrated by her and was focused on her songs with side stories along the way.

Have listened to one about the earliest women doctors that was interesting and also a book about a man's experience as an EMT in NYC back in the 60s.

I have an eclectic taste in music and in books.

[Angrboda]

I'm reading books on social anxiety, perfectionism, Taoism, dialetheism, and a smattering of books on other topics. I've been doing more audiobooks lately, being lazy. This week I mostly listened to The Genius Of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman, and The Fellowship Of The Ring by Tolkien.

[arewethereyet]

I started listening to 'The Fellowship...' a while back but hated the narrator and gave up. I may look to see what other choices there are.

[The Valkyrie]

Archaeology books.