I'm just finishing up 'The Sin's of Brother Curtis.' Its absolutely disgusting how the church covered up abuse- in all its forms- and protected the offender. This book will stay with me for a very long time.


http://www.amazon.com/Sins-Brother-Curtis-Betrayal-Conviction-ebook/dp/B003V1WUGM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439910603&sr=8-1&keywords=the+sins+of+brother+curtis

So what are YOU reading right now?

Finished "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" which EVERYONE should read and started on a YA science fiction novel, "Cinder." I love re-imagined fairy tales!

I listened to it on Audible. I'm not sure what the connection there was to S&M pornography and public shaming...

I'm reading Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind,
The Goldfinch
Just finished Cloud Atlas
The Stand (again)


I read several books at once. I don't know why.

My SIL just recommended The Goldfinch. I am thinking of suggesting it as our next book club read. What did you think?

I'm about 2/3 of the way through. It has been a little depressing so far. I am hoping for redemption for the main character. Very well written descriptions of PTSD and grief as experienced by a young man.

I think the point was that the participant was the one in control of the scene and it was less abusive and shaming than what happens when it comes to online, social media shaming.

The scene described was placed on the internet... How is that different?

The participant consented to the scene and had the control (ultimately), it wasn't a social gaffe that aroused anonymous threats of rape or violence from unknown people all around the world. It wasn't the most important or even interesting part of the book and it probably could have been left out, but I get why Ronson watched the scene and wrote about it. It was just another POV (granted, an extreme one) and I don't want to spoil it for those who might want to read it.

Tao Te Ching (Addiss & Lombardo trans.)

An Introduction To Zen Buddhism (D.T. Suzuki)

Swinburne

Look Homeward, Angel

Farther Away (J. Franzen)

Eminent Victorians

The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond


A Place of My Own, by Michal Pollan


I also keep a copy of the Book of Mormon in the bathroom, but I haven't used all the pages yet.

Slave Species of God----Very thought provoking.

Re-reading Lost Book of Enki and

Epic of Gilgamesh. Much Hebrew/Old Testament bible lore seems to be based on this tome

Behind the Wall: The True Story of Mental Illness as Told by Parents. I easily could have been one of the parents interviewed for this book.

http://www.behindthewallstories.com/



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You're all so intellectual. :)

I'm reading the 13th Stephanie Plum novel, "Lean, Mean Thirteen."

They're very entertaining, funny, light reading, and a perfect break from the daily grind.

by Carl Hiassen. Hiassen writes funny novels with outrageous characters.

But-there's-definitely-method-in-his-madness-ly yrs,

S

Anything by Bernard Cornwell and you can never go wrong

I'm still reading and finishing up the books I mentioned two

weeks ago , plus I need to get back to The Emperor of all

Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee and The Upright Thinkers by

Leonard Mlodinow. I'm all over the place in my intrests and

reading.

I read "The Emperor of all Maladies" of few years back. Very well written. Reading it has also helped when people in my circle have been diagnosed with cancer. It's always so difficult for me to know what to say, so I mostly try to listen, but having some knowledge has aided in those difficult discussions and it seems my friends appreciate that I understand the terms they are using. In Christopher Hitchen's last book "Mortality" that he wrote after his diagnosis and mere months before he died, stated that he was only interested in his specific cancer. If people couldn't share hopeful stories related to the cancer he was suffering from it was unhelpful. That is something that TEOAM makes clear; there is no umbrella cancer. Each cancer is unique. Each cancer is its own disease with its own deadly challenges. What works with one form, doesn't necessarily work with another kind.

So true.... Who would have known that a book about the history

of cancer could be so interesting?

I'm on page 292 of "Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders" by Linda Sillitoe and Alan D. Roberts.

Interesting aside:

My youngest brother was married October 15, 1985. My parents lived in Centerville, UT. My family and I lived three blocks north of that. After the temple ceremony, we all converged on my parent's house.

We saw and wondered about all the police activity.

Steve Christensen's son was on the same baseball team as my son. We never saw Steve at the games, just Terri.

Bumping up my retirement resources. Reading the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series.

The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel

1) people of the lie
2) Leonidas: peerless peer
3) Septimus Heap: Queste (with my boys who are in bed on time)
4) The far side collection (with my boys at bed time to get them to calm down)

recently read, Boys in the Boat,---Signs
Preceding the End of the World, by Yuri Herrera--- Cloud Atlas, third time

'The Boys in the Boat' is a great book. I loved it. I'm currently reading 'Unknown Mexico', which is fascinating.

Just finished Yes Please by Amy Poehler . Very inspiring and I can relate to her struggles. Wonderful. And funny of course.

Now I want to read Bossy Pants by Tina Fey.

I love to read about women who have been successful in a male dominant field.

A Civil War book. "Gray Ghost, the life of Col. John Singleton Mosby."



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I just finished "Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald", an interesting book about letters written between Eudora Welty and Ross MacDonald from the early 70's until his death in 1982.

Ross MacDonald(Kenneth Millar) is one of my favorite authors ever, and although I haven't read much of Eudora Welty, she sounds like an interesting person.

Millar's descent into Alzheimer's in the early 80's is described and is very sad.

Will Bagley calls David one of his mentors (among others in a local history group, The Utah Westerners, which my grandfather helped co-found along with Harold Schindler, David, Brigham D. Madsen, and some others, Mormons and non-Mormons, whose common interest was authentic LDS history).

This one is called "Confessions of a Revisionist Historian," and I just checked, and it's not available from Amazon yet.

Stay tuned...

It's available at Benchmark Books in SLC--they're at benchmarkbooks dot com

Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Also a manga called Children of the Sea, which I picked up on a whim. it's rather good. Recently finished She by H. Rider Haggard. Loving the Victorian adventure stories.

I finally started Fifty Shades of Grey.

How to Expand Love, HH the XIV Dalai Lama

Filling in my Terry Pratchett gaps... "Mort" right now.

The New Testament: Book of Acts (again)

The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. How the increasing concentration of wealth harms the economy and some solutions to return the US to full employment and renew the middle class.