I #read #mystery, #LiteraryFiction, #Bibliography (of both animals and people!), #History, #Psychology, #Pedagogy, #SciFi, #thriller, anything about #dogs, #feminist #fiction and #nonfiction, and am currently trying to expand my too-white horizons with #BlackWomen authors and #Indigenous, #NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian authors. You may know me as @PshrinkEmeritus or @Virginia_Wood_ over on the bird site or as @LowlyAdjunct@mastodon.social. I have been a fiend for reading since I was a little kid and am never, ever without a book ready to hand. . . or multiple, teetering TBR files lol
I read to learn and to escape--mostly the former by day, the latter in bed. It's not a good day if I haven't had time to read!
On a more serious level, am working my way through the #Tipitaka (the #PaliCanon) verse by verse, and have a mess of books on #Buddhism in my TBR pile.
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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and …
This got a great review in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on 11/6/22
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This …
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition …
Read some time in the late '60s - early '70s (high school AP Am Lit or college AA Lit)
When war breaks out again in May of 1803, Lewrie has fresh orders, a new frigate, and a chance to …
This is hard going. I started it in the summer of 2021 when all the fuss started about people teaching CRT in the public schools and it threatened to spread to colleges and universities. I wondered what it was exactly, and whether I might have been teaching it all along without calling it that. Because I do emphasize a systems approach, critical reading, etc. & so forth. I can't make heads or tails of it so I guess not lol! If I ever finish it, I'll come back and write a proper review.
A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) is a comic novel by the Pakistani writer Mohammed …
I picked it up because at the time I had a Pakistani brother-in-law. It's good, though, whether you have a personal connection or not. Somehow Hanif manages to be both hysterically funny and horrifying at the same time.
Fools Crow is a 1986 novel written by Native American author James Welch. Set in …
It's been years since I read this book but I still remember the impact that it had. Highly recommend.
This is a concise, expert summary of Theravada Buddhism covering Buddhism as an "attitude of mind" (Chapter 1), the Four Noble Truths (Chapters 2-5), doctrine and practice (Chapters 6 & 7), and its continued relevance in the modern world (Chapter 8). The book concludes with selected classic texts from the Pali canon. The author, Venerable Dr. Walpola Sri Rahula, was a monk and Buddhist scholar. His doctoral thesis was on the history of Buddhism in Ceylon.
I had explored Buddhism occasionally, on and off for nearly 40 years before I found this book. This was the clearest overall exposition I had read--or have since--of Buddhism overall, and after reading it completed my explorations: I became a Buddhist. There are, to be sure, far better books on practice, but reading this first gives a very solid foundation for the practice.
I am thrilled to have just copped a free copy of this for my Kindle! Added to my ever-growing, never-ending TBR pile lol
This Pariyatti Edition is an anthology of 423 verses spoken by the Buddha, the Dhammapada …
I am working through this, a couple of verses every Saturday, in a study group with The Urban Buddhist Monk.
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the …
Seems like a Buddhist ought to read this.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set …
I read this a million years ago, back around the time the movie came out so, early '70s??? and loved it. It's amazing how much sticks in your mind for decades when you read a truly good book.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Just downloaded this from the library last night! Can't wait to get started!
Content warning aging characters
I did not read the large print version, pictured here--I picked this one to link to because the cover is correct and only saw the badge after I'd started writing (obviously I need large print lol?). I read on Kindle so I can make it as big as I like without having to carry around a heavy book.
But I digress.
This one is as delightful as the first two, and I hate like heck that it will be September of '23 before we get another. As a 70-year-old woman, I love reading about mature characters with active minds and interesting lives. We are so often stereotyped, invisible, or--worse--actively dying in popular fiction. It's a bit sad, though, so I wouldn't advise reading it if your head is not in a good place on the whole subject of aging.