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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 15 2008, 03:38 AM (71 Views) | |
| Inky | Apr 15 2008, 03:38 AM Post #1 |
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Tonight I started Growing Up In New Guinea by Margaret Mead. She describes her six months of observations of the Manus, a sea-dwelling tribe. I've had it for a few years, dipped into it occasionally, but never really given it attention. It's rilly good. The back blurb sums it up pretty well, I'll elaborate later if anyone's interested. "With brilliant insight, humor, and warm sympathy, a noted anthropologist explores the family life of a primitive island people - their attitude toward sex, marriage and the raising of children-and finds intriguing parallels with problems of modern life." It's a 50 year old paperback, and I was reading it in the tub while drowsy. No mishaps, thank goodness, but geez, what a bad thing to do. |
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| lara | Apr 15 2008, 03:50 AM Post #2 |
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Well, I recently actually finished reading a real live book that I enjoyed. The Book, in fact. Well, Rick Mercer Report: The Book. It's a collection of stuff from Canadian political satirist and comedian, uh, well, Rick Mercer. I quite enjoyed it. Rick Mercer Report rickmercer.com |
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| Eral | Apr 16 2008, 01:55 AM Post #3 |
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I have been reading Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel. Galileo had two daughters, and because he didn't have dowries for them, he popped them into a Poor Clare convent where they took their vows at age 16. It was very common. The family tree shows nearly every woman born into the family ended up a nun. It's a fascinating book. Galileo's active scholarly life, filled with matters of great debate is contrasted starkly with his daughter's. Her letters are about how she has bleached his collars, and made him some citron candy, and how the mentally disturbed nun stabbed herself thirteen times with a kitchen knife last night, and could he send her a quilt because it's too cold to sleep under just a sheet. She was devoted to him, and suppported him without hesitation during his trial by the Inquisition. Women's lives were just awful. |
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| Bex | Apr 16 2008, 02:12 AM Post #4 |
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Right now, I am reading a book called Faking It, a volume of (recent) music history focused on the perception of authenticity in performance and songwriting. It's pretty nifty. I read 7 or 8 volumes of Berserk manga on the weekend and a novel by Amy Bloom last week. Highly recommend her short story collections, though her novels are very good as well. So is her nonfiction book about crossdressing Republicans and other genderbending deviants... really, just read whatever. She's a fine writer. Also on my shelf is Margaret Atwood's latest collection of poetry and a book about video game design. I have several books on the Gnostic gospels on hold at the library to pick up on Thursday, because ah'm researching. Also trying to catch up on a massive accumulation of disposable periodicals. |
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I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should, but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed. -Min Jin Lee | |
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| lara | Apr 16 2008, 02:23 AM Post #5 |
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Well, this is from an interesting group of people, so I thought I'd pop in their suggestions: Coffee Tales |
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