What are you currently reading?

[Hannelore]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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You listen to the podcast? Either This American Life, or Radiolab, not sure which.

[maryslittlegarden]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Very good book

[Hannelore]

Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine. One of my all-time, desert island-worthy favorite books. Thank God for my kindle: I want to cover this text with annotations! 

[Hannelore]

"Cymbeline," from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare. E. Nesbit's Arden books make so much more sense, now that I see how thoroughly familiar she was with Shakespeare!

"That which is lost shall be found; that which came not, shall come again! In this world's goods you shall be blessed, and blessed in the goods of the heart also."

Also:

"All which I took from thee I did but take,   
  Not for thy harms,   
But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.   
  All which thy child's mistake   
Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home:        
  Rise, clasp My hand, and come!' "
- "The Hound of Heaven," by Francis Thompson.

[Christina_S]

Finished Kristin Lavransdatter! There aren't many books that I strongly want to read over and over again, but this is one of the few. What a picture of medieval Christianity it painted, and what a character Kristin is! I can see how reading this book as a teenager is very different from reading it as a young mother, or as a widow, since Kristin faces all of those periods with different attitudes and amounts of grace. Like it or hate it, it's an interesting book.

And...I'm returning to it just over a year later! Reading it during my flight on Wednesday. 

[MilesChristi]

Revisiting Brideshead

[OCLittleFlower]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Very good book

Very.  Also a bit unfair to the hospital where Lacks was treated, however.

[clau clau]

The Vision of the Anointed - by Thomas Sowell

A nice lady from Gaithersburg, Maryland sent me a copy.  It's a great book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vision_of_the_Anointed

[Clare]

Finished Kristin Lavransdatter! There aren't many books that I strongly want to read over and over again, but this is one of the few. What a picture of medieval Christianity it painted, and what a character Kristin is! I can see how reading this book as a teenager is very different from reading it as a young mother, or as a widow, since Kristin faces all of those periods with different attitudes and amounts of grace. Like it or hate it, it's an interesting book.

And...I'm returning to it just over a year later! Reading it during my flight on Wednesday. 

That must be a long flight!

[Clare]

The Idiot, Dostoyevsky

[angelcookie]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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You listen to the podcast? Either This American Life, or Radiolab, not sure which.

No never heard of it

[Hannelore]

Just finished The Wonderful Garden. I'm somewhat embarrassed to have to admit that it took about 4 readings for it to dawn on me, what Nesbit was doing in this one. Which means that her target audience probably never would have gotten it, so that's a comfort. The woman deserves a medal, for trying to maintain and foster a sense of wonder in her child readers.

[Christina_S]

That must be a long flight!

18 hrs. And I'll a couple weeks before spring classes start when I get back, so I'll spend a lot of time reading and drinking tea then 

[Hannelore]

Learning to Go to School in Japan: The Transition from Home to Preschool Life, by Lois Peak. Fascinating insight into cultural expectations governing life as a group in Japan, and how these are taught primarily in school, rather than at home. Gives me a lot of insight into my grandma's life.

[Lynne]

Learning to Go to School in Japan: The Transition from Home to Preschool Life, by Lois Peak. Fascinating insight into cultural expectations governing life as a group in Japan, and how these are taught primarily in school, rather than at home. Gives me a lot of insight into my grandma's life.

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