LunarScorpio
Madly Diligent
Re: What Are You Currently Reading?
I'm currently reading a bunch of school books, but I'm hoping to start The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout this weekend.
I'm currently reading a bunch of school books, but I'm hoping to start The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout this weekend.
SilverWolf
Familiar Face
Re: What Are You Currently Reading?
Right now I am reading Castaways, by Brian Keene. I just finished reading a Gathering of Crows, --also-- by Brian Keene. I highly recommend Keene's books 😀
~SilverWolf~
Right now I am reading Castaways, by Brian Keene. I just finished reading a Gathering of Crows, --also-- by Brian Keene. I highly recommend Keene's books 😀
~SilverWolf~
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Naomi Klein, No Logo (10th Anniversary Edition). We easily forget that corporations as we know them today have only existed for a blink of history, and take for granted corporate influence in our public spaces, such as in schools where "brands" are promoted through "partnership" deals for equipment and money.
In other words, we live in a "branded" age.
Of course, the influence and involvement of corporations is not bad per se, but the degree of influence and the effects on the way we see the world and how our creativity and time is utilized is a symptom of an unbridled capitalistic system.
That is what I have gotten from the book so far.
Naomi Klein, No Logo (10th Anniversary Edition). We easily forget that corporations as we know them today have only existed for a blink of history, and take for granted corporate influence in our public spaces, such as in schools where "brands" are promoted through "partnership" deals for equipment and money.
In other words, we live in a "branded" age.
Of course, the influence and involvement of corporations is not bad per se, but the degree of influence and the effects on the way we see the world and how our creativity and time is utilized is a symptom of an unbridled capitalistic system.
That is what I have gotten from the book so far.
Your Social Village
Addicted
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50 shades of grey. 🙂
50 shades of grey. 🙂
gaileeflores
Up-and-Coming Sensation
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Nicholas Sparks novels. Haha. 🙂
Nicholas Sparks novels. Haha. 🙂
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Colin G. Calloway's First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. This is one of several books I am reading for an American Indians History class. This class does not 'help' me toward anything, but is one of those classes I wanted to take despite the strain it adds to my 'important' classes because the subject and professor are worth it.
In any case, this single volume history is a heartbreaking but also inspiring overview of American Indians from their first contact with Westerners to the current age. The nuance given to each Indian nation and their dealings with Westerners and other Indian nations gives them the 'flesh' I have been missing from other histories and media.
These less flattering lenses on the States ironically help instill a greater appreciation of it, both through understanding of how much 'little' and 'big' people both within and without the 'larger society' have accomplished toward the greater good despite the monumental amount of prejudice and indifference and evil, and in seeing the contours of the great ills that remain in need of correcting. As Senator Carl Schurz put it, "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right" (29 February, 1872). Natives' stories are the stories of us all, and should hurt and heal all of us.
Colin G. Calloway's First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. This is one of several books I am reading for an American Indians History class. This class does not 'help' me toward anything, but is one of those classes I wanted to take despite the strain it adds to my 'important' classes because the subject and professor are worth it.
In any case, this single volume history is a heartbreaking but also inspiring overview of American Indians from their first contact with Westerners to the current age. The nuance given to each Indian nation and their dealings with Westerners and other Indian nations gives them the 'flesh' I have been missing from other histories and media.
These less flattering lenses on the States ironically help instill a greater appreciation of it, both through understanding of how much 'little' and 'big' people both within and without the 'larger society' have accomplished toward the greater good despite the monumental amount of prejudice and indifference and evil, and in seeing the contours of the great ills that remain in need of correcting. As Senator Carl Schurz put it, "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right" (29 February, 1872). Natives' stories are the stories of us all, and should hurt and heal all of us.
Your Social Village
Addicted
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stephen king 🙂
stephen king 🙂
gaileeflores
Up-and-Coming Sensation
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the notebook! 🙂 for the 100th time! 😀
the notebook! 🙂 for the 100th time! 😀
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uggh... I tried reading a murder mystery non fiction book from the library and barely gagged through three pages before I had to quit. I just don't get the appeal of fiction anymore. Maybe I'm just trying to read the wrong genre. Well actually the writing was pretty bad. And, I've read hundreds of murder mystery over the years. So I think I have something to compare it to. I have no clue how it made it to best seller list. Just boggles my mind what trash people read these days. :/
uggh... I tried reading a murder mystery non fiction book from the library and barely gagged through three pages before I had to quit. I just don't get the appeal of fiction anymore. Maybe I'm just trying to read the wrong genre. Well actually the writing was pretty bad. And, I've read hundreds of murder mystery over the years. So I think I have something to compare it to. I have no clue how it made it to best seller list. Just boggles my mind what trash people read these days. :/
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I recently finished the first book of The Hunger Games. I'm late, I know. I was encouraged to check the books upon watching the movies, lol. So far so good, the first movie was more or less consistent with the book. And the book itself is quite interesting with all the descriptions and tension.
I recently finished the first book of The Hunger Games. I'm late, I know. I was encouraged to check the books upon watching the movies, lol. So far so good, the first movie was more or less consistent with the book. And the book itself is quite interesting with all the descriptions and tension.
Nuvella Crystallis
Addicted
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Right now I'm re-reading 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. :3
Right now I'm re-reading 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. :3
Scribbler397
Up-and-Coming Sensation
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I am listening to Robinson Crusoe on a Librivox audiobook (the best part is that they are free) and reading the Two Towers in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I am listening to Robinson Crusoe on a Librivox audiobook (the best part is that they are free) and reading the Two Towers in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
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