What Are You Reading?

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Have you read any of Angela Davis' works? She was my introduction to Marxism. I highly suggest Are Prisons Obsolete, Women Class & Race, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, and The Meaning Of Freedom & Other Difficult Dialogues.

 

I haven't gotten around to reading her yet! I'll start with Are Prisons Obsolete!

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Lately I’ve been going to the library every week because it forces me to read more like I used to. Right now I’m reading a book called “The Golden Girls of MGM” by Jane Ellen Wayne. It’s all about the classic starlets from the 30s and 40s. I always love stories of classic hollywood because everything was crazy af all the time, especially during pre-code. So far, this book has made me feel such a kindred connection to Norma Shearer, whom I knew almost nothing about beforehand. I definitely recommend this book for anyone really. I’ve only had it for a day and I can’t put it down.

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i've retaken cmbyn and today i read The Long and Short of It by Richard Siken

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To go with my recent pre-code films obsession, I just started reading Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mick LaSalle. I watched the documentary last month and didn’t even realize it was a book first.

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The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls- Emilie Autumn 

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i finished cmbyn also i'm starting with Clementine by Clara Cortés and i'm probably re-reading little women and little men 'cause it's been so long since i did

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i finished cmbyn also i'm starting with Clementine by Clara Cortés and i'm probably re-reading little women and little men 'cause it's been so long since i did

 

i finished it a few days ago, i'm reading the house on mango street by sandra cisneros now, also still thinking about re-reading little women

 

 

update (02/02/2020, spain's time-zone): i just finished the house on mango street

Edited February 2, 2020 by callmedecember

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Just finished Atomic Habits which was honestly worth the hype. There were a bunch of books on this topic of habit formation and how to be more productive and I'm glad I picked this one. Definitely some concrete tips to help you build systems in your life to make time for what is important to you. 

 

Now reading Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I haven't really dipped into fiction, I want to read something based in 50s-70s America next does anyone know anything good?

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just started reading the alienist by caleb carr and i'm only 50 pages in but honestly? dr kreizler could get it

 

kiiiiiinda tempted by the tv series but i know they're not gonna leave disability rep in (this is hollywood after all) so i'm a bit :/ over that

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i read The Flower by Louise Erdrich and i read Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot this morning, i didn't like that much the first one (2 stars out of 5) but T.S. Eliot's one was kinda funny, i still wonder how they could make a musical and a movie out of it (and why)

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Anna Karenina- Tolstoy

AMAZING...! Still reading but I'm in love with the character Levin, like really really really in love lol. I wish I could marry a man like him, so perfect

 

Either/Or - Kierkegaard

I'd also like to marry a man like Kierkegaard...

 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll 

I hope when I'm in heaven I will have an experience like Alice does in wonderland

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i finished this modern love today, now i'm starting cometierra by dolores reyes

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i finished this modern love today, now i'm starting cometierra by dolores reyes

 

i finished cometierra a few days ago, and yesterday i started a spanish poetry book called "la soledad de un cuerpo acostumbrado a la herida" by elvira sastre which i just finished

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okay so now that we're in quarantine................ what are y'all reading? i'm starting Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano

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Seen #showusyourshelves trending earlier people showing what books they have or read, embarrassigly I have a few books but out of all them i've only ever read 2 and 1 is not even an actual book its bout 80 pages and they are poems(The Tupac one) the other one was the first Hunger Games book which I read before watching the movie and then was going to read the other two but never and just watched the movies instead.

 

I bought probably half myself and others gifts or ones my dad gave me but I can never bring myself to start reading one even though I buy new ones and say I will definitely read it weeks pass, then months, then years. I am too easily distracted and never in the frame of mind to sit reading

I will hopefully start one tomorrow probably the Gucci Mane one which I bought thinking I need to get into reading more and need to read this  like 2 years ago.

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i finished lotería a few days ago and now i picked up boy erased again because i left it unfinished

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i finished boy erased last week, currently starting with the communist manifesto

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I began reading Elena Ferrante’s My brilliant friend yesterday! I’m only a few pages in but it’s good so far.

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