Books I'm Reading

By Trula • March 11th, 2008

You should encourage your kids to read! A love for reading is a gift and joy that will last your child’s whole life. I myself love to read and so do my children.
I would caution you on letting children read just anything. My parents let me read anything in the house so I often read [...]

I have so many favorite books! Off the top of my head here are 10 right quick:
Parable of the Talents by Octavia ButlerYellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishamel ReedCollectors by Paul GrinerThe Joke by Milan KunderaParadise by Toni MorrisonThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutRapture of Canaan by Sherri ReynoldsThe Autograph Man by Zadie SmithWhen [...]

It’s a slow week on the reading front for me as I am swamped with work, so just one book this week. I’m re-reading the four Agreements by Don Luis Ruiz. I have had this book for some time and have read it many times. It is awesome, get it if you can. One of [...]

This week I’m re-reading Of Human Bondage by W. Sommerset Maugham
and The Power of a Positve No by William Ury.
I really need this book as I am often overworked and overwhelmed which means I don’t get lots of things done. I need to leanr how to say No effectively so I can concentrate on producing [...]

This week I am re-reading Othello by William Shakespeare. Everytime I read Shakespeare I am astounded by his way with words. This is one of the best tragedies written in this fashion I have ever read; I think some of the earlier work of Euripedes is better.
Worlds of Pain by Lillian Breslow Rubin, it’s [...]

This week I’m reading:
You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail
Emerald Magic by Jacqueline Carey
Re-reading Paradise by Toni Morrision
The Publishing Game: Bestseller in 30 Days by Fern Reiss
and Absolution Gap by Alistair Reynolds

This week I’m reading Couldn’t Keep it To Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
The Season of Women: an Anthology edited by Gloria Norris
Handbook of Magazine Article Writing edited by Michelle Ruberg and Ben Yagoda
French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
and re-read The Clothes they [...]

Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
2007 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market
The Wealthy Writer: How to Earn a 6-figure Income as a Freelance Writer by Michael Meanwell
and Re-reading Bullshit or Fertilizer by Pierre Bennu

Posting all kinds of late this week but here goes:
The Kaizan Way: One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer
Diamond Dogs, Turqoise Days by Alastair Reynolds
Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You (reading because I’m having issues with certain siblings [...]

Has anyone read this book, The Prodigal Father: Reuniting Fathers & Their Children? It is excellent. The author did not visit or financially provide for his own son for most of his childhood but was able to re-connect with his son in his late teens. I picked it up because my older son’s father is [...]

The Good House by Tananarive Due
Just re-read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Hestia by C.J. Cherryh
and I just started this one a friend gave me, Serious Straw Bale for all Climates by Paul Lacinski and Michel Bergeron

These are posts on what I’m currently reading (or have read). I will try to post weekly and include links to the authors’ websites or sites about them.
What I’m Reading: Week of 4/22/07What I’m Reading: Week of 4/2/07What I’m Reading: Week of 3/11/07What I’m Reading: Week of 3/04/07What I’m Reading: Week of 1/21/07What I’m [...]

re-reading The Bodacious Book of Succulence by SARK I adore Sark, reading her always motivates me and helps me stay on track of my goals
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory DoctorowThis book made me cry
222 Ways to Promote Your Small Business by Jay LevinsonTotally awesome, and easily applicable
and just finished Futureland by [...]

Is it me or is Malcolm Gladwell a total hottie? Man, I am in love with his books. What a mind! Makes me wonder. I mean he’s not as physically fine as Brian, my current husband or Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje**, my 2nd husband or Lenny Kravitz** my 3rd husband, but lord have mercy his mind [...]

This. Book. Is. AWESOME.
It’s by Patricia Evans who wrote the also awesome book The Verbally Abusive Relationship. I initially got this book for a close friend of mine who is trying to come to terms with being in a physically abusive relationship. I have been there, and she knows this, but she does not think [...]

The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business
by Martha Stewart

Although it surprises me, I like Martha Stewart. I admire her business sense, sense of style, and she is also very funny. I watched her show a few times almost against my will, and I was surprised at [...]

See this book is why I love science fiction so much. A collection of short stories edited by Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy, this book includes so many great stories it’s unreal. I could not put it down. The stories are a true trip, ranging from fantasy to hard science to political to futuristic. It [...]

The worst thing about writing is how tedious it can be sometimes. Especially the editing part. Editing is definitely not my strong point. But it’s not like I don’t handle constructive criticism well or that I feel loss at chopping bits here and there of switching stuf around…I just would rather not do it. I [...]

Damage by Josephine Hart is one of the most disturbing fiction books I have ever read. About a physician and minor politician, long married, with two grown children established in their careers, this book is all about the horror and havoc that lust and betrayal can bring into someone’s life. This guy starts messing around [...]

I don’t usually like mysteries because in general I find them scary, but this book by Susan Rogers Cooper is not boo! scary! at all. It is frightening in another way, for it tells the story of how identity loss can just break a person down.
A small town sheriff has to solve the mystery of [...]

I love this book! It has been so helpful to me. I’ve had it for a while, read it and re-read it a bunch of times. Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way! by Marcia Ramsland is a cool book that gives you easy-to-apply ways to get yourself organized.
I have wasted so much [...]

I’ve been so lax about posting, especially posting about whatever I’m reading. Just read Elizabeth Costello by J.M Coetzee. It’s a good, hard, strange read. About this really wacked out (fictional) writer, check it out.
I liked it ok, even though I didn’t get a good sense of this character as an actual person. I like [...]

So I’ve been re-reading Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lourde. This woman was such an awesome writer, thinker, and visionary. Her essays about feminism, racism, heterosexism, and more, are so socially evolved it’s incredible. It’s 2003 and I still sometimes feel like sexism and racism are insurmountable an will forever keep humanity mired [...]

Ok, I have a somewhat lame personality, I’ll admit it. When I am stressed out I retreat into my favorite books. This is the first time, however, that I re-read love stories. Probably because I never loved anyone like I love Brian, or rather I never expected to be with anyone for a lifetime like [...]

This is a very inspirational book. The New Color Of Success: 20 Young black Millionaires Tell You How They’re Making It by Niki Butler Mitchell. It’s about several entrepreneurs who who made fortunes doing what they love starting out with very little money. The foreward is by Earl G. graves, founder and publisher of Black [...]

I’ve always enjoyed the sci-fi written by Joanna Russ, and I finished this book she wrote about women’s writing: How To Suppress Women’s Writing last month. I’ve been mulling over it for a while, it’s a trip. A very cool writer mama I know from Mamaphonic sent it to me. I couldn’t find it anywhere [...]

I got this in an email, it’s very good:
1. Small steps toward your goal are better than no steps. Strive for progress not perfection. Take off your super(wo)man cape. Today…only do what matters. Focus on your priorities.
2. People scream for attention and love in the strangest ways. Stop, look and [...]

I got this in an email, I like it a lot. It’s on point and pretty cool.
As I awaken with the gift of yet another day and prepare for the tasks at hand, I offer up this most ardent prayer:
I pray for continued clarity of purpose so that I may hold my vision steady [...]

A really good book I am reading right now is 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America’s Most Innovative Small Companies. It was edited by Sam Decker with a foreward by Jay Conrad Levinson (of Guerilla Marketing fame).
It’s really, really good! Lots of great ideas for any biz owner, from marketing, distribution, partnering, everything. Brian got [...]