What are you reading Chapter 4

[ryco]

My Life Among the Underdogs - Tia Torres

A memoir of her life and her pit bull rescue organization. She is the owner/operator of Villalobos Pit Bull Resue Center as seen on Animal Planet's show Pit Bulls and Parolees.
Gave this book to my wife as a Christmas present as we are both fans of this show. She read it through half a dozen times. I was "in between books", and asked to read it. Quick, easy read of Tia's life growing up in rural southern California. She tells the stories of her life through the dogs she had at certain times. It's not a chronological book at all. Skips back and forth through places and her different ages and life situations. Tough lady doing a tough job she feels is her life mission. Single parent who certainly had tough times and yet managed to raise a family of great kids.

Don't read much anymore. I go through jags where I read a lot and then don't read much at all. Have been re-reading a lot of books, so haven't been posting here much.

 

[Bob_Ross]

I just finished Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness.

 

[corndog]

My wife got me Zucked by Roger McNamee for christmas. He was and advisor and mentor to Zuckerberg and Sandberg during the early days of Facebook.

After the personal data breach scandal Facebook went through, he decided to write about his experiences with Facebook and Silicon Valley in its startup years. “Move fast and break things” was a moto Zuckerberg lived by and instilling it into the culture of Facebook. His take on the internet as we know it today is scary. Most of the giants (Facebook, Amazon, Paypal etc) where all loosely connected in some way. These were your stereotypical nerdy types who exploited technology with zero regard for structure and created their own rules as they went along.

He doesn’t put Facebook in a positive light. Facebook allowed others to utilize their data to influence major political decisions and threatening the democratic process around the globe (see Cambridge Analytica), new about it and didn’t try to stop it.

He’s a good writer and very educated on the subject. It’s a good read and makes you think about your online data vulnerability.

 

[kleinenenten]

Finally getting back to Lord of the Rings after a few month hiatus. Return of the King here we go.

 

[Oddly]

Almost finished a run of autobiographies.
First, Mike Hanrahan's Beautiful Affair. Mike was the songwriter for Irish folk-rock band Stockton's Wing, then became a chef, and still gigs occasionally. A fine read, and with the added bonus of several great recipes thrown in.

Second, Christy Dignam's My Crazy World. Christy was the frontman of Irish rockers Aslan. He was fired over drug abuse, but eventually cleaned up, and came back, although he's had several illness that kept knocking him back. Guy's a survivor, though, and this gives a good account of life in Ireland's music scene at the time.

Third, Madness' Before We Was We. Formatted as a interview with them all, covering their lives and how they all came together eventually to form a band. A bunch of petty criminals made good.

Fourth, Chrissie Hynde's Reckless. Not done with this yet, and I'm finding it a hard read so far, as she's yet to actually get to any band stuff, just a lot of talk about drugs and hanging around on the periphery of a biker scene. Hoping it improves.

 

[grinx]

Love In the Time of Cholera

reallllllllly slow so far.........ugh

 

[slobake]

Really like the way Jean Grainger writes. If you like character driven stories you'll love this book. Learned a lot about writing from her.

 

[Winslow]

 

[Funky Ghost]

My Kindle informed me today that I am on 80 weeks in a row of reading.

I guess I like to read

Currently I am revisiting this:

It's not world shaking but it is interesting. What I like most about it ( as is often the case with new writers ) is sort of seeing (reading) them become fully fledged writers as the story ( or indeed series ) goes on. This is raw, a bit fanciful and sometimes a bit too earnest, but I love it for those same reasons. I was a senior in High School when this was wrote. I suppose I was all of those things too.

 

[Tom Bomb]

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[kleinenenten]

Just finished “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”. Just as good (and even stranger!) than I remembered!

 

[bass4more]

I just finished this and it was great. It's being made into a limited series to be broadcast on the FX channel. Can't wait.

 

[biguglyman]

Been getting into some Stephen Coonts lately. First, Flight Of The Intruder. Now, the Saucer series.

 

[Oddly]

@kleinenenten , have you read the follow-up The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul?

Just as wonderfully weird.

 

[kleinenenten]

@kleinenenten , have you read the follow-up The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul?

Just as wonderfully weird.

I have. It’s next on the list. I had actually thought that it was the first, as most of the things the things I had remembered didn’t come from the first book.

I own most of Douglas Adams’ stuff, and am re-reading it as a break from my heavy English-major type stuff. Now it’s just dorky in a different way.

 

[5StringBlues]

 

[mcrawfordmusic]

I have started reading a lot the past few months. I was never really into it, but I love it now.

I recently read Flea and Victor Wooten’s books. Both were good reads.

I’ve just started on a new book by an Australian author, Bruce Pascoe. It’s called Dark Emu and is about Aboriginal agriculture in Australia.

 

[murphy]

Just finished this....what happened between ww1 and ww2 in Germany.....My god, it was a violent mess

 

[the harp unstrung]

^^^ May I suggest

as a follow-up?

This story starts in Il Duce’s Italy in the 1920s.

 

[the harp unstrung]

...and, on a lighter note...