Books 2009!

[naturalog]

Hey friends,

Thanks to arylla, I now feel the need to make a list of all the books that I read in 2009 -- and also a list of some books that I'd like to read. A lot of the German titles are dependent upon my ability to get them in German -- I resist reading things in translation whenever possible. Any links go to entries I've written about the book.

Comments

[shawnaree]

You can have read books into the future? Cool. I need to learn that trick!

(check the dates in your first paragraph... also, the fact that present and past tense of "read" are spelled the same way makes the above question a little unnecessarily wordy. I wanted to say, "You 'red' books in the future?" but... yeah.)

[shawnaree]

Actually, I should have read the post first, before I commented. I'm a dumbass.

[mathwhiz78]

Ha, I thought the same thing, then looked behind the cut, and thought "ohhhhh....." So you're not alone.

Also, looking at your list is why I didn't recommend anything, ES--you read literature and actual books; I read the literary equivalent of action movies for the most part.

[peaceofpie]

Maybe your Scrabble game would improve if you read some books with bigger words! XD

[laine89]

Psst: Vonnegut's book is Slaughterhouse Five.

I think it's one of his best, personally.

[naturalog]

I blame this on the fact that Slaughterhouse Five was originally no. 9 on my list, but while I was adding it, I did some shifting around, at which point it became Nine in my head. :-)

[sushimustwrite]

I'm not a fan of reading books in translation either. Where's the fun in that?

[naturalog]

Indeed. Although it's no fun if you don't know the language. So really, I just read English and German things in the original language. And everything else in translation.

[peaceofpie]

Please, please, please read Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith by Justin Tanis!!

If you read it soon, you can discuss it with me while my trans group at church is reading it together! I would really value your input a lot while we're working on it in our group, and I think you will love it a lot. I have read it several times and I am so excited to be reading it again and I just can't say enough amazing things about how great this book is.

I'm trying to think what else I've read that would interest you. I mostly read books about energywork and religion these days. I'm assuming you've already read all the Bornstein and Feinberg in your gender studies material, but if you haven't...READ THEM, starting with Bornstein's My Gender Workbook or Feinberg's Transgender Warriors. If you're into poetry, Audre Lorde, Michelle Tea, and Walt Whitman are among my favorites. And for some truly mindblowingly beautiful fiction, anything by Francesca Lia Block

[shawnaree]

I second that book. I totally heart it a lot.

[naturalog]

You lent me Transgender Warriors, back ages ago. :-) And I have My Gender Workbook and I've read bits of it. I get impatient, though, because I like quizzes and fill-in-the-blank things and everything a lot, and don't want to read all the time.

I've read some poetry by all of those people, and I think I've read everything Francesca Lia Block has published? Or at least most of it, I guess it's been a few years since I read all that stuff.

And like I said, the list is going to grow. A lot. I can read more than 12 books in a year! And I'll have a lot of reading for school, of course.

[jix]

This is an interesting idea, I may have to steal it. :)