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[rivendellrose]

Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett
Daily Life in Civil War America
Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
Stiff, Mary Roach
Just Add Hormones, (also can't recall atm)
Second-Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, Dirk Van Der Elst
The Swamp Thing: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Alan Moore etc.
The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria, Victor C. Uchendu
And a Time to Die, Kaufman
Carried to the Wall, ?
Jingo, Terry Pratchett
The Middle Man (vol. 1)
*A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
*Fantasy Girls, Elyce Rae Helford

* In progress.

Comments

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

ooooh, I LOVED Stiff. Just don't read the decomposition chapter around meal times. There are several unfortunate food comparisons in it...

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I must be slightly broken - I read the chapter on decomposition while eating a protein bar, and I know I was eating lunch during at least one other chapter....

Probably should've affected me a bit more than it did. The only chapter that really freaked me out was the one on plane wrecks, and that was mostly just a queasy little "well. I hope I've forgotten that before the next time I fly" kind of thing.

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

WOW. You're on a roll! I thought I was going to read more on the bus, but then realized that I could write on my PDA on the bus, and reading got neglected.

Oops.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* I thought I'd be writing more, but I've become obsessed with making the most of my access to the UW library while I have it. XD So we're doing the same thing, just in reverse.

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

Have you read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser? I'm trying to pimp it to as many people as possible, and since you're obviously looking to add to your list ...

It is mind-blowing. And non-fiction! And worth checking out, particularly while you've still got library access. :p

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I saw this comment just before leaving campus today, so I stopped off and picked it up when I went to pick up a hold. It's so fascinating! Thanks for the recommendation - I'd wanted to read it a while ago, but then forgot all about it!

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't think you'd get started on it that quick, if at all! You are awfully thorough.

I'm glad you're liking it so far; it really is one of the more absorbing books I've read recently. It's just chock full of interesting tidbits -- I basically read the whole book out loud to my husband just by mentioning the things I found fascinating. Enjoy it!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Well, once I'd picked it up I was curious, so I had to start it, and it turned out I had a long wait for a bus, so I got a good ways in. I'm kind of crazy like that when I get reading something into my head - I have to strike while it's on my mind, or I might get distracted.

It really is! Makes me all the more happy it's been years since I've touched fast food. :P

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

It really is! Makes me all the more happy it's been years since I've touched fast food. :P

LOL. Me too. I kept telling people while I was reading it for the first time that I couldn't even imagine how grossed out I would have been if I ate any of that crap while I was reading it (or any meat either -- just wait until you get to the slaughterhouse chapter). *shudders*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

...just wait until you get to the slaughterhouse chapter.

I've read some fairly appalling stuff about slaughterhouses, and I admit that it goes a ways toward making me eat less meat. I haven't gone total vegetarian yet, but I do tend to eat a fairly minimal amount of meat, and very little other than chicken and fish. There are so many economic, environmental, and health-related reasons to cut it down, even though I can't quite bring myself to cut it completely yet. I figure I'm weaning myself - by the time I actually need to cut it out, as my metabolism slows down, I'll be used to the idea. ;)

[reve-lucide.livejournal.com]

I've read some fairly appalling stuff about slaughterhouses...

Oh, just wait for it. It's not even the gore and awful treatment of the animals that gets me in this book, because I've read that in ten different places; it's the entire meat industry and how horrid and corrupt it is, and how influential.