Well Im reading Mitch Albom's latest The Time Keeper. It is very straight forward using an economy of words and very introspective as all his works are. He also wrote Five People You will Meet in Heaven which is just about my favorite novel of all time..Loved the book and the movie. Seems almost a probable next chapter for our spirits after this life to me.
I love John Burdett's series of novels about the Bangkok detective's adventures with love and crime fighting(his mother runs a brothel) The books are interspersed with vivid asides about the Buddist religion and how the Thai culture interacts and controls outsiders to their advantage. Sometimes hilarious and always graphic they give me a nice change from the world of equity purchase and sales and financial planning strategies.
There is another author who writes about Canadian motorcycle gangs and assorted other sketchy members of the populace up there which I love to read about.. He writes from the perspective and insight of the gangs and the cops trying to figure out what is going down at the same time. I'll post his name when I find it. Reading his stuff puts you inside the mind of the characters sort of like Lenard Elmore' novels.
I know these topics may seem a bit eclectic but they always entertaining and I need that sometimes..lol
Posted By: Curvy CoEd Carly
I haven't been on the boards much over the past month with finals and enjoying some down time out of town since my classes ended, but I find myself missing the (mostly) intriguing conversations here and the Card Counting Topic below got me thinking about books and how much they can say about someone...
So what is everyone reading right now?? Or what is the best book you have read in the past 6 months? And maybe most importantly what do you think your book choice says about you?
Personally, I am reading "Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How drug companies plan to profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction... "
It describes the “medicalization” of women's sexual problems which the pharmaceutical companies are quick to attribute to chemical deficits rather than due to a complicated set of causes including the way we relate to each other, our culture, and our individual and collective sexual histories... all which make up the sexual "tapestry" of our lives. Of course the identification of a chemical imbalance means there's a "cure" which the pharmaceutical companies are more than happy to sell to us.
Really super intriguing- Given my major I of course do understand the place of medicinal intervention in psychology and I am sure that many men's lives have been changed by the little blue pill and the like, but for women sexual dysfunction is often times more mental or emotional than a physical ailment like ED. Hopefully over time we will come to shift the focus from a “quick-fix” pill to therapy sessions that actually get to the root of the dysfunction where it can be addressed and perhaps redirected. As for what my book choice says about me, probably that I am an over-achiever since I only came across it on the reading list for one of my classes next semester and that I am passionate enough about my future career to be reading it 3 months before it’s even assigned! Lol
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