Toward a New Slaughterhouse of Women

I kid, I kid.

I finished Slaughterhouse Five. I have mixed emotions. Throughout the book I was almost overwhelmed with pity and empathy for the main character, Billy. And it was eye-opening about Dresden. But it was hard to read and imagine all the misfortunes of Billy and know that he was going to experience the firebombing.

Now I'm on to Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller.

Keeping on my pattern of alternating non-fiction with fiction.

moving on

I may have mentioned this, but I've started a new reading policy of alternating novels with all the non-fiction I've been reading lately. That has felt really good.



Anyway, today I decided to stop Real Boys and move on to Slaughterhouse-Five.



I bought this book at Barnes and Noble, which is something I haven't done in a long time with Paperbackswap.com. I needed something immediate and as great as PBS.com is, it isn't immediate.



I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving and my first endeavor at roasting a turkey.



Time off is always nice, too.

Decided to move on from The Time Traveller's Wife

It's a weird thing. I LOVED that book when I read it back ~2005. In re-reading it I can remember parts of what and why I loved it so much, but I found that I had less patience for the stuff I didn't remember (typical for me).

Did what I do now, read a synopsis on Wikipedia to jog my memory. I forgot a LOT of the book. I was sad to have forgotten the parts I did.

I'm on now to Real Boys by William Pollock.

Feeling a little daunted by its bulk and subject matter but I'm trying to remain optimistic.

Addendum to Finished

I decided instead to start on Thou Shalt Not Be Aware

I love Alice Miller

Finished

Black and White.

I can't decide if I'll start Toward a New Psychology of Women or Real Boys next.

I love this website. It enables a whole bunch of my voracious reading. Definitely worth looking into.

oooooh! Inspiration and something new to try!

Since I haven't been on here in FOREVER and was curious when I'd make it back, I'm taking this new copycat idea as a good thing.

I've been doing a lot of internal processing lately. And that's been working for me.

So until I get back into the swing of blogging, here are the books I'm reading.

I can't promise I'll write a review of any of them, but I'll almost surely give my short two cents (before and after I'm done reading them).

So here we go, as of 1458 on 11/1/2009.

Black and White by Dani Shapiro
I have wanted to read this book for a few years now. I heard a conversation with the author on NPR and made up my mind then & there that I would read it. I'm about 24 hours into reading it and I imagine I will finish it in the next few days. I'm surprised to say that, after starting it, because the story deals a lot with old wounds from parents in childhood and end of life. Two areas I know quite a lot about! Without sounding cheesy, I think this book may give me some new insights about my time in therapy and constant move towards personal growth and actualization. Not always an easy read but I have devoured it so far, nevertheless.

The Mother Dance by Harriet Lerner (on the nightstand, I read a chapter at a time in between other things)
I am not pregnant, nor do I have children or plan to any time soon. That being said, I likely will one day. I was intrigued by this book because it seems to be an opportunity to have someone tell you some of the inside, emotional secrets about motherhood that not many people talk about. This fits in with my lifetime goal of being emotionally healthy and open in my life and relationships. What relationship is more important that that between a mother and child? As much as I can go in with eyes wide open, that's my goal.

Teaching Your Child How to Pray by Rick Osbourne (at a snail's pace)
I was intrigued by the concept of this book, because I would have LOVED if my parents had read this book and utilized it when I was growing up. As a result, I'm learning to do a lot of the stuff in this book as a woman in my late-twenties on my own. How cool would it have been if I'd learned it as a child?!

Those are the only ones I want to share