Books you love or books you are reading now.

[Lucilla]

Let's see what are the books you are currently reading or the books that you love :cheeky:

The Galaxy of the Mind - Rita Levi Montalcini

[Rudolf]

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - Lord of the Rings (all 3)
Alexander Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

There are more but these are what I like the most... :yes:

[Word Smith Sr]

"Slash" written by the dope guitarist called Slash.

[respect77]

I'm reading the Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins now. A great book: http://www.amazon.com/Ancestors-Tale-Pilgrimage-Dawn-Evolution/dp/0618005838

[blue_eyed_belle]

I'm currently reading 'Handle With Care' by Jodi Picoult.

[claudiadoina]

I am reading now The Michael Jackson Tapes.

I purchased it several months ago but I haven't had the courage to read it.It is very emotion consuming :sad:

And for the rest I love classics
Lev Tolstoi - Ana Karenina
Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind

[msdeweydiva]

I'm reading Her Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers. Just started. Also reading Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon.

[*Completly dry*]

I'm reading "What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw" - Agatha Christie right now. Love the movie and thought it was time to read the original!

[Lainy]

I just finished reading Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do Coração Selvagem) by Clarice Lispector this past week. A few weeks before I had read The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw. I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

[Ashtanga]

Now I'm reading Philippa Gregory. The first book in the series Tudor > The Constant Princess (Katherine of Aragon).


http://bookreviewsbybobbie.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/the-constant-princess.jpg


This is a wonderful writer.




I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Classic!!! :wild: :heart:

And there's Jane Austen. All her books are wonderful! :wild:

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I had since gone back to reading V.C. Andrews series Flowers In The Attic again. I think that is the best series I had ever read and I really can't seem to get enough of reading them. My book Flowers In The Attic alone had to be replace 3 or 4 times cause I had read it so much. I am a big V.C. Andrews fan I have nearly all of her books. Another book of hers that I am also reading is Daughter of Darkness. Which is her vampire story.

[Hicci]

My favourite books are the ones in the Harry Potter series, I think they're brilliant.

[The One.]

Currently I'm reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Seems good so far.


My favourite books are the ones in the Harry Potter series, I think they're brilliant.
Same here! It always amazes me how Rowling managed to create such a world.. I could read these books forever, love them!

Other books I enjoy are Agatha Christie's novels and Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

[4u_n_4me]

http://www.dwsmg.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/A-Tree-Grows-in-Brooklyn.jpg

I cried.

[Roosje]

I I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

My favourite book ever :heart:

I'm reading David Mitchell's The thousand autumns of Jacob Zoet.
David Mitchell is one of my favourite contemporary writers.

[morsmordre]

Yay books! :D I'm kinda reading 4 books right now :lol: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, East of Eden, The Shadow of the Wind and Third Girl by Agatha Christie. I always start a book and then find other books I want to read and start them too :lmao:

At any point in time though, I'm reading a Harry Potter book. I find it impossible to get bored by them :P

[Strange Blues]

At any point in time though, I'm reading a Harry Potter book. I find it impossible to get bored by them :P

I know how that feels, I'm reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the fifth or sixth time now I think. :D

I raecently read the two first books from the Hunger Games trilogy. The first one was really good but the second one felt repetitious to me. I still want to know how the story ends though, so I'll probably borrow the third one from my friend.

[gerryevans]

Currently I'm reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci CodeSeems good so far.


Same here! It always amazes me how Rowling managed to create such a world.. I could read these books forever, love them!

Other books I enjoy are Agatha Christie's novels ....

I love love Agatha Christie novels. I think I've read at least a dozen of them.

[Ashtanga]

I love love Agatha Christie novels. I think I've read at least a dozen of them.

Me too. :wild:

I really want to read this book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mDnzVfQ1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Christies-Secret-Notebooks-Mysteries/dp/0061988367/ref=sr_1_48?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304385790&sr=1-48

[kindofdisco]

Oh jeez, I need to read more! The last book I read was Shirley Temple's autobiography, which was very entertaining! Other than that, I've been slack as anything on borrowing books out. I don't even think I have a library card any more, haha!

[jay_bee]

My favourite book ever is The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. I'm currently reading Legion, also by Blatty. He's an incredible writer, I'm actually rather jealous of him.

[The One.]

I love love Agatha Christie novels. I think I've read at least a dozen of them.


Me too. :wild:

I really want to read this book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mDnzVfQ1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Christies-Secret-Notebooks-Mysteries/dp/0061988367/ref=sr_1_48?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304385790&sr=1-48
:)

She wrote so many novels I've lost count on how many I've read. It's been a while now since I last read something from her, I should make a trip to the library someday soon.

Have you guys read any of the novels she wrote as Mary Westmacott? I haven't.

[Sunflowers]

I just finished Sonny Boy. It's from a Dutch writer Annejet van der Zijl. Beautifull book about how a teenage boy from Suriname came to Holland, how he build his life here and what happened with him and his wife in the 2nd world war. Very moving book.

Still need to start in the autobiography of quincy jones.

[Alma]

Am currently reading a great magazine/book of thought&living, called 'Atitudini'.

[gerryevans]

Me too. :wild:

I really want to read this book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mDnzVfQ1L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Christies-Secret-Notebooks-Mysteries/dp/0061988367/ref=sr_1_48?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304385790&sr=1-48



:)

She wrote so many novels I've lost count on how many I've read. It's been a while now since I last read something from her, I should make a trip to the library someday soon.

Have you guys read any of the novels she wrote as Mary Westmacott? I haven't.

Me, too. I haven't read her in a while but have also read so many I don't even know if I read one of hers as Mary Westmacott. I might get started with her again and check out the John Curran book as well.

[8701girl]

Im reading "the twilight saga- the official illustrated guide"

[Miss_Dangerous]

My favourite books are the ones in the Harry Potter series, I think they're brilliant.

Me too. I absolutely adore the Potter series. I've laughed, cried and lived every page of those books.
For me, the films aren't nearly as good as the books so I always get annoyed when people judge the books from what they've seen at the cinema.
I'm off to see Hogwarts next month at Universal Studios... I can't wait!!!

[Erandi]

I just finished reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I recommend it to you, it's a page turner (although on the thick side..)

[powernoize]

Camus' The Stranger
Orwell's 1984

[Desired.]

I'm currently reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.

[Roosje]

^Tell us what you think about it when you have finished it. It's high on my must-read list :) It was one of Michael's favourites I heard...

[The One.]

Me too. I absolutely adore the Potter series. I've laughed, cried and lived every page of those books.
For me, the films aren't nearly as good as the books so I always get annoyed when people judge the books from what they've seen at the cinema.
I'm off to see Hogwarts next month at Universal Studios... I can't wait!!!
!!!!! I'm jealous! :D I definitely want to go there someday! Have a great trip!!!


I'm currently reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
That became one of my favourite books after I read it last year.. very touching, I recommend it to everyone who hasn't read it yet!

[Daryll748]

I love books...

My faves are...

"the gift of acabar" OG MANDINO (one of Michael's fave books ;) )
"peter pan" J.M. BARRIE
"dancing the dream" MICHAEL JACKSON ;)

"black notice" P. Cornwell
"Insomnia" S. KING ;)
"the da vinci code" "angels & demons" D. Brown

all the Buffy the vampire slayer en Spike books ;)
oh, I love "zombie" Christopher Golden... its a collection of short stories about zombies duh... WAY TOO COOL book ;)

Books I'm currently reading :

"the life you were born to live" Dan Millman
and my own written book... LOL... "one minute" as I'm creating a sequel to it so...

must read books still to read are:

"they cage the animals at night" I didn't know this was a TRUE STORY but I have seen the video where Michael meets the author and its so heartbreaking :(

oh, I 'm so eager to read the books of my FB friend, R.B. CLAGUE... He writes HORROR... me like ;)

[Miss_Dangerous]

!!!!! I'm jealous! :D I definitely want to go there someday! Have a great trip!!!

Thank you! I'll let you know what I thought of it when I get back. :)

[PurpleParrot]

They are couple of books I read at least once EVERY SINGLE YEAR!

- Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela's autobio)
- Wuthering Heights (Haven't read it in a while.. it's next!)
- Count of Monte-Cristo (Never get tired of it!)
- Moonwalk (hey!)
- Twilight Saga once in a while, but I took a break of the books recently, read them many times already lol...
- Yoko Tsuno (awesome comics! been reading them since I'm 8 years old!)

[Hazard]

Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

[Ashtanga]

Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

I love all his books. :wub:

[Rhilo]

I'm currenty reading Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson, and loving it.

[PurpleParrot]

oh, I wanted to re-read wuthering heights after coming to this thread but I can't find my copy...nooooo! :(

[dam2040]

'The Trials of Michael Jackson' Is what I am reading currently,very interesting!

[Clowryd]

Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years (http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Kennedy-Selections-Library-Museum/dp/0821227459/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1/192-4168928-7343035)

[Ashtanga]

Jacqueline Kennedy : The White House Years (http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Kennedy-Selections-Library-Museum/dp/0821227459/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1/192-4168928-7343035)

I did not know of this book! :doh: Must be a very interesting reading. :yes: He goes to my list "must read".

[Ben]

Under the dome - Stephen King. Awesome, as usual.

[Severus Snape]

Books I have read and thoroughly enjoyed:

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, The Magistrate Mocked, and Emilie de Tourville by the Marquis de Sade, Peter Pan by JM Barrie, Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson, Lolita and The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac, Candide by Voltaire, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria by Christopher McIntosh, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, and The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov, Revolutionary Girl Utena manga volumes 1-5 by Chiho Saito, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling.

The book I am currently reading is The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick For Illumination and Power by Jason Augustus Newcomb.

[teli-mj]

Books I have read and thoroughly enjoyed:

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, The Magistrate Mocked, and Emilie de Tourville by the Marquis de Sade, Peter Pan by JM Barrie, Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson, Lolita and The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac, Candide by Voltaire, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria by Christopher McIntosh, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, and The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov, Revolutionary Girl Utena manga volumes 1-5 by Chiho Saito, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling.

The book I am currently reading is The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick For Illumination and Power by Jason Augustus Newcomb.



Amazing list of books you have there. Some of them are a bit tough to digest (Marquis de Sade) but overall good list.

Here are few of my favourites

Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The house of the Deads", "Crime and Punishment", "The gambler"
Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina", "The resurection"
Alexander Pushkin "Eugene Oniegin" (don't know how is written in english)
Gustave Flaubert "Madame Dovary''
Goethe "Faust - a tragedy" ,
Victor Hugo "The miserables" ,
John Stainbeck "The grapes of wrath"
Umberto Ecco "The name of the rose"
Alberto Moravia "La noia" etc.ect.

Currently am reading "Brothers Karamazof"

[Ashtanga]

Umberto Ecco "The name of the rose"


:wild:



The movie also wonderful.


http://xtragfx.com/uploads/posts/2010-09/1285077551_92a9b5dcd8f75fd3bbb1277.jpg

[Clowryd]

The devil wears Prada

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

Right now I am finally starting to read the Left Behind series. The series I have been wanting to read since last year.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

Right now I'm reading some of the few chapters of Black Rabbit Summer-by Kevin Brooks

[Justine]

I love Dan Brown's and A. Rice's books ;))

but now i reading The Vampire Diaries ;)

[Severus Snape]

Amazing list of books you have there. Some of them are a bit tough to digest (Marquis de Sade) but overall good list.

Here are few of my favourites

Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The house of the Deads", "Crime and Punishment", "The gambler"
Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina", "The resurection"
Alexander Pushkin "Eugene Oniegin" (don't know how is written in english)
Gustave Flaubert "Madame Dovary''
Goethe "Faust - a tragedy" ,
Victor Hugo "The miserables" ,
John Stainbeck "The grapes of wrath"
Umberto Ecco "The name of the rose"
Alberto Moravia "La noia" etc.ect.

Currently am reading "Brothers Karamazof"

He's my favourite, though! :D

I have the Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I purchased it from a used book store. However, I haven't read it yet.

I forgot to add I also loved Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, as well as Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane. I didn't add those two because they were technically required class reading for my Revolutionary Europe class, and the list in my original post is entirely composed of books I have pursued out of personal interest and not school reading. I also love Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (technically a play) and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, although those were also required reading, in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade, respectively, hence the reason why I omitted them from my original list.

I have also now completed my reading of the manga series Elfen Lied, which is way better than its anime counterpart, although both are incredibly sad and beautiful. I recommend that manga to everyone who is 18+, there is a lot of gore, violence, "disturbing themes," and some nudity, although the MA rating in both the manga and anime is pretty much exclusively for the violence. It's a wonderful twelve-volume series, though. It took me only about two days to read all of it, all while multitasking, of course. ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/0/08/20080528051229!Elfen_Lied_manga_volume_1.jpg

[Rhilo]

'Stuart: a life backwards' by Alexander Masters

A difficult read...

[Severus Snape]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/12280000/12288483.jpg


The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774; revised 1787) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a short, mostly epistolary work of elevated emotion of the German Sturm und Drung period that later evolves into Romanticism.
Honorable and sensitive young Werther literally perishes from a love that can never be, a love for a married young woman, and writes his agonized letter diary to a friend, describing in tragic emotional detail his experiences.


Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. The first great 'confessional' novel, it draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of a close friend. The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous copycat deaths as well as violent criticism and suppression for its apparent support of suicide. Goethe's exploration of the mind of an artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life remains as poignant as when it was first written.

Seems eerily fitting to my life at the moment. Hehe, a mix of Goethe, <i>Utena</i> and <i>Elfen Lied</i>.

[Word Smith Sr]

I am currently reading "Book of five rings" by Miyamoto Musashi. "The art of war" by Sun Tzu is awesome too.

[Ben]

I am a huge Tolkien fan, have almost everything he wrote. :)
I loved The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie, very good story, and, no surprise, it's hilarious. I've read Les Miserables a zillion times, and Victor Hugo is one of the very few people I admire. His essays against the death penalty are amazing. I'll add A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
And, nothing like a good Calvin and Hobbes!

[Ashtanga]

I began to read:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JixniLMIL._SS400_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Cleopatra-Life-Stacy-Schiff/dp/0316001929/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310684509&sr=1-1

[respect77]

There are two books I'm reading now:

"The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins

http://www.amazon.com/Ancestors-Tale-Pilgrimage-Dawn-Evolution/dp/0618005838

and

"In Search of the Multiverse" by John Gribbin

http://www.amazon.com/Search-Multiverse-Parallel-Dimensions-Frontiers/dp/0470613521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310714232&sr=1-1

I just finished "The man in the High Castle" (http://www.amazon.com/Man-High-Castle-Philip-Dick/dp/0679740678/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310714783&sr=1-7 ) and "Counter-Clock World" ( http://www.amazon.com/Counter-Clock-World-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0375719334 ) by Philip K. Dick.

[respect77]

I'm currently reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.


A wonderful book. It reminds me so much of what happened to Michael.

[LaNixie]

Oh, Stevenson's Treasure Island... I keep coming back to it:wub:

[Severus Snape]

To Kill a Mockingbird is indeed an awesome read!

[Rhilo]

I'm reading Chicken soup for the cat & dog lover's soul. Most stories have me in tears.

[Ashtanga]

Now:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FZZEoMelL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Why-This-World-Biography-Lispector/dp/019538556X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312239262&sr=1-1


Benjamin Moser.... an American in love with Brazil. :wild: Wonderful book. :clapping:

[Ben]

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury. A classic
Full dark no stars, Stephen King at his best.

[Severus Snape]

I'm attempting to read a book an English prof. loaned me:

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348351l/47712.jpg

I haven't even cracked it open yet--I've been putting it off for a while despite my interest in getting through it. I reckon I'm mainly focused on researching stuff right now, so I haven't much time for reading books. I dunno--my mind is scattered, really, and with my new job I have even less time for books. -sigh-

[Hazard]

I am reading Water for Elephants by Sara Greun right now. The book is so adorable and sad.

[respect77]

I started to read Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut.

http://www.amazon.com/Timequake-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0425164349

[CaptainEoLove85]

Been reading these

http://cdn.blippr.com/images/titles/000/007/146/kafka-on-the-shore.medium.jpg?1245380880

http://www.mjfanclub.net/home/images/stories/front/headlines/m%20poetica.jpg

Both are very good so far. :)

[teli-mj]

Been reading these

http://cdn.blippr.com/images/titles/000/007/146/kafka-on-the-shore.medium.jpg?1245380880

http://www.mjfanclub.net/home/images/stories/front/headlines/m%20poetica.jpg

Both are very good so far. :)

The second book is about Michael's music? And does it contain the usual goship filth?I've been trying to find books regarding MJ's work but the only books that i have find so far are about scandals. Ver disappointing.

[CaptainEoLove85]

The second book is about Michael's music? And does it contain the usual goship filth?I've been trying to find books regarding MJ's work but the only books that i have find so far are about scandals. Ver disappointing.

It's an ebook that analyzes his art, but it's much more than that. It goes deep into sociological and psychological perspectives. I can't exactly explain it, but it's worth reading and a positive book. I'll just say in some places it knocked my socks off. :)

[teli-mj]

It's an ebook that analyzes his art, but it's much more than that. It goes deep into sociological and psychological perspectives. I can't exactly explain it, but it's worth reading and a positive book. I'll just say in some places it knocked my socks off. :)

Thank you. I will try to get it.

[Severus Snape]

I will have to scout around for that one as well--do you mind telling us where you found it?

Well, my reading list has been modified. Gomenasai, Herr Freud. I'm currently reading a topic which is of fascination to me.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514J5Y246AL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

Although technically a self-help book, the work does contain a lot of actual information and hardly any Dr. Phil brand hogwash. What drives the desire for another to such extremes so as to turn seemingly average (and even successful) individuals into harassers, stalkers, even violent creatures--all to salvage the attachment to one person?

To the layperson, "love" may seem to be the force responsible for all this chaos. Clearly, the obsessor "loves" so much that he cannot contain himself for his feelings towards his beloved, that he must, at all costs, win him/her over or else perish in the effort for the sake of romance. This is, of course, an erroneous misconception both obsessors and the unqualified people who observe them have. Obsessive "love" has little to do with the reproduction-encouraging chemical reaction we deem "love," and more to do with an effort on the obsessor's behalf to heal a damaged bond with a physically or emotionally unavailable parent.

Yes, it seems odd that the obsessor would project his childhood aspirations unto a complete stranger, but this is <i>exactly</i> what happens on a subconscious level. We are the sort of animal who picks up behaviour from the example set forth by others--we are social animals, and the first "social" group we are ever a part of is undoubtedly one's family--specifically, one in direct connection with mother and father. We pick up our attitudes towards men and women, and towards human attachments on the reproductive scale, by observing the interactions between our parents, and between them and ourselves.

On a "romantic" sense--we pick up how men and women act by watching our parents in the grand stage of childhood family life. This is not equivalent to Freud's Oedipus/Electra complexes--as these do not involve sexual fantasies of mother/father--they are instead role models in what to look for <i>outside</i> of that relationship, as the ultimate goal of parenthood is eventual separation from the parents and independence in the outer world. An example of this may be, say, a woman whose father was physically or emotionally absent from her life may obsess over a man who is also physically or emotionally aloof in regards to her--or else, she may <i>fear</i> this occurring as childhood memories of her father's abandonment flood her unconscious, prompting her to preemptively take measures against a perceived abandonment on her lover's part (despite no evidence existing of his intentions to do this). In turn, her smothering hold on him prompts him to alienate himself from her--so that her fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, this time due to <i>her</i> own actions instead of circumstances outside her control.

Similarly, we pick up our idea of how human relationships should be from our parents as well, as we try to recreate the bond we once had with our mother inside the womb and in our newborn years--the height of our human happiness at its most simplistic level. If, during childhood, our relationship with either mother or father is strained--if they are physically/emotionally/verbally abusive or negligent, we seek to fill the void with a fulfilling relationship elsewhere--the problem is, we have no idea what this healthy relationship is supposed to look like, knowing nothing but neglect, abandonment, and fear--we become overzealous in our attempts to preserve whatever extraneous relationship it is we have, and it becomes like water slipping from a thirsty man's hands--despite our efforts,nay, <i>because</i> of them, it slips all the same, reopening the childhood wounds we suffered as children--but as adults, powerful beings with abilities to do more than just keep mum and weep silently to ourselves in a corner, we can <i>try</i> to save this projected attachment through pursuit--and in the valiant effort to rekindle a dead relationship using pursuit/power tactics, we become different beings--obsessive driver-bys, callers, stalkers, etc. It is because of the strength of the need for that healthy attachment deviated in childhood that obsessive lovers do the things they do, and go to the extreme measures they go.

Other factors which can shape someone to become an obsessor:

-Genetic predisposition (personality traits)
-Chemical imbalance in the brain (mood disorders)
-relationships with siblings
-relationships with childhood "peers"
-youthful romantic experiences (or lack thereof)

Genetic predisposition towards a certain sort of personality and chemical imbalances in the brain which can cause mood disorders (i.e. depression) obviously set an important foundation for what can later become an obsessive personality. However, they are not the sole factors, outside of a failed connection with one's parent figures, which can trigger this sort of thing. Failing the relationship with one's parents, if the relationship with siblings is also one which is unhealthy, the need for suitable human attachment is intensified and the deviance from achieving it in a fulfilling manner is further expanded. This same concept applies to relationships with other children--their rejection further "validates" the pre-obsessor's already existing feelings of being unwanted, unloved, abandoned, unlovable, etc. Similarly, stormy romantic relationships (or attempts at them), especially in the formative adolescent years, which either mirror those witnessed among parental units during childhood, or else become deviant on their own either through joint fault or over the obsessor's desire to fulfill his needs, add more to the already filled-to-the-brim feelings of rejection, etc. so that the self becomes desperate to make a suitable connection, and understandably so--as it equates "romantic" love with the sort of attachment missed during childhood years, and the finding of said attachment becomes a matter of survival of the self.

Overall, it has been a fascinating read. I'm not yet entirely finished with it. It does shed much-needed light on a little-understood psychological problem. I greatly recommend this book. I got it yesterday afternoon, and I stayed up reading it for hours.

[Arklove]

Been reading these

http://cdn.blippr.com/images/titles/000/007/146/kafka-on-the-shore.medium.jpg?1245380880

http://www.mjfanclub.net/home/images/stories/front/headlines/m poetica.jpg

Both are very good so far. :)

hahaha...Sweet! The second one was 'Recommended For You' on my Kindle...So I'll get it! :D

Right now I'm reading some books on spirituality and philosophy...I'm also reading 'The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream' ...I'm also going to start reading Sun Tzu - Art of War, and I'll probably read after that (again lol), 'Memoirs of a Geisha' <-----fell in love with it the first time I read it :D

[Ben]

The Long Walk by Stephen King.
I know, King again. I like the way he can write stories that are so completely different. This one is part of my favorite collection : how ordinary people react in extraordinary situations. It's an easy read and so well written you feel the pain and exhaustion of the walkers. And then you have the psychological aspect, the mind taking over (or not), the relation to death, the reaction of society. A must read.

[MIST]

The Long Walk by Stephen King.
I know, King again. I like the way he can write stories that are so completely different. This one is part of my favorite collection : how ordinary people react in extraordinary situations. It's an easy read and so well written you feel the pain and exhaustion of the walkers. And then you have the psychological aspect, the mind taking over (or not), the relation to death, the reaction of society. A must read.
I have read it several times.
Somehow it reminds me of the society today, if you´re not good enough society don´t need you and wants to get rid of you.

[Ben]

Yeah, absolutely. The way he describes the reaction of the Crowd, turning it into some kind of bloodthirsty monster, the acceptation of this game which is basically torture. I like when he focuses on horrifying details of what seems to be daily life. It's much scarier.

[Rhilo]

I know why the caged bird sings, is an absolute favorite of mine. Unfortunately, my copy was loaned to a collegue in my previous office, never to be returned.

[Arklove]

I love this thread...! I absolutely love to read and I love going back and seeing what everyone is reading or recommending...I have a Kindle, so if something someone says catches my eye, then I download the book right on the spot ;)

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book that I love is the drama high series

& the book I'm reading right now is: getting even-by reshonda tate billinsley is a good girlz novel as well

[CaptainEoLove85]

I love this thread...! I absolutely love to read and I love going back and seeing what everyone is reading or recommending...I have a Kindle, so if something someone says catches my eye, then I download the book right on the spot ;)

Oh yes I love having a Kindle. Instant book. :D

[Arklove]

Oh yes I love having a Kindle. Instant book. :D

Yeah, exactly..Plus the books are super cheap....;)

BTW, I started reading that M Poetica book, and I agree it's quite fascinating...So far, I'm really liking it :D

[KingMikeJ]

I'm currently reading Killing Willis by Todd Bridges (autobiography). I bought it on Amazon and it arrived today.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ztoXjD8nL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I'm about 90 pages in and it is amazing. Todd is brutally honest about his drug addiction that almost ended his life, racism, his sexual abuse and struggle to find his sexuality, his abusive relationship with his father... I'll not give any more away in case anyone decides to pick it up. From what I have read so far, it is a miracle that Todd Bridges is alive today and Todd explains throughout the book that he has only one person to thank - God.

[MIST]

It was years ago I read Richard Adams books but they are worth reading.
"Watership Down"a story about rabbits
"The plague dogs" 2 dogs escape from a research station.The test they did on one of the dogs was to throw him in the waterpool and he wasn´t allowed to get up.When he started to sink they took him up and measured how long time it took before he gave up.The test was made over and over again to see if the dog could make it some more minutes before he gave up.No wonder the poor dog was afraid of water.
That´s in the beginning of the book.
You really feel for these dogs.

He has written other books too.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book that I love & reading right now is In her Monther's Shadow by Faye Thompson it's a very good book to read!

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

Tribulation Force


The second book of the Left Behind series.

[Rhilo]

Currently reading Blue-eyed Son:The Story of an Adoption by Nicky Cambell.

[The One.]

I just started Agatha Christie's (my favourite author next to Rowling) Sparkling Cyanide. Next one in line is Rosemary's Baby.

[Ashtanga]

Now:


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LEnSNgiKL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Fragments-Poems-Intimate-Notes-Letters/dp/0374158355/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313890315&sr=1-1
(http://www.amazon.com/Fragments-Poems-Intimate-Notes-Letters/dp/0374158355/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313890315&sr=1-1)








Rosemary's Baby.


:fear:

[Severus Snape]

I'm in a bit of a mood for psychology material as of late, so I haven't been reading actual books. Instead, I've been reading a plethora of articles and journals about various things having to do with the human mind. However--books are not excluded at all. I'm about to read <i>The Uses of Enchantment</i> by Bruno Bettelheim.

http://readingforrobin.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/7238022.jpg

[WinterArtwork]

Currently reading Game of Thrones: Book 2 - Clash of Kings

enjoying it immensely ...can't wait until season 2 of the HBO series starts

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

Right now I'm reading Teenie-by Christoper Grant it's a very good book to read even for the younger people

[S.A.S]

I read again la 'Symphonie Pastorale' d'André GIDE and Seagull (Чайка) by Tchekhov.
I used to read the same books over and over again...lol

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

I'm finshing readng Kendra-by Coe Booth

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I just started reading Nicolae this morning. It is the third book in the Left Behind series.

[Tin Angel]

I finished reading The Catcher in the Rye (everyone should try and read it, specially if you're a teenager) and I'm reading The Perfume the story of a murderer 'cause I think the movie is very beautiful and my mum told me the book was better.

[Ashtanga]

http://www.pomegranita.com/images/posts/audrey-hepburn-treasures.jpg :wild:

[respect77]

I'm reading two books at the moment:

1. Willa Stillwater: M Poetica (http://www.amazon.com/Poetica-Jacksons-Connection-Defiance-ebook/dp/B004WDRVP8)
2. Bart Ehrman: Forged (http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Writing-God--Why-Authors-ebook/dp/B004IWR3JW/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1318606092&sr=1-1 )

[helena22]

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w31/tavissmiley/BrotherWestFrontCoverhalfofhalf.jpg

I love the way he weaves an interesting narrative mixing his life story with his thoughts and beliefs.
I feel that's what he feels he's supposed to do As a scholar in the humanities.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book I'm reading or loving right now is Safe Haven-by Nichoals Sparks :) & I heard is going to be a movie in 2012 next year

[Lore]

I finish "the gun seller"

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3572/54300101.th.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/54300101.jpg/)

and now, I'm reading "GUIDE DE L'ÓPERA" (lately, I'm curiosity about these things)


http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3583/pocket2241.th.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/pocket2241.jpg/)


yeah, I'm a son of b**** that still dont found my own *read style* :P

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

I'm reading Get What you Give-by Stephanie Perry Moore & it is the 5th & the last book of the Beta Gamma Pi series. :timer:

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

After just got done reading Nicolae. I am finally now on the 4th Left Behind book Soul Harvest.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

Right now I'm reading Teenie -by Christhoper Grant (again for the sec time...) in a row.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

Right now I'm reading The Duff-by Kody Keplinger :agree:

[Severus Snape]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61BHdkNhb1L.jpg

It was a freebie, it sounds interesting.

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I am reading the 5th book of the Left Behind series called Apollyon.

[Ashtanga]

Now:


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[Severus Snape]

I admittedly haven't read anything in a long time. I just don't feel like it anymore. =/

[CaptainEoLove85]

Been reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. It's really good so far. :)

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I am finally on the 6th Left Behind book Assassins. According to the back of the book. It is going to be the most explosive book yet in the series.

[respect77]

I'm finished with Man in the Music.

I'm still reading Bart Ehrman's "Forged" which is about which books in the New Testament are forged and how do scholars know this.

Plus

Bram Stoker: Dracula (yeah, the classic Drakula story)
David Deutsch: The Fabric of Reality which is about the multiverse theory in physics.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book I'm reading right now is Three Black Swans-by Caroline B. Cooney & it's a good book so far. & The book that I love is Just Another Hero-by Sharon M. Draper it's one of the last books that she ever worte & it was good but most parts Nah! I don't like.

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I am now on the 7th Left Behind book The Indwelling. I had just started on it about 4 hours or so ago.

[Erandi]

I've just finished reading Michael Cunningham "Specimen Days". It's divided into three apparently unrelated parts. The first part, In the Machine, it's absolutely heartbreaking. I recommend it to anyone who loves a well-written story!

[Daryll748]

Well, I'm still reading the book "you are not alone" by Jermaine Jackson... What I read so far is lovely... Beautiful memories of Michael but AHHHH time to read :scratch:

I'm WRITING a book right now though... and doing a lot of 'research' on it too...

Oh, and of course... I'm into the 'short' Christmasy story too over at MJJC Blog :cheeky:

[No-Body]

I looove the work of Gregory K. Popcak - his wickedly awesome sense of humor intertwined with Catholic principles which many are not aware of make for great reading and superb life advice.

http://www.hcfmstore.org/images/OB075EMain270x270w.jpg

http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/book1.htm

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FdNYYTp2L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg


(http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/book1.htm)http://www.amazon.com/Exceptional-Seven-Percent-Secrets-Happiest/dp/0806523581/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4
(http://www.amazon.com/Exceptional-Seven-Percent-Secrets-Happiest/dp/0806523581/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5186M-kt5RL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Grace-Gregory-K-Popcak/dp/1592766854/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
(http://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Grace-Gregory-K-Popcak/dp/1592766854/ref=dp_ob_title_bk)
http://img.aquinasandmore.com/items/Holy-Sex62636lg.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Sex-Toe-Curling-Mind-Blowing-Infallible/dp/0824524713/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2

http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/resources.htm#holysex (http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Sex-Toe-Curling-Mind-Blowing-Infallible/dp/0824524713/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2)

[julia95]

my favourite books are Harry Potter
& the hunger games by suzanne collins
they are amazing !!

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book that I'm reading right now is "The extraordinary secrets of April, May & June"-by Robin Benway :bored2:

[8701girl]

Im reading conan the babarian :)

[Ashtanga]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514dmPgLZgL.jpg :wub:

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I had just started reading today the 8th Left Behind book The Mark The Beast Rules The World.

[CinnamonGirl]

I'm still reading the book 'Castles of Anger' by AlessandroBaricco, I don't know why but it does not flow so smoothly...

[Lucilla]

I'm finished with Man in the Music.

I'm still reading Bart Ehrman's "Forged" which is about which books in the New Testament are forged and how do scholars know this.

Plus

Bram Stoker: Dracula (yeah, the classic Drakula story)
David Deutsch: The Fabric of Reality which is about the multiverse theory in physics.

When I was a teenager I remember reading that book on my bed before sleeping, and I remember the movie was nothing compared to the book. The book was suppppper creepy for me.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book that I'm reading right now is this summer I turned pretty-by Jenny Han

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

Right now I am reading the 9th Left Behind book Desecration. Just started it yesterday.

[RockWithLou]

I'm currently reading Anne Frank's diary. It's quite funny in parts and really interesting!

[Daryll748]

I'm currently reading "Angel" by L.A. Wheaterly and I'm HOOKED on it :bow:
This is really a "page turner" :blink:

[julia95]

I'm just reading "Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last Words" by Regine Stokke. It is a book about a girl who suffered from leukemia and is based on her own blog posts, where she shared her thoughts about her disease, life, death, friendship and love.
She is a very brave and strong girl, who died much too soon!!
This is a very emotional and memorable book, and I think everybody should read it!! :)

[Ashtanga]

Now:


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C%2B78jV-rL._SS500_.jpg

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

Today I had just started reading the 11th book of the Left Behind series called Armageddon.

[Miss_Dangerous]

I'm currently reading The Hunger Games Series and although the concept is interesting, I think it could have been executed better.
So in a way, its a bit disappointing because it could have been a brilliant series, but so far, I think its been quite good.

I'm roughly half way through the 3rd book - I have a feeling I know how it ends, but we'll see :)

[The One.]

I'm currently reading Anne Frank's diary. It's quite funny in parts and really interesting!

I went to the house in Amsterdam few months ago. An experience that really makes one speechless, such a sad story..


I'm currently reading The Hunger Games Series and although the concept is interesting, I think it could have been executed better.
So in a way, its a bit disappointing because it could have been a brilliant series, but so far, I think its been quite good.

I'm roughly half way through the 3rd book - I have a feeling I know how it ends, but we'll see :)

I'm beginning the first book soon, because I really liked the movie. I hope it's as good as the film (usually even better!)

[Daryll748]

I'm so chuffed to have finally found and read one of the first books I read as a kid ;)

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm195/Daryll58/MJ%20Piccies/favebook.jpg

See, even before I 'met' Michael I :heart: 'werewolf's' :tease:

I'll be looking out for the other books in that series and it really 'inspired' me too...

Yep, we went to Anne Frank's HOME on a school trip and I could still feel the 'fear' and those stairs were tiny and cramped... it made a HUGE impression on me too...

[Courtney]

Right now I have a stack of books that have been piling up for the past few months for me to read. I have some Jodie Picoult, Danielle Steele, Nora Roberts, a Nicholas Sparks one, and a few other books waiting for me to read. But the first one of the pile I'm starting tomorrow is The Catcher In the Rye. I've been wanting to read this for a while now and I can't wait!

[Arklove]

Fifty Shades of Grey is what I am reading now :fear:

[The One.]

Right now I have a stack of books that have been piling up for the past few months for me to read. I have some Jodie Picoult, Danielle Steele, Nora Roberts, a Nicholas Sparks one, and a few other books waiting for me to read. But the first one of the pile I'm starting tomorrow is The Catcher In the Rye. I've been wanting to read this for a while now and I can't wait!

It's been years since I read Catcher in the rye but if I remember correctly I liked it a lot :)

[Zack44]

I just borrowed "Dancing the Dream" from a library and I'm going to start reading very shortly! :D

[love is magical]

Fifty Shades of Grey is what I am reading now :fear:

All females I know are reading or finished reading the Fifty Shades trilogy. I have seen women openly reading the books in the train several times. :lol:

Despite the repetitive writing style, I'm hooked. :fear:

[Arklove]

All females I know are reading or finished reading the Fifty Shades trilogy. I have seen women openly reading the books in the train several times. :lol:

Despite the repetitive writing style, I'm hooked. :fear:

hahaha...yup, same with all the females I know :lol:

It is repetitive, and I actually skipped a few sex scenes cuz they were a little TOO repetitive lol....But yes, addictive..:fear:

[Snow White luvs Peter Pan]

I read last week The Michael Jackson Conspiracy by AJ and it was so sweet and heartbraking knowing in great detail how Mike helped those ungrateful bastards that made me love him even more! :cry:

I'm currently reading Peter Pan, I've never been quite happy with the Disney version...

[Severus Snape]

Currently reading:

http://assets.nybooks.com/media/images/productimage-picture-the-golovlyov-family-256.jpg

It fuels my already rampant alcoholism.

[The One.]

I have Jermaine's You Are Not Alone and What's Eating Gilpert Grape in reading.

[Ms.MJ Fan2007]

The book that I'm reading right now is Huge-by James W. Fuerst after I just got done reading The Falut in Stars-by John Green

[MJ_Rocks My World]

a book i love is Framed By Frank Cottrell Boyce :D

[Ashtanga]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0tfBwq6oujk/TY-YtlHtrkI/AAAAAAAABQQ/DFi5tQfRBvQ/s400/cleopatra_a_life_stacy_schiff.jpg

[TheEternalMoonwalker]

Currently reading Stephen King's The Shining. Quite good so far but I thought I'd be scared. I'm not at all though.

[MJsBollywoodGirl7]

I had finally started reading Kingdom Come. The final book of the Left Behind series. To think it took me over an year to read the whole series.

[respect77]

Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick. I love Philip K. Dick anyway but I really LOVE this one. It's now one of my favorite books ever. If you like stories about parallel universes, time travel, pondering about what is reality, then I recommend this book to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_Wait_for_Last_Year

[kaleen_jean]

currently reading two books
1. the complete orignal Sherlock Holmes collection as published in The Stand Magazine by sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. A collection of stories and poems by Edgar Allen Poe (just in time for Halloween)

[Lucilla]

currently reading two books
1. the complete orignal Sherlock Holmes collection as published in The Stand Magazine by sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. A collection of stories and poems by Edgar Allen Poe (just in time for Halloween)


I used to read 2 books at a time but is not a good idea according to most people :P
Allan Poe, nice choice ;D

[Daryll748]

I'm reading and 'editing' my own books I'm writing now... :cheeky:

No, seriously, I do feel if I'm in the middle of writing an own book that when I read another book, the story gets too much influenced of what I'm reading and it totally :tease:my own storyline...

Anyway, current book in reading is "Angel fire" the 2nd book in the series by Weatherly

[respect77]

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Inner-Fish-Journey-3-5-Billion-Year/dp/0375424474

http://stephaniepetrich.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/your20inner20fish.jpg

[Daryll748]

This is the NEW book I'm reading... What 'attracted' me in this book was first the 'exquisite' lay out of the book and then the 'story' intrigued me...

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm195/Daryll58/newbook.jpg

[Daryll748]

All females I know are reading or finished reading the Fifty Shades trilogy. I have seen women openly reading the books in the train several times. :lol:

Despite the repetitive writing style, I'm hooked. :fear:

Well, then I'm NOT part of 'all the females' I guess :beee:

I was 'intrigued' you know and then I heard all these 'comments' BLAH... Not my kind of stuff... :puke:

[Smile]

The constant gardener

[Snow White luvs Peter Pan]

I almost finish reading Peter Pan :P because I suspended for reading Carrie, The Green Mile by Stephen King and God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, those 3 were good books though, the SK ones are much better than their movies as usual.

[laurenjayne]

Right now, actually im reading Moonwalk for the umteenth time... i figured it had been a while and just fancied giving it another read. But just before i was reading Africa, the book that goes along with the David Attenborough series thats been on UK tv. I love Africa, and its the one place i want to visit the most, very interesting book.
Other books i love are the Harry Potter series and books about reptiles and amphibians... i read more non fiction books than fiction

[CaptainEoLove85]

I got Moloka'i by Alan Brennart going on my Kindle right now. It's a depressing story, but well written. It's set in the late 1800s-early 1900s in Hawaii about a girl who gets leprosy and so she's separated from her family and sent to the island of Moloka'i with the other lepers. And that really did happen back then btw. So the story's fictional, but based on true facts. So yeah, it's very sad, but also good.

[Erandi]

I've just finished reading David Mitchell's "The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet". Like all of his books I've read so far, this one was a page turner as well. It has history mixed with fiction, it has love, drama and intrigue. I must say that David Mitchell can be quite a ventriloquist. And, taking into account that he is a stammerer, that makes him even more unique.

[Ashtanga]

Now > http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vyF4tA4FL._SS500_.jpg

[Word Smith Sr]

I received two books yesterday. I chose to read "Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family" by Joaquin "Jack" Garcia and Michael Levin first.

http://mswallow.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83453155c69e20120a66cef57970b-800wi

When i'm done i'll read "American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset" by Jon Roberts and Evan Wright.


http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780307450432_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG

[Snow White luvs Peter Pan]

I'm reading a Virginia Woolf' essay called A Room Of One's Own... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One's_Own

[Daryll748]

I'm currently reading this book :blush:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm195/Daryll58/aspergirls_zpsf318cc95.jpg

It's wonderfully written and has real 'useful' tips in it :clapping:

I know the following book by :heart:
Silly me :cheeky: It's mine :cheeky: Just published today :wild:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm195/Daryll58/frontcoverScaredAlone_zps4494047c.jpg

[HIKARI]

I'm currently reading the trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey.