Fellow Left-wing Moonbats, what are you reading these days?

[marmar]

I'm reading Bill McKibben's "Deep Economy"......So far, so very good.

[CC]

1. Just finished

"The Legend of Colton H. Bryant" by Alexandra Fuller. It made me cry and broke my heart. Actually my SO read it first and he swears it is the first book that has ever made him cry but was so good he said I had to read it. It really is that good and is heartbreaking.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. McKibbin is cool.

Actually, I'm reading James Lee Burke's Tin Roof Blowdown, a typical Burke novel set in New Orleans during Katrina. I spend my days doing a lot of technical reading & writing, & am too brain-dead at night to get into anything heavier than a novel. My wife just finished Family of Secrets about the Bush family, & got her "paranoia" cranked up a notch or two above its usual level. Quotes around the "paranoia" 'cause it ain't paranoia if it's all true.

[Political Heretic]

3. Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits from Poverty

By economist Michael Hudson.
Still as timely as it was a decade ago when it was written.

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman
This wasn't actually as good as I had hoped. Fairly superficial.

Radical Political Economy: A Concise Introduction
By Charles A. Barone

Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy
By Sanford D. Horwitt


I read several books at a time.

[timtom]

4. Two right now...

James W. Douglass' "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters"

Russ Baker's "Family of Secrets"

[phaseolus]

5. "Infinite Jest"

It's taking me a while -- I don't get as much time to sit & read as I'd like...

[LostInAnomie]

6. Mostly porn.

Well... ok... I'm not really reading it. It's teaching me a lot about work place etiquette and labor relations though.

[alfredo]

7. "Beyond the 100th Hundredth Meridian" by Wallace Stegner It's about

John Wesley Powell, the man who helped open and map the west. He led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado, through the Grand Canyon.

Recommended.

Just finished "The Way of Chuang Tzu" by Thomas Merton. It's a collection of writings by Chuang Tzu.

Next Up is "Markings" by Dag Hammarskjold. I read this book back in 1969 as I was hitchhiking through east Africa.

[a la izquierda]

8. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"

but only at bedtime. Otherwise, the only thing getting read is my stack of dissertation notes.

[Political Heretic]

11. You know I was disappointed with that book.

I didn't think much of the anecdotal style in which it was written.

Just personal disappointment, no critical disagreement with the ideas.

[a la izquierda]

14. i can do anecdotes at the moment

the rest of the stuff i'm reading is extremely dense.

[eilen]

9. I'm reading Ralph Nader's "The Super Rich Will Save Us All"

it is a lovely fantasy.

[kestrel91316]

10. Interpreter of Maladies, The Terror, and rereading Prairyerth.

[readmoreoften]

12. Sexuality and Socialism, Revolt in Seattle (about the 1919 mass strike),

The Labor Wars, Pierre Broue's "The German Revolution", The Bolsheviks Come to Power, War on War (about the Zimmerwald Left)

[bridgit]

13. Finally found time to get done with Dan Brown's: The Lost Symbol, the other day...

Which I thought was a better than the other two

[mmonk]

15. David Swanson's book.