Reading List

[jhameia]

I don't know, so many cool friends seem to have a reading list, and I thought I'd share mine too.

I went over to Venus Envy yesterday for its 8th birthday after the Farmer's Market (I got myself daffodils!) and bought myself two books.

So, here are books I have but haven't read yet and should read:
- Essential Sufism (Fadiman & Frager) - Working on this one right now.
- Solitary Wicca for Life (Murhpy-Hiscock)
- Tartuffe (MOliere - why I haven't read this yet, considering it's been a year in my possession, is a mystery)
- The Broken Wings (Khalil Gibran)
- The Soul of Man (Oscar Wilde)
- Beyond Power (Marilyn French, this seems to be a leading feminist text)*
- Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out
- Children of the Waters (Ibtihal Salem)
- Unthinking Eurocentrism
- How to Write a Dirty Story (Susie Bright)*

* These books were what I bought from Venus Envy. I was tempted to throw a novelty vibrator in (it was in the shape of a lipstick!!) but decided against it, since I wouldn't really use it all that much.

Here are books I don't have but want to read:
- Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
- Origins of Family, Private Property & State (Friedrich Engels)
- No Exit (Sartre)
- Oscar Wilde & The Poetics of Ambiguity (Gillespie)*
- From Eve to Dawn (Marilyn French - I saw this book yesterday but what I didn't get it, is also a mystery)
- Beyond the Veil (Fatima Mernissi)*

* These books had actually been borrowed from local libraries but because they weren't pertinent to my research, I had to return them.


Okay, I'm pretty tired today since I was awake till 4am reading Johanna Lindsey's new novel Marriage Most Scandalous. I swear, that woman grows better with her mystery twists novel after novel. But because of the 4am sleeptime, I would really like to go take my new laptop out for a spin in the sun and can't because I am so dang tired.

Comments

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

A vibrator can be like a fire extinguisher; it is rarely needed, but in an emergency can be a real lifesaver. :) Just remember to take the batteries out of the vibe when you leave it setting for a long time, so the batteries don't leak and destroy the motor.

No Exit is the only of those books I have read (I am woefully under-read myself), but it's a real thought-provoker, and definitely one of the classics.

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

Vibrators are luxuries, not necessities. A fire extinguisher is a necessity. Don't confuse the two functions: orgasms aren't necessary for survival, putting out fires definitely are.

I rather like Khalil Gibran myself - I read The Prophet when I was younger and found the mysticism spiritualizing. Sartre I want to read because it IS a classic, and I figure I should read classics to see why they remain so.

Um......

[nosidagi.livejournal.com]

They're not??!?!?!?!?!?! Oh wait.... I'm a Scorpio who has Pan for a patron.. My thoughts on needs for survival may be affected by that *grin*

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

I suppose that depends on your PoV... I know people who feel regular orgasms are a necessity, particularly ones that come with no price (other than batteries)... SAnity being a requisite of survival and all, y'know.

I keep delving into spirituality in different directions, but I never seem to find the time to really put my shoulder into it, if you will. I suppose that if I felt more spiritually connected, that would not be the case, but I do have to wonder what sort of "higher power" out there is worth a damn in light of my childhood, natch.

an opbservation

[nosidagi.livejournal.com]

Beyond Power (when I read it over a decade ago) rang with echos and reflection (in oposite) to Freidrich Neitzche's "Beyond Good and Evil"
Just a thought...

Re: an opbservation

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

Oh? I'd rather not read Neitzsche though. I tried reading Twilight of the Idols and I thought "this man sounds like a nattering bitter old nut."

Re: an opbservation

[nosidagi.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Neitzche wrote most of his brilliant stuff in a sanitarium suffering from a cyphalitic dementia. Although I often wonder.. He and Freud were both way ahead of their time.. and they dated the same woman.. I wonder....