What are you reading in general?

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:49 pm

I was in my 20s when I read her stuff, I think, so I was mostly focused on the mother-daughter relationship -- and siding with the daughter. I suspect I'd have a slightly different take on it if I re-read 'em now.

Post by **Wosbald** » Thu Jul 07, 2016 12:08 am

+JMJ+

Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza by Gilles Deleuze

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:05 am

Ah, Spinoza...the saintly "atheist."

--A

Post by **Wosbald** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:59 pm

+JMJ+

Avatar wrote:Ah, Spinoza...the saintly "atheist."

"Atheist", yeah. Can't really argue with that.

Or "pantheist", depending upon how one wants to slice the pizza.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:33 am

Yeah, hence the inverted comma's...he wasn't really an atheist. At least, he certainly didn't self-identify as one as far as I know.

--A

Post by **Wosbald** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:18 pm

+JMJ+

Avatar wrote:Yeah, hence the inverted comma's...he wasn't really an atheist. At least, he certainly didn't self-identify as one as far as I know.

Hell, I don't even know if atheists are atheists. There are atheistic Hindus, fer cryin'-out-loud.

On that note, I wonder if we might ever stumble across a "No, True Atheist" fallacy.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:09 am

Well, I've heard it claimed that even atheism is a belief, but I don't really believe it myself.

--A

Post by **Wosbald** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:35 pm

+JMJ+

Avatar wrote:Well, I've heard it claimed that even atheism is a belief, but I don't really believe it myself.

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wosbald wrote:Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza by Gilles Deleuze

Returning to this after having put it down for a few days, reading through Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, so as to get a better purchase on the material.

Website · Post by **Iolanthe** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 9:43 pm

Trollope - The Small House at Allington. I have a feeling the 6 Palliser novels will be next. Haven't read those for years.

I read Vanity Fair for the first time recently - don't think I'll read any more Thackeray, I much prefer Trollope.

Post by **Wosbald** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:47 am

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Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature by Gilles Deleuze

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:47 am

I've gone from Chinese mothers & their American-born daughters to an American-born Chinese son and his mother.
Just started "Out of a Far Country," by Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan.

Like Joy-Luck Club, there's some pain and sorrow.
(Today, I actually got the two conflated a bit!)

Oh, and speaking of Joy-Luck Club, about this...

aliantha wrote:I was in my 20s when I read her stuff, I think, so I was mostly focused on the mother-daughter relationship -- and siding with the daughter. I suspect I'd have a slightly different take on it if I re-read 'em now.

In a way, the lives the mothers had endured in their youth seemed somewhat unreal!

Post by **aliantha** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:56 am

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Oh, and speaking of Joy-Luck Club, about this...
aliantha wrote:I was in my 20s when I read her stuff, I think, so I was mostly focused on the mother-daughter relationship -- and siding with the daughter. I suspect I'd have a slightly different take on it if I re-read 'em now.
In a way, the lives the mothers had endured in their youth seemed somewhat unreal!

True. But that's true in general, I think. I'm not sure my kids fully understand what my childhood was like, either.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:26 am

Course not. We've changed more in the last 20 years than we did in 50 before that.

--A

Post by **Wosbald** » Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:06 pm

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Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:55 am

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. Tyler is local -- well, Baltimore -- and the book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. I'm about 3/4 of the way through. Seems pleasant enough so far, but I wouldn't have shortlisted it for the Booker...

Post by **Wosbald** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:31 pm

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The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:44 pm

Wosbald wrote:The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze

Leibniz was a main character in The Baroque Cycle ... You should check that out if you ever want to read something truly amazing.

Post by **Wosbald** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:51 pm

+JMJ+

wayfriend wrote:
Wosbald wrote:The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze
Leibniz was a main character in The Baroque Cycle ... You should check that out if you ever want to read something truly amazing.

Thanx for the heads-up.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:56 am

The Anne Tyler was okay.

Next up, something completely different

-- The Tradition of Household Spirits by Claude Lecouteaux.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 8:46 am

I'm about 1/3 of the way into Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Into Vision. It's getting more interesting, but Wow! are people messed up.

Not sure if I commented on Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. Not long into it, I was pretty sure I had read it before, decades ago, as a teen. The character I ended up liking the best was feisty Arabella. Maybe because she is about the only one you don't end up feeling sorry for.

I did enjoy Joy Luck Club and it was memorable. I was a young mother so I found relatability in both the mother and the daughter. During the same phase I also read Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, another Chinese immigrant book; I LOVED that book.

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What are you reading in general?