flight paths discussion

Please share and discuss the books you read/are reading the week of Sept. 25 - Oct. 1.

I'm really looking forward to my reads for this week. When I was sorting through the books I owned this summer, I discovered I had several books that could be categorized as creepy/gothic/chiller/thriller, which seemed the perfect style for autumn-Halloween.

Now I just have to decide where to start. Maybe The Keep by Jennifer Egan or The Manikin by Joanna Scott?

What are you reading?

Hard to reconcile...October is about to hit us in the face. I am still reading my first ever chiller Servant of the Bones and as I have confessed elsewhere I have bonded deeply with it. Hasn't anyone else here read it?

I am at last nearing the end of the Ganges with the exhausted Newbys. I have thoroughly enjoyed this journey with Newby and his resourceful, lively wife, Wanda, in contrast to his ardous walk in the Hindu Kush with the pondorous Hugh.

I could have finished both these books easily yesterday if I would have had even an hour to read.Instead I attended a chapbook workshop and now have a chapbook of my own poetry. Its called What Must Happen Now and I am entitled to apply for an ISBN :)
This is hot off the press and not yet on GR...ha ha
I consider myself primarily an oral poet and I have never gone much into publication. But now I have five copies of my first book on display at the Word in the Street Festival; they sponsored the workshop. Afterwards there was a public reading and I read some.

Well I realize that not all of you like poetry that much, but dont worry, I will not turn in to one of those obnoxious authors, even if the first edition does sell out today,I promise not to try to enlist you in any pyrimid publishing schemes :*

Congratulations, Magdalenye, that is so cool. I'm a big poetry reader myself-I just one Anselm Berrigan's Notes From Irrelevance from GR.

I will have to look for yours. Sooo exciting. :)

Thanks Ellie!!

At last I got to read a bit last night and finished both my books and began new ones. I have already posted my reveiw of Newbys trip;Servant will be more complicated. I will note here how much I loved that old servant of the bones.I guess no one here has read it. Well I will be curious to know what you think if you do.

Started Stranger From Abroad last night.
It was not a smoothe start. Reading this book may prove to be almost as difficult as obtaining it was. Daniel Maier-Katkin is revealing an antipathy for Heidegger that is not completely hidden by his occassional defense.He clears him of anti-semitism, and he even excuses the facts of his adultary, but he all but condemns him for an emotional fraud, deceitful and self serving. He makes sure to quote Karl Jaspers opinion that
Being and Time is an unlovable book because love is only mentiomed once.

The cover picture of MH is particularly creepy as well,while the picture of Arendt as a young girl is winsome and trusting.Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

Even tho DM-K early on conceded that the love affair between MH and HA was not an overt seduction of an older man, a teacher, of his young student, but a mutual passion inspired not so much by each others obvious charms, but for the way they could think together, the cover suggests a predator relationship, which will shadow the reading, if subliminaly.
I also started another spiritual adventure book Snowboarding to Nirvana
This one I just slid into, and it remains to be seen if this is just another don juan knock off or contains real insight. not parroted but earned.