reading wednesday

[boxofdelights]

• What are you reading?

Come As You Are, by Emily Nagoski. It was due back at the library yesterday; I have to decide whether hang on to it for a few days in hopes of finishing or return it and put my name back on the end of the holds list. I do want to read it, but I'm finding it heavy going. First, because it is written in a self-help-book style that I just don't like. Second, because it keeps taking me to places like

We'll start with three core cultural messages about women's sexuality that my students grapple with as their established ideas about sex are challenged by the science: the moral message (you are evil), the medical message (you are diseased), and the media message (you are inadequate)

that make me go 1. yup and 2. yes I do want to read this, but... not right now.

Also have not made much progress on Robinson Crusoe, for Classics book group tonight, but will probably go anyway because I usually enjoy the discussion.

• What did you recently finish reading?

The Hope Factory, by Lavanya Sankaran. I would never have expected that a novel could make me care this much about the success or failure of a factory for car parts! Really good.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill, is waiting for me at the library!

Comments

[randomdreams]

I suspect I would quite like a book about a factory for car parts.

[silveradept]

I really liked The Tea Dragon Society. A lot. It's a really great book.