panther's lair

i am reading them all at the same time too- well, not at the same second- but i am reading on all of them right now- so they all have bookmarks stuck in various places. some books are faster going than others- but i am slowly making progress on them all.

currently, i am working on the feeling good handbook by that man who looks like a retarded weasel or something- david d. burns, m.d. i am also working on fatherless women by clea simon. those are the two are am reading to help my brain...i am pluggin through the fatherless one, but have reached a stumbling point in the feeling good book. i hope i am just having an off few days- that i can resume with my regular enthusiasm (i use that word only for lack of a better one).

for fun- i am reading a leg to stand on by oliver sacks. he has written other books on people with various neurological conditions- but this one is about when he was hiking and came across a large bull, so he freaked out and went tearing down the mountain full speed ahead. he tripped, or somehow otherwise fell, and tore his leg up something awful. he was found and taken in to treatment- but his leg muscles atrophied more than normal, and he has (at this point in the book) lost complete control over it. he has pain in it and such, but can't move it in any way. it's like it isn't on his body...so i am reading about that experience. i am also reading bono: in conversation with michka assayas. some of it is less than interesting- but i am fascinated by a great deal of it. the best part is that it is written in conversation style- so what bono says is written exactly as he said it. i read his parts in his voice and accent in my mind. adorable. the last book i am reading is to kill a mockingbird by harper lee. somehow i have managed to never read it before- and i am appalled. give me a good book about the south, a court case, and the way that black people were treated so appallingly any day. i have always loved fried green tomatoes, and in fact i reread it a few weeks ago...this mockingbird is similar in some ways...makes me wonder what other similar books i might really enjoy, but have, as of yet, never read.

i am going to the library to pick up a book i requested (they had to order it from another library) today so i can add another book into my strange little rotation. this one is in cold blood by truman capote.