[stylist] what I've been reading...

Fri Jan 6 15:13:32 UTC 2012

I honestly used to like audiobooks more when I was younger, now I 
just like to read.
Vejas

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov
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I tend to fall asleep reading audiobooks as well.  My wife will 
notice and let me know that I have to re-read something.  (smile)

Shawn

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[mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett
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Jakie,
I have a similar problem.  With audio books, I  find myself going 
blank or
not concentrating.  No I do not fall asleep but I almost do.  I 
just sit so
still to concentrate to a book, that I guess sometimes my brain 
and body go
in to a sort of limp or day dreaming mode.  Unlike
Chris and some other blind people, I cannot read and multi task.  
I can
listen to music or the radio news, but not a book.  I need to 
focus on the
story then.

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From: Jacqueline Williams
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 3:31 PM
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Chris,
I get Choice magazine, and just got my new copy.  I find it has 
excellent
selections.
Your book list is varied, and exciting.  I do not know how it is 
possible to
be such a prolific reader to finish so many books.  Are they all 
recorded or
digital books? That is to say do you listen? Or do you have 
enough sight to
read them.  The reason I ask is that even if I am listening to a 
riveting
book, I fall   asleep after forty minutes or so.  How can you be 
a speed
reader with a taped selection.
Your books are exciting enough to keep most on the edge of their 
seats.
Admiration abounds.
Jackie

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[mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Kuell
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:07 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] what I've been reading...

A month or so ago it was suggested we write book reviews, but I 
didn't
notice much interest in the group.  However, I will share a 
little about what
I've read in the last 6 weeks.

chris

Books read since  November 15:

The Reversal by Michael Connelly  (2010)

The latest in the Harry Bosch series, I think the main purpose of 
this novel
was to make Harry's half-brother, Mickey Haller, a defense 
attorney, more
prominent.  It sets up the next Bosch novel, and perhaps a series 
for the
brother?

Sixty-One Hours by Lee Child  (2010)

Perhaps the best of the Jack Reacher novels.  It's an action 
packed adventure
about a Mexican drug lord, tons of methamphetamine and a small 
town police
force in South Dakota.

The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris (2010)

Ferris's writing is terse and takes a little getting used to, but 
once you
do, you'll be drawn into this gut-wrenching novel about a man's 
attempt to
deal with mental illness.  He loses his job, his wife and 
daughter, but still
does the best he can.

Working in the Shadows: A Year Doing the Jobs Most American's 
Won't do by
Gabriel Thompson  (2010)

An excellent non-fiction book, the writer goes 'undercover' 
working in a
lettuce field, in a chicken processing plant and at various 
crappy jobs in
NYC, and experiences how immigrants are treated and paid (or 
often, not).

Scorpion in the Sea by P.T.Deutermann   (1992)

A Naval based action-adventure novel, I'll give it a 3 out of 5.

In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness edited by Donna Seaman  (2000)

A series of short stories that loosely deal with nature-the great 
outdoors,
our sexual nature, our power struggles, etc.

Rogue Warrior: Green Team by Richard Marshenko and John Weissman  
(1995)

Marshenko was a navy seal, and is narcissistic enough to write 
novels based
on himself as the baddest bad-ass of them all.  What's really 
interesting
about this particular book are his views on Islamic 
fundamentalists and his
predictions of the terrorist havoc they would unleash across the 
globe.

The Good Soldiers by David Finkle  (2009)

This Pulitzer-prize winner spends 14 months with a group of 
soldiers during
the 2007 'surge' in Iraq.  Unlike the previous Marshenko novel, 
where war is
glorified, this is bone-chilling, horrible, and real.  He 
describes real men
(boys? The age of the average American soldier is 20) being 
maimed and/or
killed in what are essentially useless battles in Iraq.  After a 
year of
fighting, trying to rebuild a destroyed city's sewer, power and 
water
systems-Iraqi insurgents blow it all up so they are back at point 
0.

Franny and Zooey by J.D.  Salinger (1961)

A very interesting novella, this originally was published as 2 
short stories
in the New Yorker in the late 50s.  Franny is a disillusioned 
college girl,
and Zooey is her older brother trying to set her straight 
regarding the
'Jesus prayer'.

The Best American Science Writing 2010, edited by Jerome Groopman

These articles, which were primarily medical in nature, were 
quite
fascinating, if a touch dated.  I took notes on 2 of the pieces 
as research
information for future stories some day.

Rizzo's War by Lou Manfredo  (2009)

A former Brooklyn cop writing a story about.  Brooklyn cops.  And 
corruption
and walking the fine line of what's right, what's wrong, and what 
just is.

The Trial by Franz Kafka  (1925)

Kafka asked that all of his work be burned after his death, and 
to be
honest, I think I can see why.  I know this is a critically 
acclaimed novel,
it's been made into a movie 3 times, but I found it strange, not 
very
interesting, and except for it being a bizarre statement about 
Prague's
judicial system in the early 20th century, I don't much get the 
point.

The Best American Short Stories 2010, edited by Richard Russo

This is a fantastic series, and I thoroughly enjoyed each of the 
20 or so
stories in this anthology.  For the Choice Magazine readers out 
there, 3
stories in this anthology will be familiar.

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