Comments on: If you are what you read, what do your books say about you?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:26:43 +0000

Hmmm, currently reading Belize: A Historical Guide by Alan Twigg, Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid. by J. Maarten Troost, and I’m also eating the 3rd book in the Twilight series.

What do these say about me? I’m going to Belize in a few weeks, I’m obsessed with travel writing, and particularly anything on China, and I am enjoying an escapist tale about vampires.

Fun post topic, btw!

By: wellheeled

wellheeled — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:14:54 +0000

I never got into Twilight, but I LOVE children’s novels / young adult series. So – you’re definitely not alone! Every couple of years, I just have to reread all the books in the Little House series.

By: JustBeth

JustBeth — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0000

The last four books I bought were young adult novels about baseball (Mudville, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, Top of the Order, and Keeping Score).

I was really impatient for baseball season to start, and I’m still a kid at heart? (To give me some sense of credibility, I know the author of Mudville, which by recommendation led me from one book to another in the genre.)

By: Moneymonk

Moneymonk — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:13:29 +0000

I check out about 6 books on average on Personal Finance from the library every week- too many to remember

By: A

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:35:15 +0000

The last book that I read, cover-to-cover, was Twilight, and what it says about me is that I work far too hard and need much more mindless (and possibly really bad) entertainment in my life. At least, that is what I want people to get out of it, and not that I have the intellectual capacity of a 13 year old girl. Because that’s what I might think if it weren’t me.

By: MEG

MEG — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:17:24 +0000

The last books I read were:

1. My Horizontal Life (by Chelsea Handler)
2. Vanity Fair
3. Animal Dreams

So…I guess 1- I’m adventurous and open minded, 2 – but also romantic and I do value tradition, and 3 – I’m also kind of an animal-loving hippie. ??

PS The Feminine Mistake changed my views on the issue. Great thought provoking read.

By: Abigail

Abigail — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:37:42 +0000

Okay well currently, I’m reading two books: Early From the Dance (fiction) and Shoot the Damn Dog (non-fiction memoir by the founder of Elle about her battle with depression). Before that, I read Spend til the End (PF) and started but have not yet finished Tame your Money Monster (also PF).

So I guess those would say that I’m a (mostly) functioning depressive who is wondering how to deal with her finances long-term and some of her knee-jerk reactions toward money. And that I’m a person who likes a non PF book every so often.

Hmmm that makes me sound kind of boring.

But I cannot recommend Shoot the Damn Dog highly enough. It is beautiful in its recounting. I find myself crying quietly at times while I read — I remember this, or god it’s so true, or I didn’t know other people did that — but I keep turning the pages. It’s a frank look at the stigma surrounding depression, gives tips for those who have depressives in their life, and details the painful abyss that is this disease. I think I have never read a better account, and it’s all written wonderfully.

By: Miss M @ M is for Money

Miss M @ M is for Money — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:10:39 +0000

I’m going to have to read the Feminine Mistake, I need some good ammo for all the haters out there. What I’ve read lately

Your Money or Your Life – too new agey for me but it does make you question the live/work balance

Left for Dead – true story of a sailor left behind when his crewmates abandoned ship (we’re sailors and have a macabre fascination with horror stories)

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:14:19 +0000

Hmmm…I’m currently reading The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue. Has NOTHING to do with my life, thankfully, outside of the fact that I love music, but it’s a good read.

The book that I read before that definitely relates to my current life, or at least where I want my life to go in the future: My So-Called Freelance Life.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:15:27 +0000

I read “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else” by Michael Gates Gill over the weekend. It was a quick read as I like inspiring stories (of people pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps and who are just lucky) and I do like Starbucks drinks, but I don’t think the book says anything else about me necessarily.

I also finished reading “The Duggars: 20 and Counting!: Raising One of America’s Largest Families–How they Do It” by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and “Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets” by Kate and Jon Gosselin. My mom comes from a big family and we always celebrate birthdays and the holidays together, so I am fascinated by other large families.

By: Fabulously Broke

Fabulously Broke — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:24:17 +0000

So far, The WallStrip Edge has been a challenge to get through because I’m concentrating on a whole lot of other things.

By: wellheeled

wellheeled — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:11:27 +0000

I also have 20-Something, 20-Everything and the Alchemist!

By: Marisol

Marisol — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:07:13 +0000

Mine would be -

The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark by Sera J. Beak (I consider myself more spiritual than religious and I am trying to find out more about my spirituality & how to express it)

The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success by Marcus Buckingham ( I am looking for what is going to make me happy especially in my career. I am stuck in a career which I don’t enjoy and looking for answers)

20-Something, 20-Everything: A Quarter-life Woman’s Guide to Balance and Direction by Christine Hassler (The reason for the book above applies to this one too)

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Alan R. Clarke (this one I am not because it has been recommended so I borrowed it from my sister)