Last night, we shared what books we are currently reading. Tonight, I’d like to hear what you’d write about if someone gave you a fat check and said, “Write about whatever you want.”

For a change of pace, let’s share what books are currently on our reading lists.

Being an author of a best-selling book is not all that important when ‘managing’ the political bilge pump.

Dr. Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College and an expert on pornography. Her new book, “Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, has just been released by Beacon Press and is considered a groundbreaking study of how today’s pornography shapes men and women’s ideas, attitudes, and perceptions of sex. Here is what Dines has to say about her new book and the effects of pornography.

Palgrave’s The Golden Treasury with the Fitzgerald Translation of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam”

From the book Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment

Video of Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President on The Charlie Rose Show aired on 12-26-07

This is the second in a series called the paperbackwriter.

As explained in the post yesterday, I thought the first series should be a reflection of where I am in terms of my writing etc. I am a Minister, but serious writing is a relatively new venture. The story continues ………

As I begin to blog on this site, my first post indicates the circumstances that brought the beginning of the inspiration of my formal writing. The stories of life are there to inspire

Sometimes you need to read something comforting when the world gets to be too much. These are the Dogs comfort books, what are yours?