Green Room - Week 19 - Extended Weekend Edition Part 2

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I'm really happy to have finished the book I was working on, and moving on to the next one.

As I've said before, I'm currently reading "The Search for Lost Time" by Marcel Proust. When I read the first book "Swan's Way", that was fine. I'm about to start "The Guermantes Way" and if it's as good as the second, I'm in a for treat.

That second book though, the "new" translation calls it "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower", which (to me) kind of sounds like another kind of book entirely! ;)

Carrying it around reminded me of back when I was a teenager and tried to hide what I was reading/listening to from my parents, so they didn't flip out about the book or name of the band.

So how about YOU? Anything you've ever read - or *wanted to read* but you were a little embarrassed about the name? :)

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Comments

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Today I listened to the audio book of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. It was light-hearted nerd-humor funny.

I am not embarrassed to have read it at all.


It's possible that I may have been reading some chick porn lately. ::cough:: for research ::cough:: and that I might be less not-embarrassed about. :)

edit - Also, First. :P

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

F/F chick porn? If so, I would love a rec or two, *cough* for research *cough*...!

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Hah. Oddly enough, no. It's been M/F, but I will keep my eyes open and let you know. :)

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

Happy First! AW

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

And I now have that book and am prepared to read it, based on your recommendation. :)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I think you will enjoy it!

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

I remember reading Terry Pratchett's 'Making money' and at first I wasn't embarrassed, but then started getting comments from people around me, who obviously thought it was some form of self help book (as I was also unemployed at the time). I kept trying to explain that it was fiction. They didn't seem to believe me/ or understand this. After that I started trying to hide the cover to stop getting comments.

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's... wow. It always kind of annoyed me when people would comment on what I was reading/ask me if it was a good book and then try to make conversation about the book they clearly hadn't read. Hi, reading! This is one thing I love about e-readers.

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, people trying to talk about a book when they know nothing about it and think they know everything about it is so annoying.

Ah yes, one massive advantage of e-readers :).

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

You could have told them it was about counterfeiting and that you were looking at going in a whole new direction. Just to see what response that would get.

Also, yay for Terry Pratchett!

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

LOL, that would've been something alright :D.

Pratchett all the way! :D

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

I remember being in year seven and in the school library (please keep in mind this was... er... early nineties!) and using the catalogue system to attempt to look up which Sweet Valley High (DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!!!!!!) books were currently in stock, only some year ten girls stood behind me to wait for the computer and so I panicked and got as far as 'Sweet' and then typed something completely unrelated in next. I can't even remember what it was now that I typed... but I distinctly remember the 'oh, fuck...' that I felt!

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Hahahaah, I read those for a bit, too. :)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I used to enjoy the SVH books back in the day!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I once got a backhanded comment at work about "always having your nose in a book at lunch". I'd snapped back something like, "Better to read than to sit in the break room and flap my mouth about everybody." Considering that the person who said it was kinda/sorta on my shitlist to begin with...anyway, sometimes I do look around me and realize that I'm one of the very few who DO read on my lunch break. Sometimes I have to stop myself from mentally going down the "OMG nobody likes me because I'm a geek" road. And sometimes I'm like, "What else is new?"

[waltzmatildah.livejournal.com]

One of the places I work at has this tradition that everyone eats lunch together in this big kitchen/break room thing. It's nothing formal or compulsory, it's just habit... and I actively avoid it like the plague and can't decide what that says about me! Sometimes I seriously go sit in my car and read just to avoid the group lunch because, no thank you. Plus also, I'd much rather be sitting in my car reading!

In other words, if I worked where you worked, I'd totally sit with you and read and not say a word and have the best lunch break ever.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I seriously go sit in my car and read just to avoid the group lunch because, no thank you. Plus also, I'd much rather be sitting in my car reading!

I DO sit in my car and read during my lunch break :) There are a few of us who do, and even though we're all in our own cars, we always wave to each other and such. But yeah, we're all either reading a book or reading on our phones.

Our break room is claustrophobic, bright, and has screaming orange seating. It also doubles as a coat room. Even during the winter I'll go outside and read on my phone (and freeze to death) rather than stay in there and let the walls close in on me.

You can sit next to me anytime :)

...and I have to get ready for work!

[fodschwazzle.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has written a series called:

Psycho Proctologists (http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Proctologists-Flaming-Buttholes-Doom-ebook/dp/B009QN3LIA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1409475419&sr=8-3&keywords=psycho+proctologist)

The titles get considerably more specific from there. It's a buddy cop fantasy nether-region adventure, essentially. One of the books has a cover art to it that would not be able to sit innocently on a book shelf.

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

One time, must've been about 12, my dad caught me reading a 16 Magazine. On the cover was something about Grand Funk Railroad. He misread the word " Funk" at first. LOL

Oh, Saturday Night Live! My parents always seemed to walk in the TV room during the least appropriate parts! AW

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend The Martian by Andy Weir. I'm not typically into sci-fi and it was great!

[reckless-blues.livejournal.com]

I kinda like bizarro fiction, (https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/bizarro-fiction) so I am absolutely immune to this.

Though one time my boyfriend got mad when he saw me reading a book called War Slut.

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

Name? No.

COVER ART? Oh ye gods and little fishes, YES.

[reckless-blues.livejournal.com]

There's a bimbo on the cover of my book!
There's a bimbo on the cover of my book!
She is blonde and she is sexy;
She is nowhere in the text. She
Is a bimbo on the cover of the book!

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

...okay, that is amazing, and I could hug you for sharing it.

(I found the full one by Googling, and OH MY GOD YES.)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I've made it a policy to never be embarrassed about what I want to read - if others have a problem with it, it's theirs, not mine. But I wouldn't want to read anything in public with an explicit sex drawing or photo on the cover or something.

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

I used to take the train to and from campus every day.

Without fail, at least once a week, I would see someone reading porn in public.

Sometimes it was hentai, sometimes it was Hustler or Penthouse, but there was always someone staring at porn on the train at least once a week. :(

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

I commute by train these days, and almost always have a book with me. I am astonished by how rare actual books are these days as most folks use their phone as an avoidance technique, I mean to have something to do on the train.

I've never been embarrassed by what I'm reading (I save those books for home) but I occasionally get weird looks, especially when I (a female) am reading graphic novels.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

Jean M. Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear. And the only reason I got "embarrassed" or the such is I got called into the school psychologist for reading such material... I was in 7th grade, I think. After that I tried to hide any "adult" book I was reading...

[aimercat.livejournal.com]

nothing reading wise, but in my teen years I'd hide liking some country music from my parents because i was afraid of the "see I told you our music was better than that garbage you listen too" stuff. lol.

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I like to read weird books on physics or math, sometimes. This is only a problem when people notice and then ask me to, you know, educate them. I like reading about this stuff, but I can't talk about it worth a damn. I'm usually inclined to just say "you should read the book for yourself" with a smile, but sometimes I just don't want to interact with random strangers who are looking for socializing, so I'll hide those book covers. It's a lot easier to ramble about the fiction I read. Heh.

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

One of the best books I've ever read is called Between Shades of Grey. I remember reading it on a train and really hoping anyone who glanced at what I was reading saw the word BETWEEN before the shades of grey bit XD