Hello Friends,
What's everybody reading? What do you like about it?
Christine
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
9 comments:
"The Lost Painting" - a mild and informative mystery about the search for a Carravagio painting. The descriptions of Carravagio's escapades as a surviving artist in Rome are tangible. He is prone to prostitutes, depression, violence, and rejection by his clients. A favorite segment has been the recipie for the glue that the Italian restorer mixes to adhere a new canvas to the back of a painting.
You've told me a little about that book. I think I would like it, too. Have you read Girl with a Pearl Earring? I enjoyed it. The movie is very much like a painting.
I would love to read that - maybe after this book. M bought his copy of "Catcher" in and we talked about the opening and missing the hospital reference, and I flipped throught the first several pages. Not impossible to miss, but I think I will reread it .
Just started Barbara Kinsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle". I seem to be on a real 'let's read about food' kick lately although I am going to make a little time for "Eudaemonic Pie", which oddly enough has nothing at all to do with pie.
I am also looking forward to Kingsolver's new book on how she and her family are trying to raise most of their own food or at least eat locally obtained food. There is a website that gives more info about their farm and provides resources for people interested in doing the same.
www.animalvegetablemiracle.com
Another similar book called Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon just came out. My kind of nonfiction.
Well, I'm doing a little escapist reading at the moment, it's even a re-read which I rarely do, but Eric started back in on the series, so I decided to join him for the ride. Mercedes Lackey, Queen of Fantasy, The Last Herald-Mage series. Don't run down anyone on your way to the bookstore to pick it up, Christine.
Cook! Thanks for joining in! I look forward to hearing more from you. You're right, fantasy is not my genre. What do you love best about it?
Just finished reading "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey. Ned Kelley was the son of Irish immigrants to Australia who were desperately trying to hold onto their land selections during British colonial rule. He became an outlaw due to a series of unfortunate events (isn't that another book?). Anyway, the book is not an easy read since it is supposedly taken from his own words and there's not a comma, or quotation mark in site. And run-on sentences? - boy, while reading this I almost forgot to remind my kids that sentences really can't be half a page long!
Such syntax did give the book a real feel for who Kelly was. While I was reading it I also watched "Rabbit-Proof Fence". So sad to see how, once again, the British were so often ruthless in their colonial pursuits.
Does Insomniac know if the Ned Kelley movie with Heath Ledger is any good? Rabbit Proof Fence looked like it would put me through the emotional wringer. As to why I like Fantasy...Lord of the Rings..need I say more? Why do I like Mercedes Lackey? Her hero is the first gay mage I've ever met.
Post a Comment