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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.
5 comments:
Well, you know what I've just finished reading Christine since we just e-mailed! If anyone else is interested, I just re-read "Cider with Rosie" by Laurie Lee (published in the States as "Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England"). It is an astute, witty poetic autobiography of Lee growing up in post-war England. Very enjoyable. A little bit of me is still there with him in his dream-like reminiscences of childhood in the Cotswolds.
I am finishing Bill Bryson's "Walk in the Wild". His briefings on the state of the different forests, the mood of each section of the trail, and the slices of history are what I enjoy the most about this book. He always takes time to educate right when you are wanting it, and then leaves you to enjoy the story.
Well, I've been busy. I finished Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth and already miss it. It follows the people and the process of building a cathedral around 1500AD. I was sucked in completely. Then I finished Bill Bryson's Neither Here Nor There which takes us along on his tour of Europe. I laughed out loud in a few spots and was offended by his opinion of women in a couple of others. Now I've got my hands on a book of short stories edited by Michael Chabon. He calls them Trickster stories. They're edgy.
I'm working on the second volume of The Ring of the Nibelung, illustrated by P. Craig Russell. It's really fabulous, lots of great imagery, since he's putting visuals to Wagner's opera.
DRD
Thank you all!
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