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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.
9 comments:
Finished The Gravedigger's Daughter. (Finally.)
Semi-started The Professor and the Madman and Reefer Madness.
Still now and then picking up Harry Potter and Philosophy.
Started Sin in the Second City which is moving along nicely and really the only book I am *actively* reading, as I plan on being done in time for Harry Potter, which I'll pick up Satuday and read from the time of (getting off of work at) 5pm Saturday night until I have to go to work on Tuesday morning, so that no jackass ruins the ending for me.
Waiting for Harry also. Will hopefully finish the 4th No. 1 Ladies mystery before then. Last book I dropped was Catcher in the Rye (not my first reading). I thought Christine was going to disown me as a friend, but the book was getting me down.
Cook, in your defense, I don't think it counts as dropping it if you've already read it at least once. Because after reading it once, it's a "refresher." ;)
Still reading LoTR. Just met Treebeard and went to the Entmoot.
Also eagerly awaiting the arrival of HP7. I pre-ordered from Amazon and I'm bummed that estimated delivery date is 25-27th. So if you see any of my family before then, we will be blind-folded and wearing earplugs.
Saw the movie "Order of the Phoenix" on Sunday. I thought that unless you had read the book, it would have been a very confusing movie.
Well, still gnawing at "Botany of Desire" - no need to finish it right now. I dropped the book about the guy who walks in to Alaska and dies. I don't know why I dropped it. I guess I wasn't sure what else there was to say, although what I read was good enough. I will not be allowed near Potter until the crazed Chris is done, but I can wait. That will usurp "Lonesome Dove" when it comes along.
i dropped David Copperfield last year. got thru about half and just couldn't take it any more. when i realized i didn't care at all what happened to the guy and could no longer deal w/ the old language, i decided it wasn't worth finishing just to say i'd read it.
I recently picked up The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett, which I dropped about 8 months ago, just because I was reading so much stuff for school. I'd read the first 20 pages when I first picked it up, and I thought I remembered what happened in them, but I had to go back and reread after I got another 30 pages into the book and felt confused.
Above from DRD. Sorry I forgot to sign. DRD
I've read the first 100 pages of "Godel, Esher, Bach" about eight times. I don't so much dump the book as fail it's entrance exam. Dang, that Douglas Hofstadter is smart!
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