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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.
10 comments:
I just finished up The Aeneid about an hour ago (though I still have the wretched postscript. Does this book never end?), and I started Slaughterhouse-Five about two hours ago. Very interesting, so far. DRD
Hooray! Danica is reading Vonnegut. Christine?
Just finished my piece of Fiction - "Spook Country" by William Gibson and was, ultimately... disappointed. He had about five good stories in it, but we only got a fifth of each one. He really needed to decide what he really wanted to write about and stick to one thing. I still do enjoy his writing style and do recommend his previous book "Pattern Recognition" .
Am now starting Bill Bryson's new SHORT work on Shakespeare. It's looking to be another good read from Bill.
Yes, am interested in that new Bryson. No Vonnegut here yet.
I, uh, um, think I lost my copy of Franny and Zooey. I was halfway through, digging it. Maybe the kittens carried it off. Maybe I left it somewhere near the bike book I lost...So I am reading "The Forest Lover" still. Lot's of interesting content. Fakey diologue, but juicy enough...
Gotta find Franny and Zooey! Surely there's a copy somewhere you could finish. DRD
Who the heck is "Danica?" I only know Danika :P
Finished the Bourdain (Thanks Don) and going to start another one (Thanks Don!!!) Finished the new Boondocks collection, which included articles about reactions to both the comics and Aaron McGruder as a cartoonist and activist/speaker. Also finished Tell Them Who I Am, about homeless-shelter women. Was somewhat less than thrilling to read, as it is a somewhat old book. It didn't really tell me anything new, and I'm just glad I'm finally finished.
Also I seriously spent over a hundred dollars in the past three days (after discount) on books so I will probably start a bunch of stuff and not finish any of it any time soon. Most of it is sociology stuff by way of class system/beauty culture/land of overindulence, with a couple of British history things thrown in. OOHH!!! And this really cool book that I bought a few days BEFORE the mass acquiring spree that is this superawesome book of ocean creatures that live in the superdeep waters. You know, the superscary ones that are luminescent and scary with the sharp teeth and go *gnash gnash* and lure stuff in with glowing orbs!! Yeah...I look at it every night, it's kind of my bedtime story :)
Cool range of reading, Martha. You're all over the place!
Oh, Martha, which Bourdain did you read? "My Taste Buds Are Bigger Than Yours" or "I've Eaten More Stuff Than You Have"? I'm interested in his new No Reservations. Looks travel journal-y and has lots of photos, much like the Palin book I am enjoying right now.
Christine--
The one that I finished was Kitchen Confidential, which was kind of his memoir about his exploits of chefdom, I'd say. A rather rollicking tale! The one I just traded that one in for is A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines. It also came recommended by someone else as well, so I figured it should be my next venture. (Referred to as "the one where he eats lots of weird stuff.") :)
Sidenote: Every book that I pick up of Bourdain's seems to have a critic's comparison of him and (a favorite of mine) Hunter S. Thompson. And though I usually bristle internally whenever someone compares anyone and HST, I actually have to say, this is the first time I think the comparison is pretty spot-on. My full support and kudos.
Thanks for the spell check, Martha. I appreciate it. DRD
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