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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.
20 comments:
Hmmm...I honestly can't think of any books I've read more than twice! And the only books I've read twice that I can recall are Dracula and Black Boy.
What does it mean?
~Lisa
Sadly, I think I read "Forever" by Judy Blume three times. I think the same might be true for the novelization of "Star Wars".
As an adult, I don't think I have repeated a read.
Oh, man, that's a tough one. I don't know if there's any single book I've read more than any other. I tend to come back to favorites a lot.
The Blind Assassin, Wicked, Needful Things, Odd Girl Out, and The Silence of the Lambs are all books I've read at least three or four times. That sorta counts, eh?
Oddly enough, they are both fiction-
"Rite of Passage" by Alexei Panshin
&
"Fugitive Pigeon" by Donald Westlake
-been reading 'em all my life.
On the nonfiction front-
"Eudaemonic Pie" by Thomas Bass
I'm an inveterate re-reader, so I've re-read many books, many several times. I also have a rule for myself that I must read my copy of any book I own, regardless of whether I've read a different copy. This means that acquiring books because I read and liked them brings about a re-read. The rule was intended to keep the numbers of books I own down, but it really hasn't.
But the book I've re-read the most would be I See the Moon, by C.B. Christiansen. It's a short, beautiful little book that I read for the first time when I was thirteen or fourteen, and re-read the same night. After I bought my own copy, I read a chapter a night for quite a while, going through it several times more, and just letting the beauty in the book soak in. That's not usually how I react to books, but I really loved that one.
Should get it out again, now that I've written you all a novel to read.
Danika, I'm so surprised. You loaned me that book once, and I liked it, but it's neither historical nor scientific. I wouldn't have guessed that was your most read.
I've reread a lot of my books multiple times. Conversely, I own many I haven't read. Well, maybe not that many, but they loom large on my bookshelf, and stare at me like "Why, why? Aren't we good enough?" every time I bring home new ones from the store.
Perhaps I should stop anthropomorphizing my objects, yes? :)
^^No Martha, I think you should continue to guilt-trip yourself for not reading books you purchased. ;) Actually, I have a couple of those myself: mostly math-related books that I was excited about at the time and then never got around to reading, like _Chances Are: Adventures in Probability_, and _The Man Who Counted_. It'll happen eventually, but I have the advantage that I don't anthropomorphize my books. I'm pretty proud of myself for being nearly finished with _Super Crunchers_ though.
~Lisa
I frequently re-read books, but id have to say the one ive read the most times is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I read it a few times a year at least.
*contains inner hisses enough, but not enough to not write this*
Danika, you know my pain...
I can't believe I'm old enough to already be "the old generation" of a generation gap...
Okay, I wasn't going to comment on this particular thing, Lisa, but I just read it again and it cracked me up. "Chances Are: Adventures in Probability" is the nerdiest name for a math book, and I would like to call you a Math Super Nerd for even having it. And you're the same gal who's in the new Batman film? Talk about alter egos. . .
:blows raspberry at Christine: lol
~Lisa
In keeping with the math nerd theme, I just finished Super Crunchers, and in the back of the book in the "notes" section, author Ian Ayres (a lawyer and econometrician who works at Yale) makes what I'm pretty sure is a very obvious statistical/mathematical error. So obvious (and the math behind it so basic) in fact, that I almost suspect it was planted and that he's gonna run demographical data on the people who write in to tell him about it (paranoid much?). So I decided to write him about it. We'll see if I hear back, lol.
~Lisa
I-heart- Lisa for being a giant math nerd.
I realized that it's just a very simple typo: the lack of one decimal point. Still, I hope he fixes it for any future reprints.
I heart Don for being Don and Christine for being Christine.
~Lisa
bookstep--one big love fest.
^^Haha. Oh, I got a response back from Dr. Ayres already!
"Thanks for sending the correction. Comes at a perfect time, as I'm getting manuscript ready for paper back edition…"
Yay!
~Lisa
Wow. I hope someday to achieve Lisa's level of nerdiness (if in a different subject).
Lisa--
Maybe he'll put you in the "thanks" part!!!!!!
Danika, I don't think you're a stranger to textbook corrections, either, but perhaps you've just never mailed yours in.
Congrats, Lisa. First, the Batman movie and now this!
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