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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.
7 comments:
Is there any book you've read that's out of your usual comfort zone/genre? How did you like it? Did it reaffirm your preferences or open you up to more books that you might not have considered?
I wish I could answer this question; I honestly can't think of anything right now. I have pretty varied interests to begin with, actually. There's nothing I'd summarily turn down...except maybe epic scifi/fantasy series stuff like Dune, or some Christian inspiration stuff, or some new age stuff. Ok so apparently there are some things I generally don't care for. I haven't come across anything that's changed my mind thus far.
~Lisa
When I first read V for Vendetta, it was outside my comfort zone--it was the first graphic novel I ever picked up. However, I did read a lot of sci fi and fantasy, and I've always read newspaper comic strips, so it wasn't that far out for me. It did opene up more books to me--I've been a graphic novels reader ever since.
Years ago I was reading a lot of Heavy Metal magazines for the sci-fi/fantasy art, and through them I read a graphic novel called "Ranxerox" and the content was so way beyond my comfort zone that I can still remember some of it. It was an Italian publication about this superhuman android guy with violent tendencies. "Sin City" reminds me of it, and is almost out of my range of toleration - but it's well done.
Appetites wasn't anywhere near my comfort zone. I'm such a die-hard fiction/fantasy addict that when I get the urge to pick up non-fiction, I usually check to see if the Four Horsepersons are hanging around my backyard.
It was also partly autobiographical; I read that sort of thing even less than non-fiction. And while I've read books dealing with the problems faced by adolescent girls (Reviving Ophelia, Odd Girl Out), Appetites was a first for me in that it addressed women's relationships with food.
I liked it a whole heck of a lot, too.
Good question, Lisa. Once, a friend asked me to read a religious text that I found to be racist and most unbeautiful. It made me frustated and mad, but I said I'd read it, so I finished it. Then, I had to have a difficult discussion with them and explain that the book in no way changed my heart. Awkward.
^^Ooh, yeah, that would be awkward. One of my cousins, who's a diehard Christian, gave me the first book in the Left Behind series as a graduation present. I read it and even gave the next few in the series a try (because I'm a masochist). Really didn't like them, and didn't finish it. And never discussed it with her (I guess I'm lucky I don't see her very often--awkward convo avoided).
So, did this affect the friendship, Christine, or were the two of you somehow able to get past it?
~Lisa
We continued to be friends, but I always felt like I had let them down. And perhaps they felt like I was judging their religion. A no-win situation really.
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