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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.
13 comments:
I'm supposed to be reading schoolwork, but I'm so sick I decided to have a treat and read The Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams. It was published posthumously, and includs the fragment of novel (tentatively titled The Salmon of Doubt) he was working on when he passed away. I just finished it this morning, in between sneezes, and I'm now feeling like I need to pick up his Dirk Gently novels and Last Chance to See, and listen to more Bach and Beatles.
Finishing the Dark Materials Trilogy tonight. Thanks Danica!
Also reading "God Save the Fan" at a prodigious rate (Ahh, good 'ol junk non-fiction).
And I can't think of any way to hijack this thread. Darn it.
Don, let us know what you think of the trilogy. Danika begged you to read it. You weren't going to, then you decided to do it, and it's taken you months. We've waited for your review! Let's have it, man!
I'm reading "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel Dennett. Very verbose: why do philosophers feel they have to take twenty words where ten would do just nicely? I would be about half way through if he would write concisely. So far there have been a few interesting points.
Danika - hope you feel better soon.
Thanks, Insomniac. And philosophers are paid by the word. Wait until you read Christopher Hitchens.
Don. Seriously. I recommend to you one of the best trilogies I know of, and you spell my name wrong? Really, is that any way to repay me?
The only things I have read this week are blogs. Blogs and bookjackets. My to-read pile grows ever larger.
Danika, I missed seeing you today, especially because I brought in Excalibur5.* Also because I wanted to show you the manga-format bible we have in. Oh, the laughter I want to share with you!
P.S. You beat me to correcting Don on the spelling of your name. I will forgive you this, as it IS YOUR name, after all :)
*did not actually bring Excalibur5 today, but thought it sounded good in theory
gues I don't spel so gud, huh?
Just finished Cry of the Dove (Fadia Fagir). About a Bedouin Islamic teenager who has a baby outof wedlock, escapes to England to avoid an honor killing, lives a haunted life, returns to search for her now teenage daughter. Lots of cultural insight & raw emotion.
Just started a book about Gandhi & Churchill and the epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age. It's called Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age (A Herman). So far, so good.
Danika: is the Dark Materials Trilogy one of those Stephen King series?
I'm behind in my reading, but today I just watched something (on the computer) that I pretty much never watch: The Bachelor. I watched a girl who was once best friends with my sister make a complete ass out of herself on that show. But she made an ass out of herself pretty much every day when we were growing up, so it really didn't surprise any of us, lol.
~Lisa
Has anyone read the tagalong book to the Dark Materials trilogy -"Lyra's Oxford"?
I am still reading the sci-fi book (Stars My Destination), having way to much external work going on right now...but the second part of the book is turning out to be as wild as the first. Gulliver Foyle is the main character.
I have slowed way down on The Almost Moon. It's becoming a chore to read, something that I'm going to finish because I have to rather than because I want to. Never a good sign. Helen is really ruining it for me. What an awful, weak character.
On the up side, I have a shiny annotated edition of Romeo and Juliet (thanks, Christine). Not my most favorite play, but then again, it's Shakespeare. Le squee. I would totally cling to Tybalt's leg.
R.I.P., Arthur C. Clarke. Has anyone read anything of his? I remember liking Childhood's End, or at least being struck by some poignant moments in it.
~Lisa
Mary, His Dark Materials is by Philip Pullman, and the first book is The Golden Compass.
I've read Lyra's Oxford--it was fun, but not necessary, and not really worth the ten bucks I paid for it. I do like that it has a picture of what I think is supposed to be Lyra and Will's bench in the Oxford Botanic Gardens in it. You can borrow it if you like.
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