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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.
8 comments:
OK, I'll start.
Finished Perdido Street Station and boy Danika, we need to talk. I think I'm no longer going to read anything written by anyone under the age of 30. Seriously, if you have 400 pages of story, why do you think we need to suffer through 700 pages while you tell it?
Now into the new Chabon non-fic and while I am enjoying it, he is clearly SO much smarter than I am that the journey is a little daunting.
Oh, Don. I should've known.
I've been working on the assigned portions of T.H. White's The Once and Future King, which is a lot of fun. And written in something recognizable as English, unlike my good friend Malory's dense work.
Just finished Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey. Sey was the 1986 National Champion in gymnastics, and the book is an autobiographical account of the toll the sport took on her, physically and emotionally.
I enjoyed reading it, despite Sey's dismal take, but I was also disappointed in how she handled it. Her experience is the only evidence she offers, and anyone with zero inside expertise (like me) simply has to take her word that everything she describes was rampant. She says she had other gymnast friends, but offers no glimpse into their perspective.
Instead, all she says she gained is a permanent sense of inferiority. I think that had less to do with gymnastics than with Sey's already fiercely competitive, insecure personality. The sport simply exacerbated it to self-destructive levels.
My daughter Lydia (age 10)is loving The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley and thinks everyone should read it. I've started the second book in the Ender series, but can't get into the whole "piggies" thing.
Oh, the piggies (pequeninos, really, let's don't be rude) are the best! Just wait.
Wrapping up Atonement, reviewing "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"...
The second half of Atonement is hard for me to put down - I will say no more til later
Still reading "Code of the Street" which is taking an obscenely long time due to the fact that I keep setting it down and then can't find it. It must not want to be read.
Also, Alison Weir's The Children of Henry VIII. For some reason, this book also includes Jane Grey, who is NOT his child (she is his great-niece) but I guess they needed filler and she really is important in the throne-lineage.
Just started "Quiet, Please!" a bio of a public librarian. Apparently he just kind of fell into the position by answering an ad to shelve books and worked his way up (I'm not quite that far yet; he's just a "library page" right now). It's a breezy read and rather amusing. He reminds me of me, ish. (Subject to change if he starts to irritate me, of course.) :D
Martha shortlisted a few of Quiet, Please into the store so that she, Don, and I could read it. I picked it up the other day but can't check it out until I finish up with the books I'm reading.
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