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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:
I am working on LeGuin's Farthest Shore for a book discussion at the public library. I've still got to read Wizard of Earthsea for that (and it's tomorrow), but I did finish and enjoy Tombs of Atuan.
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk. Im not very far into it,but its about what i expected, really messed up.
I *finally* finished Chances Are: Adventures in Probability, by Michael and Ellen Kaplan, this morning! It wasn't too bad, but I had a hard time staying focused on it. I found myself reading and re-reading some passages over and over again, because I would catch my attention drifting. You really have to be in the mood to wax philosophical about order versus randomness in the universe, history, and daily life to get the most out of this book. There aren't a lot of examples that they truly go into depth with in terms of the mathematics. It's almost like when it comes to the famous questions in probability, they assume the reader already has some familiarity and some math background.
But now that I've finished, I can finally start Dandelion Wine! I'm hoping to be able to return that to Erin (not the one who posts here, but the one who works @ B&N and whose copy I'm borrowing) by this Saturday.
~Lisa
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins. I also plan on checking out the new Sedaris book tomorrow when I work.
Working my way thru Secret Ingredients, which I find I am reading much like I read the New Yorker (which this is a collection from); which is skipping the boring parts and loving the interesting pieces.
Martha, I've read a lot of Tom Robbins, but not Half Asleep. How is it?
cook--
It's actually one of my favorites, next to Still Life With Woodpecker :)
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