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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.
18 comments:
Two new books. Packing Girlhood: Saving Our Daughters From Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown. I was hoping for better. The authors make some good points but they also come off as smug and condescending. "We are SO smart, no one has EVER noticed or thought about these things before." Whatever. And they want things both ways; that is, women aren't present, and if they are, they aren't being portrayed accurately.
My biggest peeve with them is that there's a tacit exclusion of fathers/positive male figures in the entire book. They never address female marketers. There's always the implication that it's evil, nasty MENFOLK exploiting our daughters. In the discussion session, I very much got the sense that they were talking to moms only. What? Like fathers don't care? Equality doesn't mean advancing at the expense of someone else. It means, y'know, treating EVERYONE with respect, including men.
Fortunately, I have Fudoki by Kij Johnson to soothe my ire. I love, love, love the way this author describes things. Poetic without being flowery. It doesn't hurt that one of the major characters is a cat, either.
Oops. That should be *Packaging* Girlhood in the title up there.
"packing girlhood" LOL
Ahem...
I'm not technically reading it yet but tonight I will begin "This Land Is Their Land : Reports from a Divided Nation" the new book by "Nickeled and Dimed" author Barbara Ehrenreich. It sounds REAL good.
Well, as soon as I get my hands on a copy I'll start Slaughterhouse 5. Until then I still have to finish "First Born" that I put down in order to read "Dandelion Wine".
You'll have to let me know what you think of that book, Don. I can't read Barbara Ehrenreich after Nickel and Dimed because she struck me as rather a bit of a racist.
Finished reading Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen, as well as The Thirteenth Tale. Rereading this book called Random Family, a study of a family growing up in the Bronx. Also reading two versions of Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire.
Note to Danika: the translations are really *quite* different! It totally made buying both versions worth it, though I don't know which one I like more...
I'm going to finish reading my current issue of Discover Magazine, then I'll start right in on Slaughterhouse 5. Hey, have we set a date for the next discussion?
~Lisa
You bought them both? Geez, I can see I didn't help you make that decision.
I currently need to start Fellowship of the Ring for my class this summer. I really don't want to. Yes, I'm pathetic, I know.
I've got three books that I hope to finish in the near future. First of them being Rocks of Ages by Stephen J. Gould (thanks Danica). I've also reading Tigerheart by Peter David, it is a retelling/adaptation of Peter Pan. And the last one I just started is Slaughter House 5 for next month's get together.
Danika-
I HAD to buy them both. I picked one random poem to compare, and the word choices were both different and equally beautiful. I HAD to get both. Unfortunately, now I have to read them both side by side going, HMM, I don't know which I like better! I have doomed myself :) Oh well.
Tyler, two things: First, I wish people would stop copying Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson by retelling Peter Pan. Although I do like Peter David. And second, you can't even spell my name properly?
1986-George Orwell
1986??????????
Must be the sequel?? ;-)
Hey I’m back, it’s been a while. I'm still reading the June hand sell, Keeping Corner. It’s pretty good; I’m trying to finish it by the end of June hehe. It’s not that it’s a bad book or anything, just having been reading much lately. Then not sure, I have a pile of strips I could read but also have to start re-reading Twilight (I know, I’m addicted, I admit it...this is why I’m swearing off series again!!!)
Danika--You still have to suggest some good "historic sci-fi" for me.
Insomniac, you kill me.
Ben, were you by any chance born in 1986?
Stacey: The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMasters Bujold. It's fantasy, not sci fi, but sci fi, by its very nature, does not blend well with history (futuristic history is something of an oxymoron, though I'm sure it can be done). It's an excellent book.
Hi Stacey!
dammit, i meant 1984.
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