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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:
Well, I'm supposed to be re-reading Fellowship of the Ring, but I'm having a hard time getting through it--it's not pulling me in. I've also got an excerpt from C.S. Lewis I'm supposed to read, but I don't really want to.
So I'm reading the introduction to Sandman #9 and the most massive spoiler in the history of ever comes out of nowhere. Who made this decision? Who gave the cretin who wrote it the go-ahead to take the suspense and run it over with a freaking backhoe?
It was justified by comparing the Sandman storyline to Hamlet. Which is a totally appropriate analogy, except for the part where it's NOT.
So now I'm halfway through, more or less. I wanna feed that intro writer to the Corinthian.
Danika, good luck and good travels on your trip to Oxford. Learn stuff and make with the brains!
I seem to be just DEVOURING Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. A book I thought I had read early in my sci-fi career but clearly missed. I'm sure it reads a bit differently today than 15 years ago as the technology in the book is not so "out there" as it was. The story is very well done and I think I'm probably appreciating the writing more.
Next up, Slaughterhouse Five (for the book club), which leaves poor Barbara Ehrenreich to languish on the shelf for a little longer.
Just finished "Slaughterhouse Five" (Hmmm) and I'm waiting for a copy of "Welcome to the Monkey House". I'm also planning to attempt Les Miserables now that the show has given me the bug.
I loved Les Mis, Insomniac, but it was one of those books that made me almost understand why people abridge books. It's got some parts you might only want to skim.
I finished Keeping Corner. Its a very good book, i enjoyed it. It was not what i was thinking it'd be, and i'm happy for it. a good book for young girls, or girls of any age, who are on a mission to change the world, or their own place in the world.
I'm now through Twilight and reading New Moon as well as my homework for my grant writing class hehe.
I finished Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould, interesting but not a fun read. I'm still working through Slaughter House Five.
Don, Snow Crash is one of my favorite Sci-fi books. Let me know how you like it.
I'm about a third of the way through Judith Levine's Not Buying It, a Year Without Shopping. It's fascinating--she goes into not only her own experiences doing without, but economic factors & possible outcomes as well. I must admit, it's making me look differently at my spending habits.
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