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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.
19 comments:
We saw The Spiderwick Chronicles in the park the other night, and my almost 11-year-old picked up the first two books in the series and read them both yesterday. They're very short. She said she wishes she'd read them before seeing the movie. Isn't that always the way?
Olivia's also been enjoying rereads of our library's dozen copies of Tintin adventures by Herge. Sophia got her interested in them over a year ago. Don, did you read Tintin as a kid? Anyone else?
I am on the fifth chapter of The Two Towers. I really should have finished it before I got here. It's slow going. You'd think Tolkien might have summed up every now and then--you know, "And then they walked for 7,000 miles without stopping," instead of giving us narrative of every single excrutiating step.
"Herge's Adventures of Tintin" - I remember the announcement on Saturday morning TV when I was a kid. Never read the books though. Has Olivia seen any of the cartoons?
I'm whittling away at Les Miserables -the unabridged translation. So far I'm enjoying it although he does suffer from excess and he loves to name-drop. I suppose I could look up all the historical and mythical characters he mentions but I'm not willing to invest quite that much time, and I'm not sure their mention enhances the story much anyway.
Hugo's verbosity aside, his narrative style reminds me of Thomas Hardy. Makes me want to reread my favorite Hardy titles.
Ha!
That ha! was to Danika. Insomniac and I must have posted at the same time.
Drd: I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds LotR difficult going. At risk of being a heretic, I still think the movies are better.
Oliv hasn't seen the cartoons. There is talk of a Tintin movie with Spielberg involved somehow.
Oliv doesn't know it yet, but she's getting Asterix the Gaul (another comic book favored in Europe) for her birthday. Anyone know that series?
I understand your positions on the Trilogy, ladies. I have never managed to read all three. I think I left off somewhere in the middle of Two Towers. I do love The Hobbit, however. And I love, love the LOTR movies. And all the extras in the DVD sets. And the costumes.
I remember several of my friends being into Asterix, although I never was. Hope Olivia enjoys it and Happy Birthday to her.
I started Flowers for Algernon yesterday (that's our new book club title) and I finished it today. I think I'm done crying.
I'll probably reread it before we have our talk, but I'm thinking of picking up the Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty trilogy in the meantime--a friend recommended it to me and I'm curious. It sounds like erotica, which I've never actually read before.
~Lisa
Lisa-
You'll have to let me know if you decide to read those. They're, um, interesting. I wouldn't think "erotica" could get LITERARILY redundant, but, uh, there you have it.
(Now, that doesn't mean I don't own all three, however.)
drd and all -
Heresy!
"Movies are better", pffftt!
The LOTR story is all about the journey. Unlike the movies it is not about "the big scene". The fact that the journeys are NOT "summed up" is precisely what makes the books so good.
That being said, I did enjoy the movies but in a completely different way.
Danika, I'm shaking my head at you.
Heyyyy, Martha. Sooo...I can borrow that trilogy, right? The Sycamore Library doesn't have it. Sooo...the next time I work is Thursday, so you'll bring them to B&N and I can borrow them? Yes? Pretty please? :)
~Lisa
But of course, Lisa. Just don't say I didn't warn you! :D
Ok, I've been warned. But I have to admit that I haven't actually been properly warned until you explain to me what you mean by "literarily redundant."
~Lisa
Finished Sandman, at last. And wow, what a ride. I heart Gaiman.
Two-thirds of the way through the fifth Dresden Files book. After that, I'm gluing His Dark Materials to my forehead until I finish it. I gotta; it's unethical to leave it sitting there partway through Subtle Knife.
Lisa, I haven't read the Beauty trilogy, but I've heard things. Like a scene involving a cat licking butter out of the heroine's bits. Yeah. And speaking from another squick-tastic scene in another Rice book, why is it that she insists on finding the line between eroticism and utter weirditude and applying a load of dynamite to it?
Just a thought.
Yeah, whatever, Don, I know. It's just, I don't want to read the last two books in a matter of a week.
Erin--I can't answer your question as I've never read anything of Anne Rice's besides Interview with a Vampire (and I don't remember that one having too many squicktastic parts), ;). But the scene you describe is a bit much for me...we'll see if there are too many scenes like that for my taste.
~Lisa
It's okay, Lisa; I was speaking generally, anyway. And really, you're lucky you haven't read the scene I referenced. I definitely think Interview was the best book.
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