Please tell us about any exciting, interesting, new, or challenging reading you're doing this week.
Or kindly answer the following question:
What's the most rewarding reading experience you've ever had?
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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.
13 comments:
Well, I finished "Flowers for Algernon" last night. Are we still on for a discussion and has the time and place been firmed up yet?
And Christine, you ask difficult questions!. I've been thinking all day and haven't come up with anything.
Can those interested make it on Monday, August 18th back at Barnes and Noble? Say 7:00?
Still working my way through Blood Rites. Have also been reading bits of Darkside Zodiac, which has provided me with some much needed humor, and have read the Taurus sections in Ruling Planets. I've been on an astrology kick.
Insomniac's right, Christine. This is a tough one. I think I'll have to go with a tie. The Animorphs series is by no means the best thing I've ever read as far as "great literature," but in overall quality, characterization, and maturity (especially for YA stuff), it's excellent. Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner books have made me a Squealing Fangirl for Life. Because, hello, solid, well-crafted fantasy in a GLBT-supportive setting. With gay leads, no less. I've been desperate for this for years.
(Unrelated, but whenever I see/write GLBT, I always think of a sandwich.)
I've been reading Flowers for Algernon and I was thinking of starting Twilight in order to see what all the hype is about.I'm good on the 18th BTW.
Looks like the 18th will work for us.
And as for "most rewarding reading experience" I'd have to go with books I've read aloud to the family and which we all become involved in. From this perspective the HP series has to be on top of the list.So many discussions and so much anticipation!
Ch, so sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. Sending good thoughts to all who are mourning.
for most rewarding reading - i think i'd have to go back to Many Masters, Many Lives which i read cover to cover w/o taking a breath, almost. it shifted my entire life, helping me to start the process of letting go of a strict doctrine of black/white religion which i was on the black side - all of the time. and paved the way for me to open my mind and heart to new experiences, new people and new love and appreciation for myself; guiding me on the search for what spirituality really looks like and means to me.
it saved my life many times over.
The 18th @ 7 works for me.
I'm drawing a blank on your question though; that's one I'll have to think about A LOT.
~Lisa
Up there with my most rewading reading experiences: reading Moby Dick with a wonderful professor in college, reading The Hobbit to Olivia when she was younger (Maria doesn't seem to want me to finish reading it to her), and reading Franny and Zooey for the first time.
Just started Flowers for Algernon for the discussion last night--I'm enjoying it thus far.
I finished Last Continent, which I bought in England, the other day.
I did not manage to finish Return of the King by the end of my Inklings class, but I think I did just fine on the final nevertheless.
As for your question . . . I have no idea. I've been thinking about it for a while, and I can't come up with any one--or even a few--instance. I suppose recently one of my more rewarding experiences was reading the first two LOTR books while sitting in a Japanese pagoda tree, but it was the setting more than the actual book that was rewarding.
And I did really enjoy reading Terry Pratchett's and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens out loud with my dad and brother. There's nothing like reading aloud something so funny that sometimes you can't talk for laughing.
Danika, you reminded me of all the reading aloud we did together in writing class. I always enjoyed reading bits of poetry or prose to you girls. That was rewarding. As was your infectious pleasure in reading Dave Barry essays to us.
Welcome back, Danika-person! The big stack o' graphic novels you lent me is ready and waiting, so anytime you want 'em back, I can return 'em.
Cool, thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed them. While I was in Paris I found a store with American graphic novels in it, and they had the most recent Fables, which I hadn't gotten a chance to read before I left. It was a sore temptation, I can tell you.
Oh, man, that must have been tough to pass up. Especially when you really want to know what happens next.
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