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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.
12 comments:
I made a valiant attmept to finish The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes before the school year started, but had only made it through a couple of the Memoirs stories before my first class started yesterday. Now I'm reading Lord Jim, which isn't yet making huge amounts of sense, and need to pick up Catcher in the Rye again.
Most interesting class thus far, ror those of you who are curious: Literature of Living White Males.
I just started Breakfast of Champions the other night while i couldnt sleep laying in my tent. So far it is quite funny. Vonnegut is really messed up...
Christine, youve still got a few weeks before i get home, so get to reading that book!
DRD--Yes, Salinger is still a Living White Male (89 yrs old) although he hasn't published a thing in years and years. Maybe some more of his work will be released when he dies. I would love more installments on the Glass family.
Ben--Perks of Being a Wallflower is currently checked out at our library. I'm working on getting a copy!
I'm reading David Sedaris's new book, When you are Engulfed in Flames. I actually was reminded by the talks here that I had always wanted to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it was checked out last week or the week before too when I looked. It's hard to find the books we want at our library, huh Christine?
~Lisa
Got my filthy little paws on the next Dresden Files book (huge surprise). Dude, the unresolved romantic tension between Harry and Karrin that I've been watching for seven books is finally starting to become a plot point. About freaking time. Karrin totally pwnz0rz Susan. (This is rare, y'all; I hardly ever get excited about boy/girl stuff.) More normally for me, I am secretly cheering on Harry/Thomas. Because Thomas? Is fabulous. I heart him so much.
First day of grad school (I r teh adultness!) and we're starting Coleridge next week. Save me.
Erin, what classes? What books? Please tell!
British Romantic Poetry (romantic as in period, not flowers) and Film and Literature. I've only had the former and am rather excited about the latter.
We need a whole bunch of books for Brit. Poetry: Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge...I'm missing a few, but you get the idea. Really looking forward to Wordsworth, but we don't get to his stuff for a few weeks.
I am reading "Hunting Badger" - a Hillerman mystery. I like how Leaphorn and Chee drive to all these remote southwestern locations and interview all these remote southwestern people and dredge up remote southwestern culture and politics to tell the story.
Shameless plug that I forgot to mention earlier: there's a discussion on Dresden Files #1, Storm Front, coming up at the library. If I remember right, it's on Wednesday, September 3 at 7:00 p.m.
Yeah, I'm s'posed to go to that. Better get my hands on the book and see if I can rip through it in a sitting or two.
Hi all-
I know I've been quiet as of late so let me run down what has been passing before my eyes:
In addition to finishing "Traffic", I went to the library and picked up and read "Delete This At Your Peril", a somewhat lame account of one man's humorous(?) attempt to get back at email scammers; "The Physics of NASCAR", which realy is about the physics of NASCAR; "The Ways Toys Work" in which they disassemble classic toys to see how they work (COOL); "Going Dutch in Beijing", so now I know what hand gestures not to make in Egypt and what to call a widow in Japan. Hmmm, useful.
Also an old Foxtrot collection "Come Closer, Roger, You Have A Mosquito On Your Nose". Incidentally, I've met Bill Amend and frankly, he's a bit of a jerk.
Whew, am now reading "A Supremely Bad Idea" about birders trying to see as many birds as they can. Unfortunately, the author seems to think because he's British and he's read Douglas Adams he is just as clever. So far... not.
I always suspected about Bill Amend, ever since he decided he was Berke Breathed and could get away with a Sundays-only strip.
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