So here I am today, commenting back on your last comments. Please feel free to comment back on these comments!
Insomniac, you were wondering about The Big Read. This year's pick is one of my all-time favorite books, To Kill a Mockingbird. There will be a variety of book talks offered at our local library; there will be an enactment of the trial in a local courtroom; there will be an English and a Spanish showing of the film in town, and I think the author of Mockingbird, Harper Lee's biographer, is going to speak. I will be listening to the book again on audio while I knit. I have the version read aloud by Sissy Spacek.
Ben, we did Slaughterhouse Five as a group in August. You will have a few B&Ners to talk it over with. I have a copy of Perks of Being a Wallflower in my possession right now. When do you get home?
Lisa, how is the new Sedaris book? Ben read that one earlier this summer.
Don, I don't have any suggestions for you right now but would like to know why you didn't like Supremely Bad Idea.
Sophia, how far are you in TKM?
Tyler and Twilight? A surprising choice. How's it holding up to the hype?
Erin, have you told us what classes you have yet and what you're reading for them?
Interested in any Dalloway report, Danika.
Stacey, thanks for the "goodreads" tip. How's Other Boleyn Girl?
I'm re-reading and very much enjoying A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I will, however, take the author's advice and skip pages 239 through 351 this time around. His editor was too lenient.
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School has monopolized my reading time in the last week. Outside of textbooks, I'm reading Shakespeare's As You Like It. The little bit of Twilight I've been reading has been what I figured it would be. Also trying to get back into Liars Club.
Hey! I get home the 20th or 21st, and am hopefully coming back to work on the 23rd. Yesterday was my last day of work, which was sad but im really looking forward to getting home. Im glad you finally got your hands on that book! youll have to let me know what you think.
Yay, Ben! We'll be happy to have you back.
I finished Lord Jim. As it turns out, if you slog your way through the awfulness of the first 37 chapters, you are rewarded with 8 interesting chapters before it all ends in doom and destruction. But still not worth it on any level.
Finished Catcher in the Rye for my Living White Males class--I enjoyed it, but many of my classmates did not.
And, started Mrs. Dalloway today. I believe it, like Lord Jim, probably falls under the category of "impressionistic" writings. I do not like impressionism. I don't like impressionistic paintings, I don't like impressionistic writings, and I won't like any other impressionism junk anybody else comes up with. To be fair, I'm only about 20 pages in to Mrs. Dalloway, but I'm not attached, by any means. So random and vague. But I haven't wanted to jump off a cliff while reading yet, so it isn't quite as bad as Lord Jim.
But I'd much rather reread Fahrenheit 451 again, which I have to do for the Living White Males class. There's a book I love.
OBG is going well. It's a little more steamy than i thought it would be, but i'm enjoying the story. It keeps filling the time between book releases hehe. But i'm going to have to check out Gargoyle from BN after Brisingr. Jodi was telling me about it the other day and it sounds really interesting. (it was on the stepladder at the front of the store with the heart cut out)
I'm also reading the posted chpaters of Midnight Sun again (read the leaked version, now reading the official posted version). For those TW fans, its a must read after you've read the first 4, opens your eyes to a lot.
I think I mentioned my classes a few posts back, but just in case I didn't, here they are.
English 660, British Romantic Poetry. We're reading Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Smith, and Blake. Discussion includes history, theory, and biography as well as critique.
English 690, Film and Literature. We're reading a book on film criticism and the relationship between literature and film. We're also reading five books: The Big Sleep, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Cosmopolis, Neuromancer, and Hamlet. Then we're watching their corresponding films: The Big Lebowski, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Vanilla Sky, The Matrix, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Discussion is focused on film theory, comparing and contrasting film and literature, and the historical exchange between the fields.
I have to admit that I'm not liking the latest Sedaris as much as I've liked his earlier stuff. Maybe it's because my tastes have changed, maybe it's because I'm stressed due to school so I'm not into any recreational reading as much...but it seems like the same old stuff but not quite as funny and colorful. I need to hurry up and finish it though so I can focus on The Liars' Club.
~Lisa
Hey, Lisa, weren't you reading Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? Did you dump it?
I picked up a copy of Liar's Club from the library today, but it was only available in Large Print. Never read a book in Large Print before.
Hey Christine,
No, I didn't dump Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; I did like it. I think I had already finished it before last Tuesday and forgot to talk about it. I agree that maybe parts of it were unnecessary or too long, but overall I enjoyed it. I'm not sure I liked how he ended it though; I'm on the fence about the ending.
~Lisa
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