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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.
15 comments:
For me it's all cookbooks and food writing. I'm gearing up to make an English pudding next month. Knitting Heather, have you ever made one?
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but English pudding is NOT pudding, right? Like so many English foods that sound more appetizing than they are...grph.
Ew, now I'm thinking about BLOOD pudding...oooh, NOW I'm thinking of Christine in a beret saying "seeen oiiiirrr." Aaaahhh, sometimes my word association brain comes in handy!
Anyway, I finally finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and I must say, once finished, I will grudgingly admit that overall I rather enjoyed it. I had presumed it was going to be an intrigue-esque mystery, when in fact, it was an old-fashioned whodunit mixed with a cultish nowadays serial killer twist. Apparently, its actual title (translated from Swedish) is "Men Who Hate Women," but I guess it got changed for American audiences. *cough* Um, but enough of my handsell...
I also read Succubus Dreams, the third in the Georgina Kincaid "Succubus" series (hush Don) which I snatched from the back with glee when I saw it there and read in two days. Yay for guilty pleasures!
Also have about fifty pages left of Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. Dewey it seems, is quite the trooper. From surviving a freezing night after being crammed into a library drop box in Iowa, he won over the hearts of a town in 1980s farmland Iowa, and apparently, now (as then) into the hearts of millions as he is the B&N #2 bestseller. Well-played, Dewey...All I have to say is, if it ends with him dying, I'm gonna be hella pissed.
Forging ahead with "Anathem" (page 669, Yay, me!) and just started "The Barn house" by Ed Zotti, which apparently is the gripping story of a guy fixing up an old house. Sounds like a book for me, eh?
And Martha, who among us can say we haven't spent a freezing night in an Iowa library book-drop box? Or is it just me?
Martha! So nice to see you again!
Right, English pudding isn't pudding like "squish." It's more pudding like "bite and chew." Blood pudding? No. No, no. And I'm a veggie, so I'll be making my figgy pudding with butter, not beef suet. Did you know that golden raisins are also called sultanas?
Don, you old library cat!
How can you pick up another book while you're still finishing that huge piece of sci-fi brain warp-age?
You'll neeed to compare the Zotti book with Kidder's "House" for us, please. If you see it through. But you usually do. You're not the book starter and dropper that Jim is. He finishes one book for every four he starts.
Okay, so I'm allegedly still reading Consider Phlebas, but at this point the protagonist is getting on my last threadbare nerve. I'll finish the thing fer sure. I just gotta ease my eyeballs. And I go digging through my books; lo and behold, I find my weather-beaten copy of Interview With the Vampire. (Please don't judge me, I was in eighth grade and impressionable.) Reread ahoy.
Oh that Louis, he's so dreaaaamy... *swoon*
I've completely given up reading the plays for my Restoration Lit class, but still seem to be getting As on the quizzes.
Need to start Sons and Lovers, and Angels in America for my other two classes.
And, to add to the addictive vampire crap discussion, I finished Twilight last night. Thanks to several people, including Erin, I know how the entire series turns out, so hopefully I'll be able to resist picking up book number 2.
Be strong, Danika. Do what Erin's doing; get yourself a copy of Interview with a Vampire.
Sultanas? Of course; they're the ones wearing the little turbans!
You're making Christmas pud (aka Figgy Pud)? Mmmmmm. Just about the richest dessert imaginable. Add to it a big ol' dollop of brandy butter or Bird's Custard. Let me know how it turns out. Better still, make two and bring one to the pot-luck - I'll make the brandy butter.
And Martha, British food? I guess it's all a matter of taste ;-)
Danika, I think Angels in America is freakin' stellar. Let us know how you like it.
And remember: it's not true love unless you eat the placenta.
Insomniac,
I don't know what 'brandy butter' is, but I DO know that I want some...
Curse this thread for making me so hungry!
Um, but not that placenta part...
...might have to read the cat/library book - Martha - could you tell me if it ends happy/tragic? I am reading "The Samurai's Garden". by Gail Tsukiyama. It's set right before WWII, and it's a very gentle story. I can't believe it sat on my shelf for so long.
Sophia-
Let's just say, the last chapter is a bit of a buzzkill. Not only does Dewey (inevitably) pass on after his nice happy life, but the author then decides to make it her Chapter of Sorrow: choosing to unveil all of her life's sadness. She unveils the following:
*her mother's illness and death
*a sibling's tragic early death
*her older brother's inability to handle said death, depression through life, and consequent shotgun suicide at the age of 19
*her parents' cat's death--DROWNING during a routine neutering when the veterinarian forgets to remove the water bowl after anesthetizing the cat
and finally, the author's own double mastectomy and divorce, which leads to her going on welfare.
*breath* She of course, later goes to college, gets her BA, MBA, and becomes a success and whatnot, but DAYUM is all I have to say. All that, in one chapter. The FINAL chapter. Not exactly a happy note to end on. I recommend you read the book, and skip the last chapter. The rest will be worth it :)
Wow - what a downer! Geez. I'll just stop before I get that far. How did she manage to pack all that baggage in?...impressive.
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