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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.
7 comments:
Just read the comic epic poem The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope. Very amusing.
Just finished Angels in America. Amazing, you're right, Erin.
Started Sons and Lovers. Very good. A sight better than Lord Jim.
Gotta start Consider Phlebas and The Blind Assassin if I want to have any books read for any book clubs next month.
Yay! I had various body parts crossed hoping you'd like it. Glad you did.
As far as reading, lessee...still on Consider Phlebas. At this point, I don't care what happens to Horza. I just don't. A giant space tick could latch onto his head and suck out his brain through his ear and I still wouldn't care. Except then the narrative would actually MOVE ON OH GOD WHY WON'T YOU SHUT UP, BANKS, WHY...uh, I'm okay now.
If I weren't reading Interview With the Vampire, too, I'd lose my sanity. Claudia is my weird, evil little not-child hero. I mean, Louis starts whining and she just backhands him and is "Get in the kitchen and make me a sammich!" If Claudia actually, y'know, ate sandwiches. I'm just sayin'.
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. I found it as a withdrawn book at our library and it sounded sort of interesting. I wasn't aware that it has garnered a bit of a cult following. I'm about 2/3 done and some of the ideas are mildly intriguing. The most intriguing thing to me is that the book ever got published - the caliber of writing is abysmal.
I've seen that book on the shelf at B&N before, and never been terribly impressed by it. I believe it has sequels, though, should you be interested.
The Celestine Prophecy got quite a bit of hype when it first came out. I've always been mildly curious about it--interesting to hear that it's pretty bad!
~Lisa
Yeah - The Celestine Prophecy was kind of a big deal - I can't remember where I was living, but everyone was reading it and grooving on it. I am going to read Bel Canto next - just need to get it from the library.
Hey, I've been missing the blog. I just checked in and there hasn't been a new post in over a week! Where is everyone? Busy I suspect--hope things wind down soon! Oh, and Happy Halloween and daylight savings time (we get an extra hour of sleep this weekend!).
~Lisa (lalittlecricket--didn't feel like logging in)
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