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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.
6 comments:
"Running with Scissors". About half way through. As a work of fiction I'd buy it and find it ever so mildly funny. As a supposed memoir I find it unbelievable that one person could have so many insanely screwed up bizarre people in their life. I hope it was cathartic for him to write it, otherwise I see no point. Has anyone seen the movie?(I can't believe they actually made one)
Just finished The Beggar's Opera, the final silly play I will have to read for that class. Also working on Gulliver's Travels, which could be more riveting than it is. Just finished Choke (Palanhiuk) for the Living White Males class. Don't see what the hype is about. Eew. And even though I finished Sons and Lovers, I've still gotta think about it for that lovely 16-page paper . . .
Just finished Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo for Film & Lit. Hated it. Another postmodern novel about an obscenely rich white guy living in New York, having sex with a bunch of women, and being profoundly solipsistic. I didn't care about whatever statement DeLillo was trying to make because he did it in such a way that I wanted to reach through space and time and slap him with a fish.
Just finished "Planet Google" and have picked up "Lost on Planet China". For someone who hates to travel as much as I do, I sure seem to like to read about it.
Finishing up "Bel Canto", but I'll be sorry to let it go. The book has developed a little better toward the middle for me - I am curious to see how it all adds up. They are held hostage for something like 120 days?
coming in way late on this one - just wanted to comment on running w/ scissors. i saw the movie and actually liked it much better than the book. thought the book was a load of crap.
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