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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.
10 comments:
Having just finished a twelve (which became eleven) page paper on D.H. Lawrence the World-Class Chauvinist's two novels Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover, I have been on something of a Calvin and Hobbes binge, which is delightful for de-stressing.
I'm also in the last few chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird for my sophomore student's English class--I so missed what was actually happening when I first read that book at the age of ten.
And, I'm re-reading The Great Gatsby for my junior student's American Lit class, and feeling somewhat astonished that it didn't make me explode when I read it all in one day the first time.
Im reading Stephen Kings new book of short stories. So far i am enjoying them.
I just started Upton Sinclair's The Jungle while waiting for an oil change. I'm not very far in, but I'm enjoying it so far.
~Lisa
p.s. Blogger and Google hate my livejournal account. I can no longer post properly here as anything other than "anonymous."
finished Bel Canto, almost done with Twilight...enjoyment all around. But Bel Canto had a sad sad ending....
Finished The Outlander, by Gil Adamson. VERY good book. 1903, young woman killed her husband, fleeing alone across Canadian Rockies from her scary brothers-in-law. Incredibly well written, fascinating glimpses into her mind (which is shaky at best...madness creeps at the corners almost constantly), gorgeously eloquent descriptions of the scenery...I really hated for it to end. Fantastic first novel, and one can only hope that the author will cough up more sometime soon.
Also just finished Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. Interesting plot, kept me hooked enough, but I'm sorta meh on the ending.
Just started Stephen King's Thinner, which seems oddly appropriate for this time of waistline-expanding year. I think I read this when I was little, but I can't remember for sure. Either way, it's nicely diverting. :-)
ETA for whatever reason, Google/Blogger hates me too now. Sure wish I could remember my *$#^@ password.
--Knitting Heather
Just wanted to drop in again and wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving! (and no I haven't finished the Jungle; I'm only about 3 chapters in.)
~Lisa
Thank you all for your posts! Good to hear from you, Knitting Heather. Sorry about the Google/Blogger difficulties, Heather and Lisa.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
I'm stuffed.
Still might go leaf through a cookbook before bed, though (Nigella Lawson's Nigella Express).
Happy Thanksgiving all.
Seriously, I am just Hating everything I'm reading lately, so no report.
Slogged through a whole bunch of Shelley poetry for my Brit. Poetry class. Did not care. Shelley bores the heck out of me. I much preferred Wordsworth.
I found a brilliant essay while researching for my Film & Lit. paper. It's called "Kiss Me With Those Red Lips: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Christopher Craft. If you have even a smidgen of interest in the vampire genre, you should go read it.
In the meantime, I'm rereading Seabiscuit: An American Legend during idle time at rehearsals.
finished "Twilight". Huh. I enjoyed it. I guess I have to read the next books. I read it right up, wanting to know how things will develop. But there are long passages of just defining the situation. And I guess I was okay with that.
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