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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.
5 comments:
I am reading "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" by Jules Verne. I am reading one tiny page at a time on my iPod. I sit in bed at night flipping tiny pages with a little flick of my index finger. I adore the story, with all it's long listings of marine species and speculative explanations for underwater saline-derived energy sources. If you have a minute, look up Jukes Verne on Wikipedia - the photo of his grave is wonderful - wow!
I'm reading The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African for my Early American Lit class. Very interesting indeed.
And in my American Short Story class, we're doing some Hemingway. We just read Hills Like White Elephants, which was good, and we are reading The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber, which is not.
I also picked up a fun book, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Going Postal. Good fun thus far, as well.
Just finished Closer by Patrick Marber for British Drama. I came very close to hating it; I had to walk away for a while and then come back and look again to realize that there's more to it than I thought. I still don't like it, though.
Danika, I remember reading "Franis Macomber" in my undergrad Sex & Gender in Lit. class. What are your thoughts on it?
Thoughts? Only that Hemingway clearly thought women were terrible, good for only one thing, and even that wasn't worth the trouble they caused.
And his idea of manhood clearly explains why he was divorced so often. And why his kids are screwed up.
Thoughts on what I've been reading lately-
"Hrummpf."
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