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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.
4 comments:
I am reading a lovely fantasy novel called The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch. Structured rather confusingly, but great fun once you figure out all his jumps in time. I just read a short story by Joyce Carol Oates called "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" dedicated to Bob Dylan--I think I would have enjoyed it a great deal more if I weren't so ignorant about music. And I am reading an essay by Thomas Paine about deism. All in all, a fairly interesting mix.
*Just* finished The Kite Runner--was lovely, I really enjoyed it. Wish I had more time to read throughout the schoolyear...today I'll be lucky if I manage to read my mail and the newspaper.
~Lisa
Making my way through "As They See It", a surprisingly hard read about baseball umpires.
And also re-reading "Seven Glorious Days, Seven Fun-Filled Nights", one of my favorites from WAY back. It's the true story of a guy who attempts to watch everything on TV for a solid week. Now this IS in 1967 and he has a grand total of 6 (SIX!) stations to keep track of. I've reread this many times since I picked it up at a garage sale in about 1975 but this time I'm startled by the similarities to today. The nation is in an unpopular war (then Vietnam) which is getting a lot of TV coverage, everything that was popular is now being recycled into this new phenomenon called "syndication" and oh yeah, the Mets are losing. Just watching this guy try to wade through the daytime soaps is worth the price of admission.
Thank you for sharing--good stuff, guys!
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