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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.
13 comments:
It's still Monday! I guess we're rarin' to go this week, :). Well, I'm still trying to get through The Sociopath Next Door, but it's *very* slow-going because I'm reading it only when I'm at the store, and I'm hardly ever there. I guess I'll try to catch up on my "Mother Jones" articles while not at the bookstore. Next up on that front is an article about how to solve the world food issue (i.e. how to have enough of it).
On a completely different subject, I posted pictures of my sister's wedding on my LJ which you can link to from my username.
Okay - I'll go in for Monday as well - I am starting two books - another Charlaine Harris Vampire book, and Huckleberry Finn. Sometimes I read a little "Voyage of the Beagle"...
My dad just finished all of Darwin's works. He really loved a chapter on involuntary reactions (like blushing), and a bit on the ability some people have to sneer (I thought everyone could??)...
Thank you both for joining in early!
Lisa, beautiful pics from your sister's wedding. I've seen you reading "Sociopath Next Door" at B&N, and we've talked a little about it. The cover is four sets of eyes staring out, and anyone who has ever seen it wonders if they can see something different in one of the sets. Who is the sociopath? Scary to think that so many people have little or no empathy for others, and no remorse.
Sophia, glad you are going to read Huck Finn with me. I'll need to keep at it so you don't get too far ahead. I'll start it tonight before bed.
Hooray for your dad for finishing all of Darwin's writings! I want to see the involuntary reactions chapter if I could, please. Not everyone can sneer?
I think it's actually 3 sets of eyes, Christine--and I've actually thought about those eyes, too. It's funny because I just assumed that all three of them were meant to be sociopaths, and maybe the point of the cover is that some are just easier or more likely to be identified than others (I also think that none of them are officially sociopaths but are all just models, of course).
But of the three pairs of eyes, I think the bottom pair are the ones I find the most frightening. The top pair look a little suspect, and then the middle pair look sort of warm and trustworthy (or just young and wide-eyed). But one of the points of the book is that sociopaths are good actors and liars and can feign many qualities and emotions.
~Lisa p.s. Thanks about the wedding pics!
I just finished Jonathan Carroll's Ghost in Love (stupid title, surprisingly interesting book, gets your brain pondering things you may not have considered before), and am now reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Heh.
I want to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies so much. Let us know how it is.
I'm reading Pinhoe Egg, one of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series, because school is all but done and I CAN. Maybe I'll pick up something a little more educational after I've had some fun.
Am now reading Do-Over, non-fiction by and about a guy who (at 48) decides to exercise the kid's universal right of "do-over" to go back and redo some things in his life he feels he got wrong.
Finished Coop. How did I like it? Well, you'll have to follow me on Twitter (@ncblguy) to find out.
Chris,
I'm currently reading FOR THE THRILL OF IT, a non-fiction account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb
murder case. Grisly, but interesting. It took me six weeks, but I finally finished DROOD. I liked it quite a bit, but was a little disappointed in the end, as I was with Dan Larson's last book THE TERROR.
"Bearclaw" would be my dear husband, Jim. He knows better than anyone that I dislike being called "Chris." Nice of him to post once a year, isn't it?
Hi Chris.
i started the new Charlaine Harris book, so far its a fun read, like the rest of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels.
Hey Christine--this isn't exactly on-topic, but what advice could you give to a person considering vegetarianism who is feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how to best nourish oneself and how to not get sick of it really quickly? Sorry for the poorly-constructed sentence.
~Lisa
Oh, Sophia, goin' and gettin' all location-specific on the blog. I like to keep it a little more anonymous. She gave me permission to delete.
Lisa, although I've been a vegetarian for over 16 years, I am hardly a model for healthy eating. I like tofu but don't cook it much myself. I eat a lot of eggs. I used to eat tons of pasta, but have tried to cut back on that. Jim and the girls eat meat, so I'm kind of on my own. I would suggest looking at the Moosewood cookbooks at B&N and any other veggie cookbooks for ideas. You probably like a lot more vegetables than I do and would be a better vegetarian than I am! Good luck, and let me know how it goes. Oh, yeah, did your reading of The Jungle a while ago influence you on this subject?
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