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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.
8 comments:
Today is Edward Lear's birthday, and therefore "Write a Limerick" day...may I think of one and post it
"There was a young man from Nantucket"
...Oh wait, never mind
I just finished Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach. I absolutely loved it...fascinating, yet funny as heck. I adore her style of writing, and can't wait to read more of her work.
Here is my limerick...
My Windows continues to crash
Work files are filling the trash
I begged for a mack
But the management’s hack
So this limerick took more than a dash
Very nice, Sophia.
I'm still luxuriating in my lack of required school reading. I just polished off another Terry Pratchett book, Night Watch, which I enjoyed a great deal, and I've picked up the first volume of Sherlock Holmes adventures, which I believe I dropped when school kicked me in the face at the beginning of the Fall semester. It's as good as I remember.
Finished The Sociopath Next Door...it was pretty well-told but leaves a lot of questions unanswered about the possible origins of sociopathy; how certain they are that 1 in 25 people are sociopaths, etc. The overarching conclusion is good; that it's better to have a conscience than not to have one, not just for society but for the individual.
I've picked up How Sex Works and I'd like to pair it with Bonk, but I'm not very far in the former and haven't even started the latter.
~Lisa
Lisa, your ending sentence could be the most inadvertently funny thing I've read in a long time.
Wow, I just reread my last sentence and it is pretty funny, though I didn't intend it that way. lol
Incidentally, I'm almost done with How Sex Works, and I've just started Bonk. The latter is superior to the former. I'm not just saying that for comedic effect; it's true. It's like comparing apples to oranges, since How Sex Works is about sexual reproduction in general, while Bonk is about sexual arousal specifically, but How Sex Works is not nearly as well-written or as well-researched. I've noticed a few typos and downright misuses of words (where I believe the author used the opposite word that was intended...I wish I had dog-eared that page), and the author's transitioning from one subject to the next is sometimes clumsy. Overall the book has a bit of a meandering feel. Also, in one passage, the author quotes New Scientist magazine's reporting of a study instead of just using the study as a primary source and quoting/analyzing it himself. It almost reads like an undergraduate's term paper, which is weird because the author is a medical doctor.
Bonk, on the other hand, is pretty awesome. I've decided I like Mary Roach.
~Lisa
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