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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:
I just started Sodom on the Thames for class, and am enjoying it a great deal more than Public and Private Lives, of which I have another 104 pages to read before tonight's class. I miss reading fiction.
Finished Julie & Julia (Powell). Loved the idea of the book, reminded me of Year of Living Biblically (A. J. Jacobs). Big difference: I had a hard time getting past the 20-something, whiny, quarterlife crises this woman faced on a daily basis. It must be my age.
On another note: I have to recommend FLU (Kolata, 1999). Seasonally appropriate. One of the best non-fiction books I have read in a long time. Details how an epidemiologist found the 1918 virus many years after the epidemic (dug up eskimos buried in permafrost, clever!); explains the HN classification system started in the 1950s and still used today (the 1918 is H5N1); uses historical pictures & personalities by way of illustration. This book has everything. Danika, if you love the Black Plague, you'll also love the flu!
Mary, I warned you about Julie & Julia! The movie is better.
Nice death and destruction book with Flu. Good times!
Just read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. It reminded me a whole heck of a lot of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, except with twice the dysfunction.
Whoops! I signed in as my daughter (olivia) up there! It's me.
Hi Erin! Glass Castle tore its way through the staff at B&N a couple years ago. I never got around to reading it, but I gave it to my mom, and she read it.
Lisa here is a fan of Liar's Club.
^^Yeah, and apparently I'm the *only* one here who's a fan of The Liar's Club. I do still think it's one of the books that made the whole memoir genre explode (whether that's a good or a bad thing is up for debate), but I have to admit that when we all tried to read it for book club, I didn't get through it either (although I've never been a big book re-reader). Maybe I actually liked Cherry (her memoir about her adolescence, which I actually read first) better, and that's what made Liar's Club appeal to me so much? I don't know.
Anyway, I liked Julie and Julia (the book--I still have yet to see the movie but I want to), and maybe it's *my* age, but I didn't really find her too terribly whiny although I can see it.
I don't know if anyone saw in the previous thread, but I tracked down that book I was thinking of (the character's name was Flip, not Pip; once I googled that I found it). The book is And Both Were Young (bad title, good book from what I remember), by Madeleine L'Engle if you can believe that.
I loved Outliers, and I'm now reading Kathy Griffin's "Official Book Club Selection." Don is reading it too and therefore cannot make fun of me for it.
~Lisa
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