Jim thought this was quite a good book. But previews of the movie make it look like your typical action/adventure film. What are you reading today?
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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.
9 comments:
I just finished The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Magic college instead of prep school, filled with coming of age angst. Not for kids. Eric is reading it now and I'm curious what he will think.
OH MY GOD. I'm eternally grateful I read the older posts. Diana Gabaldon's book comes out TODAY!!!!
I had no idea! Thank you lovely bloggers!
I have been looking forward to Gabaldon's Echo in the Bone for MONTHS. It was on the stepladder @ B&N for 20%, not bestsellers for 30%. It kills me to wait one more week, but what can I do? Go to Border's?
finished "Red Tent"...need new book....
The "Red Tent" made me feel like I was living with Dinah, and I miss her and her surroundings now that the book is over. Honey, coriander, traveling on the Nile, sleeping on a roof - minus the total trauma of the storyline, it was a pleasant submersion in to ancient Canaan and Egypt.
Someone please give me a book to read...
Do you want The Anthologist?
I've been reading poetry from ancient Greece. I'm sure all poetic value of a two-line poem is lost in translation over a few thousand years, so I don't think I should have to read them.
Ha!
From my actual blog; I just copied and pasted:
I'm currently reading The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger. I like it, but I don't love it yet. Henry and Clare are the main characters, star-crossed lovers impeded by Henry's penchant for involuntary time-travel. The novel is clearly a love-letter to Chicago and coastal Michigan (Niffenegger lives in Chicago and works at Columbia College, and it sounds like she's got some ties to South Haven as well--yo, B&N people, isn't that where Morgan's going to college?), and I think it's kind of cool in that regard because she name-drops so many places that are familiar to me, but what's funny is that some of the places are not my favorite. Like the Aragon Ballroom, which has some interesting history and architecture, but pretty bad acoustics. Yancy and I avoid seeing shows there like the plague. And Berlin, a night club that I've been to once and hated. On top of that, Henry and Clare both have these somewhat idyllic-on-the-surface lives (moneyed, cultured, etc.) that are actually beset with impossible tragedy/conflict (I don't want to give any of that away in case anyone wants to read the book). But it reminds me of the 90210 characters (poor little rich kids), or the Kennedy's. Hard for me to relate. I suspect I like Henry and Clare a little less than I'm supposed to. They're a little too hip, cultured, sophisticated, and sexy for me.
~Lisa
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