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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'm reading my new math book, The Math Book. (Mathematicians are very creative when it comes to naming books.) It's by Cliff Pickover, and it has an interesting topic in mathematics on each page, with an accompanying picture or illustration on the opposite page. Nice big hardcover.
In theory, it sounds pretty awesome, right? But actually, I'm a little underwhelmed so far. With each topic, he barely scratches the surface, and sometimes I get done reading a page feeling like I haven't really read much at all. The page on dice was especially unimpressive. But I still plan on reading it from cover to cover, and keeping it on my shelf at school. If a topic seems especially interesting, I might check out his further reading suggestions.
I finished Sarah Palin's (*cough* Lynn Vincent's *cough*) book, and I feel like I know a lot more about her governing style and her accomplishments as Governor of Alaska (I agree with many aspects of her fiscal conservatism, such as when she cut her own pay and many of the unnecessary perks of her own position, and when she avoided taxing citizens and instead went after Big Oil and made the oil companies work for Alaskan citizens), and I do feel that she has been unnecessarily vilified by the press and mis-handled by the McCain campaign (some of the examples she gives are truly bizarre, such as when one of the campaign guys sat her down and told her they were hiring a nutritionist for her, when at any given time, she was probably the person in the room with the healthiest lifestyle--nothing actually came of that and she never saw any nutritionist). On the other hand, I still disagree with some aspects of her worldview (her unabashedly rah! rah! rah! America stance, her canonization of Ronald Reagan and his economic policies, etc.). I'm left with the impression that she's going to be given a voice somehow or another for a long time, so people had better start actually engaging her in serious political discussion, for better or for worse, instead of just calling her names and making jokes about her looks, her vocabulary, her Fargo accent, and her kids.
Reading "The January Dancer" for the library book group. Fantasy, space western/opera/piracy, and sci-fi. Kinda loving it a lot over here.
Thank you, Lisa, for the thoughtful reviews. I'm always interested in your choices because you tend to read a lot of nonfiction, too. Nice math book.
Erin! Good to hear from you!
I am reading Knives At Dawn in print form and Red Mars in electronic form.
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