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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.
5 comments:
Stiff, by Mary Roach! Enjoying it so much. Once again put aside Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue to pick this up. It's not that Mother Tongue's boring; far from it. It just isn't quite gripping.
I can't wait to start reading Midwives and The Life of Pi (the books Mary gave me), but I'm still working on Catch-22 and still occasionally paging through The Math Book. Also, I just picked up Brainiac by Ken Jennings out of curiosity and have started that, and I also snagged the Alec Baldwin memoir ($1.34 including tax--dot sale) about his divorce and custody battle, and I've started that too. So I'm pretty scattered, but trying to whittle away at all four. It's slow-going now that the semester is in full swing though.
Danika, if you like Mary Roach, definitely check out Bonk (or is it Boink?). It's about the science of sex, and it's insanely absorbing. Her style is just awesome...interesting as heck, while simultaneously making you snort out loud. Which is awkward in public.
Not that I'd know or anything.
^It is Bonk, and I enjoyed it too, Heather, :). I second the recommendation!
I actually read Bonk first--had it on my iPod to read during my graduation ceremony! I suppose that made my reactions to all the speeches begging for money a little odd, but I enjoyed it :)
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