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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.
13 comments:
I just started Midwives (Chris Bojahlian) and I'm not very far in yet, but I'm really liking it so far. Although I'm somewhat dreading the conflict to come, because he foreshadows things pretty early.
~Lisa
Thank you, Lisa! Also, would you like to tell us anything about being on the set of a new movie in Chicago recently?
Whaaaaa? What is all of this craziness, Christine? I like it!
I am just beginning "Bottled and Sold," a book about America's obsession with bottled water. Hopefully it will turn me off MY use of bottled water because although I recycle my bottles when I'm finished, I still feel guilt over drinking it in the first place.
Also reading some schlocky horror strip, and some magazines that have piled up. :)
Oh, I should add that I reading "Bottled and Sold" on my NOOKtm.
Thankyouverymuch.
(Did I do that right, Don?)
Hi Christine! I will discuss some details about the movie set if Don will reveal the 10,000th track winner, how's that?
Martha, well hello! Bottled water. Indeed. TV, Internet, SUV, carbon footprint. If we all lived 100 years ago, we wouldn't even know these words. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the choices we need to make to be responsible on this planet. (NOOKtm--haha)
Lisa, sounds fair to me!
I know Christine, it can only be described as "crazy ridiculous." ;)
It is impossible to be both advanced and "green," it seems.
Also, it appears that on Saturdays, no matter how hard I try I can't escape typos. Or maybe it's the coffee haze?
Reading Made By Hand (dead tree edition) by one of the editors of Boing-Boing and Makers (Nooktm edition) by another of Boing-Boing's editors. Now if only Xeni would write a book.
You're silly, Don :D
Don announced the winner! Your turn to talk "Cheaters," Lisa!
I just finished Mountolive, the third in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. I'm putting everything I learned in my modern British lit class to use, and the book is absolutely wonderful. Need to get going on Black Ships for the library discussion--although Erin's review of it rather turned me off--and keep plugging away at studying for this interpreting test. Motivation is so hard to find in the summer.
I did just realize that I can download PDFs of literary criticism and put them on my Nooktm to read so I no longer have to print out ridiculously formatted articles, and I am enjoying this fact.
Hi Christine and errehbody! Sorry I'm a little late; I was visiting w/ Yancy for most of the weekend. Anyway, the movie is being called the "Untitled Cheating Project," or Cheaters, for short, and it's apparently about a guy who finds out that his best friend's wife cheated, so he's dealing with this knowledge. I think it's supposed to be a comedy, and it will star Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, and Queen Latifah (as far as I know). They shot a night scene on Tuesday night of last week at the steakhouse Smith & Wollensky at the base of the Marina Towers on the Chicago River, with James, Vaughn, Ryder, and Connelly sitting together at a table having a discussion about how you can think you know someone and not really know them, or something (it was hard to eavesdrop when we were supposed to be doing our own thing, pantomiming a discussion, looking at the menu, etc.). I played a restaurant patron in the background, and it was cool being in on the action and watching Ron Howard direct, but for the majority of my night, I wasn't on set. And by 4:00 a.m., when I actually had been on set for a couple of hours, I was *really* fading, LOL. But I don't want to clog your blog, so if I post on my own blog about the whole experience, I'll link to here from there. I'm going to wait until the movie is almost done filming though, because I might work on it again.
So fun! And cool! You're famous! And I've covered your breaks at Barnes and Noble!
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