What are you reading this week?
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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.
11 comments:
Reading the dead tree edition of Operation Mincemeat and on nooktm, the fifth in the Artemis Fowl series.
I have read the first three books in the "Artemis Fowl" series, and I am currentley reading "Thedore Boone" about a kid lawyer.
(crickets)
I'm reading Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett. It's wonderful. I love Death's granddaughter.
(Tumbleweeds)
*grabs a shopvac*
I realize tomorrow is Tuesday, but just to be a poo, I shall re-start the ball a-rolling. I am reading a teen series called The Devouring, by Simon Holt. I just finished book one, also called The Devouring, and am about to begin book two (Soulstice). It's a teen horror series about an urban legend (OR IS IT?!) come to life that steals the soul of a girl's little brother. With the help of her plucky/geeky best male friend and her elder boss/bookstore owner, she struggles to free her brother of the beast that has taken over her brother's soul.
But OMG there are MORE!!!
Which leads us to book two....
(which I just bought today)
Stay tuned to next week's Tell Me Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somehow I think if my brother's soul gets stolen, Don won't be jumping up to help me free it.
Martha! Thank you jumping in this week with such enthusiasm! You saved the day from crickets and tumbleweeds. Pretty Little Liars and The Devouring? Two eat 'em up series at once!
This week I've been mowing down on Terry Pratchett. After finishing Hogfather I read Mort, but had to pick up a different author for the upcoming library book discussion. I'm a couple pages into Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest, which the librarian would require that I describe using two words: "steampunk" and "zombies." So far I have encountered very little of either, but it looks promising.
The Wind Done Gone. The "black" version of GWTW, which I didn't even know existed until Martha's comment.
The book is more philosophical ramblings about the twin handicaps of race and gender of Scarlett's mulatto half-sister than it is about an actual storyline.
The author uses lots of shock rather than insight: Pork & Mammy are the real brains behind Tara; the 3 O'Hara baby boys were murdered; Ashley Wilkes is gay & Melanie had his black lover whipped to death; Ellen & her cousin/lover Phillipe were also part black; Rhett actually loved her more than Scarlett; and so on.
I have a copy if anyone would like to read it. I don't think I'll keep this one, but I'm glad that I read it once.
I'm glad you took one for the team, Mary. I now have absolutely no desire to read that book, but I feel sufficiently knowledgeable about it! :D
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