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.
6 comments:
Sadly it's the same old, same old.
The tv is rapidly becoming my enemy. :/
Finished Unbearable Lightness (de Rossi). My younger sister experienced bulimia-anorexia after her first marriage failed. She wanted control over her life. She had, at one point, an 18-inch waist. de Rossi does a great job of detailing the obsessiveness of the illness. I would have liked to see more of the recovery.
Also, I read First Lessons in Beekeeping (Dadant). My Dad kept bees for a long time, and I have been toying with the idea of keeping them. Likely, I'll end up keeping bees the same way I garden, that is to say, theoretically.
I also read Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog), (Jerome). It's a fiction about a hypochondriac who reads a medical dictionary & is convinced he has every disease (except housemaid's knee). He gets two chums and his dog, and goes on a restorative boat trip. Its plot is funnier in summary than in execution. I was a little disappointed in this one.
I'm working on both Zombie Spaceship Wasteland (Patton Oswalt) and Cinderella Ate My Daughter (Peggy Orenstein). I will reserve judgment until after I've finished both.
Riding Rockets, courtesy of Erin.
Lisa, I read the Oswalt book. Meh.
Mary, did you like the beekeeping book?
@Christine: I loved it! It was very practical, more like a how-to than a "fun" read, but that's exactly what I'd need getting started. I remembered many things from my Dad's backyard adventure, but this book had information above and beyond: bee behavior, mating, diseases, geographic distribution, breeds,and so on.
Dad never wore the recommended bee-sting protection garb. In fact, toward the end of his beekeeping days, he was forgetting to put on his pants (he has Alzheimer's now). He also couldn't understand why he was losing his repeat customers.
When it was time to sell the hives, he wanted me to have them because I was always fascinated with them. But, Nate's badly allergic to the stings. We always had to keep an epi-pen on hand after an attack in Virginia: Nate seriously swelled & had to be rushed to the doctor's office; I swelled a little in the hands & face; and Julie just stood in the middle of the swarm & didn't get a single sting!
Vince, being from The Bronx, has talked about a dovecote for pigeons. He remembers rooftop pigeon races from his childhood. They're a gentler animal, but less profitable. But the two species are not incompatible!
I think we're both thinking that once the kids are out of college, we'll have more time for our own interests again.
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