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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.
7 comments:
Christine, Where do you find your pictures?! They're great!
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Wroblewski)
This fiction was recommended by a friend. As soon as I saw the Oprah logo, I should have turned & run.
It starts out as a lovely story of a boy and his dog—or lots of dogs, since his parents run a kennel—set in upper Wisconsin. The boy is born mute but not deaf which presents a problem in communicating with dogs. But these dogs are extraordinarily special; they respond to his sign training.
The boy’s dad dies under mysterious circumstances. The boy’s uncle, who is not only the murderer but a serial killer as well, moves in & tries to take over. The boy runs away with three of the dogs, gains insight, etc., returns to confront the uncle.
Lovely so far, yes? Then the Jodi Picoult style train wreck of an ending (where the last 4 pages don’t fit the preceding 550+ pages): in the climax where the kennel is burning & the multigenerational records need saved, the boy & his uncle fight unseen amid the blaze. In rushes the brightest dog who is well bonded to the boy. I’m thinking, Lassie saves Timmy, right? Wrong! The boy & the murdering uncle both die. The kennel burns. The mother & sheriff outside the barn die. The bitch (and I use this term both correctly and colloquially) runs off with a smart wolf and the other kennel dogs to form a feral super-colony in the woods.
This is most definitely not a Setterfield or Gruen ending, where details are neatly wrapped up and the reader is left satisfied.
^File that one under #wtfbooks.
I just finished reading Elna Baker's New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, the title and synopsis of which had been intriguing me for nearly a year. I don't regret it...it's quite funny, and the author definitely undergoes a journey consisting of a crisis of faith which goes nicely with her quarterlife crisis. One of the chapters, chronicling a season during which she worked as a baby doll nurse at FAO Schwartz in New York City, reads like something out of David Sedaris's Holidays on Ice.
I'm currently reading The Hunger Games and loving it so far. I can see why it's so popular and I think the movie is gonna launch it into Twilight-level popularity (ok, maybe not quite that bonkers; it might actually be too good for that).
Nice pic of Kiki! I am just about done with "Maltese Falcon"...it's been an enjoyable read and fun to pick out details of San Francisco. I don't know how it ends, but I don't trust Brigid O'Shaugnessy...
I have less than 70 pages left of Little Dorrit, and I want to finish it so badly I can taste it. Here's to a lot of classes with individual quiet work time today!
Done! Now, do I read The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett, or On the Origin of Species, by You-Better-Know-Who?
Mary--thanks for the funny synopsis!
Lisa--Olivia liked Hunger Games, too. Don did not love the third book in the series, if I remember correctly.
Thanks, Sophia!
DRD--another Dickens to cross off your list (or was this a re-read?). Do read the Darwin!
See, Don? Someone likes it when I read books from the hoary past.
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