This is what I am currently reading to Maria for our Reading Promise. I love this story so much and love reading it aloud even mucher. What are you reading now that it's December?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
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.
4 comments:
A Christmas Carol is a wonderful read - I think I will join you - thanks!
"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour."
Hi Ho! And how 'bout this description of Scrooge's door knocker as it appears changed before him:
Marley’s face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
It made me laugh out loud, pause, and give Maria a puzzled look!
Made me laugh, too :) I was just at B&N and saw someone buying the edition of the book you have pictured!
I have been reading sci fi/fantasy recently. I just finished Elizabeth Bear's Chill, the sequel to Dust, which I loved. Her world-building is incredible. Now I'm on to Terry Pratchett's Making Money, which is good because it's Pratchett, but it's not my favorite of his books. He seems to take the opportunity when he writes books about the character in this particular book, he simply uses it as an opportunity to expound his own economic views, which I don't find quite as scintillating as his socio-cultural views.
After finishing Mindy Kaling's light and enjoyable memoir, I was at a loss for what to read as the semester was coming to a close and things were getting hectic.
I ended up wandering into Founders Library at NIU during my lunch break on a long day of finals week office hours, and asked where their new acquisitions were. I was pointed to the Scholar's Den on the first floor, where there were mostly, as you might guess, scholarly and professional tomes. But sticking out among them was the book Drama, by John Lithgow. I decided to read the preface to see if it grabbed me, and I found it surprisingly sweet and moving, so that's what I'm reading now. Lithgow is a really solid writer, and although at times he seems pretentious and appears to feel nostalgic and romantic about virtually every single thing that has ever happened to him, he is ultimately likable, and I'm enjoying the book. Christine, I think your young thespians would like it too.
Post a Comment