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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:
I just started reading Kisses From Katie (Katie Davis).
It's a blog-style-memoir she tells as part of a record of her growth as a Christian and part as an effort to raise awareness of the levels of extreme poverty in Africa.
Katie was an 18-year-old girl who decided to forgo college to move to Uganda as a teacher & eventually she adopted lots of orphans. She's only early 20s now.
Her graphic descriptions of the extreme poverty in Uganda are hard to read, especially when they're back-to-back with her adolescent exuberance of how great God is, but I believe she has an interesting story to tell. We'll see.
I just finished The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien, which is the book that would have happened if James Joyce had tried to write Alice through the Looking-Glass, No Exit, and The Man Who Was Thursday all at once. Very enjoyable, if rather odd.
Now I'm reading Far from the Madding Crowd. The introduction describes Thomas Hardy as doing in a rural setting what Charles Dickens does in an urban setting. Not sure I altogether agree with this assessment yet, but I'm still enjoying it.
I just finished Dead Zone (King) on the Nook. It took forever to figure out how to download library books, but I've got it! I went with an old favorite to see if it was much different than reading the paper version. It is. The Nook makes "cheating" by looking forward much more difficult.
I also finished Kisses From Katie (Katie Davis). By the end of the book, she's still in her early 20's, and has adopted 14 orphans and started a mission which is sponsoring over 200 kids to school (including tuition, supplies & food) every year. This girl is a force.
Next up is Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist.
Mary, I have that same problem with my nook. Drives me crazy that I can't read the last page!
Two "Amish fiction" on the Nook.
Rachel's Secret (B J Hoff) was pretty good, culturally accurate, Underground Railroad subplot with standard she's-Amish-he-isn't plot. I liked this one even though the ending was a bit contrived.
Missing Your Smile (J. Eicher), yuck. This one was so innaccurate I had to stop about 1/2 way through. ("His beard reached his first button? Amish don't wear buttons!) I might have been able to overlook the author's lack of research IF the writing had been decent.
So glad that you guys have continued to write here even though I haven't!
Can't believe that you both are last page readers before you get to the last page!
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