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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:
Borrowed a book from my mother-in-law the Super Reader called Galileo's Daughter. It sounds incredible. Haven't started it yet. Still working on book 2 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. My mom is mad at me because I loaned Janet Evanovich's 13th to a friend! Ah..book politics.
Just finished "It's Not News, It's Fark". A little disappointing, serving mostly to allow author Drew to retell his favorite Fark stories. He makes some good points but anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to the "Mass Media" has already figured out where it's flaws are. Am now going to start "Death Note", a manga series recommended by our favorite anonymous Bookstepper, DRD. A stretch for me, wish me luck.
Cook, how do you like the Alexander McCall Smith series?
Don, let us know what you think of this new territory you're about to enter.
I'm reading Mythology, by Edith Hamilton, The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt, and I started The Iliad, by Homer, last night. Maybe someday I'll finish something.
Good luck with Death Note, Don!
DRD
DRD, are these school reads or personal interest?
I'm reading three books right now. The first one is one of my favorites Henderson, the Rain King by Saul Bellow, the second is The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers and the last one is Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane.
I just started Joyce Carol Oates' The Gravedigger's Daughter. I don't know why I am compelled to read Joyce Carol Oates. I never enjoyed her in school, I didn't enjoy her second most recent book Black Girl, White Girl, (but MADE myself finish) and I will probably make myself finish this one, if only because the copy I am reading literally smells atrocious. That's reason enough, no?
Speaking of stinky reading, I am balancing JCO with Lauren Weisberger's (yes, of The Devil Wears Prada fame/infamy) Everyone Worth Knowing. And not for the first time. See, Don, I admit my trashy literary tendencies!!
Am also, now and then, opening Harry Potter and Philosophy. Both for fun and because the covers are so smooth. We discussed the tactile enjoyment, though, Christine :)
Allie, you know I've tried Powers before. Come on, he's got ties to our town! But I just couldn't get into it. Jim tried, too. Finally, Jim said, "We're smart, but we're just regular smart." I do intend to read at least one of his books. . .
PS to MM of DHS, I believe you recently finished your first Powers?
Martha! Great to see you here. I hope you drop by often. I've only read a short story by JCO, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" which she dedicated to Bob Dylan. The tactile aspect of a book is big to me, too. I enjoy testing books for their fwump quality. Big, fat paperbacks fwump the best. Just hold the book firmly by the spine in your left hand and flip (fwump) through all of the pages quickly with your right hand. Fwump.
Christine:
That short story of JCO's is actually required reading for every single English teacher for every level of class everywhere. I swear I have had to read it umpteen times. I counted. (Well, I was supposed to read it.) Anyway, after reading that story I kind of likened her to Shirley Jackson. I think that's why I keep reading her, I'm waiting for my prophecy to come true.
Update: It hasn't. And it almost made me make a sad smiley face emoticon as well. How the mighty have fallen. Ha ha.
Wednesday Wars and Mythology are for me; I'm supposed to read a short excerpt from the Iliad for my humanities class. I'm against excerpts for the same reason I'm against abridged books, so I'll have to read the whole thing. I should, anyway. DRD
I finished "Kavalier and Clay", and am reading "Lonesome Dove". Yowsa.
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