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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.
15 comments:
Blogging at 5:02AM Christine - there's dedication for you.
Almost through re-reading LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring. I have never managed to do a good job at reading the trilogy straight through, in order, without big time-lapses.
This time I will succeed! Then, of course, I'll have to re-watch the extended version movies.
The time thing is misleading. It always says an hour earlier than I really posted. Can't figure out how to change it. Still, 6:02. Pretty impressive, huh?
Have you been away? We've missed you here.
LOTR. What a great project for the summer. Enjoy!
I missed the blog too! We just spent a week in Missouri and Kansas with our friends from the army. Didn't have much time to read or to get on the computer but had a great time hanging out with friends and setting off fireworks! Daniel is still down there and we brought their son home with us (we may swap them back sometime?!).
Being productive at 6:02AM is pretty good going.
"Lonesome Dove"
Insomniac reminded me that I am reading "Return of the King" to Zoe. We just got through that painful meeting between Denethor and Pippin. i like the passage where Pippin ponders who Gandalf really is - where did he come from, how long has he been around....
I love that you are reading Zoe the Trilogy. She will remember that her whole life. A great shared reading accomplishment.
I'm still working on Edith Hamilton's Mythology, and I started Arabian Nights, which I love. I've more or less dropped the Iliad, but I figured that would happen.
I remember my dad reading me LOTR--we never finished, since he only read five pages at a time, and I never had much of an idea of what was going on, but I loved it anyway.
DRD
Finishing up "Richistan" by Robert frank and yes DRD, still vowing to start the scary manga "Death Note". Aside to the group - I can reread the LOTR trilogy at the drop of a cloak but for some reason "The Hobbit" leaves me cold. Why do you suppose that is?
And I've read the Hobbit a few times but can't seem to get further than the Fellowship in the big three.
I got about as far as the second chapter in Fellowship. All that genealogy stuff just gets to me. You know, "Aragorn, son of Arathorn, son of Blah de Blah..." I don't mind taking notes while I'm reading, but for some reason, this is one book that I don't want to take notes for. Plus, I'd already seen the movie, and when movies and books are both in existence, I like to read the books first.
Still reading The Gravedigger's Daughter. I'm liking it much more. HOWEVER. It span's a woman's lifetime, and reading it, it FEELS like it. You know how some books span time and you fly through them? This is NOT that book. But still really enjoying it. It's just taking time. It's also not helping that I'm eyeing a few other books that I'm not going to let myself read until I'm finished with this.
Don and Christine--Have you looked at that Sin in the Second City book that just came out? It looks good. (Yes, Don, it's nonfic.)
Also waiting on deck (in my mind)--The Professor and the Madman, about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Hurry up, Joyce Carol Oates!! :(
Martha, don't know the Chicago book you refer to. Will look for it at work. Professor and the Madman is also on deck for me! Don probably read that one years ago.
Yep, sure did.
Still enjoying Alexander McCall Smith. Finished The Sunday Philosophy Club. You might like it, C: Scotland, mystery and philosophy. I like his Botswana books better, currently on #3.
Oh, the Hobbit dragged for me, too. I read it because it was referenced heavily in an AS Byatt book I had on deck. I adored the trilogy. Read the whole thing nonstop after seeing the first movie. Will read it to kids eventually.
I don't understand it when people don't like The Hobbit--I loved it. But then, I'm big on dense books where nothing happens. DRD
Ooooh, the Arabian Nights! I read that when I was very small, maybe seven years old, and I thought it to be the most magical book I'd ever seen. I ought to pick it up again sometime.
Currently, I'm reading Forbidden Knowledge by the weird folks at Mental Floss. LOVE these sorts of books. I thrive on random information. :-) I also just purchased The Dangerous Book For Boys for my son, but I'm half tempted to read it before giving it to him. It really looks interesting (though again, random information sort of book).
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