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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.
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am working on a design for a fall promotion for a client and found some autumn quotes for it. narrowed down to these:
"All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low..." Laura Ingalls Wilder
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face - John Donne
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower. - Albert Camus
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
my fav's were Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Camus one. we went w/ Camus for the project.
Still picking away at The Namesake. I had to read a few Edgar Allan Poe short stories for a literature class. Talk about a total buzz kill after spending all that time with Whitman.
"Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for the trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories." Margaret Atwood
My quote requires something of a spoiler, so if you want to read Flannery O'Connor and be surprised, don't read this.
Recently read a short story (for a class) by O'Connor called "A Good Man is Hard to Find." It's about a grandmother who, through her selfish method of projecting her imaginary reality onto the world, inadvertently gets her family and herself shot to death by a wanted criminal. Shortly before she's killed, she's jabbering away at the killer, and after he's shot her, he says, "She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." As bad as you naturally feel about people being shot, you can't help but sympathize with this feeling after having the grandmother for the narrator for the entire story. DRD
h--I love the Camus, Horowitz, and Emerson.
Erin--I've never heard Poe called a buzz kill!
DRD--I have never written the computer abbreviation for this (and still won't) but you made me laugh out loud. In the basement. By myself. At 11 o'clock at night.
Trust me, after reading "Song of Myself" and getting a huge charge to your self-esteem, Poe's world of despair and basic human evil will get rid of those pesky positive feelings real quick.
I am just starting Farenheight 451. Michaela said it put her to sleep but she is almost through it. So far I am enjoying, but I am on about page 10. No good quotes.
I remember "A Good Man is Hard to Find". Arn't they by the side of the road...? Almost done with Farenheit - still very much enjoying it. Guy really lets it go. Yeesh. And finishing The Jewel Box - kinda trashy, fun...makes me homesick.
More spoilers.
Yeah, the family turned off the main highway to go find a plantation house the grandmother remembered and embellished in her description (though she recalled as they continued down the side road that it was in some other state), and they get in a car accident. They are found by the criminal. DRD
Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes.
Haven't really had much time to reading anything but school stuff. So here's the list. "Master Builder" Henrik Ibsen, "Hamlet" Shakespeare, "Midsummer Night's Dream" Shakespeare, "Epic of Gilgamesh" (Old Babylonian version), Theogony of Dunnu, Hesiod's Theogony, A few Homeric Hymns, and finally "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight" - then add trying to memorize the ENTIRE general prologue of Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Though the Mythology stuff is pretty interesting - lots of castration and people being born from said castration and the sea. All in all, it's not horrible reading. Just takes up A LOT of time.
Whew, is that all just for one class, Allie?
no, just two of my six classes. I have four other text books I'm reading but they weren't really worth mentioning because no one would know what they were. I'm just completely swamped at the moment and trying to finish everything before next week.
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