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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.
13 comments:
finally made it to another new library - downtown St. Pete! went in w/ a list of titles to look for, abandoned that and went with several that caught my eye. i'm beginning w/ Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda. the first 8 chapters are pulling me in so far.
I love checking out libraries wherever I go. When I babysat for a few children last summer, we took a day trip around our county and stopped at five different libraries. We asked the librarians to stamp a card for us and took a picture at each one. Okay, that sounds way geekier than it felt.
Still on The Robber Bride for non-class reading, and just finished up The Scarlet Letter. Doesn't matter that I had Hawthorne's methodology explained to me; I still maintain that the ending was a huge rip-off. And Pearl never ceased to annoy the daylights out of me.
Next on the list is Billy Budd by Herman Melville. At least he uses shorter sentences.
Erin, I will get back to Scarlet Letter someday. It is such an autumnal read. I do need a group to talk to while I'm reading it, though.
I've always wanted to read Billy Budd. Moby Dick is amazing. Like Mozart's Requiem or the Mona Lisa. Do let me know what you think of Billy Budd.
Started "Island of the Blue Dolphins" which I have read before but don't remember real well. And I am still deeply in to "Bookseller of Kabul" - The book continues to report on the daily thoughts, events, activities and politics of a middle-class Afghanistan family.
I always enjoyed Island of the Blue Dolphins, but felt that O'Dell wasn't capable of writing anything else. He seems to forget in his other books that characters are supposed to have emotions. My Name is Not Angelica especially annoyed me. He seemed to assume we'd all take it for granted that the main character would object to being a enslaved, without actually putting any of her objections in, until the very end of the book when she suggested to her master that he free her and her people. It was quite surprising, given the totally unemotional and objective way he'd handled the rest of the book.
Oh, yeah, and I'm reading The Theban Plays for class, and Great Expectations for work. DRD
A couple of years ago I read Island of the Blue Dolphins to the kiddos and I seem to remember it was fairly enjoyable although I felt it got a little repetitive sometimes (but then I suppose deserted island life is wont to be a little tedious). I tried to follow it with Zia which put us all to sleep and we never did finish it.
Finished The Giver with the kids. Great pondering on the ending.
I'm still being bitten by The Historian. I'm about half way through and there hasn't been a whole lot of action but yet it remains somewhat compelling. I think I'm going to sign off now, bite the silver bullet and suck in a couple of chapters before I fall asleep like the un-dead. There's just so much at stake.
Insomniac, you really know how to get to the lifeblood of a book even if it's a bit of a drain on your energy and time. I hope your effort with this one won't be in vein.
Oh, and I think Oliv and I will try for The Giver now. Also, Insomniac, you and your gang might like The White Mountains by John Christopher.
Yes, Christine I like a book I can really get my teeth into.
Thanks for the recommendation for the White Mountains. I looked it up on Amazon and it looks interesting: War of the Worlds meets 1984?
Christine:
So far it's good. There's tension building already and it's going so, so much faster than Hawthorne. Although I get the distinct feeling that Billy is going to make me want to throw the book across the room. I look forward to the master-at-arms corrupting his annoyingly perfect self. And I'm liking the nautical setting very much.
I just finished Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry (Crazy Aunt Purl). She's one of my favourite bloggers, and it's so nice to see her finally healing from her rather unpleasant recent divorce. (And yes, she's also a knitter. I am nothing if not focused.)
Currently, I'm reading The Sweet Potato Queen's Big-A** Cookbook (And Financial Planner), and also Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like A Skank. Both are by decidedly Southern women (as is the first book, come to think of it), and both are really funny, in a warped sort of way. I'm all about the funny these days...I NEED the funny.
I'm stuck at home, and have finished my library books. I'm down to Entertainment Weekly.
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