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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:
Just started Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire. I've had it for a while now but this is my first read through. So far the style is similar to Wicked, and more concrete than Mirror Mirror.
Also reading Emily Dickinson poems for American Literature. Or, as I like to call them, the anti-chick lit. I heart her.
After everybody's discussion last week, I opened Franny and Zooey and loved it. I see why it's your favorite book, Christine.
Still struggling through The Aeneid. I really hate Virgil.
And I just started A Tale of Two Cities today, and I'm enjoying that. Not as good as Great Expectations or Bleak House, but still very, very good. DRD
I heart E.D., too, Erin. Do you know Billy Collins' poem "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes"?
DRD, that Zooey is something. He treats his mother so rudely, yet can quote all the spiritual masters at length. He has a huge ego, but he knows it and sees it. He can be a know-it-all jerk but gives Franny the love she needs when she needs it most, when perhaps he's the only one who can help her. I love the two stories because they show real, flawed people who are on their own spiritual paths trying to figure it all out. And the final message that Z gives to F on the phone is perfect.
I'm reading me some fiction (!)
I started a new book called "The Forest Lover", which portrays the life of a Emily Carr, a painter who embraces the northwest coast wilderness in 1912. She is very unconventional, and very committed to her work and love of the woods. Should be a good read.
I'm reading War of the Worlds to Nick, and No cry sleep solution and 10 days to a less defiant child for me. Also some less redeaming fiction for me.
Monica
Monica,
As a supplement to reading WoW, you might be interested in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds soundtrack. It has David Essex, Julie Covington, Phil Lynott on vocals and Sir Richard Burton as the narrator. I ordered it from inter-library loan.
started The Blue Bowl by George Minot but i'll get a couple pages in and put it down in disgust. it goes along fine and i start to get slightly interested, and then i get the constant overuse of Like, Like, Like. and not the Valley Girl version where you can just hear that annoying tone even as you read. here's a quick example as i just open the book: "She'd hunker back and bark like mad like at something evil there, like she was one of those Egyptian jackals who were like priests to the underworld . . . "
and this one all pretty much makes sense, most i can completely leave out and read an easier calmer sentence. just isn't worth the trouble. (opp pg: "Then like with his like marching orders slash confirmation . . . like a ski jumper . . ."
what the??? if i had endless weeks isolated somewhere i'd be obsessed w/ counting how many per page and seeing what miraculous sentence claimed the most overall. geez!
Fiction, Don? Do tell.
I loved Zooey. I laughed and laughed at what he said to his mother (cringing in my head at the thought of what would happen to me if I said any such thing to my mother), and he was by far my favorite character. I loved Franny, too, but Zooey more so. DRD
Christine, I haven't heard of the Collins poem. I will have to track it down.
I adore Dickinson for infinite reasons, not least because she encapsulates so many layers in so few lines.
h--sounds frustrating. Thanks for the examples!
Insomniac, you enjoyed the monarch butterfly book so much, wonder if you'd like The Snow Geese by William Fiennes (cousin to actors Ralph and Joseph). "Fiennes follows several flocks of snow geese from their winter home in Texas to their summer grounds in the Arctic.--Nature writing at its most wondrous and personal." That's from my Book-a-Day calendar.
Still reading Kitchen Confidential (as loaned by The Don). I don't know if it's the cold weather, or the time change/less light issue, but I just haven't been reading much. *gasp* WTF?
Interesting Christine, I'll check it out, thanks!
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