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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.
19 comments:
Still in The Poisonwood Bible. Still want to beat people severely about the head & neck. Omg, but this guy makes me mad! *grrr*
I'm almost to the end, though, so it's very hard to put it down. Consequently, I'm a zombie lately from not enough sleep at night. Hee.
Nathan Price can't see the forest for the trees. I felt so much for Adah (isn't she the daughter with the malformed leg?), and little Ruth May and the malaria pills, and the horrible, horrible tragedy that befalls the family. Parts of that book made me ache. I did think it was about one fourth too long. An epilogue would serve to wrap things up better. The story ended for me when they left Africa.
I'm finishing up C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strenghth, the third book in his misnomered Martian trilogy. It's enjoyable, and gives a reader stuff to think about, but he's also beating you over the head with the Christian allegory, which doesn't always make for the best story.
And, since school has started again, I'm going back and forth between my linguistics textbook and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. I'm enjoying both, but, you know, it's school.
Right now the one book I am soley focused on is "V." by Thomas Pynchon. It's a book for school and it's so big and complicated that it takes some effort to actually keep all the characters straight. But it is definitely a great book.
Followed your recommendation, Christine, and am reading Appetites by Caroline Knapp. I'm enjoying it a lot, especially her fine, fluid writing.
I'm also hoping to pick up another Amy Tan. And I'm still counting down until Shadow's Return is released. C'moooon, Flewelling...
I have been reading a little more lately - I finished "Water for Elephants" and enjoyed the book while hungering for a little more about the history of the circus in America. I am not a circus fan, but found it fascinating. I finished "Stardust" - cute. Like eating candy. Now I am reading "The Giver" - whoa - weird-ola! Just where do people go when the are removed in this eerie utopian reality? Is anyone really discontent, or does the societal structure successfully solve the complexities of how we identify ourselves????Makes me itchy.
Insomniac, you recently read The Giver. Care to comment?
Finished "The Giver"...I now know where the people go. That was a tough little book, and makes for some good discussion material. I remember now that my mom gave it to me to read, and told me that her friend who teaches middle school assigns it as a class book. It ends with so much placed on the reader to decide...
BTW, I couldn't stand Nathan Price and could hardly read Poisonwood at times for the disgust I felt for that character.
I actually don't like the end of the Giver. Too open. Too much up to the reader. I want it spelled out! Sophia, you're burning through your books! What's next?
Allie, nice to see you here again. I've never read Pynchon. For what class are you reading it?
Erin, I wrote a little about Knapp's Appetites back on May 8 and May 9. See "Blog Archive" on main page and choose dates.
Well, I could finish "Into The Wild" or read the "Namesake", but I really want to read "Eat, Pray, Love". I have a copy of "The Namesake" in my hands, so I might as well give it a go...
"The Giver" has a difficult ending. VERY open. What do you think happens?
I think it's the world as we know it out there.
Mom just finished Into the Wild .
Erin was reading The Namesake.
I read Eat, Pray, Love back in August.
I still have your copy of Bookseller of Kabul!
"V." is for my Modern American Prose class. I'm loving it so far. Well at least compared to my new Brit lit class and film class. Pynchon is definitely worth a look into ... it just takes some time and careful reading - two separate plot lines that jump all over the place (the epilogue the first chapter of the book).
Is that so? I started V a long time ago, and got confused, so I didn't finish it, though I loved the writing style.
Well, I'm posting late. As for the "Giver". Yes, the ending was left up in the air. But read the next two books and all will become clearer. "Gathering Blue" is next and then "Messenger". Very interesting trio of books. They caused a lot of discussion in our family.
Reading "Take Control of Your Health"
By Dr. Mercola (mercola.com) WOW
what we have done to ourselves, with low fat craze, processed foods, sugars, and starches - big pharma wins, we loose
If you never read another book, this one is worth a look!!!
Christine's Dad
Hey, Dad! You blogged! Come back again!
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