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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.
5 comments:
I'm at school right now and wishing I had brought the nook with me this morning so I could start Still Alice now! But I'll definitely start it tonight. It's a novel about a woman's battle with early-onset Alzheimer's, and it comes recommended by none other than Martha. If the weather predictions are right, I'll probably have tomorrow morning free to keep reading. Anyone thinking B&N might call some folks off tomorrow? I'm scheduled and still willing to work both Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. Nice pic btw, Christine. :D
Oh and I responded to Mary's comment from a couple posts back, :-).
I just stopped in today and bought #7 in (hush) the Pretty Little Liars series. (Seriously, shut up.)
To make up for its fluffiness, I'm also reading The Mind At Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker.
I finished the Stephen King book. It's a bit meh for him. They were moderately Shirley Jackson-ish, but not nearly as good.
I finished Still Alice, and it was an amazing book. But the amount of crying I did throughout it has kind of alarmed me. I don't even have someone close to me who has had Alzheimer's. I kept remembering moments wherein I've been very forgetful, or where I found myself saying the wrong word in place of the right one when my speech got ahead of my thoughts (like when Alice says the word "think" instead of "drink"--"Would anyone like something to think?"), and I allowed myself to imagine what it would be like to go through such a disease; I even allowed myself to wonder whether I was already starting down that path. It's so terrifying.
Still Alice sounds very much like the kind of book I would read, but your emotional response, Lisa, makes me think I'll steer clear of it, no matter how well done. I've seen Alzheimer's in both my paternal and maternal grandmothers and looked deeply into eyes that could no longer read me. It is devastating to lose a loved one this way.
I don't think you should steer clear of it because of me...it's a really beautiful book and maybe I was just having a really off day.
I'm thinking of reading Patton Oswalt's Zombie Spaceship Wasteland next. Even the introduction (about how his parents' benign neglect helped spark his love of reading) made me chuckle.
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