Hello Fellow Readers,
What are you reading this week?
Christine
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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:
Nice picture, Christine. Is this a view into Danika's apartment?
Just finished Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Chua very entertainingly did three things:
1) Stated the obvious (as anyone who's ever been near Chinese college students can tell you),
2) Bragged about her daughters many, many, many, many accomplishments, and
3) Took credit for her daughters many, many, many, many accomplishments.
Mary, I wish that were my apartment. Maybe someday... *starry-eyed dreamy-face*
Anyway. I am finishing up a reread of Sunshine, by Robin McKinley. It's a vampire novel, which you can tell straight off the bat by the complete absence of sparkly people. And it's Robin McKinley, so it's beautifully written.
Mary, would you recommend it? It's on my To Read list.
Embarrassing for me to admit, I'm reading "Beastly," the book that the movie is based on. It has its pluses and minuses, I just haven't decided which one has more.
To make up for the fluff, I'm also reading "Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform." It was written in 2003, so hopefully things have changed a little bit. I'm guessing probably not, though.
@Danika- It's just as well. The guy on the left looked a bit creepy. I think he's a vampire.
@Martha- I'd recommend Chua with a grain of salt. She writes well and gives an insider's look of her family dynamics. That's really interesting.
I'm not sure if I agree with her opinion that the Chinese way of rearing children is better. Stop & think about it: Chinese kids come to the U.S. to study more than Amers go to China. But then again, maybe we're too dumb & lazy?
Well, I'm not reading anything at the moment, but damn! That picture is AWESOME. I want to go to there!
Thanks for droppin' by, everybody!
Mary, you already know what I thought of Chua and her methods. Not healthy. I don't care how accomplished her girls are. Feeling safe and respected in your own family is far more important than any list of accomplishments. Need a nice, gentle and inspiring tale of a music student and her teacher? Try Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy.
Hi, DRD! Happy vampire book!
Martha--with the Beastly dude, is it tattoos? veins? Does he have super powers?
Lisa, I want to go to that little book shop, too.
Now, where's Don?
Don is probably still reading the same book. Probably because he doesn't like it because it wasn't recommended by ME. ;D
Christine, in the book he actually turns wolfy. He is covered in fur, has claws, etc. He's a shaggy beast on the outside but still himself otherwise. I don't know why on earth the movie-makers thought veins and tattos=monster. He looks normal to me! Also in the book, the female love interest is plain-looking, and as much as I don't like Vanessa Hudgens, she's not plain.
Hello all - I am now reading The Information (yes, THE Information). It's the new one by James Gleick. And yes I like it and MAN is it hard. Also, I'm pretty sure Martha would not have recommended this to me as I don't think it's something she would want me to read FOR her. That is why you recommend, right?
As for the bookshop. Probably out of business by now. -grumble, grumble-
OK, everyone can stop posting now.
Hey! I've recommended a couple of things I didn't want to read! I mean, sure, it was to keep you from reading sports books, but I'm pretty sure it counts!!!
,,,,,man, that sentence was full of commas...
So...Jodi Picoult's new book is about a music therapist...and a whole lot more. Along with four other books, it's on my bedside table waiting to be read.
@Sophia- I would be very interested in your opinion about the new Jodi Picoult!
I'm finally reading Left Neglected, the new one by Lisa Genova (author of Still Alice). It's about a very busy, successful but harried woman (a lucrative career, a husband, and three young children) who suffers a brain insult in an automobile accident and finds that she suffers from "left neglect," where her brain doesn't recognize the left side of her body or anything on the left side of her field of vision. It's a strange, rare, but real condition. I'm a little less than halfway through, and I love it. It's not affecting me in quite the same way as Still Alice though, in terms of the sheer terror and melancholy I felt when reading that book (I still loved that book though). Instead, I'm just rooting for the determined protagonist to get back to normal (and wondering how she and her family will somehow cope if she doesn't).
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