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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.
8 comments:
This week I am reading, "Inside Laura's Little House" from the Little House on the Prairie Treasury by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson. It has all the information that someone would want to know about living on the Prairie the way Laura Ingalls did. The book has drawings of how the little house would have been arranged inside and how to prepare the kinds of food they ate. Also, there are songs that they might have sung. My daughters and I are huge Little House fans and we love this book.
I'm reading Blood, Bones, and Butter by your own recommendation. I'm about a third of the way in and really liking it so far, :).
It sounds very sweet, cgb. I just picked up a used library copy of On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The subtitle is "The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894." It even contains a few photographs of Laura and Almanzo.
Lisa, I'm glad you like it. Don HATED it, but never wrote about it here. Perhaps he will now. . .
I am reading Dust, by Elizabeth Bear. It's a title the library book discussion group read at some point when school had me too busy to actually get to it. It's quite a treat, and I'm enjoying it thoroughly. It's sci fi, which usually isn't my first choice (though far from my last), but it's got all these amazing elements of fantasy (which is my first choice) blended in that make it wonderful.
DRD--I think I gave that book to Cooksin as a gift. Thought you had liked it and suggested it before, but maybe it was Erin.
I don't know, C, Dust didn't grab me and keep me...I LOVED Blood, Bones, and Butter, though. She's a female version of Anthony Bourdain. No wonder he wanted her at his "Last Supper". My favorite image from BB&B was the famous chef cracking eggs with both hands and scraping every bit out with his thumb like his grandma did to get 13 eggs out of a dozen. Now I want to get my hands on "Inside Laura's Little House". I re-read that series over and over as a kid.
Oh, I also just finished The Bird House by Kelly Simmons (grabbed it off the new fiction shelf @ the library). It sounds exactly like the Genova book Lisa described. An older woman with memory issues, uncovering family secrets, making peace with them. The main vehicle is her unfolding relationship with her 8 year old granddaughter.
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