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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.
10 comments:
Dude. I want to live there. Right after I get a crane to lift all my books up there, cuz I don't wanna carry them.
I'm still reading London, and enjoying it, but I'm a little disappointed in the writing. Rutherford does a lot of telling instead of showing, and his novel seems more like a vehicle through which to teach history (and is, admittedly, significantly more gripping than most standard history texts). The stories are mildly interesting, but their scope doesn't allow him to cram in as much historical information as he would like, so he'll take asides as a 3rd person omniscient narrator to tell the reader about political and geographical events that are only tangentially related to the story's plot. Still, I'm learning stuff, so it's not all bad.
I could live in it, too. Big draw: no water in the basement.
Rutherford's London sounds like a pretty big undertaking. How many pages? A gazillion?
I am reading the first Harry Potter to Olivia and five of her friends. We just got off the train and have arrived at Hogwart's. The kids are coming here every day this week for 3 and a half hours. I read for 1 and a half hours each day. They are also spending some time doing their own creative writing and sharing aloud, getting a tiny grammar lesson, eating sack lunches, and playing tag in the yard. We're all having fun!
Still on Reamde. I would say more but as I'm sure no one else will now post, I've probably said enough.
Except for Lisa G. She will post.
Has anyone else noticed how DRD's avatar's eyes seem to follow you? Creeeepy.
Love the house, Christine, and not needing a sump pump makes up for having to lug up heavy groceries every week. Of course, perhaps the tree on which it's built could be hollowed out just enough for an elevator?
I just finished The Bone Market (thanks, Martha, for a super recommendation!!!), Scott Carney. This is another book I'll have to add to my permanent collection. It's more than just selling bones, it's also selling kidneys & hair & blood, renting uteruses (uteri?), and other such tales of woe associated with poverty, corruption, disease & death on the open market. The book is divided into one topic per chapter, and most of the exploitation sites are in India. The author points out that other countries are equally guilty of similarly heinous crimes, but he knows India because he lived there for many years. It's just a really fun read.
I'm reading David McCullough's The Greater Journey, about early Americans traveling to Paris. Can't say much because I haven't started it yet, but the reason I'm reading it is because of a customer at B&N. He was looking for it one day, and endorsed McCullough as a great writer. He said (about McCullough's John Adams), "I wished John Adams had lived for another hundred years so that the book didn't have to end there." So I'm looking forward to this read.
Only Mary could describe the book she describes then end with "It's just a really fun read.".
^I will admit that Mary's last line took me aback slightly too, hehheh.
Is it wrong that I went right along with Mary's description and didn't miss a beat at the last line?
London is long, 1,124 pages; however, it's very easy reading. I'm nearly 300 pages in, but I don't feel like I've spend monumental amounts of time reading. We'll see how it goes as I get further in.
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