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And now...a meme.
posted by: jenza
I've been wanting to update, but am waiting to give my next round of reviews after I've finished Doomsday Book. Should be just another day. However, in the meantime, how's about a little meme? I pulled some questions I liked from various memes floating around the web. Won't you join me?
1. A book that means a lot to you: To Kill ( Read more... ) -
Summer Reading
My first entry to the book discussion... the last month has been full of reading for me, mostly because of the constant days of 105 degree temperatures here in Oklahoma. A note before I begin my short reviews: my reading tends to be of the lighter fare after reading journal articles and writing computer programs all day...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa ( Read more... ) -
oops
I made a big faux pas in my last post: I didn’t attribute Secret Society Girl to its author, Diana Peterfreund. (I had mentioned her in my first entry about the book, but I still should have mentioned it in my last post ( Read more... ) -
Playing catchup: May - July
I have been neglecting this journal, so I have a bit of catching up to do. Here's what I've been reading over the past couple of months:
A Room with a View, E.M. Forster: For the most part, I found this to be a big yawn. I wasn't really invested in any of the characters, especially George, the "romantic hero," whom I found to be especially dull ( Read more... ) -
Bee Season/Secret Society Girl (revisited)
I finished Bee Season by Myla Goldberg, which was lovely, magical, enchanting, sad, and beautiful. It's about a family of four slightly-to-incredibly dysfunctional individuals. After the youngest child, Eliza, becomes a spelling prodigy, each character spirals out in search of personal meaning. To be cliche, they're all leading lives of quiet ( Read more... ) -
Another book bites the dust
This weekend, I finished Not Enough Indians by Harry Shearer. It was entertaining but a bit hard to follow at times. Not because the storyline was overly complicated, but I guess I just had trouble at times making sense of what was going on. Harry's famous humor is evident in this, but at times I felt like I was reading the equivalent of a very ( Read more... ) -
The Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett
From BEA, Pizza brought me an advanced copy of Pratchett's latest in the Tiffany Aching/Wee Free Men series. While I enjoyed it, it was not my favorite in the series. It was a bit long, and I felt as if it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a character-development piece or purely plot-driven ( Read more... ) -
SUCCESS!
Last night, Erik watched World Cup and installed Windows Vista Beta on the computer. This gave me almost the entire night to read. I finished Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and it was an absolute delight. Having loved the movie, I was wary of reading the book and not enjoying it as much. But this was the rare experience of ( Read more... )
