I finished reading Stephen Lewis’ 2005 Massey Lectures last night. They were incredible. I cannot put into words how much this book affected me, though I will try. For those that don’t know, he is the UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa. This man is utterly amazing. I had heard of his work before, but it was reading of his experiences first hand ( Read more... )

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I finished Tuesdays with Morrie sometime last week. It was an incredible story. I cried several times, which isn't unusual, but it is a sign of a good book. If you don't know, the book is a true story of a guy who finds out his favourite professor from university is dying. He goes to see him every Tuesday until he dies and gets taught a new life ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since anybody updated this place. It's been a long time since I actually read a book that wasn't assigned to me. But I finished one today and it felt good to read again.

This time it was Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend. I bought it almost as soon as I saw it. Adrian Mole was one of my ( Read more... )

Adrienne gave me the push I needed.

I have been reading scientific journal articles and The Gossip Girl series. Gorgeous dichotamy.

I read two books while I was in Cuba. The first was No Previous Experience: a memoir of love and change written by Canadian biographer Elspeth Cameron. It's a true story of two "straight" women who fall in love with each other... and about the hurtles that they have to jump over to be together, and to even recognise their love for each other ( Read more... )

I read Dagmars daughter after a long draught of not being able to find anything interesting. Its set on an island in the St lawrence at the beginning of the century. It is mainly women characters and they are very interesting. I liked it, it was a very different setting and a fast paced story it told the story of three generations in 200 pages ( Read more... )

I finished reading Nights of Rain and Stars a couple of days ago. I wasn't exactly disappointed....okay, maybe I was disappointed. It felt to me like she is just giving up on writing stories that are believable. Which makes me wonder, were they ever? I'm not sure if I have just matured in my reading, or whether her books are starting to decline ( Read more... )

Here's a virus being e-mailed to lj users and it looks like this ( Read more... )

Guess what? I am going to listen to Ann-Marie MacDonald read from The Way the Crow Flies this evening, and am going to get my copy signed.

I'm such a book geek that this is just as exciting to me as seeing one of my favourite bands in concert. Whoo!