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I got to 60% of People Who Eat Darkness and I just had to stop. It was just too awful of a story. I don't deal well with that sort of thing and it's a wonder that I got 60% into the book, except that that's where the explanation of the violations started and I just started feeling too sick to read on.
I'm going to start a Kindle Daily Deal that I got a week or so ago: Night Swim by Jessica Keener.
I read what that was about and decided it wasn't for me.
I'm enjoying The Professor and the Madman, about the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sounds boring, I know, but so far it isn't.
Well, I finished Debbie MacComber's "The Shop on Blossom Street" and decided that was sufficient fluff for my lifetime. I think I am just not a romance reader. I just cannot suspend my belief enough to think all the problems of a story are going to work out the way the characters would like. Life just has too many loose ends to have all of them so neatly wrapped up like that.
That's it for my recreational reading, until I see how the coming quarter's classes treat me. Honestly, I am stressing about facing three classes, when last quarter's two nearly did me in!
I AM STILL working on Chogyam Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism." It is so pithy. I read half a page and then have to just think about it for awhile. The guy really was in touch with spiritual enlightenment and doesn't put any fluff into his work.
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I did decide to start The Sea by John Banville. It's a quiet story about a man who recently lost his wife and he returns to the seaside where he spent his childhood summers. It's a short little book, but I know that I'll read it slowly -- it's so beautifully written, I want to savor every word. Although the reviews are mixed, it won the Booker Prize.
I did decide to start The Sea by John Banville. It's a quiet story about a man who recently lost his wife and he returns to the seaside where he spent his childhood summers. It's a short little book, but I know that I'll read it slowly -- it's so beautifully written, I want to savor every word. Although the reviews are mixed, it won the Booker Prize.
I think it's time for you to re-read The Book Thief.
I'm not getting very far in Any Bitter Thing but not for want. I've been fighting a cold/flu and we have a new puppy at the house to occupy my time. Really makes me wish I had a Kindle already.
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I think it's time for you to re-read The Book Thief.
I'm not getting very far in Any Bitter Thing but not for want. I've been fighting a cold/flu and we have a new puppy at the house to occupy my time. Really makes me wish I had a Kindle already.
You're right! I really should re-read it. But I have so many unread books still to peruse. Oh! Speaking of re-reading, remember I told you that I should probably read Still Alice again, but that I no longer have my copy but have been looking in thrift shops whenever I'm in one? Well, a friend of mine works at a big-name publishing house in NYC and I realized that it's one of their books... so she sent me a copy. But, again, with all my unread books, I've not re-read it. But my husband is reading it for the first time.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the quiet writing in The Sea. It's a sad story, but the telling of it is quite beautiful.
Also:
1. Cold/flu? Feh! Make that stop! Get better quick, OK?
2. Yes, you need a Kindle. Yes, I said "need."
3. More photos of the new puppy are always welcome, by the way.
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2. Yes, you need a Kindle. Yes, I said "need."
Yes, UpThere, she convinced me... and I am now HOOKED. The first thing I do now when I check out a title is go to the Kindle library section to see if it's available!
You're right! I really should re-read it. But I have so many unread books still to peruse. Oh! Speaking of re-reading, remember I told you that I should probably read Still Alice again, but that I no longer have my copy but have been looking in thrift shops whenever I'm in one? Well, a friend of mine works at a big-name publishing house in NYC and I realized that it's one of their books... so she sent me a copy. But, again, with all my unread books, I've not re-read it. But my husband is reading it for the first time.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the quiet writing in The Sea. It's a sad story, but the telling of it is quite beautiful.
Also:
1. Cold/flu? Feh! Make that stop! Get better quick, OK?
2. Yes, you need a Kindle. Yes, I said "need."
3. More photos of the new puppy are always welcome, by the way.
I have a ton of unread books but part of me wants to pick The Book Thief and re-read it already.
1. I am better today than I was yesterday so I'm thinking it'll be quick.
2. I do "need" a Kindle. I got a smart phone and I did read Ella Minnow Pea on it, but I still need a Kindle.
3. I'll send more soon!
Yes, UpThere, she convinced me... and I am now HOOKED. The first thing I do now when I check out a title is go to the Kindle library section to see if it's available!
Reading people's comments on here has convinced me I need one too - especially Dawn's.
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For Jeremy's last birthday, I bought him stock in Zynga (the makers of Words With Friends). This stock has since tanked to the point where we probably owe THEM money! Ha!
I finished reading The Secret Life of Bees.
I'm currently reading A Lady Like Sarah and The Help.
Later I will read The Things That Keep Us Here.
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