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I'm reading Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. I usually don't read non-fiction, but I'm reading it for research for my next book. It's not at all dry and very informative. Galileo's daughter was in a convent and wrote tons of letters to him so it focuses on those, and also Galileo's discoveries. Apparently all of his letters to her were destroyed, so we just have the one side of the communication. Very interesting!
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. It's a "teen" book...I just finished The Hunger Games, so I guess I'm in my second childhood...lol.
I just read that Jodi Picoult and her daughter have a book coming out in June. The title is Between the Lines and it is about a teenage girl who spends most of her time in the library. While there she discovers a book about a prince who is stuck as a character in the book. She and her mother work to set him free. It's a YA book.
I've found some really good reading in the YA books starting even before Harry Potter. There is something to be said about these books and it's all good.
Just finished Once Upon A Secret by Mimi Alford. Mimi was JFK's "Monica Lewinsky"--a nineteen year old, immature, naive WH intern seduced by JFK just four days after she started her intern job in 1962. The book isn't salacious or particularly revealing about JFK; it is just the introspective memoir of her 18 month affair with him and the long term effects it had in shaping her life. In the throes of her own personal devastation with his assassination, she blurted out her secret to her fiance. Although never discussed again throughout her 26 year marriage, revealing it was a costly mistake as the knowledge of it was a sword hanging over their heads from that point on. Had she not been "outted" in 2003 her identity would still be unknown.
Not an especially "deep" book but more a study in how easy it is for a young girl to fall under the spell of a powerful, handsome, older, charismatic man.
That sounds like a good book, CB. Imagine keeping a secret like that for years. What a weight to carry around inside.
I am re-reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series right now. With the new book coming up next month, I am trying to time it so that I can finish the fourth book (Wizard & Glass), catch the new book, and then read the last three in the series again.
The series is just so incredibly engrossing. It is easy to get caught in the mindset that there have been so many horrible movies made from his (mostly) good books, that people are not even aware of the entire fantasy side of his writing.
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I finished Unstrung Heroes by Franz Lidz. It was OK. Not bad, not great, just OK.
Now I'm reading The End of Normal by Stephanie Madoff Mack. If she uses the term "under way" one more time, I feel like I'll scream, but it is an interesting insight into the Madoff family. A great book? No. But I'm interested in her side of the story that continues to peeve me.
I finished 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz last night. It was just what I expected from DK--a good story with interesting characters, that you hate to see come to an end. 77 Shadow Street | Bookreporter.com
That sounds like a good book, CB. Imagine keeping a secret like that for years. What a weight to carry around inside.
As an aside, I have always felt great compassion for Monica Lewinsky. I saw her as I was at the same age--immature, naive, eager for love and vulnerable. I'm sure that I, too, would have fallen under the seductive spell of either a Bill Clinton or a JFK, had such a man shown interest in me at that age. Mimi was able to go on through life without public scrutiny and condemnation for her mistake. Monica's burden is much greater and to this day, she has not found love.
I finished Triumph by Phillip Wylie. It was written in the early 60s and is a bit dated and also a bit political. It is basically an anti-nuke story about a group of 14 people in a bomb shelter way below the surface of the earth after the US is wiped out by the Soviets. Good character study but not exciting, which is fine with me. The bigotry of race and ethnic status harkens back to what those issues were like in the 60s.
It also is a little too technical for my taste. Still, it's an interesting story.
I'll admit it: The cover and title on [URL="http://www.powells.com/"]Powell's[/URL] caught my eye. Then I remembered how much I enjoyed one of his short stories ("Sleep"), so I read an excerpt. It just pulled me in, so I decided to use a B&N gift certificate to get it. I'm only 60 pages in, but I love it so far.
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