IP has inspired me to produce this post. His suggestion in the last 2006 Book List comments was a great one. So, I developed the awards. Remember, all of this is my opinion—if I were a lit critic, then . . . I’d be a lit critic.
Best Book of 2006: Hands [...]
Welcome to this, the last book list of 2006. Though this should’ve been published more than a week ago, better late than never, I suppose. I’ve begun new books for 2007, and will create the 2007 Book List after the first one is completed. As soon as I get a bookshelf (the day Target in [...]
So, I’m currently very bored. And kind of put off by the treatment I received this afternoon. I called my boyfriend to complain, but he didn’t answer. I then called my family to complain, but they didn’t answer, either. So I’m left to complain on this blog, but I also thought I needed to do [...]
Before I head off to Utah on vacation, I need to update the book list. It’s been nearly two months since I’ve done so, and rest assured, I have been reading during that time. I’ve just been lazy. Well, busy, let’s say. This summer was extremely hectic, and the end of [...]
I finished reading the absolutely lovely novel, The Shadow of the Wind, earlier this evening. Author Ruiz Zafón and translator Lucia Graves (Robert Graves’ daughter) have wrought a wonderful tale of parallel lives with two very different endings. The plot is grounded in the love of books, as a reader, writer, shopkeeper. [...]
I initially posted without a title. Good thing, too, because it gives me a ready-made title now documenting my neglect–I don’t have to think harder for a title because, frankly, my brain refuses to at the moment.
In my quest to finish Don Quixote, I’ve ended up finishing another book. Can you tell how dedicated [...]
I have added another book to the 2006 list–Alvarez’s new novel. I have to say, I was not as impressed as I was with her earlier work. Her protagonist is whiny, self-centered, and doesn’t really have my sympathy until the end. What happened to the masterful portrayl of women in conflict or crisis that Alvarez [...]
I was about to turn off the lights when I remembered that, having finished two books this week, I needed to update the book list. Long commutes and the spectacular sun (when it appears) lend themselves to nice reading time. Often, IP and I will go outside on weekends and read after a [...]
Preznit (sorry, had to) Chester A. was heavily mentioned in the Vowell book I just finished reading (as he took the presidency when Garfield was assassinated), so it reminded me of that classic Simpsons line from the episode where Lisa discovers that Jebediah Springfield was the pirate Hans Sprungfeld. And he didn’t tame the [...]
One of my New Years resolutions was to try to read more this year, and to document what I’ve read. While I hadn’t been stellar thanks to the move, I have taken up reading again as I don’t have a TV (which I actually enjoy, believe it or not–at least until Deadwood is on [...]
