Michelle's comments (member since May 18, 2008)

Michelle's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

Blindness...I still find myself thinking about this book at the oddest times...

I always have a book with me as well as my Sony e-reader...I like having options when I finish a books since I never know what I will feel like reading next...and with the travel weight restrictions, I only take my e-reader since it is a given that I will end up with at least one book from wherever it is I went...

I have about 100 pages left of South of Broad. I am really enjoying it. I have missed Conroy. I loved Beach Music as well as his older works. Despite a pretty contrived plot device, which is semi-typical of Conroy, his descriptions and characters are totally worth it...although I have to admit a kind father and no real military presence is kind of weird given how prominently they typically figure in his work...in the back of my head I am kind of waiting for them to be introduced...

Totally interseted.

Guernsey and Blindness

Jeanie,

I have played around with the Kindle but didn't care for the placement of the buttons, although I am sure over time I would get used to it. I really do like the simple design of the Sony. But I know that I will end up with a Kindle as well since the selection and price of books is vastly superior...For now though, there is enough in the Sony store to keep me occupied...I got Stardust there...

I will use the Sony for my online grad classes. I would have loved something like this when I was in college. I may have even read some of the required reading...

And new books, just in time for the holidays...

All four Twilight books (very nice hardback set)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close hand-delivered from the States since it was impossible to get here
Cryptonomicon and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson...recommended...we shall see...
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Middlemarch
A Room with a View

I actually preferred the movie ending to the book ending. I know the movie ending was very Disney, but using the candle was a cool idea and I guess I just didn't want Tristan to die. Silly, I know, but still...

I haven't read A Christmas Carol in years and will start it after I finish Stardust. I have only seen the movie, which I love...and am now about a third through the book. They are already very different, but I can appreciate both. Stylistically, this does seem very different than other Gaiman novels. We'll see.

I just got the Sony Reader and wish that I had been patient enough to wait for the Kindle...the reading experience is similiar on both, although I do prefer the design of the Sony reader...But I should have researched the book selection more...I knew Amazon had a better selection, but the didn't realize exactly how much better it is or that the prices are much lower with the Kindle...I have a feeling I am going to get a Kindle when the new model comes out. I have to say that I have already read half of Stardust on my reader and loved...just wish it had a better selection of books.

Just got The Book Thief, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and Jane Austen by Claire Tomalin...I also picked up a Sony Digital Reader...and am going to download some books and give it a go. Was too impatient to wait for the Kindle, especially since the Whispernet doesn't work in Europe.

I read the Anne of Green Gables series at 10 and loved it. It's a great series with heart and definitely G compared to Gossip Girl and the like. And the writing is definitely more challenging than AG. Just an idea...

Mental Floss puts out some really random trivia books that are informative, but not information any one really needs to know...which make them kind of perfect, because you can just skim them. They have one based on history and others on random topics.

Being an Army Brat, I really don't have much of an accent. When I am really tired, my Boston roots show and my vocabulary includes a few y'all since I went to college in Florida. And I just want to agree that a everything is a coke, even a Pepsi.

Apple but only warmed up with vanilla bean ice cream.

Eli Stone or Chuck Bartowski?

Same here...now there is a random coincidence and combination...

If he likes basketball, he might like My Losing Season by Pat Conroy. It is just enough about basketball with a little family drama thrown in. Also, Nick Hornby wrote a great book about Arsenal called Fever Pitch. They made a movie about it but Americanized it and made it about the Boston Red Sox.

The Last Noel by Michael Malone

Gotta add The Last Noel by Michael Malone...but have your tissues ready...definitely sappy, but in a good way...

I forgot about Possession. It has been forever since I read it, but it great (although I will admit to kind of skimming the poetry...). Thanks for reminding me.

Got two books by Greg Iles...recommended as quick reads, but we shall see...True Evil and The Footprints of God.

Also picked up Click by Bill Tancer and The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner. Nothing too exciting, but am browsing Amazon now...more to come I am sure...