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Laurel's Reading 2016 (13 new)

Feb 09, 2016 07:54PM

6. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things - another DNF
This was a book club read for Tomes on Tap (metro area librarians), but I didn't get the book until after the group meeting. I thought it was hilarious for about 30 pages, and then it got old. Decided to give it up after 126 pages. 3 stars - just not for me.

Laurel's Reading 2016 (13 new)

Feb 09, 2016 07:51PM

5. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 4 stars
Book club book for February. Most of the group didn't care for it. I gave it (generously) 4 stars for the format - told through a variety of written correspondence - and for the very funny social satire of Seattle society. The ending went off the rails however...

Laurel's Reading 2016 (13 new)

Jan 27, 2016 10:25PM

4. Margaret of Anjou - 4 stars.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Laurel's Reading 2016 (13 new)

Jan 20, 2016 06:06PM

3. How to Eat Fried Worms - Book club book for January. We read a children's book for one of our months. It was okay, but very little substance. I think even as a child I would have been a bit bored by it.

Laurel's Reading 2016 (13 new)

Jan 18, 2016 08:36PM

Not off to a great start this year. I thought to tackle the Whitbread awards, since the Man Bookers are all so violent...

1. The Destiny Waltz was a DNF, though I gave it over 200 pages, so I shall count it as read. I don't mind depressing books, nor slow and introspective, but this just. wasn't. going. anywhere. Nor was I learning much about the Anglo-Jewish experience of the 20th century. Or poetry, or big-band music. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2. Mercian Hymns - the Whitbread winner for poetry 1971. Rather interesting. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Jan 06, 2016 01:42PM

Another challenge I'll try to incorporate: another group is doing a monthly "color" challenge, and I'll keep track of it here also...

January: GOLD

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

-Read 1/20 3 stars
February: RED

The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion

- Read 2/29 4 stars
July: ORANGE
August: BLACK

1381 The Year of the Peasants' Revolt by Juliet Barker

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Jan 05, 2016 10:29PM

Haha Dely, exactly!

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Jan 03, 2016 05:29PM

Thanks, Leslie. Of course, I'm reading it in prep for Ulysses... and The Penelopiad which is on my list...

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Jan 02, 2016 08:10PM

The Goodreads group "Reading the Chunksters" is doing a group read of The Odyssey this month, soooooo I've taken the plunge and started it now. Probably the one I was dreading the most and now it'll be one of the first finished!

I've weighed the merits of various translations, but free is good. The translation by Samuel Butler is online with a study guide here: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/od... so that's the one I'm reading. Very readable so far - I'm pleasantly surprised! Maybe later I will try an audiobook of a more poetic translation.

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Jan 01, 2016 10:07AM

Here's another challenge I think I can incorporate:

1. a book published this year (2016)

2. a book you can finish in a day: How to Eat Fried Worms

3. a book you've been meaning to read

4. a book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller

5. a book you should have read in school

6. a book chosen for you by a relative or BFF

7. a book published before you were born (1954 or earlier)

8. a banned book

9. a book you previously abandoned

10. a book you own but have never read

11. a book that intimidates you -

Odyssey {Annotated & Illustrated} by Homer

Odyssey {Annotated & Illustrated}

12. a book you've already read at least once -

Wish You Were Here (Mrs. Murphy, #1) by Rita Mae Brown

Wish You Were Here and

Rest in Pieces

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Dec 30, 2015 10:25PM

1 Book: Classic

Selection:
The Odyssey

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Dec 30, 2015 10:25PM

2 Books: Canongate Myth series

Read:

Selections:
A Short History of Myth
The Penelopiad

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Dec 30, 2015 10:24PM

3 Books: Costa/Whitbread Awards - Changed to Walter Scott Prize nominees - Finished 3

Read:
The Destiny Waltz 1-18 DNF though I gave it over 200 pages. 2 stars maybe. Just not very interesting.
Mercian Hymns 1-18 Interesting. More than meets the eye.
The Glass Room

Selections:
A God in Ruins

Laurel's 2016 Reading Plan (24 new)

Dec 30, 2015 10:24PM