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My review of The Other Boleyn Girl, recommended to me by Heather. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...About two-thirds of the way through this I really, really wanted to be done with it. But I persevered.
Wales has a rich tradition of nature poetry, and I fell in love with this little poem. Besides, I had a pet rat way back when...A Bright Day, by W.H. Davies (1871-1940)
My windows now are giant drops of dew,
The common stones are dancing in my eyes;
The light is winged, and panting, and the world
Is fluttering with a little fall or rise.
See, while they shoot the sun with singing Larks,
How those broad meadows sparkle and rejoice!
Where can the Cuckoo hide in all this light,
And still remain unseen, and but a voice?
Shall I be mean, when all this light is mine?
Is anything unworthy of its place?
Call for the rat, and let him share my joy,
And sit beside me here, to wash his face.
Robin wrote: "Interesting, we have a lot of similar tastes and I've lik..."It wasn't a perfect book, but as I said in my review, it is one I would reread. (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...) I loved the day to day details, and how things would be slightly different each time. Every time I heard "Snow is falling" I felt peaceful and grounded and that once again all things were possible and all things could be overcome.
Minnesota Library Association
I'll let you know. Wishing I hadn't chosen The Ravens (Sundstol) for my 5th book. Should have gone with Raven Black. It was a bummer that my presentation got cut from 10 books to 5 - the other two are The Goldfinch and The Nightingale. My other 5 would have been The Cuckoo's Calling
Red Sparrow
The Swan Gondola
Raven Black
and maybe H is for Hawk
Currently reading:After Dark - pet dust bunnies!
Go Set a Watchman
Audiobook: The Other Boleyn Girl - recommendation swap
Next up:
5 books I "must" read for my presentation at MLA:
The Plover
The Hummingbird
and the trilogy by Vidar Sundstøl starting with The Land of Dreams
Started, but set aside until the above are read:
Raven Black
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
October book club book:
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - waiting for audiobook which I will listen to when I go visit my parents in Rapid City later this month.
28. A Plague on Both Your Houses3 stars, but a good start to the series and I will read more of them. Medieval mystery which shines more for the author's decriptions of people reacting to the plague than for the mystery.
406 p.
Total: 9,230 p.
23-27. Chi's Sweet Home, Volume 1-Volume 5.4 and 5 stars. Delightful Manga comic for children about a lost kitty who finds a home with a Japanese family. Chi reminds me a great deal of my own kitty, Gwen.
168, 160, 152, 152, 160 p.
Total: 8,824 p.
22. Life After Life5 stars. Possibly my favorite book of the year, although the ending was anti-climactic.
544 p.
Total: 8,032 p.
Still distracted by "shiny" books. The Plover has to go back - I still need to read it for MLA, but I'll have to rerequest it. In fact I still have 5 books to read for MLA which is in a month. ACK! Finished Life After Life and A Plague on Both Your Houses, but set aside Dead Wake and Raven Black to finish later. I should have picked Raven Black for MLA instead of The Ravens, but too late now - the list has gone in to be printed. Listening to The Other Boleyn Girl in the car, I've started Go Set a Watchman at work, and at bedtime I'm reading After Dark. Someone got me with a description of pet dust bunnies, and, well, how could I resist? I'm also working through all the volumes of Chi's Sweet Home, Volume 1 which caught my eye at the library. At least they go quickly!
I'll second Watership Down. It's one of my childhood favorites that I've wanted to reread this year. And I just bought a new illustrated edition of it.
Birthday Cake awaits when I get home from work. Actually, it's a chocolate banana bread, but I accidentally left out an egg, so it is somewhat dense and fudgy. Also it has icing... And looking forward to reading more of A Plague on Both Your Houses.
Happy Birthday!I'm at work (reference librarian), drinking my morning tea, and catching up on Goodreads posts. I actually dressed up a bit more than usual today. A pretty blue sweater top that really brings out my eyes. And I'm having fun with some glittery hair extensions that I bought at an Irish Fair last weekend.
This is a great group with some unique threads - the Monday poem, seasonal authors, recommendation swap. And of course the Ulysses read was quite memorable this year. Keep up the good work! I read all the threads even if I don't read all the books....
Currently working on Life After Life, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, and the latest "shiny" book - A Plague on Both Your Houses. Oh yeah, I've been reading Raven Black for awhile too. Next up is The Plover, the first of the Sundstol trilogy The Land of Dreams, and The Other Boleyn Girl for the recommendation swap... (What was I thinking?!)
21. The Nightingale4 stars after much thought. Historical fiction by a romance writer. It dragged in spots, and was overly dramatic and gimicky in others, but it was ultimately a satisfying read.
438 p.
Total: 7,488 p.
20. Stormbird4 stars. Wars of the Roses. An Errol Flynn-like spymaster. Great characters, but rather a lot of jumping back and forth among sub-plots.
507 p.
Total: 7,050 p.
17-19. Three books on inflammation and diet. One DNF. Didn't learn anything new.The Inflammation Cure : How to Combat the Hidden Factor Behind Heart Disease, Arthritis, Asthma, Diabetes, & Other Diseases 3 stars. 272 p.
The Everything Anti-Inflammation Diet Book: The Easy-To-Follow, Scientifically-Proven Plan to Reverse and Prevent Disease Lose Weight and Increase Energy Slow Signs of Aging Live Pain-Free 2 stars. 304 p.
Inflammation Nation: The First Clinically Proven Eating Plan to End Our Nation's Secret Epidemic DNF - not because it is a bad book, but because it touted a specific diet without alternatives. Let's say I read 50 pages, but I don't remember.
Total: 6,543 p.
16. Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own3 stars. A look at the lives of single women over the past 150 years or so. Not really what I was expecting.
308 p.
Total: 5,917 p.
15. The Light Between Oceans4 stars. People make choices, and choices have consequences. A study in flawed characters.
343 p.
Total: 5,609 p.
14. Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good4 stars. No particular plot. Just catching up with the familiar characters of Mitford. Mayberry RFD for the 21st century.
511 p.
Total: 5,266 p.
