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Lisa
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Sep 22, 2013 06:23PM
Selena, That sounds like a wonderful experience for you both.
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It really is great bonding for us. I got away from bedtime stories when she started to really read on her own, but recently got back into it. I pick books that she wouldnt necessarily give a second glance and ends up loving them (okay, there have been a few duds too!). Its also a safe way to introduce world issues in a way that is gentle and can be expanded on. I used to worry if she would truly understand the issues we read about, but she really does get them. Mind you, she understands them at her level, not an adults, but that is just fine by me. I look forward to what amazing person these book foundations are building :-)
She'll have wonderful memories from this activity, and yes it is a great way to introduce various books!
I really liked Blood Makes Noise and would definitely have given it four stars, except I found out at the end that the audiobook version had no author's note. :0/My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Will start She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me b/c it just looks so interesting.
Lisa wrote: "I'm thoroughly enjoying The Cuckoo's Calling and it's not because its real author is J.K. Rowling and not Robert Galbraith. There is one character in there, a good balance to the main character, th..."Lisa, I just started this today, and really enjoying it. Who is the character that made this a comfort read for you? Is it Robin? I'm curious. I really like her.
Chrissie - I just read the synopsis for She Left me the Gun and WOW! It seems like such a powerful book about the choice to be positive despite the negative. This is now on my 'to read' shelf. I look forward to reading your review on it. Thanks for such a great recommendation!
Selena wrote: "Chrissie - I just read the synopsis for She Left me the Gun and WOW! It seems like such a powerful book about the choice to be positive despite the negative. This is now on my 'to read' shelf. I l..."Selena, yeah it does look good. Let's both cross our fingers! Maybe it is just hype......
Laura wrote: "Lisa, I just started this today, and really enjoying it. Who is the character that made this a comfort read for you? Is it Robin? I'm curious. I really like her. "Yes! Robin.
Lisa wrote: "Laura wrote: "Lisa, I just started this today, and really enjoying it. Who is the character that made this a comfort read for you? Is it Robin? I'm curious. I really like her. "Yes! Robin."
I'm so glad to hear that. I'm still very early on the listen, but I liked her immediately. I'm so glad that she is going to do a series with those characters, because the P.I. is also interesting!
I want to add also for those of you who audio - this is a terrifically narrated book.
Completed She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before MeMy review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Will now start An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful. The book description says, "A sweeping novel of East and West, love and war, truths and denials." Really? I hope so. I am intrigued.
Finished An Exquisite Sense of What Is BeautifulMy review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Have started The Sun Also Rises, b/c I feel like another Hemingway. The narration by William Hurt seems good. The Americans sound so terribly "American". Makes me smile.
I also finished An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc as my DTB. Njahhhh...... I have read better.
My very short review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I think I will give World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made. It is a huge door-stopper.
I've recently begun Stone's Fall, my first by Iain Pears. So far, I'm really enjoying it. Soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying his insightful prose. I'm also enjoying the audiobook narration, which includes John Lee & Simon Vance, two of my favorites.
The first Nero Wolfe, Fer-de-Lance, to turn my mind off. It's a pleasant holiday in the early 1930s.
I finished The Sun Also Rises and think this is Hemingway's very best. I loved it.My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Now I have moved on to Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story. I have yet to find a good book of fiction set in the Koreas.
Sun Also Rises is my favorite Hemingway.
Susanna, I agree. Of all I have read this is my favorite by Hemingway.
In these days I finished Coraline and I Started Slaughterhouse-Five, not the same genre of books, but I was curious.
I'm mostly offline (until mid month) and have barely any time to read, but I'm enjoying W is for Wasted and am about to start a book of essays I got for my birthday that looks great to me: Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco.
I'm reading Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England, which is fascinating. Women marrying in their underwear! Babies get wine as their first meal. Diaper-rash treatment: wine mixed with tincture of mercury.I am fascinated and amused.
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Right now, I'm reading Pegasus and the Flame by Kate O'Hearn, which is a great middle grade read so far. I'm also reading Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin. I love her stuff, she's one of my favorites.
I finished the audiobook Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold StoryMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Yes, I am very glad I read it. I have read several books about the Vietnam War, but my knowledge of the Korean War was lacking.
I have begun Family Matters and the narration by Martin Jarvis is captivating. I am hoping it will be as good as A Fine Balance.
The part last night was on how children as young as six worked 12-15 hour days in textile mills, coal mines (they never saw daylight), and as "chimney boys." (The last wouldn't be abolished until 1875. Though they had mechanical chimney sweeping tools in Miss Austen's day.)
Yeah, not quite a "comfort" read, but a very interesting one.
I'm reading Twilight & it is looks really good book to read it...I just couldn't put my books down last weekend because I wanted to know what happening until I'm done for the night lol..But still more reading to do this week if I have a time..Happy Reading!
Deanna wrote: "I'm reading Twilight & it is looks really good book to read it...I just couldn't put my books down last weekend because I wanted to know what happening until I'm done for the night lol..But still m..."
Loved the series
Loved the series
Just started "When Lightning Strikes" the fist book in the Whiskey Creek series.
reading the rosie project...finished tuesdays with morrie, secret daughter, the husband's secret and once we were brothers...
I finished Family Matters which made me very unhappy.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Moving on to: Mary Coin. How do you look at that photo (see the book's cover) taken by Dorothy Lange back in 1936 of the "Migrant Mother" without wanting to know more? It is fiction, but still I must read it.
I am reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I'm 85% through and it has been a brisk read by my standards. I've really enjoyed it. I've always loved stories about people in the wilderness, whether fiction or non (see also Robinson Crusoe, the Tarzan books, Call of the Wild, Never Cry Wolf, Into the Wild, etc.) Anyway, I gave up on a book I had been listening to via audio (thankfully) from the library. It was So Far Away by Meg Moore. It wasn't a terrible book but it was boring and repetitive and the only thing that happening was the mental angst (albeit justified) of the two main characters.
I ditched it and used this month's audible credit on The Rosie Project. I haven't listened to much of it yet (just got it this morning) but it promises to be a more sprightly and engaging listen.
So in the midst of an unexpectedly sleepless night I finished two books, one of which I'd been working on for a while: The Informant
and All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
. Enjoyed both although the first was the third in a series and I hadn't read the second yet and kinda wish I had. But I don't own it yet, and the first (
The Butcher's Boy) had put me in the mood for more so there I was. And "Eve" made me rush right out and re-watch the movie, which I hadn't seen in several years. Interesting and thorough work. Still awake, I started Franklin and Lucy
which is surprisingly good. What that means: I'm funny about biographies-- I usually either find them riveting or can't finish them: no middle ground. So for me to read it continually between about 3 am and 530, tired, without flagging-- off to a good start!
Today I started The Shadow of the Torturer. I am only at beginning, but I like the style and the story seem very interesting.
just started
a Victorian detective story.
I finished Mary Coin. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Will start tomorrow: The Paris Architect. Both are historical fiction.
Chrissie wrote: "Jennifer, I have pushed up Franklin and Lucy, do to your recommendation! Thanks."Good move: so far it's continuing to live up to my initial impression!
Jennifer, sounds good. How far have you come? Aynthing you can tell me about it?
gave up on the rosie project....reading sylvia days teflected in you
I finished The Paris Architect and definitely enjoyed it. It is interesting, oh so yucky, exciting and ends wonderfully. :0)My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Moved on to the audiobook All the Names. I prefer listening to Saramago rather than reading text without punctuation! I enjoyed A Viagem do Elefante, so I wanted to read another by the author.
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Gosh, glad I finished All the Names. Read something else by Saramago. I thought I would avoid the lack of punctuation by listening to this one, but still you cannot avoid the never-ending sentences.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
On to Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon. Afterwards I thought I would try American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer if I want more.
Just started "When Snow Falls" by Brenda Novak in paperback
the second in her Whiskey Creek series
the second in her Whiskey Creek series
Susanna, thank you. I added that to my shelves.
Hope you enjoy it.
The first half is a history of the physics and physicists who came up with the theory that splitting the atom was possible; the second half is a history of the actual building of the bomb.
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