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Jan 02, 2016 09:09PM
I made it to my goal of 65 books in 2015 -- just. It was a very strange year because in the Fall I started teaching a contemporary literature discussion group at the Institute of Adult Learning at the local community college. It is for adults over 55. Much of my reading toward the end of the year was searching for books to fit the theme of my class, and I started and rejected many books. So I am surprised I met my goal. There should be a category for half read books. If I continue with this class, I will have to change my methods or clone myself. The pups are of no use at all. I should rename my page because they have totally abandoned me and my reading to join their daddy in watching science fiction movies on TV. I may have to get another pup -- a female -- who will better share my interests.
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Good luck on your 65 for the year! (Those darned pups!)
1. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman *****I enjoyed this. In the genre of -- what? "Basically good people learning life lessons and leaving us with a tear in the eye at the end" genre? In this genre it gets 5 stars. A happy start to 2016.
Pages read: 337 pages
2. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain ****Beryl Markham is a fascinating person, Kenya is a breathtakingly beautiful place, and British expats and colonials are always good for a few raised eyebrows, So, despite the fact that I expected it to be more about flying and it was more about training horses, I found the book enjoyable. I would have liked the book to continue farther into her life. It seemed to me that she jumped from one thing to another and her careers and businesses were short lived. From the viewpoint of my advanced years, I know the decade of a person 20's can be frenetic, but I wonder if her career life and love life every became more focused and less peripatetic.
P. S. Denis Finch-Hatton must have really been something.
Pages read: 337 pages + 385 pages = 722 pages
3. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson (audioboook) *
I have read two other of Jackson's books, one of which I loved, and one of which I liked a lot. They made me eager to read other books she wrote. This one was a big disappointment. The main character, Rose Mae or Ro, uses her two names to distinguish two personalities she feels are within her. Unfortunately, I can't tell one from the other because both seem to be completely man-centric, and abusive man-centric, at that. And then she comes up with with a new name, Ivy, that is for her new life. And none of these personalities, as far as I am concerned, is at all likable. The book is much too long. By that I mean that the book is too long for the quality and amount of its content. After long descriptions of her husband Tom's abuse, we finally see him action when he pulverizes Ro and puts her in the hospital after almost killing her. Afterward, Ro goes back to him and goes through many deliberate actions, some seemingly practical and some seemingly symbolic. It appears she is planning her escape. Eventually it turns out that she is planning nothing, frittering her time and money away on fool's errands. The reader is tempted (and, if you are listening to it on audio alone in the car as I was, actually do) yell at her, "Get out of the house,
whatever-your-name-is." Of course she waits too long and is caught off guard,proving that none of her personalities has any smarts.
Her disappeared mother is tied up in all of this, and you learn from where Rose Mae-Ro-Ivy gets her likeability.
The only character I liked was her dog Fat Gretl, who is collateral damage to the household she unfortunately belong to, and loses one of her FRONT legs. Her recovery and adaption to being a three-legged dog is miraculously easy, since it is never mentioned, while what's-her-name moans on and on about her injuries. Later in the book, Gretl is in the back yard and scratches at the door with her unique "one-legged scratch." I would have liked to have seen that. I guess Fat Gretl was standing on her hind legs in order to scratch with her remaining front paw. Just an observation.
Pages read= 722 pages
Listening time = 12 hours and 43 minutes
4. Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen ****I finished this in the nick of time. The discussion is tomorrow, and I liked it MUCH better the second time. A lot of the questions that I thought had not been answered on my first reading, actually were answered and I did not catch them until the second reading. I raised the book to four stars, and I hope the other readers liked the book
They did like it and we had an excellent discussion on it (WHEW).
Pages read= 722 pages + 256 pages = 978 pages
Listening time = 12 hours and 43 minutes
5. The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman (audiobook) ***This was a good book, but by no means of favorite of mine, or a favorite Alice Hoffman. The atmosphere of the island of St. Thomas, the showing of the mixture of races and religions. the superstition was very good. There is a lot of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do which is puzzling, but I guess that's the way to was. I am thinking once again that perhaps I should stop listening to audio books because, since I am no longer commuting every day, I can no longer get wrapped up in an audio book the way I can with a printed book.
Pages read= 978 pages
Listening time = 12 hours and 43 minutes + 13 hours and 36 minutes = 26 hours and 19 minutes
6. Benediction by Kent Haruf **** What a lovely book. It left me with a peaceful feeling, while still thinking about the minister's sermon.
Pages read= 978 pages + 256 pages = 1,234 pages
Listening time = 26 hours and 19 minutes
7. The Plover by Brian Doyle ****I enjoyed this book, although it was not terribly easy to read. Much of it was tangential musing and inward conversations, conversations with birds and boats, descriptions of nature, lists, discussions on how people should form governments, etc. It is all very interesting, but makes for slow reading. No page turner, this. I had to come to at various times when I was in the mood.
Pages read= 1,234 pages + 311 pages = 1,545 pages
Listening time = 26 hours and 19 minutes
8. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler *****Dysfunctional families usually occur naturally, but this family was part of an experiment that almost guaranteed failure, confusion and pain for all members.
Pages read= 1,545 pages + 310 pages = 1,855 pages
Listening time = 26 hours and 19 minutes
9. Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman **Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I picked this book for my book class without having time to finish it. I just finished it. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
Class postponed by snow storm. Saved by the snow.
Pages read= 1,855 pages + 256 pages = 2.111 pages
Listening time = 26 hours and 19 minutes
10. Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig (audiobook) ** My first Ivan Doig novel, and I am not impressed. About midway through the book picked up a bit. Before that it was a tale of a kid in 1951 taking a bus trip across country to stay with unknown relatives for the summer. Everything that happened was blatantly telescoped pages before. He leaves the relatives' house and it got a bit more interesting. I don't understand the rave reviews. Very hokey.
Pages read= 1,855 pages + 256 pages = 2.111 pages
Listening time = 26 hours and 19 minutes + 15 hours and 42 minutes = 42 hours and 1 minutes
11. Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi *****Will be discussing with my class next week.
February 2016 -- Still thinking.
March 2011 -It was a bit hard to read because of the difficulty of the Hungarian names. A middle aged couple's adult daughter goes away for a week, and suddenly the parents' life opens up. But, she comes home again. Are some people denied joy; and do they leach joy from others?
Pages read= 2.111 pages + 222 pages = 2,333 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minutes
12. Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra *****I read this a number of years ago, and it was one of the first books on the Middle East and Fundamental Islam that I had read. I was mesmerized and horrified. This second reading did not affect me as much since since that time I have read Khaled Hosseini and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and many others. It is unrelentingly horrible, but the language is beautiful.
Pages read= 2,333 pages + 195 pages = 2,528 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
13. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa *****This is a beautiful little book. This is to be the last discussion book for my class. I am sure they will all like it.
Pages read= 2,528 pages + 180 pages = 2 ,788 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
14. Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland **I read this for the new ArtEast Book Club. Susan Vreeland always leaves me wanting something else than what she is giving me. In this case, what is left wanting is a decent plot. This book is pretty good historically about WWII rural life. It is informative about the mining of ochre, it describes the rustic beauty of the area. But it takes the important cultural crimes of the pillaging of a country's art works by a victor, the destruction of art which the victor considers degenerate, and the stealing of the possessions of individual citizens, of which artwork is the tip of the iceberg, and trivializes them in a ridiculous plot. Others in the book club were satisfied with the artistic descriptions in the book, and did not question the plot. Others wanted different characters within in the plot to prevail. I think I am the only discerning reader in the group. Plus, I seem to be the only one in the group who did not have a "first husband."
Pages read= 2 ,788 pages + 647 pages - 3,435 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
15. Cape Random: A Novel by Bernice Morgan *****
I am stupid, or stunt, as the women in this book would say. I have difficulty in stating exactly what makes me love a book, other than somehow, during the first paragraph, the words wind their way around my heart and I know that I will follow the characters wherever "life" takes them. Such was the book. It seemed a part of me, and I hated it to end, tragedies, injustices, disillusionments and all.
Pages read= 3,435 pages + 367 pages = 3,802 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
"I have difficulty in stating exactly what makes me love a book, other than somehow, during the first paragraph, the words wind their way around my heart and I know that I will follow the characters wherever "life" takes them."
I have this same problem! You, however, give a pretty good explanation, whereas I tend to go with it had a good beat and I could dance to it.
Love to the pups!
No. 16 - The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston ***The sequel to a favorite of mine, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, this books has one of the major characters of the first book, Shelagh Fielding, on an otherwise unoccupied island telling her story, much of which is told in other people's letters. At first I did not mind the slow pace and repetitions, because it mimicked the slow pace of her gathering information, but after 300 pages of it, I started to get bogged down. So, as the book continued, it dropped from a 5 to a 4 to a 3.5 star rating. Wondering if I can even handled long books any more. As I get older, I have less time to spend on details and ruminations, I guess.
Pages read= 3,802 pages + 510 pages = 4,312 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
No. 17 - Strapless by Deborah Davis *****I really enjoyed this book that I read for my art class book club. It was a very easy read, but very informative, giving succinct descriptions of eras and cities, wars and politics, and how that affected the lives of the two main people, John Singer Sargent and Amalie Gautreau, the model for his most famous paint, the Portrait of Madame X.
Pages read= 4,312 pages + 262 pages = 4,574 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
No. 18 - The Cure For Death By Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz *I know there must be merit in this book, or it would not be so highly acclaimed. I know there is supposed to be so correlation between the sufferings of this young girl and Indigenous American stories. I could not get over the absolute horror of what these humans inflicted on one another, what was done to animals, etc., in order to analyze it. I was reading it as a possible book to include in my class, but I could not ask anyone else to read this.
Pages read= 4,574 pages +304 pages = 4, 878 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
No,19 Not Wanted On The Voyage by Timothy Findley ** * Came across this while looking for Canadian books by Canadian authors. Author is Canadian, but what he writes is not what I'm looking for. This was an imaginative, iconoclastic retelling of the story of Noah's ark. A change of pace for me, and I enjoyed itPages read= 4, 878 pages + 352 = 5,230 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
No. 20 - My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout ***** Very quick read, but there is a lot to it. I read it in one day for my book club, but intend to read it again. Themes of lack of communication, abuse, poverty, prejudice, bullying, feelings of superiority, all intertwined in a big knot. Excellently done.Pages read= 5,230 pages + 192 pages = 5,422 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute
No. 21 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook) *****
My second reading (audiobook). Read it a long time ago, but still love it.
Pages read= 5,422 pages
Listening time = 42 hours and 1 minute + 32 hours and 30 minutes = 74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 22 - Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese ****This is excellently written, and, even though I am no sports fan, the use of hockey to illustrate what he was feeling was amazing.
This book, however,was very disturbing to me. (view spoiler)
Read May 25, 2016
Pages read = 5,422 pages + 221 pages = 5,643 pages
Listening time = 74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 23- Waiting for Time by Bernice Morgan *****I have given this five stars, but it is so difficult to separate it from the previous book, Cape Random: A Novel. Does the book really stand on its own? I am, of course, trying to come up with five Canadian books for a class. This books seems to develop themes that are more discussable than Cape Random, but there are so many characters that I wonder whether anyone could understand the second without having read the first.
I must admit that I did not at first bond with the modern characters and was very pleased when the book went back to the past. I loved seeing the same events through Mary's eyes, and to learn her past. When the book went back to the modern people, though, I was more ready is like Lav.
The first book is longer than I like to assign my class, and Faye will be making out geneological charts and lists of names, but the second has the conclusion. What to do? What to do?
In the end I have decided not to chose one of Morgan's books, although Iove them.
Read May 30, 2016
Pages read = 5,643 pages + 232 pages = 5,875 pages
Listening time = 74 hours and 31 minutes
No 24 - A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay *****Beautiful writing and description. Story of an obsessive love.
Read June 4, 2016
Pages read = 5,875 pages + 344 pages = 6,219 pages
Listening time = 74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 25 - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat ***I must study this some more. It is part of my class on differing cultures in America, but it is not so much about a clash between old culture and new culture, but about horrors that cannot be left behind. I can make it work, though.
Read June 5, 2016
Pages read = 6, 219 pages + 234 pages = 6,435 pages
Listening time = 74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 26 - Smoke From Small Fires by Anne Powers *****The description of this book intrigued me. I love Appalachian books, and I love books about artists. This book takes place slightly in the future looking back on the central character's life. My only problem with this book is that some of humor is scatological and/or crude, and I am the prim, prissy type who doesn't care for jokes about bodily functions. But, despite that, the book was interesting and enjoyable, and the part about art comes waaaay toward the end of the book.
Read June 10, 2016
Pages read = 6,435 pages + 360 pages = 6,795 pages
Listening time = 74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 27 - Icefields by Thomas Wharton ****This would be a good book for my class. Must read again.
Read on June 13, 2016
Pages read = 6,795 pages + 288 pages = 7,083 pages
Listening time =74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 28 - And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier ****Will use for my Canadian book class.
Read on June 17, 2016
Pages read = 7,083 pages + 160 pages = 7,243 pages
Listening time =74 hours and 31 minutes
No. 29 - Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian (audiobook) ***Don't know what I was thinking.I am trying so hard to stay away from WWII because I have read too much about it. I keep having to read books about WWII that are picked by other people in my book groups,,but for some reason I picked this for my own reading. Listened to an audiobook in the car, but had large periods of time between my listening since I no longer drive every day. This did have one special thing going for it. Part of it was from the viewpoint of German citizens, which is only now getting some airing.
Read June 20, 2016
Pages read = 7,243 pages
Listening time =74 hours and 31 minutes + 12 hours and 12 minutes = 86 hours and 43 minutes.
No. 30 - I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira ***Read for my Art Book Club. Novelization of the relationships between the American impressionist artist Mary Cassatt and her French mentor Edgar Degas, and French artist/model Berthe Merisot and Edouard Manet. Pretty good. Well researched and I learned quite a bit. Everyone ooh-lah-lahed over it.
Read July 11,2016
Pages read = 7,243 pages + 343 pages = 7, 586 pages
Listening time = 86 hours and 43 minutes
No. 31 -- The Deception of Livvy Higgs by Donna Morrissey ***Livvy Higgs flashes back to her life while dying. Interesting enough. Will not use for my class.
Read July 31, 2016
Pages read = 7, 586 pages + 288 pages = 7,874 pages
Listening time = 86 hours and 43 minutes
No. 32 -- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu *****Finally, a really good one for my class on immigrant experience
Read August 5, 2016
Pages read = 7,874 pages + 228 pages = 8.002 pages
Listening time = 86 hours and 43 minutes
No. 33 -- Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman ***A second book by Fredrik Backman picked by one of the members of my book club this year. I was not in the mood for this book,and had not actually finished it by the time my group met. I did finish it later. It was good, but it just didn't grab me.
Finished August 7, 2016
Pages read = 8.002 pages + 324 pages = 8,326 pages
Listening time = 86 hours and 43 minutes
No. 34 -- As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross *****A story of a minister and his discontented wife in small town Canada during the depression. The use of the weather to set the mood is excellent. Will use it for my class on Canadian lit.
Finished August 11, 2016
Pages read = 8,326 pages + 221 pages 8,547 pages
Listening time = 86 hours and 43 minutes
No.35 -- The Wild Truth: A Memoir by Carine McCandless (audiobook) **This is a memoir by the sister of the young man of Into the Wild who died in Alaska. I seem to recall that one of the questions of Jon Krakauer's book was: why would a young man from a good,loving, normal family leave and go to the Alaska wilderness. I thought that question was odd since no matter how good, loving and normal a person's family is, eventually a young person must leave and seek their own life. Everyone has their own idea of what that life should be. He died though lack of information and accident; that could happen if one moved across town. But, anyway, this book, shows that Chris McCandless was not from a particularly good or loving, and certainly not a normal home, so that kind of blows the whole premise of the original book. So the question that this book, which on its own is not very good, leaves in my mind is: Why would John Krakauer, knowing the story of the whole McCandless family, and its secrets, choose to write the original book from the point of view that he chose? His choice to do so makes me question other things that he has written.
Read August 13, 2016
Pages read = 8,326 pages + 221 pages 8,547 pages
Listening time = 86 hours and 43 minutes + 8 hours and 47 minutes = 95 hours and 30 minutes
No. 36 -- The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence *****This is a Canadian classic with a lot of symbolism. I enjoyed reading it. However, I have read many books like this. Bearing in mind that it was written in 1933, and it may have been a precursor to many of the other books I have read, it does not break any new ground with me.
Read August 25,2016
Pages read = 8,547 pages + 308 pages = 8,855 pages
Listening time = 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 37 -- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat *****Reread this for discussion in my class and raised the rating. Was very impressed with the first "book"-- the first eight chapters, and the amount of information the author was able to convey while a simple scene unfolds. Excellent writing, and an excellent discussion by the excellent participants in my class.
Read September 18, 2016
Pages read = 8,855 pages + 326 pages = 9,181 pages
Listening time = 95 hours and 39 minutes
No.38 - Keeper'n Me by Richard Wagamese **This book was good to learn some traditions and characteristics of the Ojibway and their way of life, but there was zero literary value.
Read September 18, 2016
Pages read = 9,181 pages = 336 pages = 9,517 pages
Listening time = 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 39 -- Fifth Business by Robertson Davies *****I read this book thirty years ago and loved it. I always wanted to reread it, and did so because I was thinking of using it as one of the books in my upcoming class on Canadian authors. However, I think that reading only one of the books in this trilogy does not do justice to Davies work. His writing floats so smoothly off the page and into my imagine, that I hate to pause in the reading. As soon as I finished this one, I started right in on the next, The Manticore, even though I had something else planned.
Read September 22,2016
Pages read = 9,517 pages+ 252 pages = 9,769 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 40 -- Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove ****I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the book because it told of the solitary lifestyle in a harsh area, but I got bogged down in the description of the marriage. The fact of it happening was interesting, but the details went on sooo long. And some of the details were almost comical to the modern reader. The afterward Kristjana Gunnars was very informative about the prairie genre of Canadian literature, and increased my understanding considerably. Still looking for Canadian books for my class the semester after next, and I rejected this until reading the afterward. The afterward made me feel that this should definitely be included because of it being prairie genre, and it should be this over As for Me and My House (Eventually decided the other way)
Read August 18, 2016
Pages read = 9,769 pages + 304 pages = 10,073 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 41 -- Junction, Utah by Rebecca Lawton ***So disappointed. Not at all what I expected, or wanted, from this book.
Read August 20, 2016
Pages read = 10,073 pages + 324 pages = 10,397 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 42 -- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat *****Reread this for discussion in my class and raised the rating. Was very impressed with the first "book"-- the first eight chapters, and the amount of information the author was able to convey while a simple scene unfolds. Excellent writing, and an excellent discussion by the excellent participants in my class.
Read September 18, 2016
Pages read = 10,397 pages + 236 pages = 10,633 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 43 -- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears *****Wow! My second reading of this, for the class I will lead tomorrow at the college, was sensational. I really liked the book the first time through a few months ago, and I remembered it as a story about an African immigrant and an American woman who met and couldn't quite get things going. On the second reading everything popped out at me: the meaning of where the protagonist lived, and the social position he had had and lost compared with the woman who still had hers, the difference between someone who wanted to come to the US and someone who had to. Just so many things connected, due to fabulous writing. I should read all books (well, every good book) twice. It will be a good discussion tomorrow.
Read September 26, 2016
Pages read = 10,633 pages + 240 pages = 10,873 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 44 -- Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway ****This is a powerful story, about two Cree indian brothers who have been blessed with musical and dancing talent, and linking it with mythology. I did not enjoy the writing style however. It was also filled with crude sexual language and blasphemy (from my point of view, but not from the author's). It is another difficult book to read or recommend, but I am glad a read it.
Read: October 6, 2016
Pages read = 10,873 pages + 320 pages = 11,193 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 45 -- At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier **I had promised myself not to read any more Tracy Chevalier books, because they have become increasingly less satisfying. The only ones that I truly connected with were the one about creating the tapestries and the one about finding the dinosaur (mainly because I am a sucker for ladies of modest means living in small cottages near the sea). However, ATEOTO was chosen for reading by my book club, so I was once again flipping through Chevalier's pages. I would have liked to have seen a graph showing my interest in this book; it would have been fluctuating wildly up and down. Some areas caught my interest, and in others I found myself speed reading through it. Chevalier always attaches her stories in passing to an artist or poet or scientist of note either to suck readers into the story, or hopefully to tap into a bit of history that is in the general knowledge. She has here attached her story to the Johnny Appleseed of legend, and, to most people, the Disney cartoon. John Chapman makes a brief appearance to set the scene for apple trees, seguewaying to trees in general.
Read October 15, 2016
Pages read = 11,193 pages + 417 pages = 11,610 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 46 - The Gangster We Are All Looking For by [author:Thi Diem Thúy Lê|16119689 *** A book I picked for my class. Most of it seems to be little different from the memories of any child,not necessarily a immigrant.
Read October 18, 2016
Pages read = 11,610 pages + 176 pages = 11,786 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 47 - The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thi Diem Thúy Lê *****Reread and Upgraded. Another one that suddenly revealed itself upon my second reading. I should read all books twice. Finally understood what "gangster" means to her, and who the book is actually about Elaine is leading this discussion today, which takes the weight of this off me, but I'm actually a little disappointed because I would know how to lead this. But, I am soooo pleased with this selection and very worried about the next two.
Read October 26, 2016
Pages read = 11,786 pages + 176 pages = 11,962 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
No. 48 -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie *****First read through. Not what I was expecting.
Read October 22, 2016
Pages read = 11,962 pages + 230 pages = 12.192 pages
Listening time= 95 hours and 39 minutes
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