What are you reading? June 2014

[Bill]

I won in a Giveaways contest here. It's a bit of historical fiction/murder mystery about the Russian composer Tchaikovsky.

[Melanie]

Cool. I haven't looked much in the giveaways for quite awhile. This is a crazy month for me.

[Melanie]

I started before vacation and finished yesterday. Overall, this was a good book for running. I'm going to try running by time rather than distance for a few weeks and see how it goes. I would like to run a marathon someday in the not too distant future.

[Melanie]

I listened to Maggie Gyllenhaal perform this book. I had never read anything by Sylvia Plath before, but thought that Maggie had the perfect voice for this book. Many have compared it to Catcher in the Rye which I have not read yet, but it reminded me of The Awakening.

[Melanie]

I'm currently reading , and so far I agree with everything she says.

[Ronald]

Just finished reading Lean Mean Thirteen and not sure what I'll read next.

[Melanie]

Finished for a book club next week. It is a collection of short stories, and not something I would normally read. It wasn't bad, there were a few I really like and a couple I forced myself to get through.

[Melanie]

Found this on the shelf at the library and after the Kentucky Derby I had Mint Julips on the mind. I'm not a bourbon drinker. My passion is for beer, but I can respect one's passion for alcoholic beverages. It was interseting to read how Bourbon has helped shape American history.

[Bill]

Melanie wrote: " Found this on the shelf at the library and after the Kentucky Derby I had Mint Julips on the mind. I'm not a bourbon drinker. My pass..."

I'm not a bourbon fan either; it's been years since I had it. My father loved it, and he tried to get me to like it by making me a Manhattan with bourbon instead of rye. Come to think of it, it's been a long time since I had a Manhattan too, even one made properly!

[Ronald]

Going to restart reading The Golem and the Jinni I just got it back from the library.

[Melanie]

Aimed for someone spending more than a week in London. It was suppose to be funny, but I only got a few chuckles.

[Melanie]

Just finished Fahrenheit 451 this morning. I'm now waiting at KCI to board a flight to Chicago with a layover to London. I brought The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 1 with me, and The Game of Thrones to read on the flights.