I gave Nooreen a copy and realized that it has been years since I read my own copy. When I started, it only took getting to the author’s note to remind me why I loved The Book of Three so much as a kid. So, in lieu of more politics (wanna know what I thought [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Because I no longer have a place to list out what I’m currently reading…
I finally finished last month’s book club book, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal. I know, I’m so behind. I have to admit I had my reservations about this selection after the disastrous Mistress of Spices (Raven? really?), [...]
I don’t know if I can finish The Five Red Herrings after all. There’s just too many times for me to keep track of, especially when I am not reading it all in one setting. Am I getting adult-onset ADD that I can’t focus anymore? Or is it just the book?
Updated 12/30/2007: Removed from the [...]
Phew.
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book with as many never-ending sentences as Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
Granted, it’s a 500+ page book, so there are some simple sentences mixed around in there, but overall, Pessl definitively proves she doesn’t believe for a moment that brevity is the soul of wit.
The reviewers adore [...]
Borders emailed me this morning to tell me the cover art for the seventh Harry Potter book has been released. I couldn’t help it. I looked.
It’s not what I expected:
I mean, the book is called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The pre-cover-art placeholder was all black with white lettering. I wasn’t anticipating a bright [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Before we begin: Because I am nothing if not up on my sports rivalries, and because I care about keeping y’all informed, Carolina just beat Duke at Duke. Let the rejoicing in Chapel Hill begin.
I just finished Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, and it was excellent. At times, I had to make myself put it down [...]
As The History of Love opens, Leo Gursky says every day he makes a point of being seen because he doesn’t want to die on a day that nobody saw him. He goes to movies and spills his popcorn as soon as it’s handed to him, goes to Starbucks and changes his order half a [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...I finished The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America this weekend. It’s a very absorbing slice of turn-of-the-century American life, especially in how it makes me think about our uber-technological world affects our lives. Things are supposed to be easier for us.
Thunderbird, my friend
I know they [...]
Hmm. I suppose that’s not entirely true, but close enough.
Tomorrow is Ice Cream Friday at work. I have been looking forward to this ALL WEEK. They bring in a Ben and Jerry’s man, and he has six or seven tubs of B&J ice cream, and there are toppings, but I so rarely get them because [...]
Y’all, I think I have a problem.
I buy a lot of books. A lot of books. I can’t remember the last time I bought clothes, but last weekend I debated between Quicksilver, The History of Love, and Never Let Me Go for almost an hour before finally settling on Quicksilver because it’s the one I’ve [...]