January 31, 2011 – 8:54 pm
The Book: The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad
The Story: In Spring of 2002- after 9/11 and the fall of the Taliban- Asne headed to Afghanistan to live with the family of a bookseller that she had met. She lived with them for four months, just observing their lives and what they did day-to-day.
Because she [...]
January 29, 2011 – 12:26 pm
I didn’t pause as long between books 6 and 7. I decided to just go for it. I was all hyped up after 6 and I couldn’t wait to move on. So. Here goes.
Just a warning, if you haven’t read the series, please go do that and then come back. This is chock full of [...]
January 28, 2011 – 5:03 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
I know that this is really weird, but the high school that I went to didn’t have a library. None. A school. No books. This is for real. When we had to read a book for class that wasn’t a group-read, a lady would bring a cart [...]
January 28, 2011 – 7:49 am
Oh my word. This is the kind of week the phrase “Thank God it’s Friday” was created for. It’s been a tough one. Isaac got his first tooth early in the week and is working on another one, which means very little sleep for our little household this week. Part of me feels bad for [...]
January 27, 2011 – 4:28 pm
Ok, I gave it a go, I really did. After 3 days, I was only on page 50 or so because I just couldn’t get into it…and I came across this sentence:
“She swam like a mermaid in the swamp-tank of my dreams.”
and only a few pages later:
“I have made my heart into a camellia floating [...]
January 26, 2011 – 6:48 pm
I don’t have much today. My mom is in from out of town and we’ve been having fun hanging out. I was looking around the book section of the Huffington Post today and found a couple things I think you’ll like:
Less Ambitious Books: Twitter Takes on Dumbing Down the Classics
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [...]
January 25, 2011 – 12:39 pm
His Excellency: George Washington, by Joseph Ellis
It’s almost embarrassing how little I knew about George Washington before I read this book. I’m not sure if the public school system failed me or if I just didn’t ever listen, but I could count the number of facts that I knew about him on one hand… and [...]
January 24, 2011 – 9:40 am
The Book: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann
The Story: During the early 1900’s, the “thing” was to take a group of men into the Amazon jungle and get them all killed by bugs, animals, cannibals, weather, starvation, or really any other way you can imagine. [...]
January 23, 2011 – 9:16 am
These guys are pretty cute, huh?
January 22, 2011 – 11:33 am
I know that I told you almost a month ago that I was going to roll out the details of this challenge, but sometimes I’m a little bit off in my date-estimations. You know how it goes.
I’m so, so excited about this challenge. One of my book-nerd friends, Jessica, started reading presidential biographies last year. [...]