Open to words, forever–
I don’t want to get into too much detail with this book because I sent it to Barbara and I don’t want to bias her opinion. It’s extremely interesting and doesn’t only tell you what not to eat but gives you a history of different foods or random food facts that you wouldn’t necessarily know
I usually enjoy a good YA book. This was not one of those books. This book reads the way people who look down on YA must think they all read. It’s just a little too corny, the writing is very simple and the ending is beyond predicable. But with all that, they STILL don’t tie
What can I say?? It’s a Nicholas Sparks book. I used to really enjoy his books but I found that his writing becomes extremely formulaic after you’ve read 10 or so. I feel that way about James Paterson too. So I don’t run out and buy his books like I used to but I stumbled
Some of you may remember me posting about Miss Peregrine during our winter challenge. These 2 books complete the trilogy. Overall, I enjoyed them though it definitely got tedious at times. The writer just kept adding characters and adding more obscure “abilities”. I mentioned in my last review that the author collects vintage pictures and
So, typical delayed post marathon, coming your way!! Once again, I have been reading, I’m just terrible at posting. Moving to a new state and a much bigger place, did not help. So I’m just going to list what I’ve read so far here and then you can skip to whatever review you think you
So, remember how I mentioned in my last post about Steppenwolf that some nuggets of wisdom might come from the intense experience of reading that book? Well, like a jagged rock that is smoothed over by ocean waves, these two new books provided a path to integrate that intensity into my system.. a sort of
After a canceled flight– delaying my return to the United States by over 48 hours– (yes, I know– poor me– but, when you’re out of underwear and you’re back on the clock, there is a little cognitive dissonance about being “on vacation” when you thought you’d be back home with your pooches and other such
This little treasure arrived to me in the mail. Unless some magical bird delivered it, I believe it was from my book swap buddy. This was the first time I participated in the mail version of book swap. If it weren’t for the emailing and exchanging of addresses, it’s a surprisingly anonymous process. I don’t
What a magnificent book Oliver Sacks’ On The Move is, and how fitting that after almost four hundred pages about his life and his writing, Sacks ends in the present tense. We can almost trick ourselves that he is still alive, still writing, still absorbed in all his far-ranging explorations of how the mind works
Well, wow. This book was not what I expected, yet perhaps I should have known something wild was in store for me. I first discovered Hermann Hesse in college, a friend recommended that I read “Siddhartha” and that book changed my life. Hesse’s writing took me to a place that I thought only I knew,
Seasonal Reading 