Open to words, forever–
I’ve finally returned to Ann Patchett–I read Bel Canto years ago and really admired her fiction writing (talk about plot and character development!)–mostly because I was curious to find out what her non-fiction was like, but it took me two years to begin reading This Is a Story of a Happy Marriage. Patchett has been
Reading this list and only finding one book I had even heard of made me feel overwhelmed, yet again, at how many books I have yet to hear 0f– nevertheless read! Hope all are well as we move towards the holidays 🙂
I had waited on the library waiting list for nearly three months to finally get this book. It was worth the wait! I had never read Ann Patchett before, and this was definitely a good first pass at her as a writer. The story is about a family in Southern California– the novel opens up
I listened to this book on tape over a round trip from Pennsylvania to Delaware. It was very enjoyable! This is a nonfiction account of a journalist, Steve, who meets a homeless man, Nathaniel, in Los Angeles. Nathaniel is a former student at Julliard who studied the cello; however, when Steve meets him he is
Hello friends! I have taken a bit of time today to get our site updated. I hope that you will join me in posting about books you are reading or other book-related fun as we move towards the end of the year. I am still planning on hosting a winter reading challenge, though we will
Hello friends! Today is the last official day of the reading adventure. I hope you had fun. It has been great to read your posts throughout the last ten weeks. Please feel free to keep posting as you wrap up. I am still planning on doing a winter challenge but will likely wait until after the
I am so glad that I left Zadie Smith’s Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays until the very end of the Summer Reading Adventure–Smith writes so passionately about so many books that I haven’t read that if this had been the first work I’d read ten weeks ago, I would never have been able to stick
I decided to go audiobook for my 10th book. I borrowed this from my local library and it gave me the opportunity to get oriented with their digital lending through the website- it is so awesome that you can borrow audiobooks digitally! I hadn’t done this before- what a treasure trove. Going to be taking
It is really stretching definitions to call Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry a book since it is only 86 pages long, and I’m really getting away with a lot by including it on my summer reading list while all of you have read so many very much longer books, but I was so eager
I wish that Jessica Valenti’s Sex Object were a better book. I’m very interested in contemporary feminist writing, and not just theoretical aspects but closer-to-the-ground writing that might help me understand my twenty year-old daughter’s thinking about feminism as opposed to my own pre-historic concepts that were shaped in a radically different world. And so
Seasonal Reading 