Open to words, forever–
What kind of idiot gets salmonella poisoning on her long-awaited and much- anticipated first trip to Paris? Who disregards all the caveats of well-seasoned travelers and makes such a rookie mistake as to order not one but TWO soft-boiled eggs that came a few degrees above raw in a sweet Montmartre café, lop off the
Well, believe it or not, today marks the halfway point of our summer reading adventure. There are 5 weeks left until the end! I feel nervous since I am just trying to get through my 4th book (The Stand) which means I’m pretty far behind. But! I think I can still manage. My husband is
I was starting to feel guilty because I haven’t posted at all this week!! I am trying very hard to finish The Stand by Stephen King but am also slowly Reading Snow. I think I am going to put all my efforts into finishing The Stand before trying to continue reading other works. I am on the downhill
Another book-sneaking-onto-my list- experience: my stepmother sent me Elaine Sciolino’s The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs to get me ready for my big trip (gasp! I’m leaving tomorrow!), and I had to read it. This is such an enjoyable read! Sciolino was the New York Times Paris bureau chief for
This is another find from my travels around America earlier this summer. Got this for fifty cents at a used book store in California. I have never read Jack London, and thought starting with some short stories would be the way to go- I am not disappointed! This is a short collection, a little less
I couldn’t have picked a better book to read after the privileged complaining of Little Labors than Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk. This is a memoir that succeeds at both demonstrating compassion for all living creatures, and also entering into the natural world that we so often take for granted, a world in which
I promise I’ve been reading…I’m just doing an excellent job at reading and not writing reviews. So here is a short and sweet round up of the titles I’ve finished so far! #1 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson This is a book I have seen over and over again on those buzzfeed style lists of
I’m not exactly sure why I decided to read Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors. I’m many years away from being a new mother–I’m at the opposite end of motherhood–although thinking back to that time in my life is fraught with both terror and joy. I’ve admired Galchen’s writing, especially the fiction and non-fiction pieces she’s had
Does it count as part of the challenge if I haven’t read Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast in about….a really long time?? Let’s just say that it was in another century and millennium that I’d first read this memoir of Hemingway’s early Paris years, and since I’m going to Paris myself for the first time in
I bought this book a while back because it was a newly illustrated version and I have never read this book! I am glad I did take the time to. I got a lot more out of the book than the Disney movie, for sure. I think most of us are familiar with the general
Seasonal Reading 