What are you reading? - book review
('Cause I want a place to keep track.)
The Art of Fielding was described to me as Franzen-like. It is. I loved the dialogue and characters. A beautiful book about people and baseball.
Swamplandia is about a family living in the Everglades. This definitely went in directions I did not expect. Some adult issues, or I would suggest it for precocious middle school girls.
The Tiger's Wife is about Balkan history, which helps it make more sense to me than it did when I was reading it and didn't know that. I am not usually de-railed by fable and allegory, but this book irritated me with its vagueness. For the record, I am ok with _The Jungle Book_ being The Bible.
The Art of Fielding was described to me as Franzen-like. It is. I loved the dialogue and characters. A beautiful book about people and baseball.
Swamplandia is about a family living in the Everglades. This definitely went in directions I did not expect. Some adult issues, or I would suggest it for precocious middle school girls.
The Tiger's Wife is about Balkan history, which helps it make more sense to me than it did when I was reading it and didn't know that. I am not usually de-railed by fable and allegory, but this book irritated me with its vagueness. For the record, I am ok with _The Jungle Book_ being The Bible.
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posted by Lea at 7:38 AM
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I read a lot of children's books, out loud, dramatically. I lost my voice reading a story about dinosaurs last night. All that roaring.
I've also read some short stories by Willa Cather recently, because I picked up a pick at a church rummage sale. I read a couple Ann Patchett books that I enjoyed - one about people in Boston, another about the Amazon. I tried reading a The Children's Book by AS Byatt and I found the first half interesting.
You might find this interesting?
http://www.trinityunivmagazine.com/2011/08/great-reads-grissom%E2%80%99s-favorites-mid-2010-%E2%80%93-mid-2011/
I'm finishing up a novel by Richard Castle (yep, from the TV show). And started a second about lost gold from the Crusades.-Captain
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