One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
English Fairy Tales Page: 176
I’m incredibly tired. I read a bunch of fairly tales…Veritas was slow…Alex is still fussy…ummm…apparently the “fee, fie, foe, fum” thing shows up in every English tale…I guess they all have really smelly blood.
The Brothers Karamazov Page: 115
It’s been a long day. No particular reason why, just a combination of difficult stuff. Alex is still teething and he’s got a runny nose but no other cold symptoms. I had an amazingly clueless customer today. She wanted to exchange a book that she had bought a few days before. [...]
Cities of the Plain Page: 292
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Page: 60
So all three books are sad. depressing even. They are tragic and drearily ornate. If you read them, I recommend reading for the pleasure of the process more than the pleasure of the story. Unless of course you enjoy being depressed.
I tried to [...]
The Crossing Page: 426
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Page: 147
My poor kiddo (Alex)has not been a happy camper today. He’s been teething, and after going without for a long time, he’s cutting 40 teeth all at once. Ok, only five or six but it’s enough to make him super grumpy. In happier news, [...]
The Crossing Page: 335
This book is starting to feel a bit long. I’m not sure how much is left of it but I’m ready for it to be done. Of course even when I finish it I still have the third volume of the trilogy to read. I’m wondering what themes will emerge as [...]
The Crossing Page: 91
Not much reading done today either. We closed early this afternoon and with that on top of a morning together Jared and I are positively aglow with the joy of spending hours together. We got lots of work done up in the bookstore this morning and tons of work done at home [...]
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Page: 302
The Crossing Page: 31
I actually finished Horses last night after I posted and before I fell asleep and I did enjoy reading it. It wasn’t ‘fun’ in the sense of describing pleasant or enjoyable scenarios but it was a pleasure to read. McCarthy is gifted in the [...]
The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse Page: 256
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Page: 260
Apparently today is national child endangerment day. This morning a wine glass got knocked off the counter and wile we believed that we had cleaned all the broken glass up, we missed a piece.
A piece that Alex brought to me [...]
The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse Page: 176
Alex got me up three times last night screaming hysterically. I think he’s beginning to have nightmares or night terrors. By the third time he woke up and cried for 30 minutes in the exact same tone, at the same pitch without a break my nerves were fried. [...]
Don Quixote of the Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Page: 247 Finished
This was Cervantes for kids but it was still pretty depressing. I don’t imagine a young child would pick up on the appalling sadness of it but I don’t think it would have been my favorite book if I’d read it as a child.
Cervantes [...]