One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
Wow. Almost halfway through the morning and I just realized I hadn’t posted. Distracted I guess! I’m off to the bank this morning to deposit a big fat check. How big you ask? Well big enough that I can get current on my bills, that’s how big. We sold the last of the books. We [...]
I read all of The Secret Garden yesterday and I’m really over pedantic children’s literature. Ok, ok, I get it, fresh air and plain food are all the world needs… In other news the boys and I had an absolutely fabulous day. We played, I worked and hardly a fussy note escaped either of them! [...]
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald Page: 200 Fitzgerald’s style is unusual and surprising. I hadn’t expected the variations of mode or the easy familiarity. I don’t remember The Great Gatsby employing any of these techniques. Still, good book, and very worthwhile. I like novels about education or coming of age. I could [...]
Great Expectations Page: 470 I continue to enjoy Dickens. Such good stuff! Great Expectations might actually go on an all-time favorites list. Dickens is such a thorough moralist that he is actually refreshing. He doesn’t preach a particular creed but delineates manners and sensitivities with such feeling that you instinctively root for right. He doesn’t [...]
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Page: 320 Finished The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Page: 541 Maxine Hong Kingston’s prose is amazing. Haunting, powerful, fanciful. And I love the photo of her on the cover of the Everyman’s edition. You might not be able to see it well, but she looks wild and [...]