The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I read our second book club book early because I’ll likely be sharing my copy around. Since I know several people who will be reading also read this blog, I can’t share too much about it. But…it is a marvelous book. It is rich with insight and moving in its detail. I cried. I don’t [...]
I hadn’t ever read this one before. No really. And I haven’t seen the movie either… This was the first of my “Pulitzer Prize” books from my challenge with Jessica. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and really had a hard time putting the book down. And having been a tomboy myself I found Scout a [...]
I had never read the Lewis story fragment called The Dark Tower. It was supposedly intended to be a companion novel to the Space Trilogy and features Lewis as the narrator and Ransom as a player. I know there is some suspicion afloat in Lewisonian circles that Walter Hooper tried to pass off a bit [...]
Oops, I forgot that I’d read this one two days ago. C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra is one of my all time favorite books. Definitely in the top ten of books I read and re-read. It has some amazing depictions of how to live wholeheartedly and what living in tune with the will of God really looks [...]
Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of Jeeves and Wooster short stories and is a nice introduction to the pair. If you haven’t had the chance to meet these two or if your only knowledge of them is through the excellent, but necessarily inadequate, BBC production then this is a great way to get to [...]
I finished this delightful and entertaining book last night and highly recommend it. It is a book club book though, so I can’t share too much. Unfortunately the text included one of my least favorite typos: the misuse of the apostrophe s. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is practically a movie already with delightful [...]
I intend to post as I finish books and/or when exciting life events occur. I finished P.G. Wodehouse’s Joy in the Morning last night and, naturally, enjoyed it completely. Jeeves was at his inimitable best and dear Bertram got to pose as a burglar and a policeman. The perilous engagment was deftly avoided and all [...]
OK, Christmas was nuts. Fun but crazy. The boys loved all their presents, were a little overwhelmed and hyper and were as adorable as could be. Jared ran off with the camera again (naturally) so you all will have to wait a bit to enjoy the cuteness. Kafka is almost done and I really want [...]
Zhivago is done for. I’d read it several times before but I don’t think I’d realized that it was produced under the Soviet regime. Somehow that just feels so wrong. I’m sure that there are deeper themes to tease out of that situation but I’m so tired and burned out right now that I don’t [...]
I had a very busy weekend (no blogging…) and here are the highlights. Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose was excellent. Didn’t end how I had expected it to, but no matter, it was a very enjoyable book that rekindled my desire to study Latin. I now have access to a book entiled (something [...]