tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post4770856710778885320..comments2024-03-25T02:43:49.115-05:00Comments on Karen Edmisten: Reading in 2009Karen Edmisten http://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-47392281736492414432010-01-12T07:35:15.467-06:002010-01-12T07:35:15.467-06:00Melanie, I agree with you completely. I love to re...Melanie, I agree with you completely. I love to read YA and I'm so glad my kids have provided a reason for me to discover so many great books. :) <br /><br />Have you read Strangers and Sojourners? That's a favorite of mine, too. <br /><br />Rochelle, <a href="http://karenedmisten.blogspot.com/2009/07/epistolary-blog-post.html" rel="nofollow">here's</a> a little post about the Guernsey book. Enjoy!Karen Edmisten https://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-49509475313195156322010-01-12T07:32:01.544-06:002010-01-12T07:32:01.544-06:00Faith, Nora Ephron makes me laugh, so I enjoyed it...Faith, Nora Ephron makes me laugh, so I enjoyed it. <br /><br />Re. "How to be Good" -- I just love Nick Hornby's writing, and he, too, can make me laugh out loud. It would be most accurate to say that there were many things I liked about the book, little tucked in gems. <br /><br />For example, in the last few pages, you find this: <br /><br />"Ever since I moved back into the house after my stay at Janet's, I have had the nagging feeling that I miss something, without being able to describe precisely what that something was. ... it's some spiritual equivalent of fruit, which I am bad about eating. And it is only when I have shut the bedroom door for the third or fourth time on my husband and children in order to find out precisely how Vanessa Bell's life was better than my own that I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already. Janet's bedsit seemed enormous when I moved into it, enormous and quiet, but this book is so much bigger than that. And when I've finished it I will start another one, and that might be even bigger, and then another, and I will be able to keep extending my house until it becomes a mansion ...."Karen Edmisten https://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-76690557716665248652010-01-11T20:37:02.915-06:002010-01-11T20:37:02.915-06:00I'm another book-list lover, and I've also...I'm another book-list lover, and I've also joined Good Reads.<br /> I'm including a weekly list of the books I read in my blog.<br />I simply MUST read "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I'd never heard of it before, but I love the title!Rochellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13440768465424239595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-16874256535001103152010-01-09T13:53:31.296-06:002010-01-09T13:53:31.296-06:00Karen, you sound so like me. I wish I kept better ...Karen, you sound so like me. I wish I kept better reading lists. I also signed up for Good Reads. Did nothing with it except peek at what friends are reading... which is itself a fun use.<br /><br />Funny that many of the books you read with/for the kids are ones I've read in the past year just for myself. I suppose it's a sort of long-term preview for the kids in that they'll get to them by the end of the decade. Sometimes I just like to read juvenile fiction. It can be as meaty as adult fiction, tends not to be full of unpleasant surprises. <br /><br />I just finished re-reading Father Elijah for the second time. I was uncertain the first time through. Liked it much better this tie having read the rest of Michael O'Brien's books. I can definitely see myself reading it again. Though I think I still prefer Cry of Stone and Sophia House.Melanie Bettinellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12557248434888642114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-82440001610533868142010-01-09T12:17:38.821-06:002010-01-09T12:17:38.821-06:00I love books lists!
I've already slated the M...I love books lists!<br /><br />I've already slated the Mary, Mother of God series by Shea as my Lenten reading.<br /><br />And I really want to read Omnivore's Dilemma.<br /><br />What did you think about the Ephron book? Would you recommend it?<br /><br />I hated that book How to Be Good! Did you like it? I was so turned off by the characters that I gave up about 3/4s of the way through.Faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10169821331076296753noreply@blogger.com