Tuesday Book Club
Hey, I read a book! Two, in fact! What’s that like?
Seriously, after too long without time to sit down and read, it feels SO good to spend a week or two catching up on books and magazines. Now I remember why they’re so popular.
This was a non-fiction week for me, with I Ching Life by Wu Wei (I’ve been curious about the I Ching for a while, and finally bought myself a book), and Does the Soul Survive: A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives, and Living with a Purpose by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz (fascinating reading on a topic I’ve always been interested in). Both excellent books I highly recommend.
After yesterday’s Book Buyers Anonymous meeting, I hesitate to ask, but it’s what we’re here for: what fabulous books did all of you read last week?
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February 5th, 2008 at 6:11 am
I read I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder. It’s a YA novel in verse and can be read in one sitting.
Made me cry.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I started the new Kim Harrison that I bought yesterday(need a nice little fun read there)and over the weekend finished Have You Found Her by Janice Erhlbaum(which I’ll be reviewing on my blog tomorrow).
Still reading OIL!(and yes,it was in my purse when I went to see TWBB)which is more readable than I expected.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I’m reading the most delectable short stories by William Trevor (Cheating at Canasta) and I have another book of short stories (by Catha Pollitt) waiting by my bed. I really really really heart short stories — and not just ’cause I can finish one of them before I fall asleep and drool all over the pages — but because of the incredibleness that is full characterization and plotting in such a tight frame. It’s like contortionism. Only less gross.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I’m still reading The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I finished Space Oddity by Wil Wheaton and am I am reading The Softwire again. But Libba Bray is coming on Saturday to Changing Hands, so here is my confession, I am going to by her book (not probably, I AM) and will put it on my book shelf to read. There, my confession for the week, no..day, no..hour! DOH!
February 5th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I finished “East of Eden” and listened to “You On a Diet”, which was fascinating and chock full of fascinatingly ridiculous figurative speech.
February 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I’m a bit fuzzy on where I was last Tuesday, but I think since then I finished off Jeanne Birdsall’s The Penderwicks, which I loved, and finished off the trickster tale anthology, The Coyote Road, which had some stories that did more for me towards the end. And I read D.A. by Connie Willis, which was a disappointment, even though I’d heard a lot of people say it was nothing like her best work. It’s way too short to have been published as a book, IMO.
Now rereading an old favourite - Cynthia Harnett’s The Wool-Pack, while impatiently awaiting the arrival of several ordered books.
February 5th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Krentz and Snowfall at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs. I was in the mood for modern stories, and these suited my mood.I started a couple of other books but they didn’t hold my attention.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I loved the Penderwicks, too, and like Shai I will have to buy some Libba Bray this weekend. And read it eventually.
I read Into The Wild by Sarah Beth Durst. Then I reread Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner. I remembered the hysterically funny parts, but had forgotten that there are some poignant parts, too. Great book!
February 5th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I finished Gabrielle Zevin’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan kick but again! First, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and now this book…they are truly awesome!
February 5th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I finished Gabrielle Zevin’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan kick but again! First, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and now this book…they are truly awesome!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
lol I read the 4th sweep book! ^_^ EXALENT! plus I got my mom into them and she’s on the 3rd one now! she swore she wouldn’t like um to making fun of me for weeks then I kept biugging her to read the first 7 chapters (uber short not a biggy)and she LOVED it! XD Also I got an account of Shelfari to keep track of the books I’m reading! Anyone on here have one?!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Read:
Alive and Well in Prague, New York by Daphne Grab
Now reading:
Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer
February 6th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I am late posting, but I’m currently reading a collection of essays, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? by Allyson Beatrice, a big-time Buffy and Angel fan. It’s interesting, and you can’t beat the title/cover.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Thanks for your lists, one and all! Sounds like everybody’s using their cold winter nights (and maybe days) very well.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
My head is so frazzled I almost forget what I’ve been reading, especially since I keep picking things up and putting them down. I’ve been reading I Want Candy by Kim Wong Keltner, this great coming of age in San Francisco novel about a girl who’s sick of working in her parents’ Chinese restaurant.
Now I’m reading an advance copy of Rebecca Woolf’s memoir Rockabye: From Wild to Child.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:45 am
I’m about a third of the way into Before I Die, a YA novel by Jenny Downham, which is fabulous. Just before that I finished Wrecked by E.R. Frank, also fabulous, and an adult fiction book, Abundance, that’s about Marie Antoinette.