Tuesday Book Club
Still doing the slow savor on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. So masterful. And funny. And such an excellent study of human nature. LOVE it, always have loved it, will continue to reread this throughout my life.
Also read Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. You knew I was going to get into that, didn’t you? I’ve also been enjoying the weekly web classes given by Oprah and Eckhart, which you can watch on her website or download for free. If you’re so inclined, those are the best 90 minutes (per class) you’ll spend on your brain and soul. In my opinion. Those classes make me wish I could get separate tutorials from someone on the I Ching and Epictetus‘s teachings. I do my best to read those and try to apply them to my life, but a little lecture series would really help. Can someone get on that?
How about all of you? What have you been reading this week?
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I’ll get on that!
Wait? What am I getting on?
I finished Maisie Dobbs for my book club. Light reading. I am engrossed in Copper Sun by Sharon Draper. Been moved to tears a couple of times. She will be in our district the end of the month.
I have The New Earth at the bedside and have read snippets.
Yay for Tuesday Book Club! I just finished Beauty Shop for Rent…Fully Equipped, Inquire Within by Laura Bowers, which is fantastic reading. I’m also working on Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant and to feed my brain, Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America’s Immigrant Hospital by Lorie Conway. I also have to put in a word for Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s The Boy Who Dared which I read all in one sitting last week because I simply could not put it down.
I finished up Girls In Trucks by Katie Crouch(a good debut novel)and have started on Bound by Sally Gunning,historical fiction about a girl sold into indentured service during the early days of America who tries to get out of it.
Still reading The Painter From Shanghai and getting very much into Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey(a very sexy saga,indeed!). Funny,all of the novels that I’m currently reading share the same theme;women being forced into servitude. Wonder what that’s about?
I finished reading An Earthly Knight. I’ve started Lirael by Garth Nix.
I am still working on Pride and Prejudice and loving it! I am getting to the infamous Darcy letter
I finished The Hunger Games and all I can say is WOW! Pick it up and don’t put it down!
I started reading City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. So far, so good.
I am breezing through books lately. It has been a nice escape from the world around.
Inspired by The Sword in the Stone, I started the Arthurian Challenge. I read Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen. But I wasn’t as in love with it as I was Sword in the Stone. I did finish Camilla! (do a little happy dance) And I’ve since read several YA books. I’m also rereading the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. The book I’m in at the moment, though, is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
Oh – imagine reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time! Wonderful…
Anyway, for me, I finished The True Meaning of Smekday, finished the last bit of The Foreshadowing, and lost a couple of night’s easy getting-to-sleep to Leslie Connor’s Waiting for Normal, which blew me away. (My daughter has bipolar, so it really hit from both perspectives.) Such an amazing job of breaking your heart for this kid without playing the angst card at all heavily.
Currently reading Rosemary Sutcliff’s Dawn Wind, but the latest Catherine Gilbert Murdock arrived today, so who knows how long I’ll manage to resist that!
I’m reading Runemarks by Joanne Harris. The heroine is 14 and I love this book. (I also love Joanne Harris.)
OH neat Robin My mom is a HUGE Eckhart Tolle fan! XD She’s read like all his books, and is now reading a new earth and is also doing the oprah class thing. So now I’m reading it for school
supposedly…. havn’t started yet!
I’m reading The Luxe, The 10th Sweep book, The Vampire Lestat, and a sweet fan fiction here…http://psymommy.livejournal.com/
It’s so amazing! lol Then I’m also reading The Diary of Anne Frank, Farenhight 451, and much more… XD
I’m just finishing (last couple chapters before bed) Dust and Ashes by Anatoli Rybakov, which is the third and last book in his Arbat series on life in the Stalinist USSR. It’s a pretty engrossing and horrifying read, and I’m glad I committed to reading the whole series. The parallels with the current Bush Administration are pretty shocking, though even Bush hasn’t gotten that bad (yet.)
Though after reading this very weighty series I’ll probably read some fluff or trash next . . .
Aw, Robin, you ALWAYS give me HUGS!
I read Rebel Angels and now I’m on The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray. They are good enough that I’ve put much of the rest of my life on hold to continue reading them, so I’m having mixed feelings about reaching the end of the trilogy. I’ll be sorry to see the story and characters go, but I really do need to vacuum.
Hi Robin et al! Here are my books:
Children of God, sequel to the Sparrow–Mary Doria Russell (pretty good, and necessary after the disturbing ending of the Sparrow)
A Tree Falls at Lunch Period, by Gennifer Choldenko– meh (and I like her other works)
Ordinary Jack, by Helen Cresswell–quite good!
I gotta read this Libba Bray already!
Jules, I need to read her books, too! I finally bought the first in the trilogy a few weeks ago, and it’s sitting on my floor where I see it at least a dozen times a day. But I’m in the middle of another book, and then I have another one I want to get to–isn’t this how it always goes? And I still haven’t read one of your favorite writers, Haven Kimmel! I must read everything!
Alkelda, thanks for the tip on The Sparrow and sequel. That’s another one I have on my shelf, and it’s good to know I needn’t despair if the ending isn’t to my liking.
Adrienne, vacuuming is SO overrated. Sheesh. Are we keeping a list of rooms vacuumed this year, or books read? Priorities!
BJ, how interesting that the USSR book reminds you of what’s going on in the current administration. And I see parallels in The Once and Future King. Proving once again that there are only a few stories that just keep repeating themselves–whether in fiction or real life.
Dylan, that’s cool that your mom is doing the Eckhart Tolle classes. I’d be really interested in knowing whether you like them, too. I don’t think I would have been ready for them when I was your age, but I think the current generation is already far more advanced in many ways than mine was.
Heather, I’ve never read any of Joanne Harris’ stuff. Where would you suggest I start?
Lady S, that bipolar book sounds really good. I know what you mean–it’s such a relief to find an “issue” book that doesn’t slam you over the head. And I love your point about how lovely it would be to discover Pride and Prejudice for the first time. But it still holds up with each new reading!
Becky, I see you’re still on your mega-reading kick. I love the idea of going all-out Arthurian! But how can anything really compare to T.H. White’s? Maybe I need to expand my horizons.
Shai, glad to see you’re still losing yourself in Pride and Prejudice. That really does insulate you from a lot of nasty stuff in real life.
Katie Sis, is An Earthly Knight about an Arthurian-like knight, or something else?
Lady T, how weird that you’re reading all these forced servitude books, and all dealing with different places and times. I like to read those–they build up a good sense of outrage, and remind me how fortunate I am to have my freedom (and how much work still needs to be done in those places where girls aren’t free. Like the Texas polygamist compound . . .)
Elizabeth, quite a list for one week! All of those sound like so much fun. Don’t you just love kids’ and YA lit? But I agree it’s also nice to feed the brain here and there with some non-fiction. Feels like a nice balance.
Jone, let me know what you think of A New Earth. That first chapter is a little theoretical (and a little slow), but after that it really picks up makes a lot of practical sense. IMO.
Patrick, did you read anything this week besides your mortgage contract? Like maybe some new appliance brochures?
Chocolat by Joanne Harris is one of my top favorite reads ever. (Much better than the movie. In the film the plot line is a bit different.)