Has anyone started reading The Condition?5=I love it!
4=I really like it.
3=I like it.
2=It's just okay.
1=I don't like it.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Sunday Survey
Has anyone started reading The Condition?5=I love it!
4=I really like it.
3=I like it.
2=It's just okay.
1=I don't like it.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Saturday Spotlight
Today's author is Lisa Scottoline.
1. She was born July 1, 1955 in Philadelphia.
2. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned her degree in English (with a concentration in the Contemporary American Novel).
3. She then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
4. She became a litigator but decided to stay at home after the birth of her daughter.
5. She started writing as a way to work from home; her first novel was entitled Everywhere That Mary Went.
6. She has since written 17 more books including a column collection; her latest novel, Think Twice, was released last month.
7. She writes a column called "Chick Wit" for The Philadelphia Inquirer; her column collection is called Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman.
Have you read any of her many books?
1. She was born July 1, 1955 in Philadelphia.
2. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned her degree in English (with a concentration in the Contemporary American Novel).
3. She then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
4. She became a litigator but decided to stay at home after the birth of her daughter.
5. She started writing as a way to work from home; her first novel was entitled Everywhere That Mary Went.
6. She has since written 17 more books including a column collection; her latest novel, Think Twice, was released last month.
7. She writes a column called "Chick Wit" for The Philadelphia Inquirer; her column collection is called Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman.
Have you read any of her many books?
Friday, April 2, 2010
Feature Fridays
Today's classic is Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce.
Ulysses takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of The Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and monotony. Nevertheless, the book is also an affectionately detailed study of the city. In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. Many consider it the best novel of the twentieth century. It is powerfully written, a book for the ages.
Read Ulysses online for free at Read Print.
It's a monster of a book (some editions have up to 1000 pages) written in 18 episodes. Daily Lit provides it in 332 email installments...that would take almost a year to read (but that may be the only way to get through it)! Daily Lit calls it a "black belt" for any reader.
Have you read Ulysses?
Ulysses takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of The Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and monotony. Nevertheless, the book is also an affectionately detailed study of the city. In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. Many consider it the best novel of the twentieth century. It is powerfully written, a book for the ages. Read Ulysses online for free at Read Print.
It's a monster of a book (some editions have up to 1000 pages) written in 18 episodes. Daily Lit provides it in 332 email installments...that would take almost a year to read (but that may be the only way to get through it)! Daily Lit calls it a "black belt" for any reader.
Have you read Ulysses?
Thursday, April 1, 2010
April Monthly Must-Read
The prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had throat cancer and was expected to die. Small, a prize-winning children’s author, re-creates a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim, subjected to X-rays by his radiologist father and scolded by his withholding and tormented mother, to his decision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist. Recalling Running with Scissors with its ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost, Stitches will transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision.
Stitches was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award.
Thoughts for Thursday
What book do you keep intending to read but still continue to put off?
I've been stuck on trying to start Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for awhile. It's on my 100 books list (my sixth book from that list) but I can't get around to reading it. I leave it out all the time but it's so thick that I keep putting it off. If only the book club had selected it...I would've had to read it!
I've been stuck on trying to start Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for awhile. It's on my 100 books list (my sixth book from that list) but I can't get around to reading it. I leave it out all the time but it's so thick that I keep putting it off. If only the book club had selected it...I would've had to read it!
