Mama bookworms, what are you reading?
Have not seen this thread in a long time so I was wondering what is everyone reading?
I just finished Lisa See's "Peony in Love" and it was fascinating. I'm really into historical fiction right now and this book was amazing because it was a great historical story but with an fictional author's stylistic touch. Really interesting about the female experience in early chinese history, especially that of female writers.
I am now halfway into Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake", I am enjoying it because I love her style but I'm not head over heels...yet.
Reading Pippi Longstocking to the girls at night and no matter how many times I read that book, I love it more and more.
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i have recently figured out how to steal time to read! i'm working on, "The Glass Castle," by Jeannette Walls. I fell in love with it on the first paragraph.
I have a signed copy of, "Oryx and Crake," and then another one to read. Let me know if its worth the read. I am looking to thin down our book collection. When I do, I'll let you mamas know what I want to get rid of. If ya'll pay for shipping I'll give em' to you free!
"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
- Laura Stavoe Harm
I just finished "Water For Elephants" and I loved it!
"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?"
You would probably love Wild Swans.
I just finished House of Leaves, which was awesome and started Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, which I am also loving!
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki
'maynard and jennica' by rudolph delson. it was pretty good-- not AMAZING or anything, but well told. it was written from alternating points of view of like 30 characters, something i've never seen done before but that worked well for this story. i got an autographed copy at the harvard bookstore last winter and just started it a few weeks ago!!
pippi longstocking was my favorite book in the world when i was a kid. i found a gorgeous hardcover copy illustrated by lauren child, the creator of 'charlie and lola', which i gave to monkeygirl last christmas and then promptly took away from her before she could trash it. i'll keep it safe for her until she's old enough to appreciate it! i can't wait until we can read it together...
for her birthday this year. Such great illustrations for such a great book.
My book club is reading 1,000 White Women by Jim Fergus this month. I haven't started it yet. It's historical fiction which i like. I'll let you know my thoughts about it when i'm done with it.
I recently finished peony in love (pretty good), botany of desire (very interesting)and so young brave and handsome (I liked it a lot) and I am now trying to wade through don quixote (the edith grossman translation, so I'm pretty excited)
"In the Woods" was her debut novel last year- loved it. Just finished the follow-up, "The Likeness" and I'm having that reaction after you are done with quality fiction sometimes....everything else reads like crap! She writes police mysteries set in Dublin but really the novels are much more psychological studies. Love them!
I read In the Woods on vacation this year and loved it! I went right out and bought The Likeness, I couldn't wait for it to come out in paperback. I really enjoy her writing. Every time I try to tell people about it...I end up making her stories sound really cliched-- but they aren't at all! I agree, more like psychological studies.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
You want to do what you think is right and what matters to you, and if other people don't like it, as my father would have said, they can go fuck themselves. -- Amy Bloom
I just finished reading David Suzuki's The Sacred Balance, and am now reading John Robbins' A Diet For New America.
Oryx and Crake is one of my favorite books ever 
~Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble.~
~Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble.~
and I'm bringing 'the power of one' and 'the pillars of the earth', both of which I hear are excellent. I also have the 'samurai's garden'...I'm hoping one will really hook me.
by Jon Krakauer (after seeing the movie, I had to read it). Now I'm starting "Under the Banner of Heaven" by the same author. So far it's really interesting...it's about the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, and about the ways faith drives people to do extreme and sometimes horrible things.
"Too weird to live. Too rare to die." - Hunter S. Thompson
He's such a great author. Oh, and from Oregon. haha.
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. Interesting. More of a novel of the interior lives of a number of people, with the focus being a couple of sisters from Australia who emigrate to England. Stuff happens on the outside, yes, but it's more meditative than action-driven.
I really love Shirley Hazzard. I think I've mentioned this before! Her writing is beautiful- lyrical, kind of old-fashioned, very well crafted. You can feel the weight of her intellect (in a good way- I don't think it's ponderous). I learn new words! 
Let's see... I just finished The Fourth Bear and The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (sp?) and loved them both--funny, skewed stuff. I'm midway through The Greenlanders (is this the correct title?I could be wrong...) by Jane Smiley and it's epic and long and interesting and touching in parts but drags like a sob in parts too. I've invested 400 pages so I might as well finish. I also just finished a chick lit book called Speechless which was formulaic but laugh out loud funny at times and set in Ontario which I found refreshing. What else...I finally, after around half a year, finished Lost by Gregory maguire. It's a bit sloggy but revs up in the second half and was ultimately worth the read.
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