After a week of not posting, I’m diving back in with my thoughts on the first half of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. My brain just might explode from the effort. So Care and Melissa organized a readalong of Cloud Atlas, … Continue reading
Saturday Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages ******************** A long time ago (that’s softdrink-speak for I know I read it but damned if I can remember when) I read Atonement. And I didn’t like it (not that I could tell you … Continue reading
In Travels With Charley (which was a darn good book), Steinbeck mentions the WPA Guides, a series of guidebooks about the United States written during the Depression. Since he was pretty enamored of them, I was curious as to what … Continue reading
I have a little confession…I have NO (none, zero, zip, nada, zilch) interest in reading Shakespeare anymore. I have read a few of his plays… back in my high school days. You know, when I had to. There was Romeo … Continue reading
Come In and Cover Me Gin Phillips 2012 342 pages Ren sees dead people (remember that movie?). I know, this sounds like potentially a very bad set up (at least in my experience), but Phillips totally pulls it off. I … Continue reading
Persuasion Jane Austen First published a long time ago 272 pages in my Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition ******************** Some random things: 1. I read this for A Classic’s Challenge (except I didn’t do any of the challenge posts this month). Originally, … Continue reading
Wild Thing Josh Bazell narrated by Robert Petkoff and Stephanie Wolfe 8 hours 46 minutes Wild thing…you make my heart sing… You make everything Groovy I said wild thing… Just like the song it’s named (titled?) for, this book makes … Continue reading
Last week I finished The Mother Tongue, which is an awesome book about the English language that I really have no idea how to discuss because (in typical Bill Bryson fashion) it’s filled with all sorts of interesting little things … Continue reading
I’m reading Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (one of the inhabitants of the Shelf of Doom) and all I can think is “What the heck was this guy smoking???” Oh, wait…not true. I’m also thinking “How soon … Continue reading
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 1961 246 pages ******************** I saw a post on this book a few weeks ago over at JoAnn’s blog (Lakeside Musing), and it reminded me that 1) I actually like John Steinbeck, so 2) I … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
