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Booking through Thursday: Foreign
Booking through Thursday asks: What is a book from a country outside your own that you love? One of my favorite books is the autobiography of Emilie Carles, called A Life of Her Own. A professor of mine assigned it … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: Rewrite
Booking through Thursday (via Joy) asks: If you could rewrite the ending of any book, which book would it be? And how would you change it?John Grisham’s The Appeal is notable for its disheartening ending. The novel’s subject is political corruption: … Continue reading
Top Ten Favorite Authors
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is about authors, and I’ve listed my favorites below in count-down order — not that this order is absolute. Honorable mentions: Richard Dawkins, Steven Saylor. 10. John Grisham (fiction, notably legal thrillers set in the American Southeast) Grisham has a … Continue reading
Top Ten Favorite Quotations
I forgot to post this last week, and decided to post it today instead of “Top Ten Favorite Book Couples“, which I can’t do as I don’t know that many book couples. I drew from the books I’ve read since … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: Current
Booking through Thursday asks: What are you reading right now? What made you choose it? Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? (And, by all means, discuss everything, if you’re reading more than one thing!)I checked out The Life of … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: Day and Night
Booking through Thursday asks: Do you divide your books into day and night reads? How do you decide?Although I don’t think of books in terms of “day” and “night” readings, I distinguish between books I can read in public, or … Continue reading
Top Ten Books I’m Dying to Read
A few weeks ago I found a blog that does a weekly activity called “Top Ten Tuesdays”, but I haven’t yet managed to participate: I’m still working on “Top Ten Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read”, and….well, it’s been … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: Giving
Booking through Thursday asks: If you’re not enjoying a book, will you stop mid-way? Or do you push through to the end? What makes you decide to stop? It’s rare that I find a book I don’t enjoy, because I tend … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: Reading Questions
From Booking Through Thursday: 1. Favorite childhood book?The Pigman, Paul Zindel. I probably should not have read it as a kid, but I did. The book is the story of two misfit teenagers who befriend a lonely old man and … Continue reading
Booking through Thursday: Evolution
Booking through Thursday asks: Have your reading choices changed over the years? Or pretty much stayed the same? (And yes, from childhood to adulthood we usually read different things, but some people stick to basically the same kind of book … Continue reading