I cannot hold out any longer! I know I was going to do the rereading thing, and not get any new books out of the library, but I cannot maintain in the face of everyone on my blogroll going on and on about the thousands of amazing spooky books they are thinking of reading, and [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Okay okay okay okay
Posted in Misc., tagged rip iv challenge on August 28, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass, Nathan Irvin Huggins & Oscar Handlin
Posted in 3 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged biography, frederick douglass, harriet tubman, Julian of Norwich, nathan irvin huggins, nonfiction, oscar handlin, people I truly admire, slave and citizen on August 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Frederick Douglass is my hero. Him and Julian of Norwich – an unlikely pair, and I am not really sure what they would make of each other, but there you go. I have been saying for ages that we should put Frederick Douglass on our money. And bump Jackson. Jackson is the obvious choice to [...]
84 Charing Cross Road & The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, Reread, tagged 84 charing cross road, diaries, duchess of bloomsbury street, England, Helene Hanff, letters, london on August 22, 2009 | 12 Comments »
My sister has this magical ability to get people to do things for her. It is amazing. Everyone in my family does stuff for her even when we have just said, “No! Lazy! Do it yourself! My God you are so lazy!” Like, we’ll both be at my parents’ house, and I’ll be curled up [...]
And speaking of lovely,
Posted in Misc. on August 21, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Care of Care’s Online Book Club, who always makes me smile, has made a bold claim:
She claims that she would brave a pack of raving zombie chickens in order to read my blog. This is a very nice thing to say because chickens are already really yucky and stupid, even without a craving for tasty [...]
Wonderful Sphinx
Posted in Misc., tagged Ada Leverson, letters, oscar wilde on August 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The other day I was reading through my blogroll, and the double-barrelled Elaine Simpson-Long – who reads L.M. Montgomery’s journals and so shall I soon, I dearly hope, and who lives in Colchester, my old Colchester, darling Colchester! – had received a cute pink copy of one of Ada Leverson’s books. From Bloomsbury which apparently [...]
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Posted in 5 Stars, Heard about from a person, Reread, tagged audrey niffenegger, fantastic protagonists, present tense, superb endings, the time traveler's wife, why you should always read the end on August 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I recently reread this book, and I was planning to wait on writing about it until I could see the movie, but the people I see movies with are either like “Are you nuts? I saw it the first instant it came out!” or else “I can’t watch it! The book is too precious to [...]
Sex and the Soul, Donna Freitas
Posted in 3 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged Donne Freitas, feminism (and not), religion, Sex and the Soul on August 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I recently read Mark Regnerus’s Forbidden Fruit, and found it unsatisfyingly lacking in good stories; I have had the opposite problem with Donna Freitas’s Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America’s College Campuses. Like Regnerus, Freitas is interested in exploring the intersection of religion/spirituality and sex in America’s youth, though [...]
