Mothering Sunday is the first Streatfeild book I’ve read that was written for adults – unless you count On Tour, which I guess you maybe could since it talks (albeit obliquely) about Victoria’s shocking flirty behavior. In Mothering Sunday, Anna, the mother of five grown-up children, has started acting strangely. She refuses to allow her [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
Posted in 4 Stars, tagged for young people, Neil Gaiman, Norse mythology, Odd and the Frost Giants on September 29, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Imagine my surprise when I discovered this at the bookshop! The American bookshop because the book is here in America now! Who knew? It’s thrilling! Odd and the Frost Giants is about a boy called Odd who has bad luck. His father has drowned, and his stepfather doesn’t much care for him, and an accident [...]
Ballerina, Edward Stewart
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged trashy, ballet, Edward Stewart, Ballerina on September 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Many thanks to Schatzi for the recommendation; I enjoyed it so much. Ballerina is about these two girls, Christine and Stephanie, who are dancers in the same ballet school; upon graduation, they wind up in separate ballet companies but remain quite close. Stephanie has a crazy stage mother who ditched ballet For a Man, and [...]
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Josh Neufeld
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets, Picked up randomly, tagged A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, graphic novels, Hurricane Katrina, Josh Neufeld, nonfiction on September 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A.D. is a graphic novel about seven people from New Orleans. The author interviewed these people extensively, visited New Orleans, took pictures, and then created this book. It tells the stories of people who left and people who stayed, wealthyish people and poorish people, black people and white people.
I liked reading this book, because it [...]
I am a fail book blogger
Posted in Misc., tagged Let the Right One In, vampires on September 21, 2009 | 30 Comments »
I realized yesterday that I hadn’t read any of my other books for the RIP IV Challenge, and they all came due today, and I had to renew them by an unnecessarily complicated process because the library is also being fail lately. Anyway so I grabbed Let The Right One In (why is it called [...]
Y’all, I appreciate you
Posted in Misc. on September 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
And today, in light of its being the massive book blog love-fest week, and today being the day where we all say thanks for particular books, here are some that I’d never have read if it weren’t for various people (see below):
Thanks to an adventure in reading for Douglas Coupland – particularly Eleanor Rigby.
And to [...]
eReaders
Posted in Misc. on September 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So I’ve never had an eReader, but they sound fantastic. I mean you can put dozens of books up on those things and stick ‘em in your purse, and there you go, you have a whole bunch of books. That would make packing for long trips GLORIOUSLY EASY. Instead of hurling me into an agony [...]
Several books at once
Posted in Misc., tagged art, for young people, Gerald Morris, Griffin and Sabine, King Arthur, letters, Nick Bantock, Sabine's Notebook, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Golden Mean, The Squire His Knight & His Lady, The Squire's Tale, TVTropes.org on September 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Ack, I am so behind on reviews. I am working on a project that requires a lot of attention (fortunately I can work on it while still watching classic Doctor Who), which is the excuse I’m using for my negligence. Feel free to be distracted from this by a picture of my beautiful hat:
Gerald Morris’s [...]
Gig, eds. John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter
Posted in 5 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged David Tennant, gig, John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, nonfiction, Sabin Streeter on September 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Bible just got bumped off my five desert island books list. Sorry, Bible! It’s just that you have all that stuff about begatting and oysters, and none of my other desert island books take long breaks from being awesome to talk about stoning your disobedient sons! And you know I can’t do without Shakespeare, [...]
