What do you know? Life sends such unexpected blessings (and this review contains lots of spoilers). I reread The Hobbit for the first time since I was small, and didn’t want to stab anybody in the eyes. Except for the dwarves in the beginning; and then Gandalf throughout because, frankly, who made him the king [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Review: The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, Reread, tagged for young people, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Readlong, The Hobbit on January 31, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Reviews: Heaven and The First Part Last, Angela Johnson
Posted in 2 Stars, 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, Heard about from the internets, tagged adoption, Angela Johnson, for young people, Heaven, Issue books, teen pregnancy, The First Part Last on January 30, 2010 | 21 Comments »
I am having an absolute orgy of reading today. So far today I have read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Committed, the book of this website, Peter and Max (well, I finished Peter and Max, I didn’t start it today), The First Part Last, and The Pinhoe Egg. IT IS AMAZING. I started around nine-forty this morning, and [...]
Review: Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes, Daniel Everett
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep There Are Snakes, nonfiction on January 29, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Recommended by Annie the Superfast Reader. Don’t Sleep There are Snakes chronicles missionary/anthropologist Daniel Everett’s time with the Pirahã tribe in Brazil. As a young linguist, Everett moved to Brazil with his family to learn the Pirahã language and translate the Bible into Pirahã, thus to spread the Good News of the Lord. In learning the language [...]
Review: The Moonflower Vine, Jetta Carleton
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged fiction, Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine on January 22, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Tara read this book late last year, and she said she was shocked by the turns the book took, which, y’all, if you are ever trying to convince me to read a book? Shocked is a good adjective to use. Family saga will get you nowhere. I cannot at present think of any family sagas [...]
Half(ish)way through The Hobbit
Posted in Misc., tagged Lord of the Rings Readalong on January 20, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Eva wants to know how we are all faring with The Hobbit, and I must say I am enjoying it a moderate amount, which is a moderate amount more than I was expecting to enjoy it. At the start of chapter 9, these are my thoughts: 1. When I started out, my reaction was exactly [...]
Review: The Group, Mary McCarthy
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged feminism (and not), Mary McCarthy, The Group, Women Unbound Challenge on January 14, 2010 | 39 Comments »
Verdict: Upsetting. I’d never heard of The Group before Claire of Paperback Reader posted about it on her blog earlier this year, but I was immediately intrigued by her description of it (and not just because the phrase seminal feminist text is delightfully absurd). The Group follows a group of eight 1933 Vassar graduates, with [...]
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