Not to brag or anything, but I've been reading a lot of good books lately. A lot. In order to memorialize everything - I thought I'd make a list of what I've read so far this year with my starred reviews (best of 4):The Time Traveler's Wife (I don't need to remind everyone of this -****)
These Is My Words - ***1/2
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society - **1/2
The Help - ****
The Reader - *
Revolutionary Road - *
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay *
From Good to Great **1/2
Hunger Games - ****
Catching Fire - ****
Eat-Pray-Love - **** (cliche but I loved it)
some random Mary Higgins Clark book - * (brain candy of predictability-ness).
I'm open for suggestions . . . please please please . . . .
If you're still reading - this weekend Rosscat and I went to the ward luau - where Hawaiian attire was encouraged. Of the 20 people there - we were really the only ones dressed up - as Hawaiian tourists. I must say we looked awesome albeit extremely out of place. Rosscat told me to own it - I tried . . . but we all know that I don't have a poker face (see german chocolate cake picture if you need a visual).
It was as if we had on the bad luck tiki-tiki from that famous Brady Bunch episode (you know, where Greg almost drowns surfing, Alice throws her back out, the spider almost bites somebody etc.) - I half expected Vincent Price to show up at the cultural hall.
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Uh, Kitty, you can't tell a story like that and not post a pic of your touristy costumes. Those duds at the party were probably so embarassed that they weren't decked out in cool costumes that they are already plotting what to be for the ward Halloween party. You really need to liven that group up. You're goal should be to earn the rep of being a party ward. Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner!!
Also, I think you should start memorializing the books you read the way we did in grade school. Every time we read a book we got out a piece of construction paper and cut it into a circle with a couple of legs on it. We wrote the title with a short synopsis on it and taped them to the classroom wall in a curvy line so that each book report a caterpillar segment. The caterpillar wrapped around and around the room. I didn't make a lot of contributions to it myself. Not because I had a fear of large segmented insects. I just didn't like to read when I was a kid. (Shhh....don't tell Carrie...this revelation could send her over the edge.) I like to read now. I could even send you some segments to add to your caterpillar. This would also solve the problem of what to hang on your walls.
I don't have time to make a caterpillar thing - I am too busy cleaning up the dvr, painting/ruining a perfectly good rug, baking flat bread, and bossing Rosscat around. My schedule is f-u-l-l.
Well boss Ross to do it then. One way or another it needs to get done.
Well if you liked Hunger Games and Catching Fire you might like The Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. I read it two weeks ago, and I enjoyed it. There is also a prequel to it, Fire, that has been waiting patiently for me on hold at the library. Perhaps you would like to come watch my children so I can go to the library in peace and scout out the next great American novel from it's shelves.
I loved Help. I was totally riveted to Hunger Games & Catching fire, too....can't wait for the finale due out this...August? I think I will re-read the whole series in prep.
Right now I am reading 'THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS' by Rebecca Skloot. I totally dig it, though I'm only on page 84....so don't know what good my report is, as it is a tad premature to give it the total thumbs up. It is non-fiction, but reads like fiction.
'The Historian' by Elisabeth Kostovo? 'The Book Thief' (Markus Zusak)? 'The Zookeeper's Wife' (Diane Ackerman)?
Have you read 'The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo' and 'The Girl who Played with Fire' (Steig Larsson)? Those are next in my pile...I think the third book in that series is due out later this month?
Not enough hours in the day...
Todd has sort of gotten me into the non-fiction world. Ever read "John Adams" by David McCullough?
OK, I gotta run....gotta get back to Henrietta Lacks!
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