35 posts tagged “books”
This is the last book that I read for the 48 hour Book Challenge. I finished a scoche past 9pm CET. I went to sign in for the Finish Line, but I couldn't find that post, so here I am.
I think I ended up reading for about 16 hours. I enjoyed eleven books, some of which had been waiting for me for three years.
I think I will set aside another weekend (after the papers, after the deep cleaning of the apt) to read more. :)
I haven't read much by Bruchac, and this one was quite creepy, but I loved Molly and the interweaving of Mohawk lore. Yeah, it went pretty quick.
This has been on the "to be read" shelves for a while. Just a quick, not quite a mystery but cute story about adjustment to a new life. KayKay (this nickname drove me nuts and wanted me to smack someone) is the oldest daughter of the first female president. She wants to be a mystery writer, is lousy at math, but good in the kitchen and has a strong personality. Nice way to breeze through 45 minutes or so.
Just spent an hour and a half reading Haunting at Home Plate by Patneaude and Who's Got Spirit?, part of the How I Survived Middle School? series by Nancy Krulik.
One is baseball, the other peer pressure. I thought the Patneaude was better and had a much more open-ended ending than I expected. Middle School was somewhat formulaic and fluffy, but hey, who doesn't like a little fluff? The quizzes were cute and the story nice. I wouldn't want stuff like this to be the only thing a pre-teen girl reads, but it sure beats the Weather Fairies, etc...
I took a 30 minute stroll around the blogosphere and then picked up Summer Ball by Mike Lupica. Basketball is probably my least favorite sport, but I do like sports books, so I was happy to toddle through this one. It was a delightful 80 minutes that brought me past the three am mark at which point, I went to sleep.
Now, it's almost eleven am and I have to start writing. Otherwise, I will be very sad come the 12th when I have nothing to hand in.
total reading time 12h50minutes. I am already really looking forward to next year when I will have more time to read.
by Katherine Neville. This is one of the books that I ordered from amazon a few weeks ago. I had received the ARC of The Fire sometime before Christmas, but hadn't wanted to read it without having first read The Eight. It was excellent! Though some of the twists I had figured out long before the end, I was totally engrossed.
It is now 10:30, so I have been reading for five and a half hours. I started the Hunger Games while waiting, plus earlier today, I spent half an hour or so catching up on motherreader and others.
but that's nothin' considerin' what happened to Lottie's whole house. This is one of those books that has sat, and sat and sat on my "to be read" shelves. Quick, sweet read. Oh, the angst of adolescence. And of course, I cried at the end. But I really liked it, it's Haworth's first novel and it's a treat. She makes you feel like you know small town Florida. And after Tangerine by Bloor, you already know that there are lots of lightning strikes in Florida. Wow, can you tell it's almost midnight and therefore my iq has sunk with the time? Perhaps I ought to just go to bed, but first, I'll see what else is in the bag!
My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath. It's actually an ARC, which is good because I noticed a typo and I hope they fixed it.
I have a mixed opinion of Horvath. I am using the Pepins and Their Problems for a paper that I am writing and I really can't stand that book. But, Trolls, I found distressing/disturbing in a way that makes me like Horvath very much. It's not often that stories can make me FEEL uncomfortable, most things I read might tug at my heartstrings, make me cry, or thrill, but uncomfortable, disconcerted? That takes knack.
Anyways, My One Hundred Adventures was wonderful. I did feel so sorry for Ginny at the end, but hello, if you read my blog, you know I'm pretty psyched for Sasketchewan.
So, 2h15min gone in my 48.
Second in the Book of Time series by Guillaume Prevost. Originally written in French. The series takes place in Canada and then in various time periods around the world. I really like that the adults are more flawed than the adolescents which is a far more accurate reflection of reality than perpetuating the myth that one eventually gets it together when one is an adult.
I read Watership Down. I really, really, really don't like animal protagonists in stories and it seems like almost everything on this term's reading list was an animal story. I guess partly because they don't date themselves quite as much as people stories, but still, ugh.
SO, this meant that I had to read all those books that I had studiously avoided for years and years and years. I have read Watership Down and I have read Wind in the Willows. And I enjoyed them. I didn't think that I would dislike them, it's just that when there are so many thousands of books out there to read and I have a finite life span, animal stories are not where I want to put my time. I will most likely have to go back and re-read them to make sure I got everything. Watership Down, I read over the span of a few days; Wind in the Willows took about a month.
I have three short papers to write for class this weekend. I had so meant to have two of them done before I left for Morocco, but that didn't happen. One is mostly written in my head, the other two will take a bit more time. And then it's time for the big whopping paper for the end of the year.
