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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
| I’ve missed a few days of blogging due to a tv appearance (scary! but turned out okay) and my last author signing event. But, things should slow down a bit now, so look for more posts and some new features from Bibliobabe! |
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It’s Monday! What are you reading this week? is hosted at One Persons Journey Through a World of Books. Its is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.
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Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen.
A great read, similar in a lot of respects to Hatchet, although with a theme that is maybe a little dark for my Great Summer Reads series. Watch for my review! |
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The 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff.
Even though it’s a little late for Booking Through Thursday, I need to answer last week’s question (So … you’re halfway through a book and you’re hating it. It’s boring. It’s trite. It’s badly written. But … you’ve invested all this time to reading the first half. What do you do? Read the second half? Just to finish out the story? Find out what happens? Or, cut your losses and dump the second half?).
When I purchased The 19th Wife, I had no idea what it was about. This is a backlash on me – I NEVER read the back of a book. I don’t like to know too much about a book before I read it. I think that’s why I like award lists so much – it just takes a good recommendation and I will read any book.
I live in Utah and grew up here. I have been exposed my whole life to the unique culture, religion and history of the state on a daily basis. You know how you feel about turkey the fifth day in row you eat it as a leftover after Thanksgiving? That’s kind of how I feel about polygamy. It is such an important subject and one that definitely needs to be addressed, but locally (and even nationally at times), this story feels like too much turkey in a row for me. If I wasn’t from Utah, I think I would have found this a fascinating story and one I couldn’t put down -but as it was, I put it down after just one night of reading. It was a tiny bit hokey to me (again, I think only because I’m from here), with the made up name of the county, but the real county name (Kane) used as the last name of the jail officer, the lawyer’s last name (Heber) a VERY popular Mormon first name and also the name of a Utah town, the over-the-top descriptions of polygamy and backwardness of Mesadale. I think I am just to close to the subject to enjoy a fiction account of it. Does that make sense?
Again, I really do think the problems of polygamy need to be addressed and I also applaud Ebershoff for also introducing the theme of gays in religion (a big issue of course with most religions and one for which a member of the Mormon religion would be excommunicated). But, even after all of that, I had to move on. |
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Tinkers, by Paul Harding.
This is the current Pulitzer Prize winner and also Bibliobabe’s Free Fiction Giveaway for May. |
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon, by Sarah Allen Addison.
I have loved both of Addison’s previous books and am so excited to dive into this. These are perfect fun spring/summer reads with good writing, a little mysticism and nice endings. |
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
| It’s Monday! What are you reading this week? is hosted at One Persons Journey Through a World of Books. Its is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.
It’s Spring Break! I’m hoping to catch up on my reading this week. The Lacuna is an amazing and fascinating book and I’m happy to be reading something by Barbara Kingsolver again. She is one of my favorite authors – reading her books is like chatting with an old friend. Plainsong has been on my TBR pile for a long time – it will be good to give it try. I have read some great reviews of Haruf’s work, but this will be the first I’ve read.
What are you reading? Leave a comment with your current reads. |
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
It’s Monday! What are you reading this week? is hosted at One Persons Journey Through a World of Books. Its is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.
For the second time in a couple of weeks, I thought I had books I posted here to read, and then when I went to find each of them on my shelf, they weren’t there. I could picture buying them and putting them on my shelf. Weird! So, I am waiting for Plainsong, by Kent Haruf to come in from Paperbackswap. I will have to keep looking for Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley – it has got to be here somewhere!
I picked up A Beautiful Death, by Charles Finch on a whim – I am in the mood for a mystery and it was an Agatha Award Nominee. To celebrate Lacuna winning the second match in the Tournament of Books, I am going to read it as well. I finished Little Bee last week (my review is below) as well as The God of Animals (LOVED IT! – watch for a review this week).
What are you reading? Leave a comment with your current reads.
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| Books Completed this Past Week: |
| Little Bee, by Chris Cleave |
| The God of Animals, by Aryn Kyle |
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| A Beautiful Death, by Charles Finch |
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| Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver |
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