YoursSINSerely
Still East of the River
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I'm reading Jack & Jill and its taking me forever. Its my beach book and I'm so easily distracted.
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The Dragons of Pern by Anne McCafferey
A very pleasant, light, read by a skilled story-teller.
The Death of Ivan Illych and Other Stories by ol' Tolstoy. I got a literature degree and purposely avoided Tolstoy and now here I am reading it. But only because my hot John-Mayer-look-alike neighbor gave it to me and said he wants to "discuss it with me" when I'm done. My neighbor is thinking about becoming a priest...anyone see fantasy material here?
P.S. Tolstoy is too damn preachy. He can go wag his literary beard in hell, as far as I'm concerned.
Then read WAR & PEACE instead.
I am reading A MILLION LITTLE PIECES by James Frey. It is an autobiographical saga of his time in rehab. I had stumbled onto the sequal MY FRIEND LEONARD a few months ago and loved it. These books are raw emotion as he remembers his experience. I love this authors grit and honesty. Both are "Must reads" if you havent checked them out yet.
I'm still plodding through Elizabeth George's What He Did Before He Shot Her, and I'll be glad as hell when the torment is over. Thoroughly depressing.
"Truth" by an Australian author and I can only understand about half of what he says. A dense crime novel that is mostly dialog, but I shall persevere and then read a sparse Robert Parker for dessert.
pilot, why keep reading it then? I don't think I would care to read something like that. I don't necessarily need rainbows and butterflies, and an ending where they ride into the sunset and live happily ever after... but I doubt I would finish something so depressing. is it something you have to keep reading?
Why, because my wife and I keep lists, and you aren't able to claim a book read unless you finish it, of course. And she's already ahead of me this year. Of couse.
(Oh, and besides that, my wife read it--all--and it's on her list, and she smugly said I probably wouldn't be able to get through it.)
I think I like your wife.