Book List 2008: January - May

[barlow_girl]

Yes, it's almost halfway through the year and I'm just now posting what I've been reading. So sue me. :D Maybe I'll even get up the oomph to write a real post after this one.

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett: A classic, and one it's amazing I never read, considering my voracious reading as a child and while working in the Children's

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[scillymonster]

Good stuff.
I love Annie Dillard too - in fact I just read 'An American Childhood' in the last couple months. And right now I'm working on 'The Living', with 'The Maytrees' in waiting.
And if you have any interest - I'm also reading 'Emma' and have 'Pride & Prejudice' in waiting. Because after watching 'The Jane Austen Book Club' it's time to reread some Jane Austen.:)
It was fun to read about what you've read so far this year.

[barlow_girl]

Yes! I ♥ Annie Dillard so much. It's like a man-crush except I'm a woman.

I have Sense & Sensibility left; I think that's the only one I haven't read. :o[ If you haven't watched the A&E version of Pride & Prejudice, it's SOOO good! I bet you could check it out from the library.

[velouria73]

there's actually a "Getting Things Done" email discussion group at work - people here are such workaholics they probably need it! I have a friend who LOVES it and it has apparently changed his life but I have yet to check it out myself.

[barlow_girl]

Oh, I bet the MSFT people are nuts about it! Like any system, you can take it too far. The key is finding the pieces that work and adapting them to your life - I just haven't finished yet. :o]

[josparke]

LMAO at your Obama review ;)

[barlow_girl]

Ha. Just my take on things. :o]

[overcast]

Amy!

LOVE the Secret Garden. One of my favorite kids' books. Having read it as a kid, though, I remember being confused about why she was living in India. I think I'll explain that stuff when it's time to read it to my kids.

Also love Jane Austen! It's hard to have favorites, but I do particularly like Persuasion and Mansfield Park. Maybe because the heroines aren't so obviously heroic. :)

[barlow_girl]

Yes, to all of that. :o]

[barlow_girl]

PS - the MacDonald book I listed above is also technically a kids' book, the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin. Both would make awesome read-aloud books (when your kids can do a chapter a night or whatever - they're not short).

♥

[overcast]

I think I have The Princess and the Goblin!

Right now, we're reading the Wizard of Oz. It's kind of rough going, though, because I don't really like reading out loud. :p

Yay, the Book List is back!

[laines_list]

Since Masterpiece did their series this Spring I can't get enough of Jane Austen. Persuasion was not my favorite but I'll give the book a try.

I was wavering on Red Tent at the library. The cover is just so pretty.

I'm bad about not finishing books. I have an "unfinished" category on Goodreads. Sad.

I scavenged Obama's Dreams from My Father from my sister's discard pile. I'd like to read it before November but it's around number 12 on my list of to-reads so it's not looking hopeful.

Secret Garden scared the bananas out of me when I was 9 but I stuck with it and loved it. Now it scares the bananas out of my 9-year old and I can't get her to try again. Maybe later.

Re: Yay, the Book List is back!

[barlow_girl]

Hmm, since I really only encountered it as an adult, I guess I'm not sure why it would be scary - mean grandpa, suspenseful scary, maybe? I loved it.

Lately I have decided that life is too short to read books I hate. So that's why May had basically one book in it. The other time was spent reading the first 200 pages of a 700-page monster a friend recommended. Then I realized 200 was a fair shot, and if it hadn't grabbed me by then, it wasn't worth it. So there.

Other than things like that, I HATE not finishing books, or even being in the middle of more than one at a time. Quirk # 287.

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[laines_list]

The middle-of-the-night howling/crying was verrry creeepy.

I've become sadly resigned to not finishing books, as well as to skimming through books to prepare for a class, which is another category of reading altogether. I feel very accomplished and indulgent when I read something cover-to-cover, which is why I look forward to summers so much now.

Re: Yay, the Book List is back!

[barlow_girl]

Oh, right, that. Yeah, that would've freaked me out as a kid.

I can imagine school brings a totally different take on reading. Summer fun books! :D