Books, books, books
Just finished reading "To Kill a Mockingbird." I hadn't read it since high school and only had vague memories of it. But I loved and adored it. So much. Jem and Scout and Atticus. They're all such great, amazing characters. Guh.
But it brings back that, 'what do I do with the rest of my life now that I've read that book' feeling that good books always bring. And my book club goes on hiatus for November and December because of the holidays, so I'm at my reading leisure.
So far I've read "Her Fearful Symmetry," which kept me reading the whole time, but I didn't love nearly as much as "The Time Traveler's Wife." There was one character that, when she was writing about him, it had the same loveliness as the Time Traveler did, but overall the book didn't grab me like that one.
(Oh, but there was this from Symmetry, that I liked enough to stop and write down:
"What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.")
And now I've reread Mocking Bird. I've got "The Earth Hums in B Flat" sitting here waiting for me, but after that I'll need a trip to the book store. So tell me if you have suggestions. I saw when I was reading "The Hour I First Believed" (which, if I haven't already said, was very good; not as good as "I Know This Much is True," but better than "She's Come Undone") that Wally Lamb was going to have a Christmas book out this year. And I think Mary Kay Anderson put one out last year that I never read.
So that's a couple for my list. I don't remember having specifically Christmas-y books to read before, so that will be nice. But that won't be enough, I think, so please let me know if you've read something good recently.
But it brings back that, 'what do I do with the rest of my life now that I've read that book' feeling that good books always bring. And my book club goes on hiatus for November and December because of the holidays, so I'm at my reading leisure.
So far I've read "Her Fearful Symmetry," which kept me reading the whole time, but I didn't love nearly as much as "The Time Traveler's Wife." There was one character that, when she was writing about him, it had the same loveliness as the Time Traveler did, but overall the book didn't grab me like that one.
(Oh, but there was this from Symmetry, that I liked enough to stop and write down:
"What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.")
And now I've reread Mocking Bird. I've got "The Earth Hums in B Flat" sitting here waiting for me, but after that I'll need a trip to the book store. So tell me if you have suggestions. I saw when I was reading "The Hour I First Believed" (which, if I haven't already said, was very good; not as good as "I Know This Much is True," but better than "She's Come Undone") that Wally Lamb was going to have a Christmas book out this year. And I think Mary Kay Anderson put one out last year that I never read.
So that's a couple for my list. I don't remember having specifically Christmas-y books to read before, so that will be nice. But that won't be enough, I think, so please let me know if you've read something good recently.