Book Update
After the flurry of activity 50books brought to my journal last year, I feel like I've kind of let my journal languish lately. I've been meaning to post a minor book update for a while, but just haven't gotten around to it, I guess. I haven't really been able to update about books lately anyway because I've only read three books since the last time I posted, although I'm in the middle of my fourth one now. Most of November and December found me completely unenthusiastic about reading, and I'm just now slowly getting back into the habit. I think I checked out a questionable group of books from the library, and then racked up enormous fines thinking I was going to read them, so now I'm reluctant to go back and face the $20-30 of fines awaiting me.
Hannah, however, saved the day, by sneding me books for Christmas -- Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and ... something related to Jane Eyre, the title of which escapes me at the moment, but which I am equally excited to read. I also got a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble from my work secret Santa, so once I finish Hannah's books, I can avoid the library even longer by buying some things at B&N.
In the meantime, reviews of the three books I've read since October. I'll also add three reviews to the master list of 08-09 books found here
9. The Last River, Todd Balf. How am I not a world-class rafter? More mentally stable than these guys.
10. Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses, Isabel Allende. Exploration of relationship between food and erotica. Exciting right? Not.
11. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving. Irving's regionalism makes me grumpy, where Southern Lit. writers' doesn't. But I still inhale his books with love.
Hannah, however, saved the day, by sneding me books for Christmas -- Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and ... something related to Jane Eyre, the title of which escapes me at the moment, but which I am equally excited to read. I also got a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble from my work secret Santa, so once I finish Hannah's books, I can avoid the library even longer by buying some things at B&N.
In the meantime, reviews of the three books I've read since October. I'll also add three reviews to the master list of 08-09 books found here
9. The Last River, Todd Balf. How am I not a world-class rafter? More mentally stable than these guys.
10. Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses, Isabel Allende. Exploration of relationship between food and erotica. Exciting right? Not.
11. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving. Irving's regionalism makes me grumpy, where Southern Lit. writers' doesn't. But I still inhale his books with love.