Since my last posting, I completed three of the books I was in the midst of: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Great Lion of God, and The First Part Last. All, excellent books with varying levels of difficulty, topics, etc. I was asked, "how can you read several books at one time?" But with each one being so different from the other, I didn't have a problem. I also watched the film of The Two Towers, so now I can begin reading The Return of the King. However, this will NOT be Book 21 (Official).
Book 21 will be (drum roll, please)...Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Set in post-9/11 NYC, this award-winning novel is hailed as "an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11" (quote from the Boston Sunday Globe). I've only read the first paragraph...but I can tell I'm going to enjoy this writer very much. The narrator opens the novel talking about making his "anus talk"...and in French, no less. I am guessing that the narrator is also the 9 year-old protagonist...and I love the idea of a smart and witty 9 year-old hero. Now, onto more reading...I'll keep you posted!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
2011 Update
2010 went out with several bangs that felt like gunshots straight into my heart and head. October was opaque. November was numb. December was devastating.
But I kept reading. The Hunger Games series is out of this world from cover to cover, beginning to end. Like I said, read it now. I cannot even recall every book I've read since my last post, but I'm going to try to hit the highlights.
Did I mention I'm re-reading the J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? I'm in the midst of The Two Towers at the moment. While I'm a big fan of the series and the films, I have only read the novels themselves once in college, thanks to a former-boyfriend/self-proclaimed "Tolkienologist". Something good can come from every relationship.
I also began reading Taylor Caldwell's Great Lion of God. This is a fictional work chronicling the life of Saul of Tarshish - the Apostle Paul of The Bible. It's a favorite of my husband's and I had not really given it my full attention the first time I attempted to read it. This time, however, I got into it and am really loving it! Very near to the end now. Caldwell takes some liberties with Saul/Paul's personal life, but brings some real depth to the man we really only know from his biblical writings. A fascinating novel.
I picked up two more YA novels yesterday - The First Part Last (Angela Johnson) and The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart). Why YA? Besides the fact that I've read many wonderful novels under this classification - YA NOVELS ARE CHEAPER. I've also got a large stack of new acquisitions waiting on the shelf and more LOTR left to read. My bookshelves are teeming nearly as much as my DVD collection.
Here's to 2011 - the year that I read more, knit more, exercise more, love more...and hopefully STRESS less!
But I kept reading. The Hunger Games series is out of this world from cover to cover, beginning to end. Like I said, read it now. I cannot even recall every book I've read since my last post, but I'm going to try to hit the highlights.
Did I mention I'm re-reading the J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? I'm in the midst of The Two Towers at the moment. While I'm a big fan of the series and the films, I have only read the novels themselves once in college, thanks to a former-boyfriend/self-proclaimed "Tolkienologist". Something good can come from every relationship.
I also began reading Taylor Caldwell's Great Lion of God. This is a fictional work chronicling the life of Saul of Tarshish - the Apostle Paul of The Bible. It's a favorite of my husband's and I had not really given it my full attention the first time I attempted to read it. This time, however, I got into it and am really loving it! Very near to the end now. Caldwell takes some liberties with Saul/Paul's personal life, but brings some real depth to the man we really only know from his biblical writings. A fascinating novel.
I picked up two more YA novels yesterday - The First Part Last (Angela Johnson) and The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart). Why YA? Besides the fact that I've read many wonderful novels under this classification - YA NOVELS ARE CHEAPER. I've also got a large stack of new acquisitions waiting on the shelf and more LOTR left to read. My bookshelves are teeming nearly as much as my DVD collection.
Here's to 2011 - the year that I read more, knit more, exercise more, love more...and hopefully STRESS less!
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