Robin M Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Today is the start of book week 24 and the quest to read 52 books in 52 weeks. Have you started Book # 24 yet? Mr. Linky is all set up on the 52 books blog and ready for you to link to your reviews. Sort of - Mr. Linky seems to be having some issues. Will add it in as soon accessible. The theme this week - Things that start with X. My challenge to you is to find a book that has a word that starts with X (some ideas on 52 books blog) or an author whose name starts with X and read it. Hopefully you'll find something interesting. I did. I just finished reading Rainwater by Sandra Brown. Very, very good and left me a little teary at the end. What are you all reading this week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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eaglei Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 MyTwoBlessings: THANK YOU so much for doing this thread! I always look forward to it! I trust your Nobel literature final is springing along just fine and will net you a well-deserved A! Now, for what I read this week. I really had a hard time choosing something and, when it comes to reading, that is unusual! I finally decided to read another classic and chose one by an author whose works I had never read (I know - I know - I should bow my head in shame . . .) I read: #32 - Washington Square, by Henry James. I found this to be a page-turner. I am wondering which of his other books the Hive can recommend? Since this book brought me to five classics in my quest for twelve classics this year, I decided to read another classic. I have read Edith Wharton's "Edith Frome" multiple times and enjoy it quite much. However, I think it was "The Age of Innocence" that I simply could not get into and finally gave up on it some years ago. Instead, I am reading: #33 - The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton. I'm only four chapters along but so far it is holding my interest. I will not, however, stop reading it should it take a decided fall as I am determined to complete Classic #6!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Tonight I'll finish The Foreign Correspondent, and I've read more than 24 books, so I'm not behind. I'm not sure how many books I've read, but it's been more than one/week on average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I listened to Night and reread Pomegranate Soup for a book group. I'm reading A Canticle for Leibowitz right now and anything I can find online about Kyrgyzstan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PollyOR Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 MyTwoBlessings: THANK YOU so much for doing this thread! I always look forward to it! I trust your Nobel literature final is springing along just fine and will net you a well-deserved A! :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Well, I'm still caught up on reading a book a week. I'm sorry that there aren't any classics on the list, and a few too many kid lit books, but I can always aim a little higher next year! This week I read Doc Susie. It's a book my dad lent me a few years ago about a female doctor in Fraser Colorado in the first half of the twentieth century. Very interesting, especially if you have a family history or interest in logging, trains, and/or doctors. I read it so I could give it back to my dad when I saw him briefly this week, but then I forgot to give it to him! Also read The Cat Who Went to Heaven which is very short kid lit, so not sure I should count it. But I enjoyed it very much and look forward to dd reading it in the coming school year. Next up: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. Another one borrowed from Dad. This one is about a girl in Hawaii who gets leprosy in the 1890s I think and is sent to live in the leper colony at Moloka'i. Reading the Amazon blurb, it sounds a lot like The Pearl Diver which I read several years ago about a leper colony in Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennW in SoCal Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I'm still a couple of weeks behind, but with summer starting this week I should have lots of time for fun and somewhat serious reading! Book #22 was definitely fun. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Going Postal, a stand alone book in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The narrator was brilliant, and he brought to life every quirky and silly plot point, character, and bit of dialog with fantastic timing and lots of different accents and voices. I'm currently reading book #23, Suburban Safari, which is a detailed year in the life of a yard in Portland, Maine. As I love my backyard birds and wild bunnies, this is right up my alley. Well written and researched, it is inspiring me to get out my binoculars more often. And Robin, I need to get back to writing reviews to link with Mr. Linky!! Soon, I promise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 I've just started what is, so far, an excellent book: City of Thieves by David Benioff. "From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Author and screenwriter Benioff follows up The 25th Hour with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving WWII in Russia. Having elected to stay in Leningrad during the siege, 17-year-old Lev Beniov is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse. The penalty for this infraction (and many others) is execution. But when Colonel Grechko confronts Lev and Kolya, a Russian army deserter also facing execution, he spares them on the condition that they acquire a dozen eggs for the colonel's daughter's wedding cake. Their mission exposes them to the most ghoulish acts of the starved populace and takes them behind enemy lines to the Russian countryside. There, Lev and Kolya take on an even more daring objective: to kill the commander of the local occupying German forces. A wry and sympathetic observer of the devastation around him, Lev is an engaging and self-deprecating narrator who finds unexpected reserves of courage at the crucial moment and forms an unlikely friendship with Kolya, a flamboyant ladies' man who is coolly reckless in the face of danger. Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted June 14, 2010 Author Share Posted June 14, 2010 MyTwoBlessings: THANK YOU so much for doing this thread! I always look forward to it! :iagree: Thanks you guys. It's been fun and challenging to come up with something each week for the blog. Almost to the end of the alphabet. Maybe will start from a again or come up with something else. We'll see. And Robin, I need to get back to writing reviews to link with Mr. Linky!! Soon, I promise! I haven't been writing too many reviews myself, so will also be getting to work on it as well. Look forward to seeing what you've been reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 This week I read Doc Susie. It's a book my dad lent me a few years ago about a female doctor in Fraser Colorado in the first half of the twentieth century. Very interesting, especially if you have a family history or interest in logging, trains, and/or doctors. . Thanks for the brief review. My dad's a surgeon who used to make house calls to logging camps when he was still a GP via sea plane. Guess I ought to read this, eh? Then pass it on to him & my sister who is a doctor, or at least the reference, since I'm going to look for this at my library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangermom Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Mine this week are Quiverfull and The Red Pyramid. Still working on the great London book! (I went to the Sacramento library and got a whole pile of books that have been on my wish list, so I had to drop everything and read those. Sac is two hours away, and I rarely get a chance to go there twice in 3 weeks so as to be able to check books out.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 I finished How to Raise an Emotionally Intelligent Child. I liked it but I don't agree with him regarding peer influence and peer interaction. Now that I've read Neufeld's book, I don't agree with what our society has come to view as "normal" behavior when it comes to kids, peers, and parents. Now I'm reading Deconstructing Penguins. I've heard so many good reviews here that I had to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydusk Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 (edited) I read 4 books on vacation and am still behind ... 20 books in 24 weeks. I may never catch up! No reviews this time. List (Links are to my review): Week 1: Touch Not the Cat Week 2: An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents Week 3: Parenting from the Heart Week 4: Meet the Austins Week 6: The Moon by Night Week 6: The Little Book of Christian Character and Morals Week 7: How Lincoln Learned to Read Week 8: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Week 10: The Young Unicorns Week 12: Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Week 12: The Arm of the Starfish Week 15: Building Her House Week 16: Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit Week 17: A Ring of Endless Light Week 20: Just So Stories Week 20: Wise Words Week 24: Troubling a Star - L'Engle Week 24: House Like a Lotus - L'Engle Week 24: The Talisman Ring - Heyer Week 24: The Grand Sophy - Heyer Week 24: The Corinthian - Heyer Week 24: Arabella - Heyer Edited June 19, 2010 by ladydusk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Last night I finished A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick for my upcoming book group. I enjoyed it. I've been on a fun reading kick lately and re-read several Jayne Castle (Jayne Ann Krentz) titles. These are futuristic romances. Here's a link to Amaryllis which is first in a trilogy. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 My reading slump just may be over (fingers are crossed.) I finished 'The Wrong Mother' by Sophie Hannah. I didn't like it. I thought she tried too hard to make a psychological thriller. Book 24 is 'The Heart Specialist' by Claire Holden Rothman. I am loving this book. It is loosely based on the first female phsycian in Canada, Dr. Maude Abbot. The writing is wonderful and the story is interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Days behind but wanted to add my book. I read "Living a Year of Kaddish." Kaddish is the Jewish mourning prayer. Very, very good, especially for those who have experienced a loss. Reveiw on my blog: http://goldengrasses.blogspot.com/2010/06/mourning.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 Week 25 thread is now up here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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