Just an update: the last time we checked in I in the middle of reading book 19 which was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I finished that book, as well as the rest of the series and then immediately jumped into The Lovely Bones. I am not talking about the Harry Potter series [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘book club’
July 27, 2009
Book Club Update!
Oh dear, sweet Internet. Remember that time I said I was going to attempt to read 50 books in one year? And then I would write a review on each book? (Here is a link in case you don’t have the slightest idea to what I am talking about.) Well I don’t deny that I [...]
March 11, 2009
Book club book #6: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Book: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author: David Sedaris
Number of Pages: 272
Plot, according to the back of the book:
There was no plot on the back of the book.
Plot, in my own words:
There is no plot. The book consists of a collection of short essays written by Sedaris ranging in topics from childhood memories to living in [...]
March 3, 2009
Book club book #5: Broken Glass
Book: Broken Glass
Author: Arthur Miller
Number of Pages: 138
Plot, according to the back of the book:
It’s the late 1930s in New York. Phillip Gellburg is an executive and the only Jew among the WASPs at a very Establishment Wall Street bank. His wife, Sylvia, is obsessed with news of Nazi Germany. After seeing a photo of [...]
February 18, 2009
No more studying! Please!
Found this on Facebook while taking a break from studying for French.
[The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?]
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte ()
4 [...]
January 29, 2009
Book club book #4: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Book: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Author: Ronald Dahl
Number of Pages: 90
Plot, according to the back of the book:
George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs someone stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George [...]
January 27, 2009
And I…will always love you
Things I accomplished today:
1. Got out of bed and dressed before 11 in the morning! That is a rare thing for me these days.
2. Did the dishes. I didn’t even have to be asked! Internet- look at me go! Daughter of the year!
3. Watched The Bodyguard for the first time in my life. I plan [...]
January 9, 2009
Book club book #3: An Abundance of Katherines
Book: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
Number of pages: 228 (including the appendix)
Plot, according to the back of the book:
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times to be exact. On a road trip miles from [...]
January 7, 2009
Book club book #2: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling
Number of pages: 309
Plot, according to the back of the book:
Harry Potter never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He’s never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his [...]
January 1, 2009
Book club book #1: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Book: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Author: Maureen Johnson
Number of pages: 319
Plot, according to the back of the book:
Would you follow the directions?
Would you travel around the world?
Would you open the envelopes one by one?
Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.
In envelope blue envelope 2 are directions to a specific [...]
