37 posts tagged “book-a-week”
Very good book. It took me a while to get into it, but once it got going, I was hooked. It reminded me a lot of Francesca Lia Block's style. I read her books over and over again from age 16. This book fits into that catagory too. I know I'll read this book over and over again.
Another one I finished while recovering from knee surgery. I loved this book. It was clever, well written and full of great imformation. I highly recommend it!
It's interesting how different the books are from the show. I like some aspects of the show better and I like some bits of the books more. It will be interesting to see how it all turns out.
I'm up to 7 already!
I'm going to see if I can break 100 books for this year. That means I should probably pay more attention to what I'm reading.
Book number 1. I enjoyed this. I'm pretty obsessed with stories about Henry VIII and Tudor England. I could have done without all the weird sex stories involving Elizabeth and Dudley. It was a bit over done.
Books number 2 and I don't know what.
Gooooooood. I like them a lot. I read Twilight in less than a day and read Eclipse almost as fast. I'm waiting for the last one now.
I finished this last night. Yeah, I'm totally reading the entire series. They're trashy and fun. Just what I need.
I love Anthony Bourdain. He makes me happy. I really enjoyed this book. I have never been a chef or cook, but I have worked an expo line and had to know how everything looks and tastes.
I liked this for the most part, but it ended without really explaining about Jain. I thought that was strange. Other than that, I loved it.
I'm at 6 for the year. Not a bad start!!
Right now I'm reading The Golden Compass, The 4th Gossip Girl and Middlesex.
Yeah, I meant to do this ages ago but whatever...
*I'm sure I missed a few... but whatever.
I doubt anyone checks this anymore since I haven't posted in a long long time.
Let's see... I moved to Boulder a little over 3 weeks ago. I got a new job. I'm trying to adjust to a new city, new place, new everything. It's weird and hard.
I have a whole HUGE list of books to add to my reading for the year, but here are the two I've read since I've been here.
I really enjoyed the Real World chapter and all his odd little insights into life.
No TV and no internet at home sucks. I can deal with the TV thing, but I really miss the internet. Job searching, email checking, myspace stalking and too much time IMing people is very difficult to do at the library in small bursts. I'm constantly running down to one of the nearby branches to try to get something done and, without fail, forget half of what I needed to do only to remember on the bus ride home. Grr.
Since I haven't been able to post each book as I finish, here's a quick update on June/early July's reading. Once I get some more time on the computer, I'll add some reviews.
It was a very sensual book but not overtly sexual. I enjoyed that. I wish that some of the love letters that were referred to so many times had been included. Maybe just one at the end.
The cover art is gorgeous too. Always a bonus. (The picture here is not the same as my copy. I had the art that shows up on Amazon.)
Overall, I highly recommend this book. It was a quick and very good read.
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"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city's most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible--and then calls right back to say that she has found the perfect girl.
The protagonist says of himself: "I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay ... by the time I was fifty there were 514 women with whom I had been at least once ... My public life, on the other hand, was lacking in interest: both parents dead, a bachelor without a future, a mediocre journalist ... and a favorite of caricaturists because of my exemplary ugliness."
The girl is 14 and works all day in a factory attaching buttons in order to provide for her family. Rosa gives her a combination of bromide and valerian to drink to calm her nerves, and when the prospective lover arrives, she is sound asleep. Now the story really begins. The nonagenarian is not a sex-starved adventurer; he is a tender voyeur. Throughout his 90th year, he continues to meet the girl and watch her sleep. He says, "This was something new for me. I was ignorant of the arts of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark, so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were ... That night I discovered the improbably pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty."
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