poor Anne Tyler. she's going to be on hiatus for quite a while. lots of books from the library that i'll have to read first. some i requested and they came in, others were lying in wait for me on the shelves. i love libraries, they're a bastion of civilization.
anyway, Elmore Leonard's out of the way, but now i've embarked on Life of Pi, and i'm loving it. i may stay up all night reading it. then i have Haven Kimmel's first novel, The Solace of Leaving Early, and a new one from Joanne Harris (author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners) called Holy Fools, that looks a little daunting. as if that weren't enough, i picked up a small book called The Book Borrower, by a writer unknown to me, Alice Mattison. this one jumped into my hands solely because of the title and cover. i'm shallow that way, must admit it.
i'm going to be a busy girl. who will grade my tests and read my essays? i'm going to be reading novels.
4 comments:
God I love your passion for a good book. I have been deliberating on rather or not to get the Life of Pi. Let me know what you think of it.!!!! Happy reading,
~RC~
I haven't read Life of Pi, when I worked @ the Charlotte library, I heard lots of opinions from regulars. One lady, who I wouldn't call especially intellectual, told me it was the best book she had ever read! She put every best seller on hold, kept it for three weeks, turning the majority back in without ever looking at them. Checking out the latest books seemed like a status symbol for people like her. But I had no doubt that she had read, and LOVED, this book.
One more note. We once made a book display at my library branch of books with beautiful covers! It was ver popular! I feel so out of touch since I left that job. I really miss it!
I started reading Life of Pi and stopped for some reason. Perhaps for the same reason you did, another book from the library came in. I've been slacking on reading books lately, except for nonfiction/political ones. I get into funks like that sometimes.
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