Thanks, mamom, glad I’m not alone! Until I finish son’s CSS Profile application (tax stuff is making my head spin) I’m disciplining myself not to go read the last in the series. That will be my treat. lol.
I did make me look more kindly/romantically at my hub…all that talk of undying (or dying?) love, etc.
Ugh…CSS and FAFSA.
I’m reading John McPhee’s book on Alaska, Into the Country. Very good.
I have “Twilight” on order at the library…who knows when it will show up. Apparently there are many patrons ahead of me!
(If it’s such a quick read why is it taking so long?)
mommusic–I’m still on hold for the last 2 in the series (many teen girls want to read this!). Seriously, you could finish it in a few sittings at B&N w/a coffee in hand. 
cottonwood–I’m procrastinating on CSS by posting on this forum, lol. Answer a tedious CSS question, do something un-related…
slumom, this is one of my favorite books of all time! I read it years ago and passed it around to every reader I know. I reread it last fall in anticipation of the film, and it was equally good the second time around. They did a pretty good job with the film, too, which made me happy.
I liked that a lot, too.
But, sadly, am now obsessed w/junk food reading (Twilight…).
Ditto on the Twilight series…a real guilty pleasure. I read all four within two weeks. Sat through the movie with about a hundred tweenage girls! Sigh, I am a fan.
I’m on to different junk - the new Orson Scott Card Ender sequel.
Mathmom - I had the privilege of being the first to snag the Ender book at the library. Short, but I really enjoyed it.
Just finished Anna Karenina for Book Club. Headed off to the meeting/discussion in an hour. Honestly it felt like a huge accomplishment to finish it. I liked it/learned a lot, but probably not my favorite book of all time.
PS Thanks for the tutorial on how to do italics & underlining!
I read Anna Karenina in HS and loved it! Tho I must say I’m not sure I would have the patience for it now.
I used to read all those biggies…Wuthering Heights…all the Jane Austen…
Whenever the Scholastic Book order form had a “classics” box, I knew those were books I would enjoy!
I was a strange kid.
Does Scholastic still offer those books? They seem to be big on posters, movie tie-ins, and computer games. But I digress…
For any other mystery readers out there - try “The Grift” by Debra Ginsburg. It’s about a “fake” psychic who suddenly develops real psychic abilities.
I was just about to say something about Anna Karenina, in response to the recent mentions of it, then thought to myself, hey, I might have already said something about AK on this thread before. Thank God for the search function, which allowed me quickly to discover that, yes, way back in 12/07, I had said something about it.
Here’s what I said then (in response to someone else’s mention of it):
If you’re looking to be transported now and then out of this noisy, cluttered, busy-busy-busy world of ours and to a time and place that was measurably slower, yet no less (perhaps more?) rich emotionally, psychologically, and artistically, well, Anna Karenina might be just the ticket.
My husband and I “courted” over *Anna Karenina<a href=“we%20sat%20next%20to%20each%20other%20in%20a%20Russian%20Lit%20class”>/i</a>, so it has always been one of my favorites. “Anna” is our firstborn’s middle name.
How romantic! ^
This thread started with Daniel Mendelsohn’s book The Lost.
I’m now reading his most recent book, a collection of critical pieces (most of which were originally published in the New York Review of Books) that range widely – books, movies, theater, etc. – but share a graceful prose style and a probing intelligence. (Oh, and they’re often entertaining, too.)
Some collections of this sort, no matter how long, wind up feeling thin, as if the pieces were more at home between the covers of a periodical than a book. This, though, feels like a real book, and these pieces, when read together, often tend to illuminate and add to one another.
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I just finished Still Alice. A great book that I finished in one sitting with tears in my eyes.
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Sex Lives of the Cannibals by J. Martin Troost
Anything by David Sedaris
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
I finally broke down and read Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres.
Wow.
I have to second the recommendation of the Pevear and Volkonsky translations of Russian classics. The difference in readability between them and the Garnett versions is simply astounding. I’m going to have to reapproach many of them.
Who knew that Dostoievski was known for his ability to write characters with differing voices?
I read Out Stealing Horses based on recommendations here and loved it. H. is now reading and loving it too. Thank you! Has anyone read anything else of his?