October 2009
4 posts
The Master
Wow, I haven’t posted in a week! I admit I took a couple of days off and then took an extra day or so to read To Kill a Mockingbird. I really wanted to take a little time to enjoy the simplicity of this book. It truly was an incredible read and I’m now quite sure that I had never read the entire book before. It’s obvious why this book is a classic and why it won the Pulitzer...
On to Book 3...
I finished The Girl Who Played With Fire tonight and if I can manage to start the next book before I go to bed, I’ll still be on schedule! This follow-up to Stieg Larsson’s first book was, as expected, not quite as good as the first one. I enjoyed it, but I felt that like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the build-up was a bit long and slow. It was satisfying in that there were...
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Second Book Selected!
So I ended up reading the first chapter or two of several books yesterday, trying to decide which one I wanted to read next. I picked up Spook, A Great and Terrible Beauty, and Me Talk Pretty One Day before deciding on The Girl Who Played With Fire. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo right away, but as I started to read the other books I...
One down, 33 to go...
I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last night. I picked it up when I got into bed intending to just read a few chapters but I got sucked into reading it through to the end. I finished it partly because there’s some disturbing subject matter and I didn’t particularly want to turn off the lights and go to sleep with those images in my head. It was definitely an engrossing book...