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July, August and September of 2003 A full year of Online Reading! |
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Quick Index This page updated on 7.24.05
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currently reading My Books Page July through December 05 July through December 2004 Go to April, May, June 2004 Go to Jan, Feb, March 2004 Go to Oct, Nov, Dec 2003 Go to April, May, June 2003 Go to Jan., Feb., and March 2003 I have archived previous years pages.
July Books
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling Excellent Book in the Series. We laughed, cried and found how much Harry related with my son. Rowling writes with remembrance of what it was like to be a teen. It was not easy and it comes through in Harry's attitude and frankly this book takes a while to read but it is worth it, don't stop till your finished!!!
Folly Laurie King This was a tough read but it was a good one. Depression and Psycho problems abound in this book. While this book is not for everyone it has it's definite pluses it holds the readers interest and makes it so that you know what is going on with the main character. Haven't we all wished for Solitude? Maybe not deserted on a island with no way to escape the island. Questions this book raises in your own psyche may well be worth reading alone. Excellent well written book.
Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds Nancy Martin I like Martins style. I'm glad I got this book. It was refreshing and quick to read. On top of that it came out on my Birthday....Ok so maybe I'm a little biased but I did enjoy Nora (main character) and all the other sub characters that go with Nora.
Kushiels Dart Jacqueline Carey Where to begin...Way Way to long. 900 pages. Did I like this book. I'm still not sure. The Sadomasochism (sp) was almost too much for me. I normally don't read books like this but everyone was telling me how good this book was and a reading group I'm part of was reading it as well. So am I going to read the next two books in the series , I honestly don't know. It's like stepping outside your comfort zone when you read this book, whether this is the type of book you normally read or not.
August Books August was a slow month for my reading. I had issues with getting into the book that I was reading as well as just getting into reading at all. I know that while I did not get much reading done I will in the next months to come.
A Darker Place Laurie King I only have to read Keeping Watch to be current with all of Kings works. I really don't know what to say about this book other than it was not easy for me to get through. It took over a month to read. I think it was at the beginning of the book that through me for a loop. Kings' style while I liked in her Russell books is not getting better with these psycho-thriller books. Not only that but I feel cheated in the ending of the book. She didn't finish the book. The ending just was left hanging and you the reader was expected to just say o.k. whatever. I don't have issues with the cultist things going on in the book but I do think that alchemy has been played out before and with an ending that worked. I think King could have done better if she had stayed with what she does well writing her Kate and Russell series.
The Eight Katherine Neville While I've read this book 2 maybe even 3 times the fact that August was a particularly hard month for me I decided to pick up one of my Comfort books. I know what is a comfort book. Easy it's a book that you keep on your bedside/headboard of your bed and one that in an major emergency where you where going away never to come back to your home you would take with you. I have 5 of these type books and the Eight is one of them. I wish there where more adventure mysteries on this level. I've only found this book to be of the high caliber mystery that I love. While some find this book confusing and disorganized, I find it wonderful and simple to follow. The story is believable and yet somehow you know that it is just fiction. I really do wish there where a Montglane service.
Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss Well what to say nice about a classic....hum, let me see. We like the movie...Well this book has really a different story line then the movie and we wanted to read the movie I think more then read the classic. Anyway you shape it this book is highly detailed book with much to offer the person who wants to learn everything the book has to offer except being interested in so much detail that one falls asleep while reading (and I'm not joking asleep). Only read this book in the abridge movie version if you want to be awake for the entire thing.
September Books Foundation Isaac Asimov Ok so I don't read enough Sci-Fi to really always enjoy it, but this book was enjoyable I just wish it didn't skip time periods so much. I've decided not to read the next book in the series right away. I think that this book needs to be digested a little more and I need a break from Hard Sci-Fi to the regular stuff. I've finally started to read and come to grips with the Star Wars book Star by Star so maybe reading Asimov wasn't such a bad thing.
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Ok so I've never read this Pulitzer Prize (1953) book ever...Why have I never read this Novella well let me tell you. This Novella was pedantic in nature and metaphorical in every sentence just about. This Novella was dripping in Metaphors. I like a short book/Novella, but this book left much for the reader to digest. Even the movie with Spencer Tracey was blah and I almost fell asleep. Towards the end of the novella my son asked why we needed to listen to such a depressing book for required reading. I had no better answer then to say its off the College list of books to be read. I agree with my sons analysis that in the end it doesn't matter what you do (in life) you just need to be happy...I'm sure if you read the novella you may come up with another reason but this to us was really what the novella stood for. Blah....
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Current Reads
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Star by Star and Serpents Dance, Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis and until I'm finished How to read a book by Adler. Outlook reading currently we are reading Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge.
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