audie
fartblossom
i watch big love religously (pun intended :roll: ). it's a really good show. let me know what you think of pan after you watch it.
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Summer 2007 Reading List
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i watch big love religously (pun intended :roll: ). it's a really good show. let me know what you think of pan after you watch it.
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
You're not alone! I often let "best sellers" or "award winners" from my mother's book club gather dust because they just aren't interesting enough for me to read or continue reading! An unread book in scooterbug land is a sure sign of a bad story!
DuneAHH
Beach Fanatic
Pan's Labyrinth...interesting special effects & "framework" for the message...but disappointed overall.
audie
fartblossom
Pan's Labyrinth...interesting special effects & "framework" for the message...but disappointed overall.
that was kinda my reaction too. i waver daily on whether i liked it or not. one thing's for sure, it does make me think...
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
I'm finally getting to some of my summer reading (before I have to start skimming through my required reading for the fall!)
Right now I'm reading A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel. I love it. Paragraphs like this one make me think of all of you for some reason:
"I have noticed that otherwise sensitive and intelligent people will go to great lengths to decry the love between a person and a chicken, claiming that, of all things, chickens are not smart enough to love. Well, I'm here to tell you: I've seen women passionately devoted to men who couldn't pile bricks, and whole families of slack-jawed nose pickers held together by 'love...'"
On my list of books I had to read against my will, I read most of Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story. (Since the first 130 pages were sheer repitition, I didn't feel like it was necessary to read the last 20.) Bleh. If this teacher spent as much time teaching as she did writing books about teaching, perhaps her kids would learn something.
Right now I'm reading A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel. I love it. Paragraphs like this one make me think of all of you for some reason:
"I have noticed that otherwise sensitive and intelligent people will go to great lengths to decry the love between a person and a chicken, claiming that, of all things, chickens are not smart enough to love. Well, I'm here to tell you: I've seen women passionately devoted to men who couldn't pile bricks, and whole families of slack-jawed nose pickers held together by 'love...'"
On my list of books I had to read against my will, I read most of Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story. (Since the first 130 pages were sheer repitition, I didn't feel like it was necessary to read the last 20.) Bleh. If this teacher spent as much time teaching as she did writing books about teaching, perhaps her kids would learn something.
peapod1980
percy
Oh, I loved that book, NoHall. If you love Haven, I have some recommendations of stuff I bet you'd like. She makes me howl.
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
Ooh--tell me!
I saw that she had a bunch of books, and I just picked that one at random.
Jdarg
SoWal Expert
Just started the new Jonathan Franzen book The Discomfort Zone. I loved The Corrections- which y'all might remember as the book that Oprah picked for bookclub, then dis-invited Fransen after he voiced his displeasure of having her book club stamp all over his books. Apparently, he wanted the book that he wrote to feature him- imagine that!! The nerve!
potatovixen
Beach Fanatic
I just finished reading The Kite Runner and cried like a little baby. Absolutely beautiful.
Anyone else read it?
Anyone else read it?
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
Isn't it funny how when someone you don't like reads a book and likes it, you instantly go "bleh" when you think of it. (Not you PotatoVixen--if anything, you would reverse my "bleh" on it.)
Unfortunately, I have no time lately to read for fun. Right now I'm being forced to read (which means I'll read enough to write a report) Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America. The sad part is that I would probably enjoy it if I didn't have to swallow 425 pages of it by Tuesday-ish.
Meanwhile, I keep a bathroom/pillow book at hand. (That sounds worse than I thought it would. It's the book I take to read in the bathtub and also have at hand for that last ten minutes before I fall asleep.) Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes. It's almost as good as my Born on a Rotten Day astrology book.