Since reading Running with Scissors, I have also read:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Getting Over It (I gave up on it)
Fever Pitch (I got bored with it)
Shopaholic and Sister
The Center of Everything
The Undomestic Goddess
Everything is Illuminated (Got confused and postponed it...till much later)
Ella Minnow Pea
The Devil You Know (Currently reading)
Entry added on 5/9/2006 3:20 PM
Robin M. (robinm): Re: Everything is Illuminated--This book IS confusing, but if you stick with the 2 story lines, they eventually merge (and everything is illuminated, get it?) I listened to this book on audio tape and talk about CONFUSING...when they switch the story, I thought maybe, I don't know, maybe someone taped OVER the original tape?? Where the hell did THIS come from? But, as it is with audiotapes, you wind up sticking through because it takes no effort to listen and I am glad I did. There is almost nothing funnier than those letters he wrote in the beginning, unless you count the "seeing eye bitch" stuff.
I enjoyed We Thought You Would be Prettier, although it's not destined for my keeper shelf like The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club was. Laurie Notaro is fabulous and witty; her tales are like that of any woman--drinking too much and saying dumb things, losing the sensitivity filter and saying dumb things, thinking 95% of the world is an idiot... Many of Laurie's stories are my stories too!
Realizing I have faltered in reading an equal number of books written by men and women, I have decided to read Songbook by Nick Hornby next.
I loved Idiot Girls... so much that I had to begin the other of her books on my shelf, We Thought You'd be Prettier. Now I'm off to add her others to my wishlist.
WOOHOO!!
Entry added on 3/15/2006 6:27 PM
Chris S. (smallbutfeisty): Idiot Girls Action Adventure ClubI began this last night after finished The Mermaid Chair. It is already making me laugh out loud. This might just be one for the keeper shelf!
Entry added on 3/14/2006 7:58 AM
Chris S. (smallbutfeisty): Top secret book is finished,Now I'm reading The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd. I know it has received seriously mixed reviews, but I hope to enjoy it!
Entry added on 2/25/2006 10:43 AM
Chris S. (smallbutfeisty): Finished the Photographand wasn't nuts about it. It was ok, the character sketches were fabulous, but the story was just ok. I have moved onto a top secret book that I'm reading for the Chick Lit swap. :)
But I had a chick lit book, A Little Change of Face, in my car and started that while I was out and about. It was pretty good.
Back to The Photograph for me!
Entry added on 2/18/2006 8:56 AM
Chris S. (smallbutfeisty): The PhotographI loved Night and finished it so quickly (thank goodness for snow days!) I'm now reading Penelope Lively's The Photograph.
I had to put this book down. I was bored, confused, and tired of it, so I've moved on. No more wasting my time on books that don't interest me.
So now I'm trying again on Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. At the current point, I might be putting this one down too, despite the rave reviews I have heard of it.
I tried again with this book, but had to put it down. I just can't get into it, and I'm avoiding it. I'm going to put it off for now, and maybe pick it up again this summer.
I'm now reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. So far, so good, and I'm looking forward to some very light reading next!! :)
