What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted over at Book Journey where bloggers gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week.
I finished:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Num8ers by Rachel Ward
- Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
- Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
I am currently reading:
- Drizzle by Kathleen Van Cleve (with my six-year-old)
- The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America by Jim Wallis
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
Next up:
- The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall (depending on my husband's take on it after he finishes)
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman (for this challenge at Tattooed Books)
- Magic in the Alley by Mary Calhoun (with my six-year-old)
I am eager to hear what you think about Num8ers. It is sitting on my TBR stack. Have a good reading week!
ReplyDeletei haven't heard of the titles you mentioned (except for num8ers, which i'm very interested in reading). enjoy your books this week and happy reading :)
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Wonderful books! I am not familiar with most of them but would love to know more. Have fun and I will be back to see your reviews :)
ReplyDeleteI just started the Henrietta Lacks book -- so far I really like it.
ReplyDeleteI definitely liked Num8ers -- the reviews on Amazon were pretty harsh, but I liked it. Not the book I'll be evangelizing the most about, but liked it.
ReplyDeleteBeth, one thing that amazed me about the Henrietta Lacks book was just how big a story this is to only now be being told. If that makes any sense.
I read Making Toast a couple months ago (I had read the original New Yorker piece it was spun from) and I had mixed feelings about it.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, reading it put me in a blue funk (much less fun than, say, The Hunger Games) and second, I was somewhat put off by his admission that he'd led an easy, charmed life and had always assumed that it would continue to be so. I don't know - it just seemed a bit smug, somehow. I suppose it touched off some of my own issues with people who are born with silver spoons in mouths, untouched by misfortune. His writing was impeccable, it was a lovely tribute to his daughter, her death was unbearably tragic, yes yes yes, but . . . I don't know. Was he just the smallest bit self-congratulatory about what wonderful people he and his wife are, and what a lovely family they have? Like I said, probably just my own issues with extremely privileged people. It was hard for me to feel as sorry for him as I felt I should feel. I really loved his voice, though, and he's a wonderful writer. Maybe I was just envious of his ultra-perfect family. After all, my kids don't have a grandfather. Grandfathers at the park make fill me with sorrow and anger. Hello - issues! - like I said.
What did you think?
Strike the "make" from that second-to-last sentence - it should read: "Grandfathers at the park fill me with sorrow and anger." My train of thought jumped the track. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYeah, E, what you are saying makes sense (though I think if one pondered Hunger Games too much, it could also put one in a funk!)
ReplyDeleteI have that same feeling sometime, though with fathers, not with grandfathers, and for myself, not for Fiona. Perhaps that means I'm more selfish than you. :)