July 2009 Book Challenge - Page 9

[Bufomander]

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

It all depends on how much money we can scrape up. It looks like we will be able to, but we'll be cutting it close.

well, we are rooting for you here!

[fremontmama]

Originally Posted by cathe

She's written a ton of books. Speak is probably her most well known. About a girl who was date raped and has trouble speaking up about it.

Hmm, maybe I've just heard her name a lot then. None of her titles sound familiar.

Originally Posted by Bufomander

well, we are rooting for you here!

Yes we are!

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

#43 Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America
by Eric Simons

My review can be found HERE


#1 The King in Yellow, #2 Ghost Story, #3 Twilight (Audio), #4 Nice Work, #5 The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged, #6 Collected Poems 1909-1962 (T.S. Eliot), #7 New Moon (Audio), #8 Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams), #9 The Pearl, #10 The Blackwater Lightship, #11 100 Selected Poems (e.e. cummings), #12 The Grapes of Wrath, #13 Eclipse (Audio), #14 A Bit on the Side, #15 East of Eden, #16 As I Lay Dying: Redux, #17 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!, #18 Breaking Dawn (Audio), #19 A Streetcar Named Desire: 25th Anniversary Edition, #20 The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author, #21 New British Poetry, #22 Brick Lane, #23 Maps for Lost Lovers, #24 The Silence of the Lambs (Audio): Redux, #25 Pride and Prejudice, #26 Poe: A Life Cut Short, #27 Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, #28 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obession in the Amazon (Audio), #29 Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, #30 The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Russia, #31 Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (Audio), #32 The Composer is Dead, #33 Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook, #34 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories, #35 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, #36 The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists, #37 The Road, #38 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, #39 How to Draw Washington's Sights and Symbols, #40 My Hippie Grandmother, #41 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, #42 My Favorite Horror Story, #43 Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America

[ColoradoMama]

Originally Posted by fremontmama

I haven't really enjoyed anything by him yet. I thought it was just me. I love his radio shows though.

Well, he's a famous UU, and with me being a UU I just really wanted to enjoy his book. I didn't hate it - I just didn't like it that much. Oh well.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - This book was an easy read. It was a pretty ho hum book though. I was not overly impressed. I'd heard the writing wasn't really that great, so I didn't expect much on that front, but I was hoping for an intriguing story. It was okay, and I'm sure I'll read the rest of them - it just wasn't great. I really need a great book!

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

August's Thread is ... really? August? Is that right? Can somebody check that? Really? August already? Okay then. August's Thread is up and running and ready and waiting here: http://www.mothering.com/discussions...php?p=14171938

[fremontmama]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

Well, he's a famous UU, and with me being a UU I just really wanted to enjoy his book. I didn't hate it - I just didn't like it that much. Oh well.

UU?

I didn't hate what I have read either, I guess I was just surprised that I wasn't really taken with it since I love his radio shows so much. Maybe I need the singing and stuff?

[mammastar2]

#41 - In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Good read, this, worthy of lots of pauses to just savor the language and images. Not linear and not character-driven, more language and idea-driven, but I didn't find it alienating. I also really enjoyed how he writes about manual labor -bridge building, tunnelling, tanning - in this novel set in 1920s and 1930s Toronto.

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by fremontmama

UU?

I think it's Universial Unitarian, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

[ColoradoMama]

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

I think it's Universial Unitarian, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Unitarian Universalist - but you were close!

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

Unitarian Universalist - but you were close!

That's because I are smart. "I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T I mean S-M-A-R-T."

[ColoradoMama]

[fremontmama]

Originally Posted by ColoradoMama

Unitarian Universalist - but you were close!

I thought maybe that might be it, or actually what NCD said.

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

That's because I are smart. "I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T I mean S-M-A-R-T."