March 2008 Book Challenge - Page 5

[gabbyquilts]

#10 The Wayfaring Stranger : A Journey to Louisiana by Curt Iles

My dad sent me this book. We know the author from a camp we went to as kids, and this was his first fiction book. It was interesting to me because it was about a place i grew up near, but it also had a lot of historical Louisiana stuff in it.

[BurtsGirl]

#11 Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland

I actually saw this one on someone else's list and the description peeked my interest so I put it on my to read list. It was a wonderfully enchanting book and a quick read. I really enjoyed it from front to back.

#1 Natural Witchery#2 Levi's Will #3 Easy Tarot #4 The Elements of Pantheism: #5 Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs #6 Nigth Watch #7 The Green Book #8 Conquering Infertility #9 Affluenza #10 The Omnivore's Dilemma

[Oriole]

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

Not as much as the end of the film version. This is one of my all-time favorite King stories though. I talk about it here.

oh, I want to see the movie... It's coming out on DVD next week... I never made it to the theaters, although it looked interesting I guess they messed it up, eh?..

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by Oriole

oh, I want to see the movie... It's coming out on DVD next week... I never made it to the theaters, although it looked interesting I guess they messed it up, eh?..

Its not that they "messed it up" but rather that they created a definite ending whereas the book had a more ambiguous one.


Though I will say that I did not like the film's ending. It was quite ... bleak and more than a little disturbing (speaking as a father with a son).

[kofduke]

Wolf Point, Falco

Tom "T" Walker, Jenny, and Lester are companions in this tale of vicarious adventure, with darkness and pain being the desired experience. T is the voyeur. He is seeking escape from his own suffering and does so by offering Jenny and Lester, two overtly dangerous-looking hitchhikers, a ride. With clean and precise prose, the three lives are written easily into the landscape of contemporary American problems: drug addiction, sexual abuse, and extreme family dysfunction.

Tom Walker is a man reeling from an unexpected criminal charge, cut off from his wife and children. He decides on a whim to visit the Thousand Islands in upstate New York, but veers from hsi plan when he picks up an attractive young hitchiker and her boyfriend. In getting to know the young woman, Tom is able ot explore where his life has veered off track. The slow but inexcapable building of tension throughout the book gives interesting insight into Tom's character.

#1-Garden of Beasts, #2-Passporter Guide to WDW, #3-Skylight Confessions, #4 - The Secret, #5 - The Kite Runner, #6 - Gone, #7 - Hidden Mickeys, #8 - Into Thin Air, #9 - Wolf Point

[Bufomander]

#32 Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright

Man, I loved this book when I was younger -- read it and read it. Newbery Honor in 1957. Just finished re-reading it with DD -- Main characters are cousins (Portia and Julian) who are spending the summer together and "discover" a swamp with a row of old, falling-down houses...

[snozzberry]

Originally Posted by BurtsGirl

#11 Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland

I actually saw this one on someone else's list and the description peeked my interest so I put it on my to read list. It was a wonderfully enchanting book and a quick read. I really enjoyed it from front to back.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I read that last year and loved it.

#7 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
I've seen so many posts about this series, and I really needed a break from parenting books, so I decided to give it a whirl. I read it in about 24 hours...I loved it!

[eco_mama]

#9 Ina May's Guide to Childbirth By Ina May Gaskin

Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention.

Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the fear out of childbirth by restoring women’s faith in their own natural power to give birth with more ease, less pain, and less medical intervention.

#1 A Midwife's Story By Penny Armstrong & Sheryl Feldman
#2 Jesus and The Essenes By Dolores Cannon
#3 The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life By Deepak Chopra
#4 Spiritual Midwifery By Ina May Gaskin (4th Ed.)
#5 A New Christianity For a New World By John Shelby Spong
#6 The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore By Deepak Chopra
#7 Paths to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education
#8 Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing By Caroline Myss, PH.D

[friendtoall]

#13 A Thousand Splendid Suns

#14Better Off – great food for thought!

[ColoradoMama]

Invisible Lives by Anjali Banjeree - This was a very easy read. It was a nice story, but not very deep. Parts of it I just couldn't get into. I'd say it was a very mediocre book.

[kaliki_kila]

Here are mine so far this month...

20. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

21. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

22. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

23. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

24. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

25. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

[nancy926]

I just signed up for paperbackswap....finally! Eight of my 13 books have been requested already, which is pretty cool.

I'm reading Voyager by Diana Gabaldon....I'm about 150 pages in, so only 1/8 of the way through. I might start something else just for variety's sake.

[muttix2]

#5 Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts by Akiba Solomon and Ayana Byrd

A bunch of essays by various black women about their bodies and their issues. A pretty quick read, it gave me a break from the parenting books I'm in the middle of reading.

#1 Bento Box in the Heartland; #2 The Secret Life of Supermom; #3 The Milk Memos; #4 Baby Laughs

[A&A]

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler


I Anne Tyler! One doesn't read her for plot; one reads her for characterization and beautifully-crafted sentences.

[Leilamus]

#6 The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

not as gripping as Secret Life of Bees but still enjoyable.

[Hollysmom]

Missed last month due to childbirth and then a newborn

5) A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle

This book really made me think. I read it so I could do the Oprah class thing and I feel like I am learning a lot.

Anyone else read it? If so what did you think?

[Igraine]

Took a break from "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman because it is pretty overwhelming and full of just amazing information.

During the break I read #6 "Beautiful Children" by Charles Bock. It just came out in February. I really enjoyed the writing. It is about living in Las Vegas and involves a pretty dark telling of what life is like. But it is more than that, it is about how dark any of our lives can be. It is partly "normal" and partly "totally Vegas" in it's grand, craziness. I am still processing it because I really had no idea how it would end and the ending was completely not what I expected.

1. The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh
2. Someplace to be Flying By Charles DeLint
3. Svaha by Charles DeLint.
4. Luna by Julie Anne Peters
5. The Ear, the eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

#33: Ian Pollack's Illustrated King Lear
by William Shakespeare
illustrated by Ian Pollack

My review of Ian Pollack's Illustrated King Lear can be found here.

#1 The Time Machine, #2 The Shining (Audio): Redux, #3 Curious George, #4 Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, #5 The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (Bantam Anthology), #6 A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, #7 "A Study in Emerald", #8 The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, #9 Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, #10 Quidditch Through the Ages, #11 On the Day You Were Born, #12 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Bantam Anthology), #13 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, #14 Rubyfruit Jungle, #15 John, Paul, George & Ben, #16 The Merchant of Venice (Bantam Anthology): Redux, #17 Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, #18 Trent's Last Case, #19 Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts, #20 Animal Dads, #21 Faggots, #22 A Day with Wilbur Robinson, #23 And Then There Were None, #24 Eating Between the Lines: The Supermarket Shopper's Guide to the Truth Behind Food Labels, #25 Henry IV, Part One, #26 Zami, A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography, #27 Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Bantam Anthology), #28 Murder Must Advertise, #29 Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, #30 Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches, #31 The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bantam Anthology), #32 Stone of Destin: The Story of Lady Macbeth, #33 Ian Pollack's Illustrated King Lear

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

#34: Celtic Folklore Cooking
by Joanne Asala

My review of Celtic Folklore Cooking can be found here.

#1 The Time Machine, #2 The Shining (Audio): Redux, #3 Curious George, #4 Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, #5 The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice (Bantam Anthology), #6 A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, #7 "A Study in Emerald", #8 The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, #9 Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, #10 Quidditch Through the Ages, #11 On the Day You Were Born, #12 The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Bantam Anthology), #13 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, #14 Rubyfruit Jungle, #15 John, Paul, George & Ben, #16 The Merchant of Venice (Bantam Anthology): Redux, #17 Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, #18 Trent's Last Case, #19 Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts, #20 Animal Dads, #21 Faggots, #22 A Day with Wilbur Robinson, #23 And Then There Were None, #24 Eating Between the Lines: The Supermarket Shopper's Guide to the Truth Behind Food Labels, #25 Henry IV, Part One, #26 Zami, A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography, #27 Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Bantam Anthology), #28 Murder Must Advertise, #29 Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, #30 Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches, #31 The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bantam Anthology), #32 Stone of Destin: The Story of Lady Macbeth, #33 Ian Pollack's Illustrated King Lear #34 Celtic Folklore Cooking

[chellemarie]

The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without by Mollie Katzen

I have never made any of the recipes in her cookbooks, but I love, love, love reading them. This one was great and I'm tempted to actually try some of the recipes - when I figure out how to bribe my kids to help me eat them.