Notes on Books & Life
Three factors combined to make me finally pick up Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, which I’ve owned approximately forever. First, the TBR Dare has me focused on my own shelves. Second, one of my goals for 2011 is to read more memoirs. And third, the World Party Reading Challenge country for January was …
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A few Fridays ago I introduced a miniseries featuring some of my favorite audiobooks. This week, I’ll be focusing on nonfiction. I’ve selected three of my favorites: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (narrated by Julia Gibson) The Glass Castle opens with Walls, the author, in a taxi in New York City. She looks out …
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Okay, readers, I need your help. I’ve joined the World Party Reading Challenge, hosted by Packabook, who took over from Fizzy Thoughts. I’m really excited to read more world literature! But first…I have to find it. The challenge site offers suggestions for each month, which is a wonderful resource. Or, I could always turn to …
I have been putting off writing my review of Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader. Quite honestly, the tasks of weeding through all the amazing quotes I wanted to share and shrinking all my comments down into a manageable review were rather daunting. Really, I would recommend that anyone even remotely interested in the …
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At the last minute, I added Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader to my Banned Books Week reading. I blame it for derailing my plans to read all three previously selected books in one week (I have about 30 pages of The Catcher in the Rye left to go), but Pennac’s book has been …
