Which books did you read in March?

[Snork Maiden]

Blindness - Jose Saramago
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen
Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie
Wives of Bath - Wendy Holden
101 Ways To Get Your Child To Read - Patience Thomson
Losing Clive To Younger Onset Dementia - Helen Beaumont
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
A Quiet Belief In Angels - RJ Ellory
That's Another Story - Julie Walters
Style Clinic - Paula Reed
The Great Big Glorious Book For Girls
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
The Survival Guide - Trinny & Susannah
Collins Digital SLR Handbook - John Freeman
A Parish Album of St Ive - George Bishop
Digital Photography Simplified - Rob Sheppard

 

[Comeflyaway]

Blindness - Jose Saramago
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen
Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie
Wives of Bath - Wendy Holden
101 Ways To Get Your Child To Read - Patience Thomson
Losing Clive To Younger Onset Dementia - Helen Beaumont
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
A Quiet Belief In Angels - RJ Ellory
That's Another Story - Julie Walters
Style Clinic - Paula Reed
The Great Big Glorious Book For Girls
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
The Survival Guide - Trinny & Susannah
Collins Digital SLR Handbook - John Freeman
A Parish Album of St Ive - George Bishop
Digital Photography Simplified - Rob Sheppard

Wow, I'm impressed! You were pretty busy!

I'm in a really long hold queue at the library (300+, lol) for Three Cups of Tea -- what did you think of it?

 

[Robert]

Disgrace was an incredible read. Do you agree or disagree?

I agree. I would be a great book for discusion. I was a little irritated by the attitudes of both David and Lucy and I wonder what other people think of them.

 

[Dragoro]

Children of Chaos by Greg Gifune.
The Historian
The Road
No country for old men
Dracula
Moby Dick
Ur
The Keeper by Sarah Langan

 

[cirque]

Tartuffe--Moliere
The Misanthrope--Moliere
The Orestes--Aeschylus
The Oedipus Cycle--Sophocles
The Medea--Euripedes
Hippolytus--Euripedes
King Lear--Bill
The Following Story---Cees Nooteboom 4/5
Blood Meridean--Cormac McCarthy 5/5

 

[page turner]

the last arguement of kings - joe abercrombie
eclipse - stephanie myer
breaking dawn - stephanie myer
the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear - walter moers
inkheart - cornelia funke
inkspell - cornelia funke

 

[Snork Maiden]

Wow, I'm impressed! You were pretty busy!

I'm in a really long hold queue at the library (300+, lol) for Three Cups of Tea -- what did you think of it?

Yeah, for me that WAS a lot! I think it's more than I read in the whole first year of my twins' life!#

Oops, forgot to say - Three Cups of Tea. Umm, it was good. I wasn't blown away by it like I thought I'd be. THe guy (Greg) is truly amazing and has done so much good work but I found the tone of the book a bit annoying. Greg Mortenson didn't write it himself (can't remember the other guy's name) and I found it a bit obsequious (sp?) or sycophantic. A bit over-egged perhaps. Still, the actual work that's going on in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Greg's approach to his work is to be respected and admired. He is very culturally-sensitive and a true humanitarian.

 

[defiant]

wow, many of you read a lot of great books in one month. i respect that.

in march i read:

denis leary's latest drivel- stay away from it
and
one day in the life of ivan denisovich by alexander solzyn... what's his face?

i started i think i love you, beth cooper but it bored me to death and i never finished it.

i want to maybe read atlas shrugged this month. i have studied objectivism and i hate it and i have not ventured into rand's fiction. i was told john galt gives a forty page sermon on a mount of sorts. i am curious to see how rand, as a literary artist, pulled this off. very few books could disturb aristotles unity of time as much as a forty page monologue- i'd like to survey her technique. in otherwords, what i want to know is- is she as artful as her worship commands? or is it just shallow art used as a prop, a backdrop, or vehicle for an ideology? i want to dedicate a month to studying it but is it too late to do it in april?

 

[mmyap]

I read:

Kept - can't remember the author
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The God of Small Things - Arundahti Roy