Two of my coworkers are reading Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife for their book club this week and they asked me if I had seen or read it before. Since I had not, I looked it up and was fairly intrigued. One of the ladies who was to read it for book club received her [...]
News of a Kidnapping is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s true account of the kidnapping of 10 people in 1990 during a standoff in Colombia between the government and the drug trader Pablo Escobar. Marquez wrote this book at the behest of one of the captives and her husband.
I had a very difficult time getting into this [...]
Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen is the story of an old man in a nursing home remembering his life as a young man living in the United States during the Great Depression. His life seems secure, he is studying to be a veterinarian at an Ivy league school and has plans to return home [...]
I found The Sacred History of Britain by Martin Palmer on the discount table at Half Price Books for $5. Sometimes there is a good reason that books are on the discount table, but I decided to give it a chance anyway. Religion? British history? A bargain? Count me in!
I am very glad that I [...]
Margaret George’s “Memoirs of Cleopatra” begins with the young princess Cleopatra’s memory of General Pompey coming to Egypt and her role in charming him with her wit and personality in order to help her father keep his kingdom and of course tells her story up through her infamous death.
I feel like I did not give [...]
I came across this story today in the New York Times: R.L. Stine is revitalizing his “Goosebumps” series with “Goosebumps: Horrorland,” a bunch of new young adult/children’s novels set in a theme park called, you guessed it, Horrorland. It will be very interesting to see if these take off, I remember LOVING Goosebumps and, to [...]
I used to be a very promiscuous reader, I would have about four books going at any given time. For some reason, I have not been able to do that lately. I seem to only be able to concentrate on one book at a time, probably because I have less time to read [...]
All I want to do right now is go home and read my book.
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Well, rantsandreads wasn’t kidding when she told me that Water for Elephants was a fast read. I started it around 9ish last night and finished it this afternoon. I am going to write a review tonight or, more likely, tomorrow, but I am going to refrain from publishing it for about a week. [...]
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World is the second book I’ve read by Michael Pollan (and still, his name makes me laugh everytime…his name is ‘Pollan’…and he writes about plants…anyone?). I picked up this book because I very much enjoyed The Omnivore’s Dilemma and was hoping for something similar which, [...]
