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Monday, July 26, 2010
What are you reading right now?
I asked on my facebook and my other blog what people are reading right now and got some good suggestions and a couple of trends. So before I share those with you, what are you reading right now?
FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK-- I took time out to rad the Pulitzer Prize winner Tinkers. it is about a man dying but he is remembering his relationship with his wife, his son and his father. The writing is the key... not necessarily the plot. He flows into past and present in a nice way. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, which is short.
As with Jurassic Park and with The Shipping News, the author Paul Harding teaches you about the main metaphor-- clocks and fixing clocks-- as he breaks the chapters. What it does is want me to know more and more about clocks too. Times up. That's my review.
Me, I am reading Botchan, a Japaneese classic and Banker to the Poor by Mohammad Yunus(micro-lending and the battle against world poverty). Botchan is more fun...
Like GGG I have just retired (again for me). Time now to read in earnest. I just finished Wolf Hall, a fictionalized account of Thomas Cromwell from the time he left home till the death of Thomas More. Now I am reading a biography of Harry Truman. I was in London reading Wolf Hall and at the headwaters of the Missouri River traveling to Washington DC as I make my way through Truman. Does proximity help to bring alive subject matter?
FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK--
ReplyDeleteI took time out to rad the Pulitzer Prize winner Tinkers. it is about a man dying but he is remembering his relationship with his wife, his son and his father. The writing is the key... not necessarily the plot. He flows into past and present in a nice way. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, which is short.
As with Jurassic Park and with The Shipping News, the author Paul Harding teaches you about the main metaphor-- clocks and fixing clocks-- as he breaks the chapters. What it does is want me to know more and more about clocks too.
Times up. That's my review.
Since I have never read it and I like clocks, I may have to put it on my reading list.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Defying Gravity The Little Giant of Aberdeen County and starting The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
ReplyDeleteDiana
I want to know more about the The Girl with series....
ReplyDeleteMe, I am reading Botchan, a Japaneese classic and Banker to the Poor by Mohammad Yunus(micro-lending and the battle against world poverty). Botchan is more fun...
ReplyDeleteLike GGG I have just retired (again for me). Time now to read in earnest. I just finished Wolf Hall, a fictionalized account of Thomas Cromwell from the time he left home till the death of Thomas More. Now I am reading a biography of Harry Truman. I was in London reading Wolf Hall and at the headwaters of the Missouri River traveling to Washington DC as I make my way through Truman. Does proximity help to bring alive subject matter?
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