thanx to my dear friend Shelley who a year or so ago gave me a little book called "what i read" in which i have been keeping track of my reading, the quotes i like, and any wish list items for the future.
i'll rate the books i read out of 4 stars; and please keep in my mind, that i am by no means an expert on what you'd like. :)
| Date: | Title: | Author: | Rating: |
| August 2005 re-read April 2006 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J. K. Rowling | 3 and a half stars |
| August 2005 | A tree grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 3 and a half stars |
| August 2005 | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2 and a half stars |
| Summer 2005 | The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands | Stephen King | 3 and a half stars |
| October 2005 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitchell Albom | 2 and a half stars |
| Nov-Dec 2005 | The Dark Tower IV: The Wizard and the Glass | Stephen King | 3 and a half stars |
| December 2005 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | 3 stars |
| Dec-Jan 2005-6 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 3 stars |
| February 2006 | Ishmael | Daniel Quinn | 2 stars |
| February 2006 | Crime and Punishment in original | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 4 stars |
| March 2006 | White Noise | Don DeLillo | 3 stars |
| March-April 2006 | Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 3 stars |
| April-May 2006 | Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 3 and a half stars |
| May 2006 | The Second Summer of the Sisterhood | Ann Brashares | 2 and half stars |
| currently | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| currently | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Stephen King |
5 comments:
Hey, can you cheat and put A Drinking Life in there for four stars? I am curious about A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. tell me about it
it's about a girl growing up in Brooklyn at the turn of the 20th century. it gives a very good picture of life in the working neighborhoods of new york. touches on everything: education, jobs, family. I really liked it as a potential novel to use in classrooms, either for literature or for a fictional slice of American life in a history class.
It just so happens that Lady Chatterley's Lover was the 2nd last book I read! I chose it because I thought it would be saucy, pretty disappointed on that account but it turned out be in interesting in terms of the class divisions in the UK. In the book I just finished (Road to Wigan Pier by Orwell) Orwell comment on D H Lawrence and L C's Lover a couple of times while talking about social class in the UK. He didn't have a terribly high opinion of it but apparently he (Lawrence) is a classic example of a working class person who enters the lower upper middle class via the route of literary intelligentsia (Orwell's words not mine - I have no idea).
i think i mostly enjoyed that book exactly for the reason you mention. it was a really good view at post WWI England, with industries taken over the countryside and the British society struggling with changes modernity and war devastation have brought. I'll have to borrow the Orwell book from you.
OoOOO. I would so love to read Crime and Punishment in Russian. That's got to be one of my most favorite of books.
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