Lynness: Just My Type

Well, I read about Just My Type somewhere and wanted to read it, but my library didn't have it.  Then all of the sudden they did, so I got it and just finished reading it.  I was rather disappointed.  It was interesting, but not well organized, lack-luster, and worst of all, didn't illustrate (literally) the points it tried to make or define the basics of the type industry.  It did show snippets of many fonts, but the author would repeatedly talk about the relative merits this font or details of that letter WITHOUT SHOWING THE FONT (but showing a picture of the creator of the font...), leaving me to wonder if I had those fonts on the computer to compare...but who has time for that?  Or there would be talk of the Roman influence, or Gothic or Italic, or Egyptian, with no graphic or description of what details makes a font more this type rather than another type.  Bottom line: could have been so much better.

Lynness: finally

Finally read The Help- she did an amazing job- I loved it!
Finally joined Goodreads and just spent waaaay too long rating books and looking into getting other ones.  Can't wait to check out some of my recommended reads.
Checked out 3 other Mark Dunn books (of Ella Minnow Pea fame)- couldn't get into any of them, really.  I was disappointed.

Time for bed- I'm supposed to drive a vanload to the DC temple tomorrow!

Lulu: Forgot to mention this one--

I also read The Birth House, by Ami McKay, recommended by Abby, and LOVED it. It's exciting to read on the heels of beginning my doula certification, and just exciting anyway, with what a great story it is!

Lulu: My reading

Looks like we're all of the same mind here; I read The Help several months ago and loved it. The movie was really well-done, too. Recently I've read:

The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield) - I adored this book and didn't want to read anything else afterwards, because it was just too good. I recommended The Help to Liz and she recommended The Thirteenth Tale to me; we enjoyed several occasions of quiet, intent, tandem reading while I was at her house through the month of August.

Peace Like A River (Leif Enger) - Recommended to me by Abby and Aunt Beccy a couple of years ago, this was the book I read after The Thirteenth Tale. It was so beautiful! So I passed it on to Liz.

These Is My Words (Nancy E. Turner) - Recommended by Abby and Aunt Beccy, also a couple of years ago, I finally got around to reading it and I'm sad I'm done.

The Book Thief (Marcus Zusak) - I got 48 pages into this addictive book before it was lost in my floating-around-space suitcase that Delta still can't find. Very annoyed about that. I've requested it from our teeny-tiny branch library, so I'm just waiting. But I might end up buying it.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) - I can't believe it took me so long to read this! I was really missing out. I read it to the kids out loud, after we had finished The Mysterious Benedict Society and were taking a break before diving into the second one. They loved it, Reed especially. I was so happy to read him something that is so richly symbolic of Christ, and written by someone who was a follower of Christ. Aslan makes me cry happy tears. Lucy and Susan make me think of my sisters. I'm really excited to read the first one (I hadn't realized that LWW was the second in the series) and the third! At the moment, we're finishing the Overlander series (Suzanne Collins); we're in the last book. And eventually we'll do the second Benedict book. It's nice to have a long queue of interesting books for their night-time reading. Makes me look forward to bedtime.

Reed is reading the first Harry Potter book! I am so pleased I could cry. While his vocal reading fluency isn't a strength YET, his comprehension is wonderful, and he gets zeroed in on Harry with intense interest when he's reading it to himself.

I'm also perusing several books on the art of writing, both the technical elements and the creative side of it.

In the process of moving and putting all my books on the shelves, I am re-realizing how many books I own that I haven't yet read. Furthermore, a lot of classics and "necessary" reads that I haven't touched....like....(oh, it shames me to admit this!)....To Kill A Mockingbird. Never read it. And too many others that I know I ought to read. I'm happy to have finally read These Is My Words and Peace Like A River, as those were on my shelves for a couple of years before I opened them. But I know, too, that it would be great if I'd read more of my own books!