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!

More Bookish Thots

This is just too much fun! I love thinking of each of you reading in between your lives...I stayed up late last night and finished my book. I need to do homework tonight and tomorrow because we are going camping towards the end of the week. I didn't want to be able to use the book as an excuse not to do homework! Because I would have.

I am going to post several long-winded items on the blog re my read. I have so much to share with you. I think we've all read the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and so I think you'll each be interested in what I found out. If not, you can skip my comments...

Mim, thanks for NOT posting in Japanese. Congrats (or condolences) on your new call. You'll do a wonderful job, as you do in every calling. You have unique aspects that you bring to a calling because of where you have lived and who you have associated with. I absolutely love being in Relief Society. I have very little in common with the ladies in our group, but I love the good spirit that is there. The power of righteous living. It strengthens me enormously each week.

Re holocaust books. I have "enjoyed" many of them over the years. I hesitate to use that word. But I think they all have something good to bring to the table, in that each individual reacted to their circumstances in a different way. Maybe that's why The Hiding Place shows much forgiveness, whereas Man's Search for Meaning is more individualistic and clinical. I agree that everyone should read about that event, if only to try to understand good and evil coexisting...and how one can rise above the evil while being amidst it.

On to the Mockingbird posts.