What an enjoyable read! I definitely recommend Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. It was full of imagination and characters transcending their tragedies with creativity and love. My MIL loaned it to me and I wanted to read it in September since 9/11 is central to its plotline. I found lots of quotes that I love, but I also liked what I couldn't quote about this story - the way it was interwoven.
Page 2: I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat.
Page 33: The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am...
Page 74: I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
Page 108: ... songs are as sad as the listener...
Page 126: ... maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.
Page 224: Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
Page 209: The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Mari's Books of August
I wanted to read a classic to my kids this summer, so I chose William Golding's Lord of the Flies. I think they expect something slow and dry, even if the story is good, when they hear "classic." But with such a weird and wicked story, they were certainly captivated. We stayed up quite late a couple of August nights and finished it quickly.
Page 137: The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.
Some time ago I had picked up a little book at our local library's overstock sale, Sinister Sudoku by Kaye Morgan. Both my mom and my MIL like to do sudoku. I thought I'd pass it along to one of them after I read it. Story was fine but it's not a book I need to keep.
And since then I have not been reading much. Busy getting ready for school, our family trip to Silverwood, getting our exchage student enrolled and ready. I subbed a six day assignment, starting the second day of school. I thought I'd get lots of reading in with lunches and prep periods, but I found that I actually had to do lots of prep. It wasn't until the last day or two that I read anything. I do like the book I'm currently reading. It's a good September book.
Always carry a book. *smile*
Page 137: The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.
Some time ago I had picked up a little book at our local library's overstock sale, Sinister Sudoku by Kaye Morgan. Both my mom and my MIL like to do sudoku. I thought I'd pass it along to one of them after I read it. Story was fine but it's not a book I need to keep.
And since then I have not been reading much. Busy getting ready for school, our family trip to Silverwood, getting our exchage student enrolled and ready. I subbed a six day assignment, starting the second day of school. I thought I'd get lots of reading in with lunches and prep periods, but I found that I actually had to do lots of prep. It wasn't until the last day or two that I read anything. I do like the book I'm currently reading. It's a good September book.
Always carry a book. *smile*
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