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coffeesnob318) wrote2008-03-04 02:16 am
coffeesnob318) wrote2008-03-04 02:16 am
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February reading
I didn't get a lot read this month. I'm not sure why. But here's what I did read.
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I had forgotten how much I like this book. It was good to reread it. It was a little exhausting – I’ve gotten used to reading things that read so much more easily with simpler language – but worth it. I also forgot how much suspension of disbelief romanticism of this era requires, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
9. Babyville by Jane Green
I wasn't going to read this one - I bypassed it in the library - but Maggie brought it home, so I read it, too. Not bad. Not one of her best. But I liked this quote - “I’m tired of doing everything on my own. I want someone else to deal with things. I want someone who can stand up to people who try to rip me off. I want someone to ring the bank when they’ve cocked up my statement again. I just want someone to share it all with.”
10. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
I’ve got to stop reading chick lit for a while. It makes me disappointed in men and life in general. And it reinforces feelings like this: “The trouble with trying to go out with people when you get older is that everything becomes so loaded. The whole thing builds up out of all proportion, so finding a relationship seems a dazzling, almost insurmountable goal, and when you do start going out with someone it cannot possibly live up to expectations.”
But funny. This book is hilarious. Having seen the movie, though, I admit I was a little disappointed when neither Colin Firth nor Hugh Grant popped up out of the pages. That would have been grand.
11. The Vision and the Vow by Pete Greig
I took this book from Jeff and Shelly’s house because I like the guy who wrote it. I wasn’t particularly looking to be inspired, so it surprised me. I guess I should have known by the author that it would be a vision “with feet on it” (as MeMaw would say), not just some motivational nonsense. I enjoyed it, and I was refreshed.
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I had forgotten how much I like this book. It was good to reread it. It was a little exhausting – I’ve gotten used to reading things that read so much more easily with simpler language – but worth it. I also forgot how much suspension of disbelief romanticism of this era requires, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
9. Babyville by Jane Green
I wasn't going to read this one - I bypassed it in the library - but Maggie brought it home, so I read it, too. Not bad. Not one of her best. But I liked this quote - “I’m tired of doing everything on my own. I want someone else to deal with things. I want someone who can stand up to people who try to rip me off. I want someone to ring the bank when they’ve cocked up my statement again. I just want someone to share it all with.”
10. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
I’ve got to stop reading chick lit for a while. It makes me disappointed in men and life in general. And it reinforces feelings like this: “The trouble with trying to go out with people when you get older is that everything becomes so loaded. The whole thing builds up out of all proportion, so finding a relationship seems a dazzling, almost insurmountable goal, and when you do start going out with someone it cannot possibly live up to expectations.”
But funny. This book is hilarious. Having seen the movie, though, I admit I was a little disappointed when neither Colin Firth nor Hugh Grant popped up out of the pages. That would have been grand.
11. The Vision and the Vow by Pete Greig
I took this book from Jeff and Shelly’s house because I like the guy who wrote it. I wasn’t particularly looking to be inspired, so it surprised me. I guess I should have known by the author that it would be a vision “with feet on it” (as MeMaw would say), not just some motivational nonsense. I enjoyed it, and I was refreshed.