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Book 25: Cujo – Stephen King
One of my friends put it best, ‘So apparently Cujo is just a bad lifetime movie with a rabid dog’ and although he was referring to the movie, it pretty much sums up the book as well. I just was …...
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Book 33: Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
Am I the only person in the world who didn’t realize that this was a true account? For some reason when I saw the movie back in high school I assumed the book was a fictionalized account and I would …...
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Book 43: Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
I flew through this book and will need to read it again to savor more of the story. When I say I flew, I mean I read it in just over an hour. I read every bit of it and … Continue reading →
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Book 44: Persepolis 2 – Marjane Satrapi
If possible, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return was better than Satrapi’s first graphic novel Persepolis: A Story of Childhood. Don’t get me wrong, they were both great and the first one’s wit and...
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Book 53: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
It will not be a surprise to those of you who have followed this blog for sometime that I was able to maneuver a second read of Jane Austen into my calendar this year. It just happened to be the …...
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Book 5: Amistad – David Pesci
This is one of those books that make me glad that I participate in my local library’s book group! I would never have gone out of my way to read this book and I surprisingly enjoyed it. I’ve done like …...
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Book 13: From Russia with Love – Ian Fleming
For my first, and probably only, foray into James Bond this was definitely a good one. Compared to other spy novels I’ve read like The Talented Mr. Ripley or The Thin Man, I enjoyed this one the most!...
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Book 17: Misery – Stephen King
Stephen King is a sick-sick man, but clearly incredibly talented to write these books. After reading Cujo, I wasn’t sure I’d read another, but my books into movies book group once again selected one....
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Book 33: Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
I first read Tuck Everlasting back in high school before the 2002 film came out as I didn’t want the story ruined by a movie (I was just as stubborn back then). Other than a general sense of wonderment...
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Book 36: The Grifters – Jim Thompson
I hope you never get tired of hearing it, but books like this are why I’m so glad Caroline and I took the chance and joined the random book group at our local library. I know I would never have picked...
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Book 43: The Bridge Over the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle
Another great selection from my library’s Books into Movies book group. I’m not the biggest fan of war novels and I wasn’t convinced I would enjoy this one, but the writing was simple and easy to read...
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Book 331: Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Continuing my “Jane-uary” theme, I’ve just finished Northanger Abbey in time for our Jane Austen Book Club (JABC) discussion, which was unfortunately postponed due to a blizzard here in Boston. In...
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Book 339: Emma – Jane Austen
For book two of our Jane Austen Book Club, my friends and I decided to conquer Emma (Amazon link). It has always been my least favorite of the six and reading Deresiewicz’s A Jane Austen Education both...
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Book 352: Persuasion – Jane Austen
I don’t know how I let myself go so long without re-reading Persuasion (Amazon link), I forgot how much I loved it. I think I last read it in 2008/2009 so almost six years ago! It makes me even happier...
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Book 362: Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Lucky for you I’ve re-read this for our Jane Austen Book Club, so you get to hear about it again, almost exactly three years after I last read it. Following Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and...
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Book 382: Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
For our fifth installment of Jane Austen Book Club we read Sense and Sensibility (S&S). Not only is this book the penultimate book of this year’s book group, it is my last Austen re-read for the...
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Book 428: Girl In A Band – Kim Gordon
For our second book in our year of biography/autobiography/memoir books someone chose Kim Gordon’s Girl In A Band. It’s a look back on her time in the band Sonic Youth (never heard of them) and about...
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Book 439: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
I would never have selected this book to read for a few reasons: it’s nonfiction; it’s a memoir/autobiography; it’s set on the African continent; and it’s not by someone I know anything about. Now I...
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Book 450: Sisters In Law – Linda Hirshman
Four the fourth installment of our nonfiction book group, we’re learning about the amazing Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor. I thought I knew a lot about the “Notorious RBG,” but I knew...
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Book 474: The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) – Lemony Snicket
For book group this year my friends and I decided to go with Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The deciding factor was the recent presidential election and outcome. With a dark four...
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