I'm trying to be better about writing at least a little blurb about each book I read. Trying being the operative word here. The blurb, if and when I do get around to writing it, will of course happen after the book has been finished. So, in the beginning, what may show up here is just the book's basic information, title, author, date I began reading it. But feel free to comment on the book even if I haven't yet written anything about it. I always like talking about books!
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever. --Curse for book thieves by Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937)
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
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God’s Debris, Scott Adams
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Loved the book. Will probably find ways to bring it up in conversations and insist that people read it.
Liked it well enough. Would probably say that it's a good read, except for [fill in the blank].
Liked it well enough to finish the book but I wouldn't recommend that someone else read it.
So bad I couldn't finish the book. If someone mentioned the book title to me I'd probably shake my head and tell him not to waste his time or money.
Reading is Fundamental
So many books, so little time
Book: The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
Start Date: 12/20/06
End Date: 12/24/06
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Maybe it is that this is the first book I’ve been able to read guilt-free since August, when school started, but I really enjoyed this book. It was such a nice feeling to get lost in a story again, to be in bed at night, fighting sleep just so that I could finish another page, then another chapter etc. I also enjoyed that at certain points in the book, the story propelled me to the internet to learn a little bit more about Florence’s history. I always enjoy when a book sparks my curiosity and desire to learn more about a certain topic.
The main character, at the end of her life, lives in a convent, where she supposedly had greater freedom than she would have had, had she stayed living as a widow in Florence. It’s hard to say, of course, what one would do in such a circumstance, but I find it hard to imagine that I would have chosen the convent life. Life outside would have been harder perhaps but it would have offered a greater illusion of freedom, provided there was a certain amount of wealth of course. She had that to spare. I’m just thankful that’s not a choice that I have to make in my lifetime.
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