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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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: To Have and To Hold, Jane Green
Start Date: 04/16/05
End Date: 04/17/05
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This is the sort of book that makes me wish I used my library card more often. This book definitely didn’t need to be purchased. I knew as I was buying it that I was going to regret it but I am physically incapable of leaving Border’s emptyhanded. What I really wanted to buy was Galileo’s Daughter but I couldn’t remember if I’d already purchased it. So this book was a substitution and a poor one at that. I can’t even really explain what I didn’t like about it. You know from the get go that Alice isn’t meant to be with Joe and yet there she is, being at his beck and call for more than half the book. It was just too damn frustrating. Plus, somewhere in the 2nd or third chapter she admits that she’s heard the rumors about her cheating husband but she puts them aside because she doesn’t want to deal with it. Please. I know I joke about pulling a Scarlett and putting things off till the following day, but come on. There’s denial and then there’s denial. That’s the kind of thing I’d deal with in a hot second. Sometimes I don’t know why I bother with chicklit.
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