2024 book reports
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This week, I have several books to discuss, one of them from our banned books project and the others just several good ones I haven’t gotten a chance to share. First, for this week’s banned book – my plan was to read Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, but, in the chaos of my plague and… Read more
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This week’s Banned Book Friday post is a bit behind – like most everything has been with my pneumonia days – but here we are now, with both of this week’s books rereads from my school days – Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. First, I remember reading Morrison’s Song… Read more
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This week, as I’ve been ill and also reading for some other projects I’m stoked about, my one banned book is Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood – and, oh my word, do I have thoughts. This work, called a non-fiction novel, the first of its kind, tells the agonizing story of the murders of Herb, Bonnie,… Read more
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This week’s Banned Book reading has been pleasurable all around. First, I finished J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy with The Two Towers and The Return of the King. I know I’m repeating myself from last week but this series is one I wish everyone would read: if you haven’t read LOTR, please consider adding it… Read more
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Today has been a sickly spoonie day, a respiratory illness finding me and absolutely laying me out. Tonight, I’m starting a new antibiotic – an aside, I think that should be in the running as a title for my memoir one day, “I’m starting a new antibiotic. . .” 😉 – and hopefully on the… Read more
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This has been an extra puny week – even by my usual spoonie standards – but I have some happy things to share this Banned Books Friday. In what will hopefully be a two post day, first, I’ll pass along the report on this week’s banned book reading. Then, later this evening, I plan to… Read more
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As I shared in my post early this morning, this week has been a gnarly one with spoonie issues. However, it is also Banned Books Friday – and I have been trying to write a regular book report all week as well – so it is time to leave the sickness discussions behind for awhile… Read more
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This week’s Banned Books Friday is different for sure. My hold on Nabokov’s Lolita came up at the library – so it was this week’s first read. I have not read it before. Like most of us, I am familiar with the subject matter, a adult with sexual attraction to teenaged girls. Beyond that, I did… Read more
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This week, for our Banned Books Friday report – actually being written on Friday, stop the presses 😉 – I revisited two books on our list that I read when I was much younger – Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Though they are completely different – and we… Read more
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We have several books to talk about this week – but one that needs its own post. I am not even entirely sure how I ended up with a Libby hold on Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms – I think it was recommended because of my spoonie reading? – but when it came around, it really called… Read more
