I liked that too. what's Spook like?

Indian Captive - Lois Lenski

1942 Newbery Honor book for older children. It's the story of a captive of the Seneca around the time of the French and Indian Wars. Dated, but more sensitive than one would expect. I did find myself wanting to know more than just her first two or three years with the tribe.

#6 The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
#8 The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket

Terribly fun. Thank you mysterious stranger who abandoned them in my mailroom. I hope the library stocks them.

That was recommended to me yesterday. Looks like I should get on board.

Just in time: the long-awaited fifth book finally has a release date this fall.

All mentioned have been burned through by my girls. The Snickets should all be in the library. They are wildly popular.

Maybe I should wait for Martin to close the cycle? I hate getting ahead of the author.

#10 The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket

Continuing to be delightful. What other children's book series contains a direct reference to C.M. Kornbluth?

Joe Klein-The Running Mate

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

Because it has been made into a movie starring Kate Winslet, it's everywhere. Mom loaned it to me. I'm only about halfway through but it's very interesting.

The Reader was an Oprah Book.

momwolf decided she wanted it.

Outside of cookbooks, momwolf is not a terribly big reader. At least not a reader of linear stories. She's more of a browser than a reader. Wanders around a book, dipping into bits and pieces. I really need to get her books made of assemblages of little pieces, like the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, only with more content. She did like Do as I Say, Not as I Do.

So, anyway, she read The Reader and was unimpressed.

I read The Reader and was also unimpressed, but it was long enough ago that I don't remember all of the details. Probably got weirded out by the age disparity between the characters and the situation and all that.

I remember not liking it much.

I finished #11 The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket.

I need to get to the library for the rest of them, but I'll probably wait until after my conference.

Just started Another Life - Andrew Vachss.

Talk about contrast from what one last read ...

I am always apprehensive about Oprah books.

I tend to read more slice o' life type stories, paying close attention to writing style. I had no idea what this one was about...so I was like "oh..." when I started. Now I'm in part II at the trial, and I'm finding the story interesting. Not so much a great book, but keeps me interested. Of course, I was nodding out reading last night, so i probably missed something important. :)

wolf reads so much I swear she must work third shift.

I'm reading Confederacy of Dunces, The Last Madame (about Norma Wallace in the French Qtr) and Bre'r Rabbit.

I'm still in de souf.

Oh, when Oprah called White Oleander "liquid poetry" I knew she was an idiot.

Second, actually.

I don't get to do all that much reading at work, either. I'm lucky if I get in a page here or a page there, usually while I'm out on the veranda, attending to another important need.

The River Why? - D J Duncan
and
The Siege of Vienna by John Stoye

Toward 2012: Perspectives on the New Age - Daniel Pinchbeck, ed.

How are things looking for 2012? Do I need to put up more goat fence?