Kristin's Book Log


Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I don't usually hit a point in a book and just decide I'm not finishing it, but I did tonight. Worse yet, it's a book for the book group meeting Thursday. What finally drove me over the edge was having the main character die a third of the way through the book. I see now that this plot twist is hinted at in reviews, but I'm not sure if I'd have picked up on it had I read them before starting the book.



Wednesday, August 20, 2008
I've been slowly working my way through Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi via dailylit. In today's chunk I came across the following quote I just needed to share:

"We had dinner on a ground-veranda over the water--the chief dish the renowned fish called the pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

I want a meal like that.



Saturday, August 16, 2008
from the KPCC book club:
Scott McClellan's What Happened

from Powell's Indiespensable:
Aron Nels Steinke's The Super Crazy Cat Dance
Monica Drake's Clown Girl

from my weekend visit to Powell's:
Alan Weisman's The World Without Us
Alexandra Fuller's The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games
Robert Charles Wilson's Axis
Jonathan Safra Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

recent bookmooch arrivals:
Robert D. Kaplan's Warrior Politics
George Orwell's A Collection of Essays
Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey
Dana Sachs's The House on Dream Street
Isabel Allende's Paula
Pico Iyer's The Lady and the Monk



Since 01-01-2004
Read 909
Bought 684
Total: 225
Kristin is being good and catching up on her backlog

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Last 5
Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Cod by Mark Kurlansky

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Imago by Octavia Butler

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