I really do love to read. Just about anything. Although, I have to admit that as I have gotten older, books that don't grab my attention quickly are often delegated to the "gee, maybe if I have nothing else to read" pile.
This past week, I have finished The Ice House by Minette Walters. While many in my WhoDuKnit reading group did not like The Ice House, I definitely did. I loved the quirky sense of humor in some of the characters, despised the negativeness in others and appreciated the creativity of some of the secondary story lines and the characters involved.
I also started reading The Taking by Dean Koontz and then decided that I really did not want to read another story about aliens and weirdness. So, it went back to the Library.
Also, our library has started a new audio program called "Playaway." For whatever reason, Blogger isn't allowing me to direct link titles to websites . . . therefore if you want to learn about Playaway, go to http://www.playaway.com/. The cool thing about Playaway, is that you can get current titles on a pre-loaded player. You don't have to have a CD Player or the weight of a CD Player in your knitting bag. You don't get frustrated because the batteries died half-way through your knitting (or the story). You don't have to load a story onto your Ipod or MP3 player and then try to remember how to get it off when you are done. I am currently "reading" True Evil by Greg Isles and thoroughly enjoying the portability of the thing.
I am very excited about Lindsey's summer reading for her AP Government class. They have to read one of three books or, preferably, all three books. Liberty's Daughters (about women of the Revolution) by Mary Beth Norton, All Too Human (about Bill Clinton) by George Stephanopolous and Team of Rivals (about Abraham Lincoln) by Doris Kearns Goodwin. We did get these books at the library. I can hardly wait until she is done so that I can read each of these books, well, maybe not All Too Human. I can't stand Bill Clinton and hate to give him any of my time.
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I did stick with The Taking, maybe just because it was so strange. I can't actually say I enjoyed it but the moral of it was something I had to agree with - in order to save the world we need to save the children!
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