Book #26: Little House on the PrairieI by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Nope, I’ve never read it before.)
Book #27: The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Book #28: 1984 by George Orwell. (I’m cheating. I haven’t finished yet. I’ll finish tonight so as to not be that dishonest.)
It feels pretty good to be nearly 3/5 of the way through my reading for the year when I’m just past 1/2 of the way through the year. Whoo hoo for buying myself wiggle room near the end. Twenty-four books to go. That really isn’t that many for me. Then I can start rereading again and give up on this new book business. It’s very tiring and psychologically exhausting. It’s like promiscuously picking up new intimacy partners. I don’t have this kind of bandwidth for new characters.
I want to go back to my real friends. The ones who have always been there. 🙂
I think a Little House book would be a good 1 chapter at night book for Kid A soon… I recall hearing my first one when I was 4 & my mom was reading it for my older sister. Since it was your first time through, what did you think? I haven’t read a Little House book since I was young.
I enjoyed this New Yorker article about Laura & her daughter Rose:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/08/10/090810crat_atlarge_thurman
and I think that having read the article, I’m more interested in digging into a Little House book again.
I am getting the books severely out of order, apparently. I started with book two and last night I read book four or five I can’t remember which. I got whatever the library had. Shanna is really enjoying the book–I need to get the first book.
Thank you for the article. It is making me feel more secure about not being a firmly established author yet. 😉
Which are those old book friends, inquiring minds want to know?
I think I will settle in for a re-read of the Harry Potter series, the Kushiel series, and some of the one off’s I favor. Mistral’s Daughter and Fortune is a Woman and Walk in my Soul and Bad Girls, Good Women are all books that hit my frequent re-read list. 🙂