I can't seem to get it together to write a full post about any one thing, so I thought I'd just jot down a few thoughts about what I've read over the last few weeks. (I guess, technically, one does not "jot" using a keyboard, but whatever.) Lately fiction is not doing much for me, … Continue reading What I’ve Been Reading Lately
Category: Memoirs
Reader’s Journal: Lab Girl
In my other life, I’m a scientist. When I say, “my other life,” I don’t mean my life outside the blog; I mean my life in an alternate universe. I do things in a lab that involve other scientists, and also math. I do whatever kind of science I’m interested in at the moment, obviously. … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: Lab Girl
Top Ten Tuesday: With Love, From Me to You
For today's Top Ten, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, we're asked to list our favorite top ten romances (or top ten literary crushes, or something similarly Valentine's Day themed). I don't read romance or chick lit, and I don't get crushes on characters in books (although I do get crushes on books themselves, … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: With Love, From Me to You
World Citizen Challenge: Falling Leaves
For my first book in the World Citizen challenge, I selected the memoir Falling Leaves: The True Story of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah. Someone gave this book to me eight or nine years ago, quite oddly in response to the fact that I was then reading (and enjoying) Memoirs of … Continue reading World Citizen Challenge: Falling Leaves
Reading Challenge: World Citizen Challenge
Last year, I tried a couple of reading challenges, but I petered out sometime in the late spring. That's not going to stop me from trying again! The first challenge I decided to sign up for this year is the World Citizen Challenge, hosted by Eva from A Striped Armchair, and I chose this one … Continue reading Reading Challenge: World Citizen Challenge
My Life in France
Originally published June 23, 2006. I finished this book last week, and I’ve been trying to find the time to write a little review of it, but I keep getting pulled away by other things. I remember The French Chef being on the television when I was a very little girl (it came on either … Continue reading My Life in France
The Glass Castle
Originally published June 10, 2006. I just finished reading The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls for my “real-life” book club. Every month a different person picks the book, and this was not my month to choose. I probably would have chosen Julia Child’s new book, or perhaps a novel. These days, everyone has a memoir. … Continue reading The Glass Castle
Reader’s Journal: The Big House
For some reason, writing about this book is a struggle for me. It wasn't a struggle to read, although I did get bored about 60 pages from the end and decided not to finish it. It left me cold, and I've spent the last few weeks trying to determine why.I picked this book because I … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: The Big House
Reader’s Journal: So Many Books, So Little Time
How I wish I could claim that title--So Many Books, So Little Time--but in fact it belongs to Sara Nelson's book, a collection of essays about reading. Ms. Nelson set out to read a different book every week for one year and chronicle her experience. This isn't the sort of book I usually buy, but … Continue reading Reader’s Journal: So Many Books, So Little Time
The Evening Reader 