Reading

[lesliepear]

I've been picking up odds and ends lately to keep my brain occupied. I've been getting suggestions from friends list.

Last book I finished was Octivia Butler's Xeogenisis triology. Kind of lost interest 1/2 way through the last book - her changing narrators and points of view from third to first person didn't help and it got to be kind of sloggy. Her Kindred book although a bit graphic was pretty good, I'm surprised Oprah never checked it out for her book club - I think it could have made a good movie (although the book's present is the 1970's - it was written around 1977 - it could be updated to now without losing much I think)


Other books I've got in my queue are The Shark Dialogues, My Sisters Keeper, The Schwarzben Principal (diet book), and Pyongyang : A Journey in North Korea. I do swipe books off my friends lists but I figure that's ok.

I still want to read the Narina series, but will probably BUY the complete set - maybe this summer.

As far as Alan goes, I'm trying to broaden his reading beyond trains. We got a few books tonight, one was on bridges which he liked (a future civil engineering career for Alan). Our library doesn't carry a lot of NEW books, so I end up requesting a lot for him. I have John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith on reserve and How to behave and why by Munro Leaf also. (I get inspired from the Children's Book of the Month catalogues). I got Beatrice doesn't want to by Laura Numeroff from Scholastic and thought it was good.

So anyway, I'm open to suggestions for both of us.

llbbooks I did read the Fountainhead many years ago. I even heard Ann Raynd speak at Northeastern University in Boston, although I don't remember what she said.

Comments

[lbuckley.livejournal.com]

That's a coincidence -- we're going to read an Octavia Butler book this month for my book group. I think it might even be the second in that series, but I don't remember the name right now. Did you like it?

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I read the trilogy in a collected edition titled Lilith's Brood. If you were going to read one of her books, Kindred which is more time travel than alien/sci-fi might be better. Although there is a lot of recaping in each book, it would probably better to not start in the middle.

She's got another set of books tittle the Parable of the ... - I don't know about those and they may be less interdependant.

[butterflymama3.livejournal.com]

Lilith's Brood.

That is so odd that you are reading that, while I was in Nashville at one of the sessions the woman sitting next to me was reading that same book.

Don't ask why but it just gave me the shivers reading that you are reading it too.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

The author just died, so I suspect people will be picking up her books.

[lbuckley.livejournal.com]

Ah -- we're reading one of the parable books. Parable of the Sower, I think. So I'll ask: what do you think of her as a writer?

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I don't know...she seems to want to write a lot about intmacy. And is very open to minority characters.