Freebie Friday
Happy Friday to all, and condolences to all you Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett fans out there. Yesterday was rough on our pop icons.
So let's do our part to make today a bit more cheerful, and announce a winner. A parent, you've won yourself Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures.
I hope you enjoy it, and all the books it recommends.
Meanwhile, I'm itching to begin my advanced reading copy of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. It's a dystopian (go figure) future, following the lives of the few who survived a devastating flood.
So help anyone who bothers me during lunch today...
Next week's prize: I Am Not Sidney Poitier, by Percival Everett. Everyone has praised both this book and its author, from Publishers Weekly to The Boston Globe, and I don't think you'll be disappointed. While society tries to figure out what to do with a rich young man who looks like Sidney Poitier, even though his name is clearly Not Sidney.
So let us know what you're reading!
Comments
Currently enjoying Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Just finished Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, which was good, but I guess I expected more from it when all was said and done.
Posted by: zapkrafty | June 26, 2009 10:38 AM
I'm reading Michael Chabon's "Maps and Legends". I've been on a real "books about writing" kick these days.
Posted by: Gavin St. Ours | June 26, 2009 11:13 AM
I started Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women and simply couldn't develop a relationship with it. Seems nice enough....
I am four pages into Ellen Baker's Keeping the House. We'll see.
Posted by: Eve | June 26, 2009 11:19 AM
Re-reading Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy. I highly recommend his Border Trilogy! Even for older, northern, non-horse riding types of readers.
Posted by: Lindsey | June 26, 2009 1:25 PM
I am back on my quest to finish Entertainment Weekly's top books of the last 25 years. I just started A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I'm not really far enough in to make any judgements yet, so we'll see. As for the list, I don't think I've finished nearly as much as I had hoped by this point in the year.
And I need some opinions from fellow readers on whether I have to read the actual book on the list or if another book by the same author can count. Some of the authors I have read once and did not care for very much. I really don't necessarily want to spend my precious reading time on another of their books. Is that wrong?
Posted by: Amy | June 26, 2009 2:54 PM
Amy, that's a great question! I, for one, didn't particularly care for AHWSG, but I did enjoy What is the What. I don't think it would be cheating at all!
Posted by: Nancy | June 26, 2009 3:10 PM
I think you should probably read the book on the list. I disagree with a lot of what's on there (I enjoyed Practical Magic, but is it really one of the 100 best books of the past 25 years?) but if you're going to do it, you should probably read the ones they suggest.
(For example, "On Writing" is totally different than most of Stephen King's other books.)
Posted by: Kelly | June 28, 2009 2:07 PM