Thanks for the Moloka'i recommendation, looks like something I'd like. You might be interested in The Pearl Diver, about a young woman who contracts leprosy in Japan in 1948 (though it seems like it should be much earlier than that based on the shocking treatment of lepers).
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Eve Eleanor arrived June 5, 2007
#2 due March 9, 2010
I've recently gotten into reading again and just finished The Condition which was just okay. One of those books about people who screwed up their lives and don't do many interesting things. I also just finished The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry which was really really good. Very interesting. I'm not that into science, and I can't think of any other books I've ever picked up out of the science section, but I really enjoyed this one and learned a lot. Every time I started getting confused by the science, he would end the paragraph with a simply phrased question like "So did the Polynesians originally come from Asia or South America" (my words, not his ) that would catch me up, and leave me wondering what the answer was. It was almost a suspense novel in that there are so many little mysteries that he sets up and then solves, it just dragged me along and I read it very fast.
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Eve Eleanor arrived June 5, 2007
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Ha. Me too. I'm reading Setting Limits for a Strong Willed Child (or something like that). And The Explosive Child. Good times.
No kidding! Putting that first one on my to read shelf at goodreads.com. Sounds like it might be helpful for us. I'm reading Raising Your Spirited Child and Raising Confident Boys: 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers . To keep the good times rolling, I'm waiting for The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World to come in at the library. Woo!
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Tried reading A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown (memoir - foster home, sexual abuse, drugs etc and later became a lawyer) and i just couldn't get into it. not so much because of its content but just the writing style i guess. anyone read it?
I listened to the beginning of A Piece of Cake, and read the last 3/4 to 2/3. I found it difficult to slog through the drug abuse period - I thought it would never end. Having heard her speak the beginning, it may have given the end a clearer voice. Although listening to her talk about the abuse was kind of brutal.
A copy of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown arrived at the library for me. I'm only a few chapters in and wow... it's terrible. Brown's writing style didn't bother me nearly so much in his previous books, but this time I feel like I'm reading an 8th grader's creative writing assignment, complete with italics and exclamation points. I mean, I wasn't expecting great literature, but still.
I listened to the beginning of A Piece of Cake, and read the last 3/4 to 2/3. I found it difficult to slog through the drug abuse period - I thought it would never end. Having heard her speak the beginning, it may have given the end a clearer voice. Although listening to her talk about the abuse was kind of brutal.
thanks for the feedback. i think you are right, the repetitiveness seemed to make it drag on and on...
A copy of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown arrived at the library for me. I'm only a few chapters in and wow... it's terrible. Brown's writing style didn't bother me nearly so much in his previous books, but this time I feel like I'm reading an 8th grader's creative writing assignment, complete with italics and exclamation points. I mean, I wasn't expecting great literature, but still.
Hahaha! My husband has been reading this book on his phone and he pointed out all the italicized words to me. We had a big laugh over it! As if the reader isn't smart enough to understand the phrase or paragraph. You'd think an editor would have fixed that.
I started Naked Economics recently and I am flying through it. I love it - a lot. But I love economics, soooooooo...
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) that would catch me up, and leave me wondering what the answer was. It was almost a suspense novel in that there are so many little mysteries that he sets up and then solves, it just dragged me along and I read it very fast.
