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This bump thing is getting in my way!
(1) Grab our current reads.
(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.
(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).
"At least I'm not hanging up by my thumbs," Ingolf Vogeler said to himself, looking up at the gray cracked concrete of the cell's roof and breathing the smells of iron and old sweat and piss and less pleasant things. "Or being hammered with lead-lined hoses. Or being strung up and hammered. Yet. Rudi's got a couple more days before the month is up."
(1) Grab our current reads.
(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.
(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).
"What's wrong now, monk?" I ask him, sweet and innocent as a milkmaid's smile. "You look like a fella that mistook a bolt of vinegar for ale."
I started reading these a couple of weeks ago. I finished the third book in the Mortal Instruments series, the City of Glass last night. I finished the first book in Cassandra's new Infernal Devices prequel series, Clockwork Angel, this morning. (So much for thinking I'd be doing lots of quilting while my husband played the new Halo game all night.)
I believe a reader should never limit what he/she reads. It is through broadening our reading choices that I believe we equip ourselves with the ability to be great thinkers. The more we expose ourselves to different types of materials, the more we challenge ourselves as critical and creative thinkers.
Some famous speeches that I would recommend are:
· Aung Sang Suu Kyi – “Freedom from Fear”
· Randy Pausch – “The Last Lecturer”
· Sojourner Truth – “Ain’t I A Woman?”
Essays that I recommend are:
· Thoreau’s Essays
· Trey Ellis – “When The Wall Came Tumbling Down”
· John T. Edge – “I Am Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing”
I choose my stories by friends’ suggestions, short story searches I do on the internet, or looking through anthologies and other books that I have laying around the house.
Recently, I have covered many short stories. I am interested in learning about people from different parts of the world and cultural groups. I have consciously selected stories from writers of different backgrounds, ethnicity, and countries.
One writer that I have come across in my reading that shocked me in his writing style is César Aira in his book How I Became A Nun. I think some readers of this book were frustrated with how Aira wrote this book and possibly the concept of the book. Yet, I thought the book was cleverly written and challenged the reader to think outside the box of how an author tells a story.
Locally and nationally, I believe we can intoxicate the world with knowledge by learning about local landmarks and attractions in the communities that we live in and nearby places, mingling with people in the community who have different experiences than we have, volunteering to teach someone to read, participating in different groups in the community, and just being open to learning new things and sharing information, knowledge, and skills, that we already have.
I enjoy reading mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels. If I had to stick with one genre, that is probably it. However, I would try to make sure I include novels that fit into this category from authors all around the world.
I think I will devote the entire month of October to spooky reading materials. I am currently reading Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsoe based on true events of some very gruesome murders. I will probably start the month off with this book.
One of my friends thought it would be a good idea for me to start a blog to talk about all the books I read. At first I didn’t think too much about it because I had no idea how to blog. After doing some research, I decided to try my hand at starting a blog that reflected my enjoyment of reading diverse materials.
I love to read lots of authors so it is hard for me to say that I have a particular favorite author. I enjoy reading books by John Grisham, David Baldacci, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Malcolm Gladwell and Sherman Alexis.
I have not invested in an e-book reader yet. I think it is an investment that I will eventually make. I like the idea of having hundreds of books at my disposal in a reader versus carrying around a bag full of books. However, I do not think I will ever stop reading hard or soft back copies of books. It is something about having an actual book in my hand and turning the pages that makes me unable to completely abandon the physical book itself.
My ideal way to spend a weekend afternoon is learning ballroom dancing, spending time with friends and family, and experimenting with preparing different Italian dishes.
I am glad you pose this question. I was actually considering doing a future post about places that I have come across in my reading that I would love to visit. I would love to visit Glacier National Park in Montana, the mysterious El Dorado in South America, Guilin in China, and South Africa, just to name a few.
Today is the beginning of Book Blogger Appreciation Week and we're talking about great new book blogs we've found in the past year or so.
Carl over at Stainless Steel Droppings is hosting the fifth annual Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) challenge during September and October.
(1) Grab our current reads.
(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.
(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).
Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's musky, tusky mouth and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose, which up to that very week, day, hour, and minute, had been no bigger than a boot, though much more useful.
I've seen Stephen R. Lawhead's books for years in bookstores and wanted to check them out. The ones I was seeing, though, were King Arthur-based stories. After spending a summer playing in the pit orchestra for a community production of Camelot, I'm still pretty much done with King Arthur.
