Posts Tagged "nonfiction"

Like Dirk Gently I love the interconnectedness of all things, and especially love when the different things I am reading seem to connect with one another. Over the past week or so the audio version of Zeitoun by Dave Eggers kept me company on my travels. This non-fiction book tells the story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a resident of New Orleans who chose to stay in the city during Hurricane Katrina to look after his home and business. Six days after the storm hits he suddenly disappears and his wife, who has evacuated the city desperately works to piece together what happened. It’s a gripping and disturbing story, which I highly recommend. At the same time that I was listening to Zeitoun I was reading a short story anthology. At first glance a non-fiction book...

For awhile now,  I’ve been trying to keep up with participating in a weekly group blog in which we all share what we’ve read over the past week. Well, being busy I missed last week’s blog, and then today turned out to be pretty busy as well. So, I am just now getting around to getting something posted. In light of this, I think instead of trying to post a weekly summary, going forward I’ll just try to highlight what I’ve been reading one book at a time. In the past two weeks I’ve read . . . two very different graphic novels: French Milk by Lucy Kinsley which is a sort of travelogue done as a graphic novel and (Tammy Pierce is) Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson which was based on a teenager’s diary from the 1980s that was...

It’s group blog time once again, It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. Most of the reading I’ve done this week has been off of a computer screen, and it’s been stuff that I’ve written as well as the revision notes on what I’ve written, none of which really lends itself to a book review. The only books I made it through were Jeff Vandermeer’s wonderful guide for authors, Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st -Century Writer which was filled with all sorts of helpful advice and wonderfully strange graphic novel called Percy Gloom by Cathy Malkasian. I began and was quickly sucked into Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, which has provided...

It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is a group blog hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog. You can link your blog by clicking here. I’m cheating this week. I was on the road last Monday, and didn’t get around to participating in the group blog. So, today’s post is actually what I’ve been reading over the past two weeks. I read both of my Christmas gift books The Devil’s Eye by Jack McDevitt and The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett. I also listened to the audio version of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, read The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell and an all ages sort of picture book by Jon Muth called Stonecutter. My quick reviews on each of these books are listed below. The Devil’s Eye Jack McDevitt...

Yesterday, I made a list of my top books of 2009, but the problem is that I read a lot of books this year that were really good, but were not actually published this year. So, here’s a list of some of my favorite books I read this year from 2008 or earlier: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key by Kage  Baker Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Dead Meat by Sue Coe Eifelheim by Michael Flynn Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories by Richard Butner Chiggers by Hope Larson The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hajdu Candy Girl: A Year in the Life on an...