The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr Published: 1995 Genre: Memoir Why I picked it up: Had to read it for school, didn’t, am now Rating: 2.5 stars Challenges: Memorable Memoirs | 100+ My Thoughts: Meh. This book was unsatisfying for me, somehow. I didn’t feel like a lot happened and the ending especially was dull. That being said, it is a memoir and therefore based on a person’ life. But […]
Author: Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Published: April 2007 Publisher: HarperCollins Length: 352 pages Genre: Food memoir Why I picked it up: Browsing Amazon for ‘food’ books, this one looked goodRating: 3.5 stars Challenges: 100+ | Foodie’s Buy: Barnes and Noble | Chapters | Check your local bookstore! This is the first book I’ve read this year that I picked out specifically […]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Published: July 1998 Genre: Magical fantasy Why I picked it up: Rereading the series Rating: 3.5 stars Challenges: Harry Potter 2011 | 100+ My Thoughts: What I find most interesting about the first couple of Harry Potter books (and I suspect this will continue until the fourth or fifth book) is how little happens in them! Haha. I know there’s […]
*The following information applies to the English hardcover edition. (the novel was originally published in Japanese in 2002).* Author: Haruki Murakami Translator: Philip Gabriel Title: Kafka on the Shore Published: 2005 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Length: 436 pages Genre: Post-modern surrealism Target age: Adult (I’d also recommend it for mature 16+)Why I picked it up: Can’t rememberRating: 5 starsChallenges: 100+ | 2011 TBR Pile | Global Buy: Chapters | Barnes […]
On Zen Practice by Taizan Maezumi and Bernie Glassman Published: October 2002 (most recent edition) Genre: Spiritual non-fiction Why I picked it up: Interested in Zen Buddhism Rating: 3.5 stars Challenges: 100+ My Thoughts: This wasn’t a book I read for creative writing purposes so I don’t have too much to say about it. I read it to learn more about certain spiritual practices I have a growing interest in. […]