Category Archives: Reading

Another “A” for Vonnegut

Posted on 03/11/2008 by chick

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Grade: A I thought I’d read all of Vonnegut’s best, so it was a wonderful surprise to find so much to like in Bluebeard. I wish I still had the book handy so I could refresh … Continue reading →

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Embarrassingly Slow

Posted on 02/18/2008 by chick

Sometimes I can be embarrassingly slow. Take the other day for example. I was reading a book about food and the author mentioned “coffee whitener” and I could not for the life of me figure out what he meant. I … Continue reading →

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Lazy Reading

Posted on 02/10/2008 by chick

I finally got my revenge against all those mediocre writers of modern fiction. I read a nonfiction book! Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz Grade: B I found this book in … Continue reading →

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My Addiction

Posted on 02/08/2008 by chick

I haven’t been completely honest about my book-buying addiction. You see, around the holidays, I sort of fell off the wagon and bought a bunch of books. When that bunch was added to the pile that people gave me as … Continue reading →

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Blue-Footed Reading

Posted on 02/07/2008 by chick

I will miss Galápagos. It was a nice-looking book. It had a blue cover featuring a pair of blue-footed boobies. Inside, there was a page with a picture of an iguana. A previous reader had colored it in prettily using … Continue reading →

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Next Classic

Posted on 02/06/2008 by chick

The next classic I’ll be reading for 2008 is Thoreau’s Walden, which I will start any day now.

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The Truth About Tolkien

Posted on 02/06/2008 by chick

The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien Grade: C The tale of the children of Húrin is one of mythical proportions. A hero refuses to reveal a secret to a dark and powerful being. For that, he and his family … Continue reading →

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Persuaded to Watch a Movie

Posted on 02/05/2008 by chick

On Saturday I watched the movie version of Persuasion (1995) starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. It was highly rated, so I thought it would be the best of the available adaptations to watch. On the positive side, it showed … Continue reading →

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A Reader’s Demand

Posted on 02/02/2008 by chick

One of the characters in John Fowles’s The Magus says, I burnt every novel I possessed. . . . Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths? I sometimes feel … Continue reading →

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Not Persuaded

Posted on 01/30/2008 by chick

Hooray! I finished the first of my 10 must-read books for 2008—Jane Austen’s Persuasion. What took me so long to read Persuasion? I read it twice! Why would I do such a thing? The language was such a distraction from … Continue reading →

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