Where is reading taking me today?
I am with some theoretical physicists, trying to determine the Trouble with Physics, following the rise of String Theory (Lee Smolin). Then at other times, I am peeking into the diaries of Daisy Stone who has just been born, under rather tragic circumstances. (Carol Shields)
Where is reading taking you today?
This weekend I was spending a year in a Brownstone in NYC with four sisters and three dogs, recovering from several life changing events. (Sisters by Danielle Steel) Today I am in Manhattan, NY with Emily who is making a new life for herself in the big city while trying to be happy without compromising what she believes in. (Emily Ever After by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt)
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Mostly in South America with the Arcadio family (One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
ReplyDeleteI'm all over the place at the mo as I can't seem to stop starting new books.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Pakistan at the start of of journey across the Himilayas (by Palin).
In between the thoughts of two brothers, one a famous artist who is in Australia but about to jet off too Japan, the other brother is left home in Oz (Theft: A Love Story)
I'm also on Morocco, on holiday with a man I don't really love (A Woman of My Age)
And finally in Alagaesia, a new head of the Vardan has just been appointed (Eldest)
I posted mine here.
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Watching the Olympics is definitely taking away from my reading time. I'm still at Hogwarts. Professor Umbridge is being a serious pain in the patootie, but at least Hagrid's back.
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Today I am at Barton Cottage with Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. We have recently formed an acquaintance with the Miss Steeles, and Lucy is currently telling her great secret to Miss Dashwood. We do not prefer the company of the Miss Steeles. (Sense and Sensibility)
ReplyDeleteI'm in Seattle with J.P. Beaumont as he tries to solve the murder of a 5-year old girl. It's raining again. (Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Jance)
ReplyDeleteTraveling between the East and West coasts in the middle of a leveraged department store buyout in the late 1980s.(Webs of Powers by Darlene Quinn)
ReplyDeleteThis week I'm glad I'm not Katrina. She not only seems like she is all over the place, she actually is. ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd raidergirl3, speaking from personal experience, I already know what the "Trouble with Physics" is from taking a course in it in high school. It's complicated, that's what the trouble is, I tell you. :)
As for where I be this Tuesday, I be in Rome. For more about with whom I'm hanging out, visit my blog.
If I had known you were a physics teacher, I would have toned down my comments to say, "While I found some of the experiments we did in physics 'interesting' to say the least, I didn't always grasp the theories behind them. So maybe I should read this book to understand the theories." ;) (I know, overuse of emoticons today, sorry, don't send the emoticon police after me or the parenthetical police after me either.)
ReplyDeleteI am still in Paris with Pierre August Renoir - he has nearly finished his painting though, and I will be finishing off the book today (Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland).
ReplyDeleteI am also in London just after the end of WWII. I have just begun corresponding with a gentleman from Guernsey (The Guernsey Literature and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer).
I just left Prince Edward Island for Leaskdale, Ontario, as L.M. Montgomery leaves her childhood home to get married to a minister. Vol. 2 of the Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery.
ReplyDeleteI've finished with Francie in New York at long last. (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - wonderful read.) And am now in England with Jenny whose family have moved from NY to a haunted house in Dorset. (Tamsin - Peter S. Beagle.)
ReplyDeleteSmall Town Kansas. Quadruple homicide. 1950s. In Cold Blood by Capote! I'm a little apprehensive but also very excited!
ReplyDeleteThis week I'm hanging out in the dog park with Goody Beagle in the Dog Park Diary. Seriously funny stuff :)
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ReplyDeleteI'm back on PEI with Anne. (Anne Of The Island)
I'm reading about how fearmongerers have a field day with prospective and actual parents. (Freakonomics)
I'm in England, late 18th century with Anne Elliot. (Persuasion)
I'm in Russia. About 200 years ago. Surprisingly not that different.
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ReplyDeleteOn Tuesday, I was in New Prospect, New Jersey while a sleeper cell working out of a used furniture store recruited a young, willing martyr to drive the bomb truck. Meanwhile, the martyr's Irish American mother was sleeping with his Jewish high school guidance counselor . . .
With the intricate plot and deep ideas, it could be Philip Roth. But THAT MUCH sex, it has to be John Updike -- The Terrorist.