Sunday, July 15, 2012
Last night, I was watching Pawn Stars on the History Channel and they purchased and sold a first-edition copy of Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." I can't even imagine paying that much for a book, but then again I don't have that kind of fuckin' money to spend on a book. It would be nice to have a first-edition of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in my book collection. One can only dream. I buy used books, get them as gifts (best gift to give me in case any of you want to buy me a gift), download on my nook and occasionally buy a book at full price. If I buy a book at full price its on impulse. I can't help myself and I don't just come out with one book. The Pawn Stars episode got me thinking that I haven't read much Hemingway. I've only read the The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast. Recently, I read Paula McLain's "The Paris Wife" which is about Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson. The first link below is to The Pawn Stars episode. The second link is to the Ernest Hemingway Museum in Oak Park in case you live in the Chicagoland area.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
NEXT BOOK?
Should this be my next read? Please comment.
SYNOPSIS FROM AMAZON: The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Life of Pi
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/life_pi_q.htm
Life of Pi's expected release date is November 21, 2012. The first link is information about the movie. The second link is book club discussion questions.
The coming-of-age story surrounds the son of a zookeeper who survives a shipwreck by stowing away on a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger.
MUST READ!
Its historical fiction set in Chicago (my hometown) circa 1893 during the World Fair where serial killer H.H. Holmes used the fair to lure his victims.
AND IT BEGINS...
I decided to start this blog a week ago and finally got around to actually doing it. I don't really know how its going to go and I hope people are interested in some of the same things because if you guys aren't well then it will only be me reading my blog unless I pay people to read it. Not even my parents will read it because they aren't computer savvy. I hate that my mom discovered text messages because now all I get are texts from her ALL the time. I love my mom but I wish she would stop texting. My blog will consist of books I've read and reviews on them. I'll recommend books and I would love for people to recommend books that I should read and why I should read them. Thats really why I decided to start this blog. I read a lot! I mean a ridiculous amount which annoys the people around me because once I start a book and its sooooooo effin (is that allowed in blog world?) good I won't put it down and I won't do anything. I will sit all day and read. I read every genre so there are no limits on what to recommend. I'll read it as long as the book is good.
Hello to everyone out there and stay tuned.
Hello to everyone out there and stay tuned.
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