April 20--reading list

[zyzyly]

I just finished Gilead--what an amazing book! Another slow, reflective read. I highly recommend it.

Starting The Sparrow, which I think will be a fairly fast read.

Yeah, I keep a bunch of books in a drawer by my bed.

Comments

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

A treasure drawer! :)

Have never heard of keeping books in a drawer by the bed, but it's actually a much better idea than keeping on the nightstand, where countless ones have ended up soaked after knocking off the glass of water in my sleep.
:)

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

I don't have a nightstand, so this has to do. there is a little shelf in the drawer, and every once in a while I'll knock my water glass off it and into the books.

[niyabinghi.livejournal.com]

Ah, well that shoots THAT theory, ahahahahaa! :D

[brendamom.livejournal.com]

Security is having a stash of good books to read.
"The Sparrow" still clings with me and usually I find 90% of the books I read forgettable. That includes prize winners and literary ladeedahs and best sellers.
Perhaps I have limited brain hard drive storage.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

or maybe the oter 90% just aren't worth remembering. I have the same experience.

[lovelightlife.livejournal.com]

I read THE SPARROW during my year in Sacramento. I really enjoyed that read. I think that I should read it again and then read CHILDREN OF GOD the sequel.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's a sequel? cool!

[backrowbass.livejournal.com]

The Sparrow was a memorable read. You may find you're reading it more slowly than you expected.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

Everybody tells me that.

[lowflyingsquab.livejournal.com]

You were right about The Sparrow. I just now finished it. The story was much more complex and thought-provoking than I first thought.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

I have the Essential Rumi somewhere close at hand. Also nearby are things like Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore and God is Alive by Leonard Cohen.

Somewhere, I have a photo of Chevy trying to get me to play ball instead of reading Rumi, but I can't find it right now.