I woke up this morning (too early for me) and found Grace already up reading a book. I had to pry it out of her hands well after her bedtime last night too. Must be a really good book! It's the 9th in the Lemony Snickett A Series of Unfortunate Events books. I'm willing to bet she's finished it by the time she gets home.
Here are a few I've read recently and couldn't put down:
Columbine by Dave Cullen.
Yes, it's about the school shooting, but it's facinating and well written. I want to re-read it.
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
I wasn't looking forward to reading this because I didn't care for Glass Castles, her memior. It was last month's selection for my book club. I found it surprisingly funny and interesting. And a lot like the books by my next author.
Lit by Mary Karr. I loved her first two memiors, Liar's Club and Cherry. A very good writer she is (except for her tendency to write sentences like that one in Yoda-like language). Now that her memiors have caught up with her actual place in life, I hope she'll try some fiction.
I have just started A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Not one that I can't put down, but maybe it will get better.
What are you reading? What book have you not been able to put down lately??Karen
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Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book's source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind.
Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in "Columbine: A True Crime Story," working backward from the events of the fateful day.
The Denver Post
Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed "far more friends than the average adolescent," with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who "on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team." The author's footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean?
"Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends," the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were "probably virgins upon death."
Wall Street Journal
Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book's source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind.
Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in "Columbine: A True Crime Story," working backward from the events of the fateful day.
The Denver Post
Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed "far more friends than the average adolescent," with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who "on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team." The author's footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean?
"Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends," the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were "probably virgins upon death."
Wall Street Journal
I saw this book and want to read it too. It's not at my library though, so I'll have to wait until after Lent to buy it.
Karen
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