Phew. Nearly didn’t make it. Actually I am not absolutely convinced I did make it – I was planning to read Daughters of the Sunstone (a trilogy) for the YA/juvenile fiction book of Jeane‘s DogEar Reading Challenge; I thought it was juvenile fiction because when I looked it up in the library catalogue, it was shelved in the children’s section. So when December rolled around I placed a hold on it (it was checked out), and I waited and waited and waited, and it never came in, and eventually I gave up and just checked out the first book of…
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So this is my adult fantasy or science fiction book for Jeane‘s DogEar Challenge, and I have managed to finish it before the end of November, which I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to do, what with all the applying to grad school I’ve been doing and whatnot. Chalice! I have figured out the key to Robin McKinley, and I will tell you what it is. In each of her books, she has a world that she’s created, and she plops you down right in the middle of the world. By and large, her books are not…
9 CommentsReading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan for Jeane’s DogEar Reading Challenge. I am anxious about food-type books (because I love food), and I was planning to put this off to the very end of October, except someone has a hold on it at the library. So if I don’t read it by 18 October I am out of luck. 11 October 2009 8:30 PM: Exciting. My very first book about food except for Fast Food Nation, which let’s face it, I skipped a lot of that book because it gave me unhappy feelings. I start reading and am…
33 CommentsMy own personal game for the DogEar Reading Challenge is to read only books recommended to me by Jeane. Ya heard. Thus: 1. Adult fantasy/sci-fi 2. A book featuring an animal 3. A YA or juvenile fiction book 4. A nonfiction book on an obscure topic/a topic you don’t usually read about 5. A book about gardening, plants, or food So these are mine: 1. Chalice, Robin McKinley 2. The Coachman Rat, David Henry Wilson 3. Daughters of the Sunstone, Sydney Van Scyoc 4. West with the Night, Beryl Markham 5. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan I totally meant…
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