read one new book a month

i seem to be better at starting new books every month than actually finishing them at all. i get kinda bored with some of them.. okay, most of them. plus, i’m not a big reader, that was always my sister more than me. i go like to read, it’s just hard finding the books that will keep my interest past the first few chapters.

I read the Helen Fielding Book the overactive imagintation of Olivia Joules. But in case anyone needs help finding books the might like, try this website: whatshouldireadnext.com . You type in your favourite Book and they give you a list of possibilities for future reading

Nearly finished ‘Except your a bird’ by Peter Tinnisdale. Been a strange book, and a new author for me. Will give his other books a try in the future.

but not so much a whole book…

may revisit…

I’ve realised I pretty much do this anyway, as I’ve always been a big reader, so I’m closing this one.

I’m trying to read Little Women but I’m only about 10 pages in and it’s so darned difficult because they are so SICKENINGLY goody-goody. I’m determined to press on with it, though, because it’s a classic, and one of those books that people mention, like “To Kill A Mockingbird” (at last I know what a Boo Radley is!)

I just finished “Jarhead”, which is on at the cinema at the moment. Interesting book, though it does make you somewhat uncomfortable to be made aware that the men fighting out there – in this case not even fighting, since the author returned from the war never having made a kill – are, in some cases, teetering at the edge of their sanity. People safe at home in their beds prefer not to know this. They don’t like to know too much about what’s going on, in the same way that we probably all know abuse of prisoners happens on both sides – Iraqi and coalition – but we prefer not to have it brought to our attention, as we did when the “American abuse” photos hit the papers.

It’s not the kind of book I would usually read, but nevertheless I am glad I did.

i’m half way through and enjoy it but haven’t read it, in a few days. i know, i’m slacking. i’ll just have to pick it up, starting again tomorrow. only 2 1/2 weeks left before i can start book #2

I believe I shall keep doing this one!

I also read this, though I was slightly ashamed to be reading what I deem to be “emotional porn”. It’s one of those books along the lines of Dave Peltzer’s “A Child Called It” and details the horrific abuse that the author, Jane Elliott, suffered at the hands of her stepfather. I don’t know why these books are so popular, but as I read it I couldn’t help but think certain types of person are going to read this because they find such books a turn-on. It went into a lot of detail about her abuse and makes for very disturbing reading. Not something I would want to read again, or similar books, although I did read “A Child Called It” at the urging of a colleague.