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Digest of flying home. Felix the parakeet is miserable in his cage in a New yorkapartment. He manages to escape and starts flying south. His hope is to go back to the Brazilian rainforest. He met various birds and person at the his travel. Final, he met Aca who knew his jungle. And He traveled with...
I read a book. The title of book is Marcel and the White Star. Marcel is a French mouse who is a very fine secret detective. Thieves steal the famous White Star diamond ring which belongs to the opera singer. But Marcel is determined to return it to her.
I read a book. The title of book is Marcel and the Mona Lisa. Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. one evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the painting back again.
There are books I reommend. 1. Bond of shooting star 2. Party 3. Letter 4. Frying home
Post number seven is for The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. I was not even aware of this book until today, when I spent an inordinate amount of time browsing Amazon for books. I originally went on to look for Flowers for Algernon, and somehow stumbled upon this book, thanks to the "Customers who...
It's going to be another busy, busy few days in the real world this week. But, in the meantime, and if you're so inclined, you can read two reviews of books I've read lately over at BitchBuzz: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy and Three, by Ann Quin. Or, over at Lesbilicious, you can read an interview I...
I've always found it best to start at the beginning. A number of books cover 'how to use Flex components,' but it's frequently unhelpful when you begin trying to toss around events or encounter a data binding issue. It becomes much easier to program in Flex once you understand the framework's...
For anyone interested in the book I wrote about last week, State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, it's reviewed in this week's NY Times Book Review. The review gives several examples of the essays, and it's a good introduction to the content of the book.
In a post-apocalyptic America, two people set out for the coast in search of salvation...I always like to read at least two books like that every year! In Crace's world, the apocalyptic event seemingly happened centuries ago. The earth is not destroyed, but human civilization, at least in America,...
Jodi Picoult is the author of many ripped-from-the-headlines novels. This one is about Anna, a 13-year-old girl who was conceived as a "designer baby" to be perfect donor match for her sister with leukemia. Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can stop being a body-parts supplier...
[NOTE: These book posts usually feature little pictures of each of the books over on the left side. Unfortunately, Vox isn't working well for me tonight and I am sick of fiddling with it. Vox will let me have either the little pictures or spaces between my paragraphs, but not both. I have opted for...
Edgar Sawtelle is the mute son of Trudy and Gar, a pair of dog breeders living in rural Wisconsin in an almost idyllic atmosphere of heartland values. When Edgar is a young teenager, having recently been entrusted with his own litter of puppies to whelp and train, his father dies unexpectedly - and...
Okay, this is embarrassing. For the past year (literally) I've been meaning to write up all the books I've read. Obviously that didn't happen with the frequency I had hoped for. Now I have a list and I am going to just compile all the reviews into a blurb or two. As you can tell from my list, I...
Post number six is for Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember. I'd learned about this book thanks to my working for 2+ years in the bookstore, and bought it because it looked interesting and the Children's Lead said she enjoyed it. It sat on my shelf for a long while, though, until I finally picked it up...
The author described this as an attempt to do "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" with a dog. That's about right. The pop philosophy is mawkish and, deep down, very shallow. Still, it's an absorbing story, about a race car driver who must cope with the loss of his wife to cancer and his daughter to...
I have really got to get into a better reading groove. My total number of books read for this year is truly appalling. :)) Book number five for this year is Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl, which has been on my reading list for the past two years. I was originally aiming to have this read...
An excellent review of the Red Goddess has just appeared in Mandrake Speaks, the Mandrake Press of Oxford newsletter. An indepth look at the text by the highly regarded Mogg Morgan: The Red Goddess by Peter Grey (review)258pp, Hardback 2008 £37 + p&p This is a beautiful, provocative,...
Remember that post I wrote last night about how I had the complete collection of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern? Remember how proud I was? Well, it looks like I spoke too soon. I only had the first 27 issues of the publication. Issue #28 arrived on my doorstep this morning...less than 12...
I have a big literary crush on Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were two of my favorite books of the last five years. When We Were Orphans is a different animal. It's much more densely plotted and the tone is much less controlled. The book is about Christopher Banks, an...
I'm a tiny bit ashamed to admit how late I am in getting into the writing of George Saunders. I read Pastoralia last year and recently finished up his first short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Both were amazing and I really need to track down the rest of his books. In the meantime,...
