Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Whatcha Been Readin'?
Well, the school year is here and we are off to the races. At least, I feel like I'm in a race to catch up on all the detailed things I have to do here in the library. I hope you each had a great summer, especially with all the reading you each did whether on the beach, in a plane or car, or in the comfort of your cool home. Now, it is time to share. What did you read this summer? Give us the info on the book and whether you enjoyed reading it or if it took up time you could have been reading something else. We want to know!
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Over the summer I finished the Steig Larson trilogy that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. I would have to say this was as good a read as Robert Ludlum's Bourne trilogy, but, of course, a very different subject. I also watched the movie of the first book. Since the book is Swedish it was a Swedish movie with subtitles. I really like foreign movies but, I must say, I could not have followed this one had I not read the book. Interestingly, I expected the main character to be very good looking and was surprised that he was not a classic 'Hollywood' type. But he looked very familiar and I realized I had just seen him in the Swedish movie As It is in Heaven. (If you haven't seen this movie please give it a try. I loved it.) Back to The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.... I have heard that the new James Bond will play the title role in the American movie version.
Early in the summer I enjoyed David Benioff's City of Thieves. It is another WWII book, but this time set in Russia. This is a very different take on two intersecting lives.
Later in the summer I enjoyed The Poet of Tolstoy Park, based on the true story of an older man living the end of his life in Fairhope, Alabama, modeling his philosophy, and thus his lifestyle, after the non-fiction work of Tolstoy. A good movie for the Tolstoy background is The Last Station, starring Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy.
A fun book I read in between was The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag, a Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley. This is the second in a series about an 11 year old girl with a keen interest in chemistry and solving murder mysteries.
On a very darker side I read The Solitude of Prime Numbers. This was way too dark to recommend to anyone, but was interesting and well written.
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