Bored Enough....

So, I decided not to read "A Brave New World" at this point - just randomly picked up a small book called "The Slaughterhouse 5" yesterday afternoon - and finished it tonight.

A book about the post-war life of Billy Pilgrim after being a POW which included time in Dresden, where they were kept in an old slaughterhouse.

A very quick read, the author speaks of time travel, aliens, war, and the failure of the mind throughout tramatic events. The author seems obsessed with terror of old age and how he "got here", through comments by minor characters throughout the book.

Several lines that I liked in this book: "So it goes". After everything.

And, "I could carve a better man out of a banana".

A little on the crazy side, but opened up a rather distant view of war and escape and post-war America.

Brave Enough for "A Brave New World"?

Ok, so the pile has chosen my next read. As the UK Observer puts it: "Provoking, stimulating, shocking, and dazzling", I can't wait.

It is Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World", number 5 on the Board's list of fiction, and number 18 on the people's list.

Yes, kill two birds with one stone. I'm always down with multitasking.

A foreward by Margaret Atwood as well...how intriguing :)

Finished "Friday Night Knitting Club"

Ok, I am done the "Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs, my entertaining distraction from my big list, this week.

Well, as one woman put it at the knitting club I actually went to on Friday night, it was "just like reading a Danielle Steele". I couldn't agree more. The plot was crap, but the character development kept me reading. As the ladies last night filled me in, I reached the "big shocker", and had to say I balled my eyes out. It left me inspired to keep knitting though.

The books from my list keep piling up on my dresser as the requested come in from the library a little faster than I wanted.

What to read next, what to read next...time to go over and do a little cover shopping...

Moving on from Australia

A Town Like Alice was a fascinating read, me being a hopeless romantic, I couldn't wait for this war-torn couple came together again, and Jean Paget put the town of Willstown together, building it into a "Town like Alice", aka Alice Springs which was "meant for a lady". I have to say, I wouldn't mind coming into an unknown inheritance, but she put foward ideas that seemed although far too simple, inspirational in a Scarlett O'Hara kind of way.

This book definitely rated high on my list of favorites so far..if not the favorite of the lists at this point.

Another to add to the list. Done.

My next book? The Friday Night Knitting Club", although not on the list, something that came in for me at the library that I can't help but starting in a cold January when all I'm doing otherwise is knitting. Why not read about it?

Over and out.

And then I put DOWN The Ginger Man...

Ok, I know I was supposed to start, and then finish, The Ginger Man. But, after 100 pages, I got annoyed. Written in an old school lilting poetic fashion, with an added Irish accent, I have given up for now in light of better pastures. Being the New Year and all, the futuristic 2010 (I hate to think what George Orwell thought of 2010 with what he wrote about for 1984) I have decided to allow myself more time to read, and therefore get a goal of 60 books done this year.

So I took a trip to my favorite library, and started an-orderin'. Up and down the escalator I went, shopping and just taking things off the aisles. I have figured out that majority of my books are in the popular fiction section, or a level up on the Lit. floor...and people seem not to go up one floor! Ohhh, the scandal of it all :) So more books for me. Which means I did my usual habit of getting book happy (god forbid I was without a book for a day, ESPECIALLY over New Year's). So I've got about 10 out, including 2 which are not on my list but the covers looked good :)

Wanting to start something short and sweet, I have picked up Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, a <300 page novel that fits perfectly in my purse. The writing style from the 1950s is flowing and understandable, and it's an easy read. The novel is based on a British woman POW in "Malaya" in WW2, meeting another POW who risks his life for her, and gets killed. Or so you think. Years later, they meet - I think...I'm almost there.

Check out:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Like_Alice

Nevil is JUICY!!!