Hello

I am a Lazy McLaserson today.

I hope the lecture I'm playing hookie for is put on the internets. I'd like to hear it.

Just didn't want to leave the house

Hello, my name is Christina

and I'm terribly fickle.

This is most recently evidenced by my reading two pages of The Death of Ivan Ilych and stopping. In some ways, if you can't hook me instantly I'm moving on!

So, my next project is Adult Children of Alcoholics. This is a re-read for me. However where I am in my life now, I have more insights than when I read it in 2005. So let's see what I take from it this time.

And yes, my family of origin is/was very ACOA, even though no one was an alcoholic. The dynamic was the same, though.

Dear Blog I'm Sure Nobody Reads,

I am truly sorry for neglecting you this long.

In the time since I last posted several books have crossed my path, to put it mildly.

I haven't finished many books lately. In fact, I'm not sure if I can name a novel that I've finished since the first of the year.

Maybe The Help.

Anyway, I'm back to trying to blog about my literary adventures.

I just started The Death of Ivan Ilych. I love Tolstoy. Philip Roth made it sound like a good tale in American Pastoral. Couldn't finish that. That was disappointing.

Toward a New Slaughterhouse of Women

I kid, I kid.

I finished Slaughterhouse Five. I have mixed emotions. Throughout the book I was almost overwhelmed with pity and empathy for the main character, Billy. And it was eye-opening about Dresden. But it was hard to read and imagine all the misfortunes of Billy and know that he was going to experience the firebombing.

Now I'm on to Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller.

Keeping on my pattern of alternating non-fiction with fiction.

moving on

I may have mentioned this, but I've started a new reading policy of alternating novels with all the non-fiction I've been reading lately. That has felt really good.



Anyway, today I decided to stop Real Boys and move on to Slaughterhouse-Five.



I bought this book at Barnes and Noble, which is something I haven't done in a long time with Paperbackswap.com. I needed something immediate and as great as PBS.com is, it isn't immediate.



I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving and my first endeavor at roasting a turkey.



Time off is always nice, too.

Decided to move on from The Time Traveller's Wife

It's a weird thing. I LOVED that book when I read it back ~2005. In re-reading it I can remember parts of what and why I loved it so much, but I found that I had less patience for the stuff I didn't remember (typical for me).

Did what I do now, read a synopsis on Wikipedia to jog my memory. I forgot a LOT of the book. I was sad to have forgotten the parts I did.

I'm on now to Real Boys by William Pollock.

Feeling a little daunted by its bulk and subject matter but I'm trying to remain optimistic.

Addendum to Finished

I decided instead to start on Thou Shalt Not Be Aware

I love Alice Miller