Pippin said this in post #327 : Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
something about this TITLE makes me think it'll be a good one!
I'm reading My Life by Bill Clinton
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
I finished Everything is Illuminated yesterday and can now watch the movie. I got it for Christmas and it looks really good. It's got Elijah Wood as the main character
I don't know what to read now, though. Something short or a fast read because next semester is fast approaching and I'll have a reading class with muchos libros. Any suggestions? I might just read Equus. I hear it's really good, plus it's short, plus I think that we'll be reading it next semester and I can get one of the books out of the way. But since I'll be reading it anyway, I'd like to read something else.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
Oh, what did you think of Eragon, FP? I liked it and thought that Eldest was even better. I am trying to get my brother to read Eragon now. He is on Harry Potter 6 right now and once he's done he says that he might pick up Eragon. I'm really excited about this because he pretty much only reads Harry Potter, LotR, and the Naria books and he rarely branches out to check out other ones.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
This Bill Clinton book is taking me forever to read. it's not boring or anything, just suppppperrrrrrrr longgggggggg.
and I keep flipping pages, or starting new chapters and seeing how much I have left, it feels like I haven't gotten any farther....
but it IS interesting atleast
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
It's "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." It's all about punctuation and the crimes committed against it I'm a real stickler for punctuation and practically bang my head on the desk whenever I'm on the Internet because of the terrible misuses of apostrophes and commas, so I find this book to be a very funny and satisfying read. There's even a Punctuation Repair Kit included I agree with Frank McCourt, who is quoted on the back cover saying, "If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood."
The title of the book comes from the joke on the top of the back cover:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Mark Twain
I'm reading Anne Rice's " Blackwood Farm". Been reading it for a year now. I don't get much reading done anymore. It's actually pretty good, I'm just a slow reader these days. I read an awesome book by Clive Barker called "Cold Heart Canyon". Talk about freaky! That book took me to another dimension.
I'm reading all types of dragon type books. I had a 4th grader talking to me about Eldest and how original it was. I had to school the poor misguided kid about how it took things from Tolkien and how many books of the genre go back to Tolkien. He is a neat kid, really smart.
I read a great book! Its not a chapter book but its a picture book. Its kinda dark and creepy like tim burton. The illustrations are fantastic. Its called
The Url King by Beau Beaudoin.
I too love the Harry Potter books. I heard on the radio that Beau Beaudoin had finished writing a fantasy adventure chapter book. I am really looking forward to that.
12-19-2006 06:42 PM
I'm a real stickler for punctuation and practically bang my head on the desk whenever I'm on the Internet because of the terrible misuses of apostrophes and commas, so I find this book to be a very funny and satisfying read. There's even a Punctuation Repair Kit included
