girl germs
08-13-2001, 02:34 AM
what has everybody been reading lately? what books have you read this summer? do you recommend anything?
i just finished re-reading <i>crime and punishment</i> by dostoevsky. i'm not sure why i decided to read it again. i guess it's just because i fell in love with the intensity of the book the first time i read it, but this time i found it kinda boring. nonetheless, i gotta give it up to dostoevsky for writing such a thought-provoking book. suck books do give me a big fuckin headache but i think it's worth it.
i also read shel silverstein's <i>a light in the attic</i>. my friend gave me this book as a gift this summer because i kept telling her stories of the horrible (but yet adorable) children i get to babysit. i mentioned something about wanting to sit on the little brats so they would just be quiet for a bit and i made a reference to "mrs. twitter the babysitter," which is a poem in a light in the attic. so my friend bought the book for me and i thought it was the best gift ever because i love shel silverstein! his books definitely made my life a bit more interesting when i was a child. whenever i was bored and could not find anything to do at all, i always picked up one of his books. his books are like a cure for boredom. his poems rock my socks off! he is that brilliant! if you didn't read any of his books when you were a child i recommend you do so now, because i'm afraid you missed out on a lot!
other books i've read since june:
<i>push</i> by sapphire. this book is about a girl who is growing up in harlem. she is poor, illiterate (thanks to the public school system), abused by both her parents (they both sexually abuse her and beat her. her father rapes her and has impregnated his daughter twice), and she also finds out that she is hiv positive. she meets a teacher in an adult education class and this teacher changes her life by making her discover the joy of keeping a journal and of writing poetry.
this book was extremely powerful. i had a hard time reading this book because it was so intense...it was like i could feel everything the main character was going through. it sounds cheesy but i cried throughout the whole book. what can i write to make you all pick this book up? this book was BRUTAL. it was HARDCORE. it's also very inspirational and if i were you i would definitely read it.
<i>the reader</i> by bernhard schlink. the lady at my local library recommended
this book to me and i'm really glad i checked it out. when i started reading the book i couldn't put it down. i finished the book in one day. the book is about a german boy named michael berg. he's 15 yeards old and he has an affair with a women named hanna who is more than twice his age. they begin to see each other almost everyday. they make love, take baths together, and hanna makes michael read to her almost everytime they meet (you find out why towards the end of the book). and then one day hanna disappears and michael thinks it's his fault. time passes by and michael is studying law. he next sees hanna in a courtroom. she is on trial for a nazi war crime. during the trial michael notices that hanna is not even trying to defend herself. she is hiding something. it's a secret she doesn't divulge and because of that she is sentenced to life in prison. there's more to the story and i could write forever.
GO READ THIS BOOK! next to elie wiesel's books about the holocaust, this is the best holocaust related book i have read in a longtime. it really does make you think. the beginning of the book is also very erotic...and who doesn't love a book with a little eroticism in it??? i would read the bible if it was eroticized.
i feel like the reading rainbow.
right now i'm reading "paradoxia" by lydia lunch, the collected poems of edna st. vincent millay, "the waves" by virginia woolf, and "about rothko" by dore ashton. and today i bought "mark rothko: a biography"...it's a hardcover book that would have cost me 45 dollars but i bought it for 20 buckaroos at the strand. suckers!
i just finished re-reading <i>crime and punishment</i> by dostoevsky. i'm not sure why i decided to read it again. i guess it's just because i fell in love with the intensity of the book the first time i read it, but this time i found it kinda boring. nonetheless, i gotta give it up to dostoevsky for writing such a thought-provoking book. suck books do give me a big fuckin headache but i think it's worth it.
i also read shel silverstein's <i>a light in the attic</i>. my friend gave me this book as a gift this summer because i kept telling her stories of the horrible (but yet adorable) children i get to babysit. i mentioned something about wanting to sit on the little brats so they would just be quiet for a bit and i made a reference to "mrs. twitter the babysitter," which is a poem in a light in the attic. so my friend bought the book for me and i thought it was the best gift ever because i love shel silverstein! his books definitely made my life a bit more interesting when i was a child. whenever i was bored and could not find anything to do at all, i always picked up one of his books. his books are like a cure for boredom. his poems rock my socks off! he is that brilliant! if you didn't read any of his books when you were a child i recommend you do so now, because i'm afraid you missed out on a lot!
other books i've read since june:
<i>push</i> by sapphire. this book is about a girl who is growing up in harlem. she is poor, illiterate (thanks to the public school system), abused by both her parents (they both sexually abuse her and beat her. her father rapes her and has impregnated his daughter twice), and she also finds out that she is hiv positive. she meets a teacher in an adult education class and this teacher changes her life by making her discover the joy of keeping a journal and of writing poetry.
this book was extremely powerful. i had a hard time reading this book because it was so intense...it was like i could feel everything the main character was going through. it sounds cheesy but i cried throughout the whole book. what can i write to make you all pick this book up? this book was BRUTAL. it was HARDCORE. it's also very inspirational and if i were you i would definitely read it.
<i>the reader</i> by bernhard schlink. the lady at my local library recommended
this book to me and i'm really glad i checked it out. when i started reading the book i couldn't put it down. i finished the book in one day. the book is about a german boy named michael berg. he's 15 yeards old and he has an affair with a women named hanna who is more than twice his age. they begin to see each other almost everyday. they make love, take baths together, and hanna makes michael read to her almost everytime they meet (you find out why towards the end of the book). and then one day hanna disappears and michael thinks it's his fault. time passes by and michael is studying law. he next sees hanna in a courtroom. she is on trial for a nazi war crime. during the trial michael notices that hanna is not even trying to defend herself. she is hiding something. it's a secret she doesn't divulge and because of that she is sentenced to life in prison. there's more to the story and i could write forever.
GO READ THIS BOOK! next to elie wiesel's books about the holocaust, this is the best holocaust related book i have read in a longtime. it really does make you think. the beginning of the book is also very erotic...and who doesn't love a book with a little eroticism in it??? i would read the bible if it was eroticized.
i feel like the reading rainbow.
right now i'm reading "paradoxia" by lydia lunch, the collected poems of edna st. vincent millay, "the waves" by virginia woolf, and "about rothko" by dore ashton. and today i bought "mark rothko: a biography"...it's a hardcover book that would have cost me 45 dollars but i bought it for 20 buckaroos at the strand. suckers!