6 posts tagged “books”

Goal 027: Read "The Devil Wears Prada".

As quite a few people told me, this was a waste of the paper on which it was printed.  It was a whiny rich girl complaining about the nature of her work as the personal assistant to a bitchy boss and her personality cult.  I wanted to scream at her to just find another job but oh well... some people have to learn the hard way.  My favorite part: when she gives all the clothes from the magazine to a secondhand store and walks out with $38,000 -- enough for her to live on for a year and write.

Goal 042: Read to kids at an elementary school.

I read to my kids today!!!! *bouncebouncebounce*  We read a cowboy book and some Dr. Suess.  It rocked!!!!!!!

Goal 025: Read "Reading Lolita in Tehran".

It was an *interesting* book.  It took me a little while to get into it because it's written very much in a text-critical fashion where novels are deconstructed.  What I did like was that Azar compared what was going on in the books to what was going on in Iran at the time.

I was fairly horrified at the treatment of women in Iran but it was nothing that I didn't already know.  It was interesting to see how the stuff in the books played out in contrast to what was going on politically at the time.

Goal 026: Read The Kite Runner

I just finished The Kite Runner and whoa... 

It made me want to order more "We Will Not Be Silent" shirts in Farsi and English.  It made me want to drop everything and go to Afghanistan and work in a women's clinic.  It made me want to give every penny I have to orphanages.

It moved me.

Goal 046: Read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

I finished the 8(?) in the series and am working through The First Four Years which isn't technically part of the collection since it was published posthumously.

The books were inspiring because it really showed the creativity one has to use in life.  The family could have easily starved and I know the parents really sacrificed so that their kids could have everything they needed.  The thing that was so wonderful is that even during the awful times, everyone was so happy.  I guess attitude is a part of life?

Goal 046: Read the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

This was the easiest one to start on because I have all the books (thanks to my mother-in-law).  I read Little House in the Big Woods on my way to and from Conrad today and I'm now partway into Little House on the Prairie.

It's been fun because my mom read the first one to us when we were little and then I had to read it again almost 20 years ago in elementary school.  The second one is interesting because I've lived on the prairie (I'm now on the edge of it) for almost 3 years now so I totally know the landscape and the things they are describing.

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