"Fairest of the months!
Ripe summer's queen
The hey-day of the year
With robes that gleam with sunny sheen
Sweet August doth appear."
- R. Combe Miller
Ripe summer's queen
The hey-day of the year
With robes that gleam with sunny sheen
Sweet August doth appear."
- R. Combe Miller
Not only was August a month filled with lazy summer days at our home, but it was also a fabulous month for reading—due largely to a long vacation.
Books read and reviewed in August were:
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
A Death in the Family (James Agee)
Liars' Club, The (Mary Karr)
On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)
The River King (Alice Hoffman)
Secret Between Us, The (Barbara Delinsky)
Serpent Handlers, The (Brown and McDonald)
The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall-Smith
Jimmy's Stars by Mary Ann Rodman
Books Read but Not Yet Reviewed
The First Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Favorite of the Month:
A Death in the Family
(First Runner Up: Atonement)
Least Favorite:
The Secret Between Us
Where I Played
Weekly Geeks: Bookish Photos and Author Photos
The Sunday Salon: Lakes and Snakes and Reading Bliss
Sunday Scribbling: How I Met..., Observations, Ask, and Do I Have To?
And most Saturdays at Semicolon's Saturday Review of Books
What Dr. H. Is Doing Right This Minute on His Vacation Day:
Assembling bookshelves (he's a good, good man)
1 comment:
As I was reading your post I thought, "Ooh! I loved Atonement!" then, "Ooh, I loved Death In The Family even more". Which is what you seemed to think as well. Those were great books; heavy, but so worth it.
And your husband assembling the shelves? A VERY good man!
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