Books Read in January (click for reviews)- The Sex Lives of Cannibals by Maarten Troost: Travelogue. Bored of life in America and anxious to make a difference in the world and have an adventure in the process. Maarten and his partner head off to the remote island of Tarawa in the South Pacific.
- An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy. Multigenerational story of a family in India.
- Room by Emma Donoghue. I knew this one would have to be good; it's on everyone's must-read list. It was.
- The Only True Genius in the Family by Jennie Nash. What does it mean to be a genius? Claire has lived under the shadow of her photographer-father's famous genius for her whole life. Could she possibly be one, too?
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Re-read for the British Lit class I teach.
Best Book of JanuaryRoom. Absolutely fantastic.
New Year Updates
• Best of 2011 (and links to all my reviews)
• Updated TBR List
Books Read Aloud (with 11-year-old)
The Battle for the Castle by Elizabeth Winthrop
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Added to My Ever-Growing TBR List- The Evolution of Adam by Peter Enns
- Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
- When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson
- The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
- When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewalt
- How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
- The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
- Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
- The Girl in the Italian Bakery by Kenneth Tingle
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
I really want to read ROOM. I loved When She Woke and The Violets of March. Hope you enjoy them, too.
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Love to see Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry on your to-read list - it really is excellent.
ReplyDeleteI loved Room too. I think I read it around last time this year, and I was stunned. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteROOM was so fantastic - a book that really made me think.
ReplyDeleteI'm catching up on my blog reading! I have ROOM on my list TBR. I read Unbroken last year -- then read it aloud with my boys (18 & 16). An excellent experience!
ReplyDeleteAlex and I especially enjoyed seeing some of the planes in the WWII exhibit at the National Air Museum in Dayton OH while visiting my parents.