The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I know I say this sometimes here, but it's really no wonder that this book won the Pulitzer. It has presented a lot of unanswered questions in my mind. This book is thought provoking in so many ways. You want to know what happened to the world, but we never find out. It's left up to the imagination of the reader. I like how McCarthy doesn't spell it all out for the reader--it does make you think.

The relationship between father and son is fascinating and so real. I found myself feeling scared while reading this book because the little boy is scared of what they will encounter as they travel the road to the south for winter. I was scared along with him. The landscape is godforsaken and they never know if they are meeting "good" people or "bad" people.

Thanks for the recommendation Emily!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I love HP! I had an itch to read something familiar and something fiction. I forgot how much of a main character Neville is in #1. I mostly remember the movies even though the books are much better and of course have a lot more detail! It was fun reading the first one again after having read #7 last summer and knowing Harry's fate.


Emily told me about a book she was reading called "The Road" by Cormac McCarthey ("All the Pretty Horses" and "No Country for Old Men"). I picked it up from the library last week and started it a couple of nights ago. It's about a man and his son traveling a road in (I'm assuming) America after some kind of apocalypse. I don't know what's really happened and I'm sure it will come together or be revealed in bits and pieces, but it is a fascinating story. It kind of has elements of sci-fi to it.

The Tender Bar (ctd)

I just finished reading "The Tender Bar" by JR M (whatever his last name is...).

I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would. I have been reading more non-fiction lately and I was ready for some fiction, but did check this book out of the library. It was delightful! Well ok, maybe getting drunk night after night is not a delightful thing, but the way JR talked about his relationships with people and his struggles growing up--it was a refreshing style. On some level I think he makes any reader relate to his own journey through life. I want to go to Manhasset NY and find where the old Publicans bar used to be. (It's something else now.) Thanks Sarah for a good pick for book club! :)

The Tender Bar and also Shopoholic and Sister

The book that Sarah chose for book club is called "The Tender Bar" by JR Moehringer (sp?). It's a memoir about a boy growing up in Long Island w/o a dad. His surrogate dad is the guys at the bar. It's an easy read, but I'm afraid that I might not get it finished before book club next Sat night.

I've been listening to more books on CD lately. It really does pass away the 1/2 hour commute for me. I've recently listed to "The Body Farm" by Patricia Cornwell and "Hard Truth" by Nevada Barr. These are two books that I've read before, but I wanted to listen to again.

I'm listening to "Shopoholic and Sister" by Sophie Kinsella now. This is the 4th book int he Shopoholic series. It starts with "Confessions of a Shopoholic" then goes to "Shopoholic Takes Manhattan" and then "Shopoholic Ties The Knot". Becky Bloomwood is the main character and sometimes she grates on my nerves, but she always manages to redeem herself in the end. This book has made me belly laugh out loud and then cry too. I can't wait to see how it ends. These books are the light reads you need in between the heavy ones! :)