Category: Book Challenge 2015
-
Quoted: A House in the Sky
It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don’t know what’s possible until you actually see it. Amanda Lindhout is truly incredible. Her memoir was hard to read and even harder to put down.
-
Quoted: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. (Is this not the greatest opening line ever?)
-
Book Challenge 2015 revisited
December 31 and I’m finally finished my 2015 reading challenge. I feel like I’ve accomplished so much. And because I feel like this accomplishment should be acknowledged by everyone commemorated, I thought I’d do a little review before jumping into 2016. So, without further ado: Total books read: 49 Total authors read: 38 Total books…
-
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
A stunning love letter to pianos: “We invest it with our dreams, we touch it offhandedly as we walk by, we crown it with favorite photos and treasured objects until it becomes a kind of domestic shrine. But when it is gone from our lives, it can’t really be replaced, not for what it encompasses as…
-
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
I do believe I’ll read more Hemingway in the future. I quite enjoy his witty characters and staccatoed sentences. Besides, he wrote this: “I drank a bottle of wine for company … A bottle of wine was good company.” I think we would have gotten along splendidly. No. 25 on my challenge. This year marks…
-
Lyrics and Poems by John K. Samson
I won’t lie, I read this strictly because my book challenge called for a book of poems. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it—some of my favourite songs by the Weakerthans are in this book—poetry just isn’t my first love… or my second, or third. No. 15 on my challenge. It’s no coincidence that this book came…
-
Halp!
I am nearly finished my reading challenge for the year, but I still need to decide what to read for my last category—a book that is more than ten years old. These are the options from my book shelf. Any suggestions / thoughts?
-
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
I’m just going to go ahead and accept that I tend to have lukewarm feelings for classic literature (unless it’s The Great Gatsby, which is truly great). This novel was no exception. Though I did enjoy a great many things uttered by Lord Henry: “The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property.”…
-
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2)
For years I’ve been telling people this is my favourite book and recommending that they read it. I am so glad that it held up on my second read. I still love this book. I will always love this book. It’s especially well-written, the Walls family reads like a cast of fictional characters too incredible to believe, and…
Being Tori 