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Thankfully Reading ~ Day 1 Update
I hope that each and every one of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving (or just a very nice Thursday if you’re not from the US).
Our Thanksgiving dinner was a smashing success. The girls and my mother-in-law were, in fact, flabbergasted by the table. The girls wanted nothing more than to help spread out the table cloth and set the table. I loved using my wedding china. Danny and I don’t think we’ve used it once in the 7 years we’ve lived in our current house. The food and the company were wonderful. I couldn’t have been happier about it.
After the girls went to bed, I started reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. In the first few chapters I can see that it is so different from any other Tudor novel I’ve read. I only read 39 pages (first section), but I have a feeling that I will love this novel. I love reading about this time period from the female perspective, but seeing things from Thomas Cromwell’s point of view is going to be delicious.
Today, amidst my Black Friday shopping and the restoration of my walk-in-closet back into a space I can walk into, I finished The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. I’m not sure what I think of this novel. There are parts I really enjoyed, but there are others that dragged on and on and, to my mind, had no other purpose than to function as a red herring. What to think of the ending? I’ll have to sit with this one a while before I write a formal review. Simon Vance’s narration is once again top notch. That’s about all I’m sure of here.
I then started The Help only to have my MP3 player die on me. While I was waiting and working on my extremely delinquent bookmarks for the Bookmark It club (one for Oct/Nov and one for Dec will be in the mail soon!), I started listening to Peace Like a River. I know how I felt about that. After only an hour and 15 minutes, I stopped it. I couldn’t take the writing – or at least the way that the writing was narrated. Let’s just say that I’m thankful that one is over. LOL!
That’s about it from here today. Have a great night and I’ll post again tomorrow. Until then, I’ll be thankfully reading!
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November 27, 2009 | Filed Under About Literate Housewife
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13 Responses to “Thankfully Reading ~ Day 1 Update”
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Cam (epibloguer)
Posted: Nov 27th, 2009 at 9:39 pm1Reply to this comment.Dang! I just saw that you didn’t like Peace Like a River. =( Shoot… I’ll have to give it a try and see how I like it. Hope your other books are good!
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Kathy R (Bermudaonion)
Posted: Nov 27th, 2009 at 10:06 pm2Reply to this comment.I’m so glad you had a nice Thanksgiving. I can’t believe you braved the crowds today.
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Barbara
Posted: Nov 27th, 2009 at 11:17 pm3Reply to this comment.Loved, loved, loved The Help. And I’m listening to Little Stranger on my IPod as a freebie download from my library. It’s starting to get scarie….well, being a download I basically only listen to it in the daytime driving around!!!! Hope it’s not too spooky.
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Sheila (Bookjourney)
Posted: Nov 28th, 2009 at 12:19 am4Reply to this comment.The Help was fantastic! Really great!
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Sandy
Posted: Nov 28th, 2009 at 9:00 am5Reply to this comment.I hate it when my iPod craps out on me. It ruins my day, as pathetic as that sounds. I read The Help on my Kindle, but heard the audio is fabulous, and I can believe it. The characters are larger than life, so I can only imagine! Through Vance’s genius, I lost myself in The Little Stranger. I didn’t want it to end. But I found that as I ruminated on the story, and that ending, that I loved it even more. Give yourself some time to think on it. Sarah Waters seems to have that way about her.
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Brth F
Posted: Nov 28th, 2009 at 9:18 am6Reply to this comment.I used to go out on Black Friday — but I don’t do that anymore. I go into a panic if my mp3 player runs out or juice or otherwise acts up. I have 3 — I believe in backups.
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Lisa
Posted: Nov 28th, 2009 at 1:08 pm7Reply to this comment.You had a great day with reading, shopping and accomplishing something at home!
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Vasilly
Posted: Nov 28th, 2009 at 1:54 pm8Reply to this comment.Glad to hear you had a great Thanksgiving. I keep seeing The Help and The Little Stranger everywhere. I’m going to have to get to them soon. Happy reading!
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Jen - Devourer of Books
Posted: Nov 28th, 2009 at 7:09 pm9Reply to this comment.I abandoned an audio book this weekend too. I tried “Going Bovine” by Libba Bray, but the narrator really couldn’t pull off the teenage slang at ALL. I listened for about 5 minutes and couldn’t stand it anymore. His ‘WTF’ was laughable.
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itsJUSTme-wendy
Posted: Nov 29th, 2009 at 9:54 am10Reply to this comment.I did the “Black Fri.” shopping all day, no time for reading!
I read “The Help” and I thought it was the best book I had read in 2009! When you finally do get to finish it, let me know what you thought of it. -
Ti
Posted: Nov 29th, 2009 at 7:05 pm11Reply to this comment.You’ve been reading some great stuff.
My daughter was so excited about setting the table this year that she did it two days before!She wasn’t as excited about clearing the table though…
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Veens
Posted: Nov 30th, 2009 at 8:18 am12Reply to this comment.Good to know that the dinner was such a success! That’s great week!
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Stacy
Posted: Nov 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pm13Reply to this comment.Glad you had a fantastic Thanksgiving!
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