This weekend my book of choice was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I just finished it minutes ago. Wow. This book was quite the contrast. I think it was a very easy book to read word-wise and length-wise.... and yet, such a hard book to read subject-wise. In fact, it was horrific in parts.
But, this is not a review post! So enough on that! But that was my reading experience this weekend so far.
I grabbed a Sarah Dessen book from the library, This Lullaby. I think I'm going to jump right into that one next. That should be a nice contrast from The Road.
Oh, I knocked off a few War and Peace pages this week too! I know. Amazing.
But my Gilmore Girls marathon is really cutting into my reading time. How to balance the two leisure activities of choice? I have no idea.
Other random Sunday thoughts:
- We hope to see Harry Potter tomorrow afternoon. We're feeling very out of the loop seeing it almost a whole week into its run!
- Yesterday it was 102 degrees at least. Not my favorite part of the summer, that's for sure.
- My daughter's friends came and raided our YA books stash! There were three of them, and they each took like 10 books! I was in a bit of a panic... and now, I really hope that we see those books again.
- We're going camping this week. Keep your fingers crossed that everything turns out fun and that there are no bears wandering around like there were a couple of years ago!
I hope you enjoy Harry Potter. it seems to be getting mixed reviews, but i loved it.
ReplyDeleteI recently read The Road too. Can you say you liked a book like that? I dont know. Like you said it was so horrific..... definitely not a fun happy read. Maybe the word is intriguing???
ReplyDeleteI hope to read The Road before the movie comes out. That's the plan anyway. We'll see if it happens. :-)
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about balancing leisure activities. It can be difficult. I haven't seen but a couple of episodes of the Gilmore Girls. I've been thinking of adding it to my netflix queue.
It was 102 where I live today too. And it's supposed to be more of the same tomorrow. I guess I should be grateful I'll be in an air conditioned office all day.
Hubby and I saw the Harry Potter movie this morning and really liked it. I hope you will too.
Have a fun time camping! Enjoy your week.
I couldn't start another book for a day or two after reading The Road. It put me in a weird funk that I had to shake off first.
ReplyDeleteI really needed a reading break after reading the road! I hope you don't have that same trouble.
ReplyDeleteNow you have an excuse to get more YA books. There are so many good ones newly out or upcoming! :-)
ReplyDeleteI read THE ROAD last year and totally agree with what you had to say about it. Glad you enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteI read The Road this year. Horrific and intriguing are good words for that book.
ReplyDeleteAt my house, my 3 men went to see Harry Potter. Really positive reviews came from 2 of them, and a lukewarm review came from the youngest one!
*smiles*
Kim
I found The Road depressing, fantastically written, but immensely depressing.
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