I’m not doing a very good job at posting regularly on this blog, am I ? Ah well. At least I did a lot of fun, light reading this month!
Books I read (and finished reading) in September:
– Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling. Classic. Love love love.
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling. Please see above.
– Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling. Please see above again 😉 I adore J. K. Rowling. She has a fantastic writing style, she is very engaging and she tells a great story!
– Nutrition Now by Judith E. Brown. As I mentioned last month, this was required reading for my second nutrition course – which I successfully completed and took the exam for last week! I received 92% on my exam, hurray! And partially that’s because Brown’s book was so interesting. I really liked it and it was a great learning aid.
– Le Divorce by Diane Johnson. I picked this up at a secondhand bookstore because the title was familiar and it sounded like a chick flick I would like… I was about a third of the way through it before I suddenly realized that I already knew the story. I’d seen the film years ago when it first came out and then had forgotten all about it! So that was funny. It was a decent book, although the characters were a little wishy washy.
– French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano. I must be on a French kick or something. Anyway, this book has been a bestseller and people rave about it but for some reason I never got around to reading it. I’m so glad I finally picked it up! It’s an excellent read – not only does it have very good advice (and tasty-looking recipes!), but Guiliano is also funny and sweet.
Books I read part of in September but haven’t finished yet:
– Breaking Free From Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth. I read this book just a few months ago but felt the need to pick it up again. I’m reading it slowly to savour it. Roth is wonderful.
– Sex, Art, and American Culture by Camille Paglia. I read some of Paglia in one of my rhetoric classes and was immediately intrigued, so I was excited to read more of her (rather than just the couple of essays I’d read in class). She is incredibly well-read and has interesting perspectives. I don’t always agree 100% with everything she says, but I find there’s a lot of value in reading her work. I’m a big fan.
What books did you read in September?
Well done on the exam! That is terrific! It must have been just about the highest score :))
I read French Women Don’t Get Fat when it first came out, and loved it too. One recipe from it which I cook all the time is the lemon tagliatelle. It is absolutely perfect on a summer’s evening with a green salad and a class of cold White wine. It’s my most used standby when friends come round on a weekday evening when I want to cook something quick. And I love all the little stories she weaves in, and ESPECIALLY I love e illustrations! Shallowness, they name is Liz!
I might dig out Le Divorce, it rings a faint bell, sounds like a good book for my kindle for reading on the underground when I work in our Chelsea office.
I have read practically nothing this month, apart from Home Farmer magazine which I love because it gives me lots of ideas for what I’m going to do on that great and mythical day when we move far enough away from London to buy a house with a bit of a garden… It’s fantasy land basically of a very gentle kind, and probably serves a similar purpose to Harry Potter 🙂
The nutrition book sounds good too -I’m going to google it.
Hope you are reading some good things is month!
Liz
Ooh I haven’t tried lemon tagliatelle before! That sounds tasty.
Magazines are awesome. So much fun to look at house/garden-type magazines especially. Hmmm maybe I should start including magazines on this list… didn’t think of that!