This book is the book of choice for our church book club. It is a very simple easy read. You can have the entire book read in about 3 hours, less if there are no interruptions. It was just an OK read for me. I borrowed the book and I am glad that I did not purchase it. I don't understand what all of the hype is over this book. It was on the best sellers list etc.
Has anyone else read this book, if so what did you think about it?
Care for a discussion?
Background history on me:
I do not enjoy reading just to read. I read for purely informational purposes only. I will read if it is recommended after I put you through a thorough FBI questioning exam. If it related to something I was interested in I had an insatiable appetite to find any and all literature ever written on it. I did enjoy reading the books that were recommended on the college AP lists, but that was so many years ago. The list has probably changed. To this day some of my favorite writers are Chaucer, Bronte and I like the wessex stories by Thomas Hardy with Tess of the D'Ubervilles being one of my favorite. I like to discuss, to question and to debate. Anyone have a good author for me? I do like the Harry Potter stories. I like her style of writing. I like conflict, victory, a hint of romance. I like where I can make analogies. A good read for me should make me FEEL. FEEL something any emotion but a waste of time read is just that. A waste of time.
Please share with me a book that you love and would recommend that I read. I am currently reading Twilight because many of the women on our temple trip LOVED it and would not tell me what it is about.
This too, has proven to be light reading and apparently a quick read because I have been reading for 3 hours and listening to a show on the boob tube and am on Chapter 10, while running the dishwasher and rotating laundry. The verdict is still out on how I feel about it. I will let you know today when I finish it.
2 comments:
OK, so these letters showed how a couple worked through conflict in their lives and got over some big hurdles. I get that he wrote even when he was hurting and that he loved her tremendously and is a man of his word. I get it, he loved her and their love is unheard of in a world of today's values where it is easy to quit, give up, and throw it out and get a new. Perhaps, this is another reason why we are admonished to journal, so that we can see our storms and then the rainbows at the end of the storm.. Is it because I am mormon, I am not moved buy this book, or is because I have been through and weathered my own wednesday trials and am finally, sitting in a place that Jack and Laurel are?
Don't know anything about the first book mentioned...but isn't the Twilight series about a vampire???
I LOVE to read, but haven't tried Twilight yet....But, I tend to be that way with my reading...don't like to jump on the bandwagon...I read The Work and the Glory 10 years after everyone else...and I'm PROUD of it!
Let me know what you think about Twilight....I will be expecting a post with all the book FBI background.:)
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