For eaters of pasta, and some other people.
*In this case, "from the library" actually means "stolen from my friend's bookshelf in Denver." Does that make me a bad friend? What if I plan to send her presents in the mail? What if we think of me not as a stealer of books, but as a liberator of words?
7 maids a-milking:
I think that most of the books I truly love I've ended up buying lots of copies. Because I loan them out and just think of it as letting them move around the world. If I love it, I don't mind finding another copy.
DID YOU READ IT? What did you think??
I'm a bit mixed on Eat, Pray, Love. I've read it twice, didn't like it much the first time, liked it better the second time. But still, I'll take Anne Lamott any day of the week (and twice on Sundays. ha.)
I really loved Kavalier and Clay! I agree with Meg about Eat, Pray, Love--I wanted to like it, but couldn't manage to love it.
Chabon is amazing. But I've tried twice to get through Kavalier and Clay and both times I've been disrupted by school things. Which are fun.
Just not as much fun as reading things.
If only our friends sent handy email reminders as the public library system does, then it would all be so much easier ; )
oooh. love both.
You MUST read The Yiddish Policemen's Union after Kavalier & Clay. I think I liked it better, if I dare say.
It took me FOUR TRIES to get through Kavalier and Clay before Meg made me commit. I liked it, I did. I felt that it was very well wrought, and that Chabon really knows what he's doing. But I also felt like it never really made me sing. Even so, I've got The Yiddish Policeman's Union from the library, so will start it next.
As for Eat, Pray, Love, there were bits of it that were helpful and lovely, and bits of it that were not. On the whole, I wish it had been cleaner, but it was very nice for reading while traveling.
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