whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: March 2008
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
Beth is reading . . . Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Blindness by Jose Saramago. Okay, for once in a long while I can honestly say I read something that did not live up to my expectations. Perhaps having recently read Camus's. Let me back up. S strengths lie in the nature of the outbreak, which is one of (you guessed it! I'm not so stupid that I don't understand quarantined people, especially blind ones, will eventually display myriad types of insanity. Anyway. Friday, March 7, 2008. On this. Holy crap.
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2014/01/adulthood-rites-by-octavia-e-butler.html
Beth is reading . . . Friday, January 3, 2014. Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler. Second in the Xenogenesis trilogy, this book is just as good as its predecessor and whets the appetite for the third, Imago, with ease. Butler's deceptively simple style and short chapters make the characters relatable and the action continuous, even as the story spans many years. It is impressive that a story with such a preposterous premise is able to carry within it serious doubts and relevant assertions regarding the...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: June 2008
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html
Beth is reading . . . Monday, June 16, 2008. Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood. I've decided to start adding pictures of the books, if I can acquire images of the correct editions. For example, this is the paperback cover, which is so much more . . . paperbacky than the original cover, as you can see:. Many of the other books I write about have all this STUFF surrounding them. Of Mice and Men. I also don't react well to clout, at times. This is why Siddhartha. So why pick up Moral Disorder. Which I know ...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: January 2014
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html
Beth is reading . . . Friday, January 3, 2014. Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler. Second in the Xenogenesis trilogy, this book is just as good as its predecessor and whets the appetite for the third, Imago, with ease. Butler's deceptively simple style and short chapters make the characters relatable and the action continuous, even as the story spans many years. It is impressive that a story with such a preposterous premise is able to carry within it serious doubts and relevant assertions regarding the...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: I have been away.
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-have-been-away.html
Beth is reading . . . Tuesday, December 16, 2008. I have been away. It only takes one comment, sometimes. Hello I have been away. Some personal issues and changes in my schedule have unfortunately kept me from updating this journal with regularity. I did not quite realize I was missed, but as that seems to be the case, I will attempt to update soon. I was reading The Demon Flower. And Nothing More Than Murder. By William Burroughs and Jim Thompson, respectively. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2009/08/lovely-bones-by-alice-sebold.html
Beth is reading . . . Wednesday, August 19, 2009. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It took me about two and a half days to read this book, and those were days during which I had plenty of other things to do. What I'm saying is, it's a very quick read. It was easy to read, which may explain some of its "astonishing" universal appeal. I didn't dislike this book, but I also didn't love it. I thought about not finishing it, but I finished it if only because it was so easy to do so, so easy to read and d...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire by Mike Davis
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-praise-of-barbarians-essays-against.html
Beth is reading . . . Wednesday, July 9, 2008. In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire by Mike Davis. It took me a good long while to get through this book of essays. There is only so much really depressing socialism I can take at any given time. Here, I'll sum this book up for you. "You think things are bad? Well you're wrong. They're TERRIBLE. I'm Mike Davis. *very dry joke that's almost impossible to laugh at given the circumstances of the world you've just been made aware of*". Unfortunately, ...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: May 2008
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
Beth is reading . . . Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Listen, Little Man! I would have looked at this book in a completely different manner had I any idea who Reich was when I picked the thing up. I bought it for all those reasons they tell you not to buy a book: a) good cover, b) cheap, c) short. But it also has a great title, and was illustrated by William Steig. This entire book is Reich basically yelling at you for being such a weak-minded, pathetic, socially irresponsible person. But wait! Some of the best...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: December 2008
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
Beth is reading . . . Tuesday, December 16, 2008. She by Robert A. Johnson. I first read this book at roughly the same time last year, and I found that revisiting it was worthwhile. This is a book subtitled: Understanding Feminine Psychology, and it is Johnson's explanation of the feminine psyche (in both men and women) using the myth of Eros and Psyche. There isn't much to critique from a book like this, but it has some personal significance to me, so I will make a few comments. In other words, although...
whatbethreads.blogspot.com
Beth is reading . . .: January 2008
http://whatbethreads.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
Beth is reading . . . Wednesday, January 30, 2008. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. I had seen the majority of the first book's plot acted out for me over a series of weeks by the lovely folks over at Showtime, and I expected to have a similar feeling about the second installment. I think this is what gives Lindsay's books a power that Ellis wasn't able to with American Psycho. Dexter's search for others "like him" makes it harder to see him as an isolated image we can laugh at and dissect. To ...
