The Great American Read: Day 89 The Pillars of the Earth
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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett is one of the 4 books on the list in the 900 page range. It is about the middles ages, lust, romance, bloodlines, and building a cathedral. If this book wasn't so long I might be able to read it for my Popsugar Challenge prompt "a book from a celebrity book club" because this book was on Oprah's Book Club list back in 2007, I believe. Here is a clip of Oprah and the book. I feel sorry for the employees who have to lug these huge books to give to the audience members- haha!
And just out of curiosity I had to find out if there had been a movie or tv series based on this book- and wouldn't you know it there has been. Surprise, surprise to me Eddie Redmayne aka Newt Scamander is in it.
The book sounds interesting. It almost sounds like a more historically based Game of Thrones. There were a lot of mixed reviews on Goodreads but now I think I know what to expect when I pick this book up again in the future just not sure how far in the future that will be.
This week for the Popsugar Challenge I have finished Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller for the prompt "a book by or about a person with a disability". I have wanted to read this book for awhile since I found it was an Oregon Battle of the Books books. I have been a fan of The Miracle Worker and Helen Keller's life for a long time. I love American Sign Language and was even privileged enough to work with a group of deaf children as a camp counselor for a week. This was a great book from Annie Sullivan's perspective. She does call Helen some names that would be greatly frowned upon today but knowing that this is from a different time and being sensitive to Annie's childhood I was not taken aback. I enjoyed this book. I was originally going to attempt two books this week but as soon as I started reading Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery I knew I wanted to savor that book. Montgomery has such a way with words an...
The unfortunate problem with doing a daily project such as this is that if you miss a few days they start piling up pretty fast and some books will not even get as much of a post as others especially incredibly long books such as War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This book is just about as long as The Count of Monte Cristo but seems a lot more intimidating almost solely because it is Russian. My roommate in college read it and I should have given her more props for such an amazing accomplishment. Any way this will be the second to last book I get to on The Great American Read List . Here are a few things I watched to give me an idea about what I will be getting myself into in the far far future. One of the lamest and biggest reasons I want to read War and Peace is because one of the translators is named Larissa. It is too bad Larissa is such a popular Russian name and Russian literature is so daunting to me. This is a library ...
"Everyone loves a conspiracy." Yes, I am part of that everyone. I really do love conspiracies, secret societies, ghost stories, mysterious disappearances, and haunted houses...all that stuff. I use to have a big series of Raintree books from the 1970s that dealt with all of those things. I have searched in vain for a picture of these books and the closest I have come is this blog that only has the pictures of the creature books. Still those books made a big impression on me. I think about them whenever I want to think about leaving it all behind to go on a crazy adventure to discovery what is the secret of the Bermuda Triangle...and get famous....but honestly it is just a bunch of fun thoughts of a different life that I don't have. No worries- I still just read about them and stay safe at home. All that to say I have been reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It is fun stuff. It is a little cheesy writing wise but I am to...
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