Owlowiscious Girls

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson- I have never heard about this book.  I have never seen this book any where that I can remember.  Judging by the cover (yeah, I know) it looks like it was written within the last 20 years.  I will keep this one a mystery to myself until I get to this.  I am very bummed by how little I have been able to read in the past 2 weeks.  I got this book from the library. 

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews- the only thing I know about this book is that the elderly lady at the bookstore couldn't believe this book made it onto The Great American Read even more so than Fifty Shades of Gray.  So now I am scared to read this book.  Keeping these posts short and sweet for now. 

I have had a rough week with barely any reading.  It has been hot.  I was in charge of my daughter's birthday party and I have gotten into a lot of arguments that I am not proud of- enter the much needed Harry Potter series/marathon. The Harry Potter series is one of the absolute best.  Of course these books are on this list!  I would think these might actually win.  Beside the Bible it is one of the most widely read book series in the world.  I wouldn't really mind this one winning except that The Great American Read feels like it should be American but we all secretly know our British neighbors are much better writers. Also if you couldn't tell by now that I love Harry Potter- we named our first born child Hermione! She wears that name proudly.  We spent the day watching almost all the Harry Potter movies.  We all started getting tired about half way through Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .  I have so many feels when I re...

I will be blunt here and say One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez will have wait.  This book sounds like it has all the hard stuff that I don't necessarily enjoy reading about but sometimes you do hard books to check it off a list and to dig deep to see things from a different perspective.  See you on the other side of this project in another time and another challenge you book of crazy magical realism you.  Here is my crazy stack of books while I attempt the Readathon but I am really not getting much reading done as I try to get on top of this project.  I own this book and bought it from the used book store so I have plenty of time to read it down the road. 

Well this sounds fun....insert sarcasm.... The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, I have read about 36 pages so far and it is basically what one can expect from Hemingway.  I have loved and hated his books in equal measure so I wasn't exactly sure what expect but after what I just read this is pretty drivel and average for a book so I wonder how it got on  the list .  All the characters seem to be bored writers in Paris passing around their "lovers" around, drinking a lot of alcohol and coffee and feeling sorry for themselves- lovely (insert some more sarcasm).  Well, thank goodness it is short. Got this book at Value Village- I hoped it would be more like A Farewell to Arms but it is far more whiny and I have less sympathy for these characters already.  It makes me think I might actually like The Old Man and the Sea if I gave it another chance.   

The Shack by William Paul Young is a book that came out around the time I graduated from college and was on the road to getting married and starting a family.  I didn't read much then.  But I still remember the controversy surrounding this book in conservative circles.  This book takes place in Oregon so that is cool.  I am looking forward to this book even if some people thought it was spiritually misguided. Getting comfy for Read-a-thon but will have to move on quickly to the next book as I am on a tight schedule.  I own this book.  I bought it Goodwill or Value Village- I can't remember which one like it is even important. 

I am finally officially back from our trip and it is the first Reverse Readathon which is also my first read-a-thon where I am signed up with the Facebook group.  The first read-a-thon I ever did was in April this year and it was so much fun so when I heard that Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon was having a BRAND NEW event this summer I was wigging out!!!  Especially with all the catch up I have to do to be on track with The Great American Read List .  If I did my math right (which is questionable but I try to make the effort) I am about 9 books behind (I should be on book 65 today). So these next few posts will probably be pretty short.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston is about a black girl growing up into a woman who goes through a lot of men and heartbreak to find her identity.  It sounds sort of sad.  I will pull up a quick video summary. I was assured by my fellow read-a-thon participants that this is a good book, but it was...