Read This Not That
Of course I don't really mean: read this not that. But, chances are if I post something here, I didn't hate it. I'm trying to be more discerning with publicist sent material as well. There are truckloads of books vying for attention everyday and I'm not making a dent into my to-read list. Since self-publishing exploded with e-books in the past year, there are a scary number of bad books out there. Very bad. Enough to make me stop reading, but not today. Today is all sunshine and rainbows. Words singing on the page, like... Unsaid, a novel by animal activist Neil Abramson and reviewed at my other blog http://catwisdom101.com/unsaid-book-review-and-video/
The French are different and vive la difference. I finally understand what really makes them tick thanks to an eye-opening new book La Seduction by Elaine Sciolino, an American journalist living in Paris with insider access from presidents to bad boys like Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has decoded the secret handshakes of French culture. Seduction on every level is at the heart of it. A must-read for anyone thinking of traveling to France. www.elainesciolino.com/books/la-seduction
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I lean towards reading recently published book, but every so often I re-read favorites like Michael Cunningham's The Hours and The Outermost House by Henry Beston written in the mid '20s about the year he spent living in a beach shack on Cape Cod.
An excerpt from HenryBeston.com
"Sleep gone and past recapture, I drew on my clothes and went to the beach. In the luminous east, two great stars aslant were rising clear of the exhalations of darkness gathered at the rim of night and ocean-Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, the shoulders of Orion. Autumn had come, and the Giant stood again at the horizon of day and the ebbing year, his belt still hidden in the bank of cloud, his feet in the deeps of space and the far surges of the sea."
No magazine montage this week. I ran out of time. In fact, I'm dashing out into the garden with a stack to read.
The French are different and vive la difference. I finally understand what really makes them tick thanks to an eye-opening new book La Seduction by Elaine Sciolino, an American journalist living in Paris with insider access from presidents to bad boys like Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has decoded the secret handshakes of French culture. Seduction on every level is at the heart of it. A must-read for anyone thinking of traveling to France. www.elainesciolino.com/books/la-seduction
I lean towards reading recently published book, but every so often I re-read favorites like Michael Cunningham's The Hours and The Outermost House by Henry Beston written in the mid '20s about the year he spent living in a beach shack on Cape Cod.
An excerpt from HenryBeston.com
"Sleep gone and past recapture, I drew on my clothes and went to the beach. In the luminous east, two great stars aslant were rising clear of the exhalations of darkness gathered at the rim of night and ocean-Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, the shoulders of Orion. Autumn had come, and the Giant stood again at the horizon of day and the ebbing year, his belt still hidden in the bank of cloud, his feet in the deeps of space and the far surges of the sea."
No magazine montage this week. I ran out of time. In fact, I'm dashing out into the garden with a stack to read.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 10/9/2011 12:24 PM 
Categories: Travel, What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: read this not that elaine sciolino la seduction review the outermost house-review henry beston cat wisdom 101 review
Categories: Travel, What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: read this not that elaine sciolino la seduction review the outermost house-review henry beston cat wisdom 101 review
Yes, a scary number of bad self-published books out there and a lot of mediocre books from major publishers, too. A few weeks ago we went to the downtown Borders when they had 20 percent off.
Nicole Richie, many other books that were marginally interesting and not terrible, but in earlier decades, like the 80s, they would not have been published. They weren't just that great.
I did buy a fantastic writer and one new to me last week at Barnes & Noble: Kerrelyn Sparks, Sexiest Vampire Alive. Her words breathe and make your blood race.
I MUST read La Seduction. And going out for a long walk today. Went with hubs yesterday for long walk.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Ditto the hubs walk.
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