Saturday, May 30, 2009

Finished "One Thousand White Women"


This month's book club pick was 1000 White Women by Jim Fergus. I loved it, loved the story, got through the depressing/violent parts because they were not graphic, and I really liked the story line. Based on a true incident, when an Indian chief went to a President in the 1800s asking to trade 1000 horses for 1000 white women, so they women would have Indian babies and then be brought into the white world bridging the gap. In reality, the chief was told no, but this book is written as if that actually transpired and is told through a journal kept by "May Dodd".

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Finished "Handle with Care"


I've been a Jodi Picoult fan for years, so when her latest book, "Handle with Care" came out I bumped all my other books aside to read her latest novel. What a disappointment. Depressing, depressing, depressing...then, just when you think she can't add any more depressing situations/scenarios, she comes up with something else to make the novel even more dreadful. Only thing I am happy about, is that I've finished it and can move on to the other books in my pile!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Finished "Look Me In The Eye"


Last Wednesday I finished the book "Look Me In The Eye" which was a book my book club selected. I enjoyed the book, which is a memoir of a gentleman that was diagnosed in his 40s with Asperger's Syndrome (a high functioning form of autism). It gave great insight into how his VERY LOGICAL thought process works, with NO basis of emotional influence. His lack of understanding why others behave in manners related to emotion is very much do to not being able to relate. I must say I wish I would have read his brother's memoir "Running with Scissors" first, so I could have had an understanding of how dysfunctional his parents were. He mentions in the beginning of the book that his mom is mentally ill -- I was thinking mild. Much later in the books he describes his mom having a conversation with him while smoking, then her eating cigarette butts....I had to change my whole "mentally ill" concept to "institutionally mentally ill". I plan to read his brother's memoir soon!