After getting very excited at the prospect of a book blog, Karen invited me to join yours. I will not post frequently (if at all), since it is yours, but just wanted to throw my thoughts in the mix. I, too, will read The Phantom Tollbooth and Princess Academy, since I have both of them. First, though, I will finish The Last Girls by Lee Smith. It is thus far a lovely novel about five women in the South in the 1960s and what it means to be a woman down there.
A thought, since that was my original intention: a 13-year-old friend, whom I see once a year, gave me The Da Vinci Code for my birthday last year. Having not seen her in a year, and thoroughly uninterested in the book, I haven't read it. I'm seeing her on Wednesday, though, and probably should read it. Any advice on how to crack open a book I just don't want to waste my time with? Or maybe it's actually great and I'll love it? How do you feel, in general, about books that are rather unintellectual and faddish? Is it better for people to read tripe than to not read at all? Can bad books be a gateway drug, if you will, to better books?
happy summer, girls!
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It's so cute that she gave you The Da Vinci Code.
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