Books Books and More Books

I did manage to get some reading done while I was on a bus road trippin down south.


Here are the last 4 reads I picked up:
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
My sister and I both read this book and we both liked it. It is a really great story about a woman that moves to Kabul and opens a Beauty school for women to free or attempt to free themselves from some of the contraints of marriage and being a woman in Afganistan. I think I could relate to a lot of the frustration and triumphs of starting a nonprofit as this woman did and I also enjoyed learning more about a culture that I didn't really know anything about.

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro
Wanted a lighter ride for my first let to Fort Sill and this book fit the bill. Short chapters of hilrious antics and accounts from this woman's life were light hearted, funny and a couple of times had my snickering or laughing out loud.






The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This book is a must read. I have been telling everyone I know about it and I think at least 3 or 4 people from my unit have now read it. This author also wrote, No Country For Old Men. The Road is unlike any book I've ever read. It's concept, it's simply story line and it's lack of typical dialogue phrasing pulls you through the story. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, how much really is there to say about a man and his son walking through a post-apocolyptic existence? The writing is so brilliant you just can't put it down. My friend Lauren said it's also going to be made into a movie. Will look forward to that. LOVED this book.


Switching back to something a little lighter, I read, Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster. She is a local Chicago author and I met her husband while they were making the rounds at Printers Row. Her books is humorous, and has it's funny moments but I guess I felt like it was really long and kind of unorganized a little bit. There were parts that did make me chuckle, and parts on dieting and working out that I could relate to, but it was just "okay".







I am also pleased to announce the "Books Over Brooms" Book Club. 3 (maybe 4) members strong. This was an idea hatched by my sister and I, to get us all out of our reading genre comfort zones. Mom, Gert and I will be reading a book together every other month or so, and we each have to pick a different genre. We let Mom pick first and she chose Fiction,
The Secret Life of CeCe Wilkes - so I am pretty pumped to get reading that. More book reviews soon!