tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69219611928986401162009-11-10T05:20:53.560-08:00One Girl's attempt to read all the things she was supposed to in school, but didn't.Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-65359032700828648042009-02-22T12:09:00.000-08:002009-02-22T12:25:08.393-08:00

Well, I am a delinquent as you can see by the fact that I haven't written since November. Yep - a Delinquent. When I last checked in, I was starting to read To Kill a Mockingbird and I have finished it. I should've written about it long ago because I finished it before Christmas, but with the holidays . . . well, you know. Excuses . . . Excuses . . . To Kill a Mockingbird was wonderful. I wish

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-26733972883425274732008-11-26T14:42:00.000-08:002008-11-26T15:02:18.556-08:00

Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife. For 537 pages, it is a quick read. The past, present and future are interwoven so very interestingly in this novel that you can't put it down. I loved all of the characters and situations. The only part that was hard was trying to keep up with what year we were in. It jumped around soo much that I always had to look back at the previous section to see

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-16649798415761566352008-11-22T08:35:00.000-08:002008-11-22T09:29:32.659-08:00

So, to be completely honest here (which I aim to do), I picked this book because it was thin and I knew I would be reading it on a plane and didn't want to have to carry much. I was on a VERY long flight to Amsterdam with my friend and couldn't put it down. There were recently released movies at my finger tips that I could have watched. I had all the time in the world to catch up on some movies I

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-186696551610748392008-10-11T14:22:00.000-07:002008-10-13T18:49:08.231-07:00

Wow! Was this a great book. For a 13 year old girl, she was extremely bright and insightful. I know I wasn't as well informed or as intellectual as she was at that age. I went back and looked at my journals from that time and was mortified at the difference. Different times I guess. I also didn't have the threat of Ethnic Cleansing facing me.I feel like a dieter who has cheated on her diet. I

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-44636183997434913172008-10-03T08:43:00.000-07:002008-10-03T09:24:50.493-07:00

Saw Neil Diamond at the Hollywood Bowl last night with Cher. Yeah, she was sitting up front and I was . . . well, I was a tree people (If you know Neil Diamond and Hot August Nights, you will know what that means! If you don't, you should skip this blog!)Okay, I admit it. I am a Neil Diamond fan. There! I have said it. When I told people that I was seeing Neil Diamond in Concert at the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-72236117338646050882008-09-29T15:52:00.000-07:002008-09-29T15:57:23.810-07:00

Yep, my man is a rocket scientist. He'd have to be to make a cake like this. It's an "Island Theme" with a working water fall! He even created the cake stand and the palm trees. He told me that I didn't need to go to cake decorating class. Anyone can make a cake. I told him he was nuts and it was harder than it looked, but apparantly I was wrong. The construction alone on the cake was pretty

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-70879163948437034062008-09-22T20:18:00.000-07:002008-09-28T20:46:58.367-07:00

Okay, I am still reading The Lord of the Flies, BUT . . . Had to share!Just went on a sailing trip to Catalina Island on a 35 foot catamaran with my Dad,brother and his family and my husband. We had a great time and all the girls gotlots of reading done while the boys were trolling for fish on the way over there.The fish story first . . . then an update on my reading, or lack there of.On the way

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-41843905216577619192008-09-15T18:30:00.000-07:002008-09-15T18:40:36.140-07:00

Seeing how there are so many flies around this summer (more so than ever before), it is only fitting that I read Lord of the Flies as my next book. My cousin's daughter (what does that make her to me?? Anyone know? 2nd cousins??) is reading that in high school so why not read along. I just wasn't up for Crime and Punishment or War and Peace. Is it bad that part of the other reason I picked it is

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-88054968996908027922008-09-14T12:44:00.001-07:002008-09-14T12:53:26.613-07:00

After a long, VERY LONG, drawn out court scene in which Richard Wright uses the last third of the book as his soapbox for everything from blacks vs. whites to rich vs. poor to communism (He was a Communist), Bigger is sentenced to death by the electric chair. Bigger goes to his death thinking he killed for a reason, but the reader is not that convinced. The book is a good action filled book

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-90478312450785631712008-09-11T22:37:00.000-07:002008-09-11T22:43:36.664-07:00

Okay, I should have been done by now, but I am not. I only have less than 100 pages to go . . . okay, I have 98 pages to go. This book was 500+ pages. I was chugging along at 50 pages a day. Ambitious? Yes. Almost done. What shall we read next??On the Table: My friend Lisa (went to high school with her and she is still a close friend) says: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee. My Cousin's

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-77458606416062463952008-09-09T19:08:00.000-07:002008-09-09T19:11:26.385-07:00

This is what I imagine Bigger Thomas would look like if Native Son was a movie. Okay, so Native Son is divided up into three books, the first book being FEAR. It takes up the first 100 or so pages.SYNOPSIS:Bigger, a 20 year old black loafer living with his mother, sister and brother in a one room apartment, gets a job as a chauffeur for a rich white family. On his first job, he drives Mary, the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-24319264544594570952008-09-01T20:36:00.000-07:002008-09-01T20:40:29.841-07:00

Well, I must have read some of it, because there are notations in the margins in my handwriting up through page 100. I find it interesting that I actually only remember one thing about Native Son. I remember that Bigger Thomas, the lead character who is black (I am not going to try and be PC here), put a dead woman in a furnace. That’s all I remember. I don’t remember the circumstances up to the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-65171262929898596572008-08-30T08:31:00.000-07:002008-08-30T08:43:56.878-07:00

Okay, so I have my list. That has been decided. There could be lots of debate of the merits of some of the books on the list, but let’s just forego that, shall we? It’s THE LIST. We can debate it later perhaps.After studying the list, I decided to mark the ones that I already had. I used to be an English major, so I had quite a few of them. (I DID buy them. I just didn’t read them.) In fact, I

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-22362386270600814152008-08-29T15:42:00.000-07:002008-08-29T15:54:10.666-07:00

When I decided to attempt this feat of reading, I already had in my possession, a list from Time Magazine of the "All Time 100 Novels." I had printed it some time ago and kept it in a file thinking one of these days . . . So I started with this list. I looked it over and was shocked and horrified to find out that Pride and Prejudice (one of the greats! Don't test me on this one) was not on the

Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14524257017743788186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921961192898640116.post-30363284310066950732008-08-28T09:32:00.000-07:002008-08-29T15:31:25.855-07:00

To be an English Major in college, you need to be able to read, write, listen and discuss. In High School I was good at all of these which is why I decided to become an English major when I got to college. It was the only thing I was good at.However in College, I was only good at 2 of those. I was good at writing and good at listening. I was also really, REALLY good at taking notes. You see in my

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