Posted by kittensrme on 2006-06-02 13:18:26
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I've been pretty crappy about reading this year. I blame my boyfriend--he has the TV on all the freaking time--but I actually read a respectable amount of books this past month.
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card: I was afraid I wouldn't like it as much as Ender's Game. It was very different but still very good.
The Women’s Room by Marilyn French: Some 70's feminist novel. The first half was okay and reminded me of a fictionalized Feminine Mystique, but then it becomes a totally different book about a bunch of annoying, pretentious, unsympathetic hippies.
When She Was Bad by Patricia Pearson: Pretty good book about violence in women and how lightly it's taken by most people.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera: One of those books you feel like you HAVE to read, you know?
Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History by Gai Ingham Berlage: Interesting subject and it was fairly informative, but poorly written. Like, sophomore-level college course term paper level writing.
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card: The last of the Ender series and the worst. Oh well. It wasn't horrible, just not as good.
