Long Time, No Read!

Okay, so we sorta dropped the ball. Anybody up for reviving ye olde book club? I'm in if you are.

The Written Works

The Written Works

Girls Rock

Sorry, Joey. You lose. It was a nice try, but you didn't stand a chance against the combined forces of the female will. The Scarlet Letter it is... so everybody be grabbing your copy, and I'll post a new schedule by Friday.

Joey, maybe you should think of a recruitment strategy to even the playing field here a little.

Cast Your Vote

It's that time again, oh readers. Ready to tackle book number two?

Vote for the book you'd most like to read: Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury (200 pgs) Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand (1200 pgs) The Scarlet Letter: Nathanial Hawthorne (250 pgs) To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf (275 pgs) Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy (470 pgs) Animal Farm: George Orwell (150 pgs)

You can check the results
here as votes are cast.

Finito!

Happy Friday everybody! Are we ready for a new book now? I'm gonna give you stragglers a few days to finish up with Mr. Defoe, then we'll be voting on the next book- probably by Wednesday of this coming week. So stay up late, don't take a shower, skip breakfast, whatever you need to do to find those spare minutes. I'd suggest staying up late though. You stinky thing.

Finally!!

Well, I did it! I finished Robinson Crusoe today, only a week behind schedule. Got a little off with all that's happened with my family and Patrick's job/school stuff. But I was determined this would be the week I concluded the adventures of the estimable Mr. Crusoe.

Anybody else done yet? I know Aunt Dee, you've finished. Anyone else ready for discussion?

I am inordinately pleased with myself for this small accomplishment. I know it's a little thing really- but I am so glad to have set a goal and reached it! Whoohoo!

Okay. Hop to everybody!

The Written Works

The Footprint

I don't know how far anyone else is, so I don't want to comment too far in advance. I have finished the book and you will get to a point where you will not be able to put the book down, you must find out what happens next. At least I did. Then toward the end it slowed back down.

Any comment on the footprint? At first I thought for sure that it was his own footprint, that Robinson had just forgotten that he had been in that area. But then he thinks the same thing and goes back to measure his footprint against the one in the sand. When it doesn't fit, and he finds the sand print to be much larger, he gets more paranoid.

Then there is his constant thought of the cannibals. Are there really cannibals or are they just another figment of his overactive immagination. He does see signs of them coming onto the island, and if they are indeed true cannibals, then he has reason to be afraid. Interesting reading at this point.

Hang in there to completing this book. I'm glad I read it.