Book-a-holics is open for business!

Published on March 18, 2005 By dharmagrl In Blogging

Book-a-holics is up and running...

Any JUser is welcome to come and write a book review here. Let the rest of the community know what you're reading and what you thought of it. You can write about any genre from sci-fi to Chaucer to poerty to romance...if it's about books and literature, it's welcome here!

Happy reading, y'all!

Comments

Dr Guy

on Mar 18, 2005

Let me finish the one I am reading and then I will give you one. I should be finished in a few days (I dont get a lot of time to read).

Great idea tho, I already signed up!

TaBoo Tenente

on Mar 18, 2005

hey dharma,

i found your post on one of my once-in-a-thousand year joeuser peeks. good idea.

just finished a fantastic book: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.

it's a story about a middle-aged professor in south africa, dealing with his highly-abstracted sense of passion. he deals with a series of events that challenge his belief system, from the caste system to academia, from his role as a father to his existence as a man. more and more, he confronts the lowliness and relentlessness of the human condition.

it's not a happy book, so beware if hard subjects do not appeal. still, coetzee is a brilliant, unwaveringly honest writer. it's one of the best novels ive read in a long time.

tbt

foreverserenity

on Mar 18, 2005

This is great Dharma! I have quite a few books to get to and I will join!

trina_p

on Mar 19, 2005

I just finished The Wedding - which is the sequal to The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. I finished it in under 3 hours. It's really good possibly better then The Notebook I haven't decided.

Myrrander

on Mar 19, 2005

Best fiction I've read lately is "Oryx and Crake" by Magaret Atwood. I'm also reading "Guerilla Warfare" by Che Guevara and "Guerilla Warfare" by Mao Tse Tung.

Poetry, I reccommend "The Spirit Level" by Seamus Heaney. Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" is also superior.

Cheers, and happy reading!

NJforever

on Mar 19, 2005

Great idea! It is a great way to help us book-a-holics.

I've begun to read alot more history and less novels, but I did just finish a particularly good one, The Once and Future King. It's about all the legends of King Arthur, from his childhood to the end of his reign. I'll be sure to join!

Gene Nash

on Mar 22, 2005

I have a question. Do you think my latest article, would have been appropriate to post here? I couldn't decide. It's not a book review per se, but it is about books (using a particular book as an example).

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