September 2007 Book List
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hestergrayI seemed to start several books this month and then not be interested enough to finish them. So there's only two.
Him Her Him Again The End of Him by Patricia Marx
This is about an American grad student at Cambridge who is having a hard time sticking to a thesis topic. She meets a philosophy professor for whom she develops an unhealthy obsession. They start going out, but he's such a jerk and I really don't know what she saw in him. She was attracted to his intelligence, but he was so snobby about it. He was kind of annoying actually. Eventually, she got wise to his wandering ways and tried to move on with her life. It worked for a while, but he came back and other things happened. Anyway, this was a surprisingly funny book. It kept making me laugh.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
BOOK OF THE MONTH AWARD
I decided to read this book after![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tingilya spoke so highly of it. It was really good. Just a captivating story. It's about an old author, Vida Winter, who wants her true biography written. She chooses a young woman named Margaret to write it. Margaret spends a few months living with Vida Winter and listening to her story. And it's a great story, with fascinating characters. One of the characters is named Hester, so that gave me another reason to like it.
Him Her Him Again The End of Him by Patricia Marx
This is about an American grad student at Cambridge who is having a hard time sticking to a thesis topic. She meets a philosophy professor for whom she develops an unhealthy obsession. They start going out, but he's such a jerk and I really don't know what she saw in him. She was attracted to his intelligence, but he was so snobby about it. He was kind of annoying actually. Eventually, she got wise to his wandering ways and tried to move on with her life. It worked for a while, but he came back and other things happened. Anyway, this was a surprisingly funny book. It kept making me laugh.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
BOOK OF THE MONTH AWARD
I decided to read this book after
tingilya spoke so highly of it. It was really good. Just a captivating story. It's about an old author, Vida Winter, who wants her true biography written. She chooses a young woman named Margaret to write it. Margaret spends a few months living with Vida Winter and listening to her story. And it's a great story, with fascinating characters. One of the characters is named Hester, so that gave me another reason to like it.
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Date: 2007-10-03 03:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-03 12:08 pm (UTC)Thanks for the invite about the game. If I was around, I'd come. But alas the perils of living 5 hours from friends.
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Date: 2007-10-04 02:27 am (UTC)I think that's a book you might enjoy! Her thesis woes are something you can identify with better than I can.
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Date: 2007-10-03 02:16 pm (UTC)