Monday, October 04, 2010

Guest Post: Sh*t My Mom Reads

She's Bybee to you, sometimes Susan. She's Mom to me. Sometimes Susan. She's like, "You know, I was reading decades before you were born!' I'm like, "Whatever." She's still reading. This is what she read this month. No Flashmans, though. She needs to get back to that.


1. Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine. This is a graphic novel, so points for that. Actually, she bought it for me in the Dallas airport. When she gave it to me, I told her that I'd already read it and that I've read just about everything by Tomine. You should've seen her face. And she apologized. And I was like, "Come on, we're not Canadian." She got to enjoy it though, so it worked out OK.


2. Hank Williams - Colin Escott. I don't think I'd read this. Not because it's Hank Williams or because I'm not a big fan of country music. I just don't care for really long biographies.


3. Noah's Compass- Anne Tyler. I think she's been on an Anne Tyler kick for a long time. She gets all "Oooooh Anne Tyler!" and "Get me to a bookstore now!" when Tyler comes out with a new one.


4. The Twits - Roald Dahl. Is she just now getting around to this? My favorite part was when Mr. Twit sent Mrs. Twit up with those balloons and she comes back down and lands on him and says she'll nash him to a nozzle, then reverses the sounds. Mom read this because she said that Faulkner Guy assigned it to his class. Last year, he made them read Fantastic Mr. Fox.


5. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett. I don't know anything about this book, except Mom said that the body count was absurdly high.


6. A Death in Belmont- Sebastian Junger. I like true crime. The best one is Bully. The one about the Texas cheerleader's mom is good, too.


7. After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson. She's still on her Jim Thompson kick. I want to check out his work. Stephen King said he was great. Her book club is reading The Killer Inside Me. She left a copy in her mailbox for some woman who wants to join the group to pick up. It was there all weekend. I found it and took it out and asked Mom if I could take it home. She said OK.


8. The Giver - Lois Lowry. I told her to read this years ago! It's about time! Great book, one of my favorites. I like how Jonas' world becomes more and more dystopian.


Glad she only read 8. I want to stop writing now.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Go Mom.

B said...

Love this :)

Thoughts of Joy said...

What a creative post! Fun stuff! :)

Teacher/Learner said...

I also really like Anne Tyler, but have only read The Accidental Tourist. I should get more of her titles in my library :o)

Heather J. @ TLC Book Tours said...

I think I'll have to ask Kiddo to write all my monthly reading summaries from now on ... LOL

Michele said...

Yes, she needs to come back to Flashman....since I'm reading the first one now. Where is you mom on the series anyway?

Stephanie said...

Your mom read some great books--I really enjoyed Shortcomings earlier this year and The Giver is one of my favorite books.

Carrie#K said...

Love the guest post! Great idea, great execution.

I went on a Jim Thompson kick awhile back. There are a shocking amount of movies based on his books.

Trish @ Love, Laughter, Insanity said...

If you're reading in the readathon I hope you're tackling those books! If not, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

nat @book, line, and sinker said...

funny!!! i was just harassing my husband about the guest post he's going to write at the end of the month--halloween time--for a book on the making of psycho i scored on netgalley. he's already farking about about it.

you should hire out the kidlet to help the rest of us when writer's block strikes. :)