remembering

Okay, I think last night it clicked in. I remember now who John Grady and Billy "are" from the other two books. I think it's a tough jump to go from an easy, breezy read like The Host back to Cormac McCarthy.

C. and I had a big day. We went on a decent bike ride (7 miles) and met friends for a playdate at a park. In the evening we went to see a movie and eat dinner in the theater pub. He is soooo adorable and I loved spending the time with him.
We were both worn out when we got home. After a while (and a minor tantrum) he curled up next to me on the sofa and read his little book called Tails. I read it once and then he took it and read it a few times himself. After a few minutes the reading stopped, the book slipped to the floor, and C. had fallen asleep while reading for the first time. Not bad for just three years old.

Pulitzer Prize winners

Since I'm an English major, not a bird watcher, I need my own little life list. It's pathetically short. Here's mine so far:

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

Summertime!

I checked 6 books out of the school library before I left for the summer on Friday.
1 Cormac McCarthy
2 Jodi Picoult
3 Joyce Carol Oates

Anyway, I started the third in Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy, Cities of the Plain. It's been a while since I read All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing though so it was hard to get into it when I started last night.

After I finish these six (I hear Jodi Picoult books are fast reads) I am going to pick up The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz because it just won the Pulitzer. I was keeping a list of Pulitzer prize winners I've read because I was trying to get through them all. I got waylaid by A Confederacy of Dunces but really should return. Well, I did read The Road last summer.
I think my next post will be my list of Pulitzers...