My Summer Of Re-Reading

It seems that I didn’t accomplish much this summer, and my brain was not in the reading (or any other) game anyway.  I read a few throw away books that I can’t even remember enough to write about, and then I did some rereading.

I read Gone Girl again for book club and have to say it was much more fascinating to watch Nick get set up knowing what was going to come next.  Our club discussion was interesting too, we all knew Amy was crazy but most people kind of felt like he had it coming, having read it twice I didn’t totally agree.  I feel like he was just scared to confront anything (his mom, his dad, Amy), like so many people are nowadays. I’m really looking forward to seeing this movie in October, which is funny because…

I also started to read the Harry Potter books over in preparation for reading them to my son soon, and a bit of the magic was lost in reading the story because I could see the movie so clearly in my mind.  It is one of the only cases I know where the stories and characters are just as widely known by nonreaders as by readers.  Now I have to work on my plan to keep my son from seeing them first…  Good luck, right?

So I feel very out of the reading loop and it makes me sad.  I’m hoping that the cooler weather and the joining of the book club can get me somewhere.

Until then, I present My Summer Reads:

“ ‘A bad beginning may still be a beginning.’”  Truth.

9.14 Dreams of Gods and Monsters

10.14 The Lincoln Lawyer

11.14 The Brass Verdict - Audiobook

12.14 The Leftovers – I read this before the show came out and found the show to be total rubbish.

13.14 Harry Potter 1

14.14 Gone Girl

15.14 Harry Potter 2