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A little bit of everything this week: children's fiction and nonfiction, multimedia poetry, adult nonfiction and fiction. Nothing beats a long winter like a variety of "getaways."
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business--and Won! and The Family Romanov are recent ALA award winners that sound especially good to me. And I've never read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
I've been wanting to hear some poetry being read lately, and I remembered that Robert Pinsky had edited a collection that came with an audio (DVD) component. Many people have said the DVD is stellar, so I think I'll give An Invitation to Poetry a shot.
While reading By the Book recently, someone (forget who) talked about Just My Type, a book about fonts. I love oddball little books like this. And any book that takes a stance against Comic Sans has my approval.
I've been wanting to read a book by James Michener for years now, but I think the sheer number of options always made it impossible to choose. In his By the Book interview, Colin Powell talked about Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. When I looked into it, I saw that it won the Pulitzer Prize, so that's become my choice for a Michener read.
In my quest to read more books that everyone else has, I'm adding Freakonomics to my TBR. I imagine it's a little like a Malcolm Gladwell book.
Ooh the book on poetry looks like a great find, I'd like to find some nice selections too so I'll check this one out. Here are my FFs for this week https://cleopatralovesbooks.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/friday-finds-february-20/
ReplyDeleteThere are two other books in this "series"--"Poems to Read," and "Americans' Favorite Poems"--but neither of them has a spoken component. I read AFP in January, and I was impressed with it. Each poem is introduced by the letter that nominated it. There are a lot more folks reading poetry than English Ph.D.s!!
DeleteOh, the book on the Romanovs looks like a good pick!! Here are my Friday Finds for the week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2015/02/friday-finds-71.html
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to get interested in "The Romanov Sisters" ever since it came out, but I just can't for some reason. But a YA approach might be just what I need!
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