Books!

[alexiscartwheel]

Well, this is my reading week after all! I’m sure I’m meant to be reading about something excruciatingly boring for my “Information and Society” class, not reading novels, but oh well. I’m just preparing for Reader’s Advisory! With that in mind, here are some recommendations of two great books I read this week:

In the final weeks of August, right before my move, I did a lot of shopping therapy to ease my nerves. On one of my frequent outings, I picked up a copy of The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which I had been wanting to re-read, for a mere five dollars! The Time Traveler’s Wife is essentially a love story, but a highly unusual one. Henry, the time traveler, and Clare experience the milestones of their relationship in a different order, so reading the novel is a bit like piecing together the puzzle that is their lives. I really love this book; it’s clever, it’s engrossing, and it makes me cry.

My second recommendations is another extraordinary romance, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I started this one Thursday night after I got home from Ottawa, and I only intended to read a chapter or two before I fell asleep. Around 5:30 am I finally forced myself to put the book down because I could hardly keep my eyes open. Twilight has high school angst, romance, suspense… and vampires. There are two sequels, which I’m now quite eager to read.

On Friday I went to the Grande Bibliothèque, which is a giant library run by Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Quebec. Now that I have some bills with my Quebec address, I was able to get a library card. There was a pretty decent sized English collection, but there are even more French books. If my French reading skills ever progress beyond reading street signs, I’ll have plenty to read. In the meantime, now that I’ve got a library card I definitely don’t have to worry about running out of reading material in English anytime soon either.

Comments

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Check the library website. They give a whole list of possible documents to verify your address, but if you don't have any of those, I'm sure somebody from housing could sign something that says you really do live there.

[somerled.livejournal.com]

Are you liking Montreal so far? I stumbled across your journal randomly, browsing through ljers in Montreal who read. I write (working on my second novel), among other things.

Anyway you seem interesting... want to be lj friends?

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Hi, thanks for your comment. Montreal is very different, but I'm really enjoying it so far. Are you originally from around here?

And new LJ friends are always great!

[somerled.livejournal.com]

Originally I'm from the States, grew up in Canada and moved to Montreal when I started university, and then back again after grad school. It's a neat place, a lot going on.

[d4ni.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to read The Time Traveler's Wife, saw it in Half Price Books (<3!) and thought it looked interesting. And of course I am always up for hot romances with vampires. Oh, how I've been corrupted!

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

You really should. It's pretty amazing. And I miss Half Price Books.

I was looking for those Anita Blake books that you suggested, but they didn't have the first one at the library. I briefly considered just getting the second one, but I don't like to read things out of order. So I got Interview with the Vampire instead.