Dereka's Blog

Sunday, December 2, 2007

I am only one
But still I am one
I cannot do everything
But still I can do something
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do

Edward Everett Hale

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Dereka's Bookshelf

Dereka's bookshelf

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

I listened to the book on disk. I enjoyed it although I thought the premise itself lacked credibility. It held my interest in any case.

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

I have read the book one and a half times and am currently stalled-- not because I am not enjoying it but because I decided that I had to read Harry Potter six in order that I can read Harry Potter seven. Middlesex is a marvelous book a...

Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym

I have read this book four times. It was one of the first two Barbara Pyms that I read when I discovered her in 1979 and I read it most recently in the summer of 2007. It didn't seem funny when I was 30 years old-- now I laugh my head ...

Jane and Prudence

by Barbara Pym

My book list tells me that I have read this Pym only once and i can't remember it enough to rate it. The blurb entices me to read it again.

Quartet In Autumn

by Barbara Pym

This was my very first Barbara Pym and I have read it twice since. I still have the original copy that I purchased at the library book sale in Troy, New York. It has a library pocket, a full set of catalog cards and a circulation card ...