We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

One of the most disturbing books I've read in a very long time. It made me nervous about having children and having a child that's as hateful as Kevin is in the book from a very young age. After finishing this book I really wasn't in the mood to read anything for several weeks. A very haunting book especially after the shootings in the Amish school in Pennsylvania.
4/20/07 - After the Virginia Tech shootings I've been thinking about this book a lot, about how hateful Kevin in this book was and the videos that have surfaced of the guy at Virginia Teach.

started: October 9, 2006
finsihed: November 22, 2006

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
We're reading this for the February book in my book group. Fascinating and reads just like a novel. Read the first 50 or so pages in a matter of hours. A gruesome story but a really well-written book.

Particularly interesting as Capote was in the theatres this winter.


(24 January- 13 February, 2006)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
For Bryan's June 2005 book group. Towards the end of this book everything was so intense that I couldn't finish it. I wanted to but I couldn't handle it any longer, it was too disturbing. I had to have Bryan tell me how it ended.
started: May 18, 2005
"finished": June 26, 2005