The Great Gatsby

I am a little behind . . . I finished The Great Gatsby several days ago, but got busy with life so I am just now getting to my blog. What can you say about The Great Gatsby. Each time I read it I think it is a wonderful book. F. Scott Fitzgerald did a great job of bringing the time frame to life to include the wonderful images of the summertime parties, the care free life styles, jealousy of lovers, the feelings we try but never can forget, and the doors that get opened when we truly get to know people. People are the mystery that they create within themselves, that mystery and a long lost love bring about an amazing turn of events. Written in a way that takes the reader back to an intriguing time in history. I will always give The Great Gatsby five books out of five.

I did it

I made it to the library and they had all three of my books waiting in the hold bin for me, a much more effective way to check out books, and brought my new adventures home. The great Gatsby is up first. I am a little more than half way done with the book and having it read before when I was younger there are definite parts of the book I am remembering and others that seem like I am reading for the first time but I suppose that is usual. Kind of like when you watch a movie as an adult that you loved as a kid and see things you didn't catch the first time around. I have always thought it was a good thing to get another perspective on something, as we get older or tastes change, and what we may or may not have liked when we were younger, we may or may not like now. You never know. Go forth and read.

Slacking

Lately I have been slacking on my top 100, well 200 list. I am hoping to fit in a trip to the library tomorrow to check out some more books and get myself back on track. The only problem is that finding available books is amazingly difficult. I would have thought with such a list it would be easier to find books with our many libraries in the area. The libraries do feed off each other and share books but is is still becoming a little bit of a treasure hunt. Hopefully tomorrows hunt will prove to show fruitful.

Alright, my next three books have been put on hold Ulysses, The great Gatsby, and The Sound and the Fury. The great Gatsby has to be transferred from another library, sooo, I may get started on the others while I wait . . .