Grammar with Connie

📕 The Only Story by Julian Barnes It's his second novel I've read, I like it better than the first, and I'm looking forward to the third. This novel starts with the sentence. Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more, or love the less, and suffer the less? Paul meets Susan at a tennis club for the first time. She is different from others. He's against social convention and becomes attr..

📕 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes It is a story of an ordinary old man whose past and present relate Adrain Finn, his coming-of-age friend, and Veronica, his ex-girlfriend at college. One day Tony Webster, the narrator, gets a letter including five hundred pounds and two documents from a solicitor, out of the blue. It is Veronica's mom who left them for him and he finds it very puzzling ..

📕 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom One of the good things about the pandemic is that it gives me the chance to enjoy recycling the old books I used to read back in my 20s or 30s. Tuesdays with Morrie, just like a good old friend I had lost touch with, came over to me that way once again. My love of novels was no exception even back then and I wasn't really into non-fiction stories but this bo..

📕 Diary of a Wimpy Kid # 01 Greg Heffley’s Journal - by Jeff Kinney It's the third book picked by my book club. I dare say it's one of the funniest books I've ever read but I'm afraid it's not so easy to read as I expect it would. I'm not talking about the story but about so many colloquial expressions in it that I'm never used to. It's a JOURNAL (not a DIARY😉) of an early teenager and there are..

📕 Holes by Louis Sachar This story starts with a boy's episode where he happens to get a pair of shoes falling from the sky on the way back home after school to give his father who tries to invent a way to recycle old sneakers but it turns out that a famous baseball player donated them for the homeless and the boy, Stanley Yelnats, gets falsely charged with theft. Where he ends up being is camp ..

📕 The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway There was a time I was crazy about Hemingway and I devoured his books. He's a master of his own writing style of hard-boiled and no other than a Nobel laureate. No one can deny he is one of the greatest novelists of the century. When it comes to his life, will there be anyone else who could ever have such a dramatic life as Hemingway? He is the one w..

★ Big Little Lies - 커져버린 사소한 거짓말 by Liane Moriarty 커져버린 사소한 거짓말 국내도서 저자 : 리안 모리아티(Liane Moriarty) / 김소정역 출판 : 마시멜로 2015.10.12 상세보기 Big Little Lies (Paperback) 외국도서 저자 : Moriarty, Liane 출판 : Berkley 2015.08.11 상세보기 Big Little Lies was written by Liane Moriarty in 2014. I didn't know who she was or how famous she was until I read it but it turned out that she is one of the most popular American wr..

4 3 2 1 (Hardcover) 외국도서 저자 : Auster, Paul 출판 : Henry Holt & Co 2017.01.31 상세보기 Paul Auster is a famous American writer and I've been a big fan of him for so long since my mid 20s. His stories never bore me. Page turners always make me feel sorry to find there's not so many pages left to enjoy as I turn more pages. I get easily addicted with any story of his. The latest one I'm reading is '4 3 2..

South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback) 외국도서 저자 : Haruki Murakami 출판 : Vintage Books 2000.03.14 상세보기 국경의 남쪽 태양의 서쪽 국내도서 저자 : 무라카미 하루키(Haruki Murakami) / 임홍빈역 출판 : 문학사상 2006.08.21 상세보기 It's a novel written by Haruki Murakami(무라카미 하루키), who was once one of my favorite novelists. He's Japanese and English isn't his mother tongue but he's such a world's bestselling writer that you can easil..