Looking for the Deathly Bed

Looking for Class, by Bruce Feiler
Feiler went to Cambridge for a year and wrote about his experiences there, his fellow students, etc etc. Quite well-written and insightful. He comes off as more insecure and anxious than he did in Learning to Bow, though that may be more my own expectations (that Cambridge should be less foreign than Japan) more than what's actually in the text. The nonfiction equivalent of the fluffy novels I read, really; entertaining, but not challenging.
(146/250)

Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
Fun novel about a journalist who discovers that her recent ex has started writing a magazine column about their sex life, with an emphasis on her being a 'larger woman'. I sort of picked this up by accident but I enjoyed it a lot, will be checking out the author's other books. I especially thought the secondary characters were well-done.
(147/250)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling
There isn't much to say about this that hasn't been said already. But overall, I really thought it did the job it ought to do. Sure I had a few issues here or there, but I still devoured the thing and I'm looking forward to rereading it more slowly in a few months.
(148/250)

Knots Building a Secret Fan

Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century, by Neil Postman
I frequently disagree with Postman, but always in the interesting way - the way that makes me argue and quibble and understand (though not succumb to) the urge to write marginal notes correcting the text. And he writes wonderfully and sometimes he says very thoughtful things.
(149/250)

Knots in My Yo Yo String, by Jerry Spinelli
I was surprised by how fragmented this autobiography was, since I didn't remember his YA novels being like that. But maybe I was misremembering - it's been a looooooong time since I read Maniac Magee. It was good company for a walk home, and the fragmentation was interesting, not annoying.
(150/250)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
At first this historical novel about China seemed sort of patronizingly didactic, but I eventually came to accept that as the narrator's natural voice. Once that happened, it was quite absorbing and even (once or twice) heart-breaking.
(151/250)

The Last Senator at Arms

The Senator and the Priest, by Andrew Greeley
Greeley's characters walk a fine line between stereotype and archetype, and I felt like these ones were teetering into the 'stereotype' side too often. And yet, I still loved reading it. Hard to understand, really. I think it's how smoothly the words read, and the ... satisfyingness of the arche/stereotypes.
(152/250)

Y: The Last Man 8: Kimono Dragons, by Brian K. Vaughan et al
This penultimate book in the graphic novel series was a total romp. Especially loved the ex-Canadian-pop-star villainness. Am on tenterhooks waiting to read the last one.
(153/250)

Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
Ever so delicious. Carrot is always so ... perfectly Carrot. Topic: Cop stories Theme: Rulership
(154/250)