Blogger Indulges Self by Continuing to Blather On and On About Books
Just for kicks, since we're getting all book-happy, here's a list of my favorite books ever:
1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
2. House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
3. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
4. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Still Life with Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins
Here are a few books I read recently (OK, last summer) that I thought were great:
1. Nickel & Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenriech
2. Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
3. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
4.Empress Orchid and Madame Mao, by Anchee Min
5. Stones from the River and (sequel) Floating in my Mother's Palm, by Ursula Hegi
posted by Ugly Juice @ 2:13 PM
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I just thought of one more non-fiction title that I plan to read and that might interest you: Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. You can play the punctuation game based on the book here: http://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html
GGM and Tom Robbins are two of my favorites. Although I prefer One Hundred Years and Skinny Legs and All, respectively. Also, Reading Lolita is fantastic. It made me go back and read all of the books in it, and see some amazing new things. :)
Lorn, I love both those books, too. Alas, list-making always has its casualties. Sarah, that book is currently in at my library, I'm going to pick it up tomorrow. You are now the third person to recommend it to me. Apparently everyone knows what a nerd I am.
If we're talking all time favorites, I have to pipe in with My Antonia by Willa Cather and Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. If you want a pretty entertaining, less-filling novel for the summer, I enjoyed The Alienist, by Caleb Carr. I'll have to look for the others people are suggesting, as I just finished a book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and need a new one.
Oh, man. I tried so hard to read Angle of Repose last summer. I renewed it 3 times at the library, determined to choke it down (I had just finished reading Crossing to Safety, and loved it) but finally I just had to give up. How was Dog in Night-Time?
The Curious Incident was a good book. Not exceptional, but really good. The perspective from a teenage Briton who is autistic is fascinating. So, I'd recommend it as one to get from the library once the buzz around it subsides and some of the holds fall away. A friend just gave me The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen, so I guess that's my next read.
I'm going to ditch the Eggers book for now, on the recommendation of Julie, and start Atonement, on the double recommendation of Sarah & Summra.
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