Got a recently read recommendation?
I notice a few popping up in threads here and there.
I've just finished an "escape" read: Nora Roberts' "Genuine Lies", glamour and money and sex - just the ticket for me with a cup of herb tea and the furnace turned up a bit.
Next on my reading table is Ruth Rendell's "Road Rage" - a detective. I am avoiding spies and terrorists lately.
I'm rereading "Before The Darkness Falls" by Eugenia Price. It is the third volume of the Savannah Quartet. I have almost every fictional book she has written.
Did I ever share that I have about 40 feet of shelving full of paperbacks? I have a "thing" about books...I love them! And some I'll read and read again over the years. They are like old friends.
I also just got "Protein Power" and "The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet" at the second hand book store. Now there is a place I could go nuts in!
When I was in Scotland I read the sequel to Bridget Jones' Diary but I can't remember the name of it. It was a pretty good chuckle. I also read another one that I bought over there by an English author but just can't remember her name or the book title. That's a big help!
Right now I'm reading The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood. I've never been too fond of her writing but I'm going to try to do the patriotic thing and plow my way through this one seeing as she's Canadian and won the Booker Award with it...not that that's any recommendation in my humble opinion. I have simple tastes in literature, I guess. It's not that I don't appreciate great writing but I don't like stuff that haunts me and makes me depressed for weeks. I read Gap Creek not long ago and felt gloomy for days afterward.
This is a thread that's right up my alley! My husband says I'm a smart gal for having no "higher" education. (I didn't go to a 4 yr college.) I say it's because I read everything I can put my hands on!
I would like to recommend just about everything I've read, but all my books are in storage right now and I can't remember a fraction of them. But, over the summer I read the following that I can happily recommend.
1. The Bonesetter's Daughter
2. A Painted House
3. Eating Well for Optimum Health
4. Hidden Treasures (the Keno brothers)
5. Open Road
That's what I can come up with off the top of my head. I would love to add when I get my books back in my hands!
Also, has anyone thought of a "on-line book club" we could do? That would be a lot of fun!
I am right in the middle of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher but read Daughter of Fortune before that. I have also recently read Icy Sparks, Stephen King's On Writing, Big Stone Gap, Amy and Isabelle, and then a couple books by Anne Rice's sister The Silver Wolf and Night of the Wolf.
Hello, I am Kel and I am a reading addict. (think I have an addictive personality?)
I read Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis several months ago and couldn't make any sense out of it. I think I don't have the right mind for his books. They're just too disturbing for me and just might put me right over the edge and into the basket. I much prefer humour but it's so hard to find a good funny book these days. If anybody has any suggestions for books with a great laugh, I'd be most grateful.
By the way, I love the book club idea. Any suggestions for the first book we should read?
You all are on my favorite subject! I start books and can't put them down and get into big trouble when I have no supper on the table for the family. Geez, you think they'd understand!
I tend to read some pretty depressing books sometimes. Just finished White Oleander, which I couldn't put down, but wouldn't read again. (I'm big on reading favorites over and over)
Recent books that I loved include: Big Stone Gap, The Red Tent (fabulous!), and Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult.
My absolute favorite book of all time is Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I can't tell you how many times I've read it.
Isn't it funny how different reading tastes are? I absolutely loved Gap Creek and can't stand Nicholas Sparks (too sappy for me).
Linda, my favorite feel good book of all time is "The Ladies of Missalonghi" by Coleen McCollough. It's a really fast read. I have about three copies because I lend it out so often and they get lost.
Keep this thread going!
Chickadee
I just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and once I got into it I had trouble putting it down. Now I'm going to be mulling it over for a week. I found it quite disturbing. I mean, it's nice to have at least one character in a novel that you either relate to, like or admire in some way but in this book I didn't like any of the characters. Sheesh!
Read Any Good Books Lately?
