Recommend a good read...

jennifer75 · Dec 7, 2007

Aside from what we're reading at the moment, can you recommend a good book that you've recently finished? This will help others in deciding which book to pick up if they can't quite decide on one. We all have our sources, but we can never know all of the books that are waiting for us. Help somebody out, recommend a title.

Susan Breen · Dec 7, 2007

I just finished reading "Loving Frank" by Nancy Horan and it was great. One of my students recommended it and she said, you won't believe the ending, so I raced through the whole book and it was an amazing ending.

waylander · Dec 7, 2007

'The Devil You Know' by Mike Carey.
Harry Potter all grown up and hanging out with Dashiell Hammett

Provrb1810meggy · Dec 7, 2007

Thirteen Reasons Why is one amazing YA that I think adults would enjoy as well.

andrewhollinger · Dec 7, 2007

I just finished a literature class. There are some pretty heavy reads, but enjoyable.

Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Horseshoes · Dec 10, 2007

The Rest of Her Life
-Moriarty

Jersey Chick · Dec 10, 2007

I just finished Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And You Can Too) - it was pretty funny. There are all sorts of notes in the margins and footnotes that had me laughing out loud.

scarletpeaches · Dec 10, 2007

andrewhollinger said:
I just finished a literature class. There are some pretty heavy reads, but enjoyable.

Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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gerrydodge · Dec 10, 2007

Light reading, but I just finished Lee Child's, The Enemy. It was great fun! I'm also reading Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Good, but a bit laborious.

JBI · Dec 10, 2007

Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin. Changed my life.

Hobbes · Dec 11, 2007

Life of Pi - Yan Martel
The Sparrow - Maria Doria Russell

Nyna · Dec 11, 2007

Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers.

It's nominally a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, but it's much more about Harriet Vane, returning to Oxford and trying to sort herself out, so you can read it as a standalone.

Also -- Orlando, by Virginia Woolf.

Gray Rose · Dec 11, 2007

JBI said:
Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin. Changed my life.

Really? In what way?

JBI · Dec 12, 2007

Gray Rose said:
Really? In what way?

Pushkin really got me started on reading poetry from a different angle. His book captures the nature of man better than even most Shakespeare plays. with 3 characters her is able to sum up almost every person in the world.

Cranky · Dec 12, 2007

I just finished reading Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath. I laughed until my sides hurt. I'm running out to buy the rest of the series...I liked it that much.

JosephineDamian · Jan 1, 2008

The Best Book I Read In 2007

You can read the write-up I did on this book on my blog:

http://josephinedamian.blogspot.com/2008/01/year-in-rewiew-2007-best-book-of-year.html

This book is about a writer facing the must gut-wrenching choice any scribe had to face. Highly recommended.

JosephineDamian · Jan 1, 2008

Cranky said:
I just finished reading Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath. I laughed until my sides hurt. I'm running out to buy the rest of the series...I liked it that much.

I read "Dirty Martini" by JA Konrath - it's a terrifically entertaining read as well.

You can read my review here: http://josephinedamian.blogspot.com/search/label/J. A. Konrath

blacbird · Jan 1, 2008

The River of Doubt, by Candice Millard. It's nonfiction about Theodore Roosevelt's 1913-1914 exploratory journey into the heart of unexplored Amazon River country. Excellent stuff.

caw

ChaosTitan · Jan 1, 2008

Broken, by Megan Hart. It's an erotic novel, but it's also one of the most devastating stories I've read all year.

crashbam · Jan 7, 2008

I discovered Jhumpa Lahiri in 2007 and I have big author crush!

Check out The Namesake and her Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories: Interpreter of Maladies. Simply superb writing! I hope she has something new coming out.

CBeasy · Jan 12, 2008

Well, just for starters:
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

The Cather in the Rye by JD Salinger

Gina M · Jan 12, 2008

Atonement - Ian McEwan - just like the movie trailer says - modern day Jane Austin. Loved it.

Last Summer of You & Me - Anne Brashares - really enjoyed this.

I know this much is True - Wally Lamb - been around awhile, but wow!

WendyNYC · Jan 12, 2008

I just read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. It was fantastic, and I'm not usually (ok, never) one to read YA.

Mom'sWrite · Jan 12, 2008

Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner

The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards

For any AW members living under rocks...

The Lottery by our own Orion

CBeasy · Jan 13, 2008

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Recommend a good read...

jennifer75

SupahStah!

Susan Breen

waylander

Who's going for a beer?

Provrb1810meggy

andrewhollinger

practical experience, FTW

Horseshoes

lisapreston.com

Jersey Chick

Up all night to get Loki

scarletpeaches

gerrydodge

JBI

Hobbes

Sneaky. In a good way.

Nyna

Gray Rose

Beware of the Thorns!

JBI

Cranky

JosephineDamian

JosephineDamian

blacbird

ChaosTitan

Around

crashbam

CBeasy

I'm back baby!

Gina M

A Law-Abiding Chicken

WendyNYC

fiddle-dee-dee

Mom'sWrite

Service with a smile

CBeasy

I'm back baby!