Someone give me something to read!

HistorianChick · Jan 10, 2008, 05:42 AM

Ok, I need a new book.

My list of favorite authors include, but are definitely not limited to:
Agatha Christie (read all of her books numerous times)
Dan Brown
Lillian Jackson Braun (read them all)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare
Classic literature

Mysteries, suspense, action, some romance (not too much - its got to be real!

), classics....

Just finished The Last Templar (wasn't all that impressed) and The Picture of Dorian Gray.... I need new material!

(Oh, favorite book is The Scarlet Pimpernel and all other books by Baroness Orczy - haven't read them??? Please do... its WELL worth it!)

life1973happened · Feb 22, 2008, 10:18 AM

I just picked up a quick book before I venture into Atlas Shrugged. It's called, 'How Starbucks Saved My Life.' by Michael Gates Gill.

It looks a lot like Mitch Albom's, 'For One More Day and 'Miracle on the 17th Green.

Good stuff...

rodandy12 · Feb 22, 2008, 11:44 AM

So Chick,

You must have picked by now. What's your new book?

life1973happened · Feb 22, 2008, 12:20 PM

And she blushes...

rodandy12 · Feb 22, 2008, 12:43 PM

OK...well, I gave you my comments on it a while back. Remember. The dinner speech near the end is what she put her time on. If you are like most everyone else, you'll be bored senseless by then, but you need to persevere.

My book group met last night and we did "All About H Hatterr." I can't recommend it.

In the coming months we are doing:

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

I'll keep you posted.

HistorianChick · Feb 22, 2008, 12:47 PM

The Alchemist... I think I read that... If I did, I guess its indicative of my lack of memory about it! LOL I read Ghostwalk around the same time, so that may be what I've confused it with....

I think I've read it.... Not sure though!

(Yup, K! You're the "dear friend!"

)

in a state · Feb 22, 2008, 04:25 PM

i couldn't read all sixteen pages of recommandations...but here goes mine.i don't know if you've read it or if somebody else told you about it:
The Perfume(Das Parfum) by Patrick Suskind
there's the movie,but don't watch it,because it's not so powerful.it actually spoils the beauty of the book.it's so well written and so wrong interpreted on film
I swear to God,it must be the most BEAUTIFUL book on earth,i'm so mesmerized by it.iread it and you'll understand what i mean.then we can start a topic on it

life1973happened · Feb 22, 2008, 04:57 PM

Just finished, How Starbucks Saved My Life, great book, nice story. Very much like Mitch Albom and the way he writes. It was hard to put down and reminded me of Suzanne's Diary to Nicholas. In which it was sensational, addicting, emotional and real. It was a book in which you have to be in the right mindset to appreciate it and not be bored from it.

HC, I will send it over, ignore the highlights, as it's just what I do when I read a book and want to remember a point or two.

HistorianChick · Feb 27, 2008, 09:55 AM

To all of you who recommended Atlas Shrugged...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I'm really enjoying it. The descriptive writing of the author paints vivid mental pictures... very enjoyable!

Again, thanks!



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