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dolphingirlWhat are the last few books you read? What did you like/dislike about them?
I'm looking for things to add to my to-read list. I have quite a few already, but I'm always looking for new ideas. Don't worry about genre or whether you think I'd like it; I'm interested in seeing what everyone reads.
Last year was the first time I've been able to read an actual book in years (thanks, most likely, to the Wellbutrin, as nothing else changed and I was suddenly able to concentrate), and I feel like I have so much catching up to do, especially given how much I used to read.
I'm looking for things to add to my to-read list. I have quite a few already, but I'm always looking for new ideas. Don't worry about genre or whether you think I'd like it; I'm interested in seeing what everyone reads.
Last year was the first time I've been able to read an actual book in years (thanks, most likely, to the Wellbutrin, as nothing else changed and I was suddenly able to concentrate), and I feel like I have so much catching up to do, especially given how much I used to read.
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Date: 2009-01-06 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-06 12:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-06 05:08 am (UTC)I just finished reading Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family (or the title is something that approximates that). It was really good also. I thought it would have been more about food & the restaurant life, but it was really just a lot of character portraits of the author's sort-of-strange family.
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Date: 2009-01-06 12:31 am (UTC)if you're into a bit of mystery read bram stoker's dracula first and the historian by elizabeth kostova after.
i should be able to recommend heaps more as my booknerding skills keep improving, but my mind's quite empty right now.
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Date: 2009-01-06 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-06 12:40 am (UTC)Before that it was The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, who is one of my favorite writers. The book is basically the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme rewritten as a murder mystery. Clever as shit. Kind of that dry, British sense of humor -- think Douglas Adams meets Monty Python.
Before THAT I read The World According to Garp. Standard John Irving fare (all the same plotlines from his other books tossed into a blender and pulsed for, like, a quarter of a second), but I loved it just like I love all of his other stuff.
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Date: 2009-01-06 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-06 12:58 am (UTC)The book I read before that was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and before that was The Gift of Fear. Both lovely in their own way.
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Date: 2009-01-06 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-01-06 01:14 am (UTC)Today I finished Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis, which was pretty good although it gave me nightmares last night. It's about a girl who accidentally kills a woman while losing her virginity and then trying to keep the secret for the next decade.
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Date: 2009-01-06 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-01-06 01:20 am (UTC)The Book of Negros was a facinating read about historical events. I tend to read a good deal of sci-fi as well.
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Date: 2009-01-06 01:44 am (UTC)see jane run - nice, quick read. gives you something to think about.
lucky - also a quick read, and also gives you something to think about.. it's about her experience as a rape victom and going through court and everything afterwards. not exactly a "feel good" book, but it's interesting.
crap, i can't remember what i've read lately! i will always, always advocate for she's come undone and black and blue. :)
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Date: 2009-01-06 03:23 am (UTC)Other books I've read recently and enjoyed: Trans-Sister Radio, Eat Pray Love, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tuesdays with Morrie (read it in 5th grade, just re-read it) and the 5 People You Meet in Heaven.
Also, my mom is a jr. high librarian so I read her books to make sure they are appriopriate for jr. high kids which I LOVE any excuse to read young adult anything, and the book 13 Reasons Why was excecllent. Also, the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books are great, and Gossip Girls are awesome as well.
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Date: 2009-01-06 04:04 pm (UTC)That's what I read last year. :) Congrats on the new reading skills! I know exactly what you mean!
If you want a good laugh with a little more behind it all, read Lamb by Christopher Moore.
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Date: 2009-01-06 09:55 pm (UTC)Also really liking Black Swan Green by David Mitchell!
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Date: 2009-01-07 02:31 am (UTC)Just finished The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Truly mediocre historical fiction, but an easy read and I didn't enjoyed it.
Helping Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick was fun and funny. She's great. It wasn't quite as good as Everybody In The Pool though.
Um... Oh! I too recommend Sarah Vowell. I read Assassination Vacation and loved it. Trying to bookmooch The Mostly Cloudy Patriot.
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Date: 2009-01-08 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-13 08:46 am (UTC)Before that I read 4 Nick Hornby books - About a Boy, High Fidelity, Long Way Down...and I can't remember the other one, about football. My favourite was About a Boy. The movie was actually on TV the day after I finished it and did not at all live up to the book IMHO, although it was a cute movie.
I have also read Cell & The Girl Who Lvoed Tom Gordon by Stephen King, which were ok, I was just glad to have something by him I hadn't already read.
Other recent reads are a couple of random things I got from the library - The Book of the Film of The Story of my Life [I think] which is by a local writer and Music For the Third Ear which I can't remember the author, it was set just after the Serbian war and was a good read, a little different.
Currently am reading The Day of The Triffids, by John Wyndham [I have an ombibus so will also be reading a bunch of his other books...again, hehe]do you remember that TV series or did that not play in the USA? I loved it.
I plan to go get a bunch more Jane Austen books. I think I'll try and keep a list of books read this year. :)
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Date: 2009-01-13 08:50 am (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/Book-Film-Story-My-Life/dp/0446693812
http://www.amazon.com/Fever-Pitch-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573226882/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231836577&sr=1-7