Posted on 07/25/2008 3:01:11 PM PDT by Stephanie32
(My first thread, hope I'm doing this right!)
Peace ... :)
p.s. - please forgive any typos if there are any - I'm sleepy.
- Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (freaky strange but brilliantly done)
- Cryptonomicon (hurt my head, had my highlighter out - smart book but my book club killed me for picking this one! :)
- Lovely Bones
- Jane Austen in Boca
- All Jane Austen
- All CS Lewis
- All David Baldacci
- Daily Devo by Oswald Chambers "My Utmost for His Highest"
- Daily Devo "Streams in the Dessert"
- How to Cook a Tart (funny murder mystery about a food editor and chef who murders the mistress of her husband)
- Across the Nightingale Floor (book one of three from Tales of the Otori - still need to read the other two)
- Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (made if through the first four)
- Williams Sonoma Holiday Cooking
- The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (strange but interesting if you enjoy advertising and graphics)
I could go on but I'll stop there ...
LORDS OF DISCIPLINE, Pat Conroy.
(Looking forward to reading GREAT SANTINI pretty soon.)
BERLIN NOIR was great! KITE RUNNER I couldn’t put down.
“Omamori” by Richard McGill
Bump.
When I wrote "...the only book you'll ever need to read", I meant that in the sense that if 'you were stuck on a desert island,' it would be the book I'd like to have. But then, if I totally understood ET, I wouldn't need a book. ;-D
"There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance."
One Man’s America.....George Will.
Don’t miss it.
The house guests
by John D. MacDonald
This is it!
Next to The Holy Bible, my all time favorite is The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. Definitely worth reading.
That sounds very interesting. I’m not too great on history and reading books like that kind of lets me learn things without reading a text book. Thank you.
Thank you, I’m copying all of this so this is helpful !
That is really cool to keep a page like that, your choices sound great, I was drawn to the one about the flooding. Thank you, looks like a lot of very good reads !
Thank you, must be very good if you read it five times. And that was cool the way you put the first chapter in your other post. That’s a great way to see if you like a book because for me if I can’t get right into it I have trouble with the book!
I quickly looked at NS’s website and I had heard of Snow Crash also. Sounds like a very interesting writer. Thank you !
Sounds like a very timely topic. I would love to know more about that who subject. Thank you !
Yes it is. That book will get you up to speed quickly.
Thank you, Les Mis was great, I don’t think I had that edition but would like to own it. Thank you for your recommendations, I know they are good ones!
Thank you so much for sharing all of that! I was curious about “Gone, Baby, Gone.” I knew it was a movie but hadn’t realized that it was a book also.
Thank you! Your choices sound fascinating. I am very curious about the Hambly series. I love reading books set in the south.
Sometimes I am definitely in the mood for easy reading and I do like a variety. Thank you!
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