Ok, who has a recommendation for a book for my younger brother? He's 29, lives in Europe, and is vaguely libertarian about shit. I don't know what thrillers and stuff he's read, but I figure ill give him a book to go with an amazon gift card for his kindle.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Dec 15, 2012 11:33:59 am PST #20188 of 28344
megan walker - Dec 15, 2012 11:37:27 am PST #20189 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Mine go to 11.
New Fiction:
Gone Girl, The Song of Achilles, The Snow Child, The Night Circus
Classics:
McTeague, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Grapes of Wrath
Non-Fiction:
Season of the Witch, Quiet, Wild
Non-Fiction?:
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
erikaj - Dec 15, 2012 12:06:26 pm PST #20190 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
I think the favorite book I read this year is Caitlin Moran's "How To Be A Woman"....she kind of made me think of Fay.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 15, 2012 12:07:05 pm PST #20191 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The Girls Who Went Away ( re pregnant teens in the 50 's and 60's)
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch (Allison Arngrim)
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (The Bloggess)
The Wilder Life (about a woman and Little House)
The Hunger Games Trilogy
The 2 Montmarnay books
Murder in a Mill Town
Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead
Bitter in the Mouth
Shiver/linger
Amy - Dec 15, 2012 12:45:29 pm PST #20192 of 28344
Because books.
There are a bunch of books I want to read on Sophia's and megan's lists.
My best (favorite, I guess) for 2012:
The Chaperone,
Laura Moriarty
A Reliable Wife,
Robert Goolrick
Code Name Verity,
Elizabeth Wein
The Fault In Our Stars,
John Green
Imaginary Girls,
Nova Ren Suma
Jessica - Dec 15, 2012 1:10:51 pm PST #20193 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell)
Use of Weapons (Ian Banks)
Gods Without Men (Hari Kunzru)
The Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobbs)
Huh. Going by Goodreads, I did a lot more re-reading this year than I thought.
Gris - Dec 15, 2012 2:41:43 pm PST #20194 of 28344
Hey. New board.
Hmm. I can't easily place exactly what I've read this year and what I haven't (I'm bad at tracking myself with sites like goodreads, though I remember to use it sporadically). Here are some that were either 2012 or just before.
An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (John Green)
The last couple of books in the Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott
Blackout and Discount Armageddon (Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire)
Blackout and All Clear (Connie Willis) - huh, two books called Blackout!
The Weird Sisters (Eleonor Brown)
I didn't do nearly as much reading in 2012 as I normally do - a new infant really messes with your routines - so that's probably about half of what I read this year.
Gris - Dec 15, 2012 2:46:40 pm PST #20195 of 28344
Hey. New board.
The Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobbs)
That's good, huh? I've got the first book on my Kindle (and have for a while - it was free once) but I only got a few pages in my first time attempting it. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (The Bloggess)
This is on my "soon" list. My wife got it on Kindle, so I have free access and it sounds pretty hysterical.
sj - Dec 15, 2012 2:52:27 pm PST #20196 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
This is on my "soon" list. My wife got it on Kindle, so I have free access and it sounds pretty hysterical.
I tried to read this at my mom's over Thanksgiving weekend, but I was laughing so hard my mother kept thinking I was crying and it was keeping TCG from concentrating on his own book. I need to pick it up again when I'm alone.
Kate P. - Dec 15, 2012 3:10:10 pm PST #20197 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Like Gris, I didn't do nearly as much reading this year as previous years, but a couple books I really enjoyed were Tina Fey's book and Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan. I also liked Gone Girl, but had some serious reservations with it as well -- though probably more with how it was marketed/hyped and less about the book itself. Oh, and John Green's The Fault in Our Stars was really good, too.