What are some of your old favorites? If it were me, I'd jump in with Austen or Faulkner or Atwood or Alcott or the Anne of Green Gables series...someone I've missed.
As far as recent stuff...I've enjoyed Eat, Pray, and Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger...um, wow. I think those are the only non-school related books I've read in the last year. That's sad!
Oh, wait, I also read Religiously Transmitted Diseases by Gungor, which you might enjoy and nod your head mightily at.
Stephanie, there are so many options I wouldn't know where to start. What kind of books do you like to read? If I had a Kindle I would probably use it to read The New York Times as well as books.
vw, I'm sorry you didn't sleep. I was sleep challenged again too. Good luck staying awake today.
Yeah I'm mostly thnking about recent stuff. It seems like we talk a lot of books here but of course I remember nothing now.
It's hard to rec when I'm not sure what kinds of books you like, Stephanie. I'm reading Joe Hill's
20th Century Ghost
right now and LOVING it -- it's short stories, and it's not all horror, it's more a combination of horror and fantastic fiction, and every story so far has just been fabulous. A couple of them really melancholy, rather than scary, and very sharply written.
Or you could give
Coraline
or
The Graveyard Book
a try, and get on the Neil Gaiman train.
For not-horror, not-genre, I'd also recommend
The Time-Traveler's Wife,
and I think you'd also like Jodi Picoult -- a couple of her books have protagonists that are either lawyers or the plot has something to do with the law. Sort of thinky women's fiction. I loved
Plain Truth
and
My Sister's Keeper
(although the last made me sob).
I'd second (well, third)
The Time Traveller's Wife,
and I'd also rec
Cloud Atlas
and
The End of Mr Y.
And
Lost in a Good Book.
Windsparrow and I finally bought and read Rock and Roll Never Forgets by some woman named Deborah Grabien. It was pretty good.
Now I get to go to the office and wear shirt and tie for the dog and pony show for our biggest corporate customers.
I am off to staffing services to talk about potential positions for me at the institute. Hope that goes well... I'm wearing a suit and mascara and everything!
Damn, I forgot the mascara.
Stephanie, I just read Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell--I highly recommend them both.
