I'm back! It's been a while, hasn't it? Last week was...well, it was something I'd rather not have to repeat anytime soon. Let's leave it at that, shall we? Even thinking about it is starting to stress me out.
Maybe it's a result of that stress, but lately I've been in a reading mood. I've always loved reading - my parents had a hard time keeping me in books growing up - and for the past few days all I've really wanted to do is curl up with a cup of tea and a blanket and lose myself in the pages of a good book. At the rate I'm going, though, I'm going to run out of books before I run out of steam. Fortunately I can read and enjoy a book more than once, but I'm already past that point, so now I need your help.
I find it difficult to choose a new book or author without some kind of recommendation - here's where you come in. Leave a comment on this post with the name of your favourite author(s) and/or book(s) that you have enjoyed reading, and next Wednesday I'll randomly select one person to receive a lovely mystery gift from me.
Oh, and happy earth day!
6 comments:
Hope you're okay.
East of Eden, if you haven't already read it. Best. Book. Ever.
You know what? No other must-read book springs immediately to mind. I'll keep thinking about it.
Chances are you've read all the books I'd suggest, I tend to like the classics. :)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Calvino)
Watership Down (a lovely, gentle story about rabbits.)
Jane Eyre (an oldie but a goodie)
Flux by Peggy Orenstein. I borrowed it randomly from the library a few months ago and ended up buying it. Non-fiction, but an interesting take on modern women and the varied roles we have. Subtitled Women on sex, work, love, kids, and life in a half-changed world.PS - Sherrieg, I'm going to the library website right now to check out East of Eden. You're endorsement was very enthusiastic!
I am a fan of your warm, cozy blog...and a very limited beginning blogger myself. My goal is to be better at it.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, a charming novel I am just myself beginning, memoirs of an elderly man and his days in the circus in the 1930s.
I don't know how your tastes run, but for non-fiction, Left to Tell, by Imaculee Ilibagiza, her account of her survival of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 is a not a pleasant, but a powerful book.
The Thirteenth tale is a fascinating gothic suspense novel by Diane Setterfield - bookstores, faily secrets and mysteries.
As a voracious reader, I will put the others on my list as well. Thanks sherrieg and maureen! Jane Eyre is one of my go to comfort re-reads.
I've read some good ones lately. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Not a fiction but soooo easy to read and challenging too.
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence HIll. The man knows how to write.
In the fiction realm, Ted Dekker is my fave author... the struggle between good and evil and what that loooks like. And no silly romance thrown in.
sharon
I just finished "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Not a novel but certainly one to cause one to think about today's societal boundaries. One of many quotes I wrote down,"Outliers are those who have been given opportunities and who have the strength & presence of mind to seize them."
Maybe some of this weekend sunshine and warmth will help? Hope so!
I've read the "His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman three times now - they're YA novels but still really good.
I can also recommend "A Homemade Life" by Molly Wizenberg (orangette.blogspot.com) - it was great. Bonus: delicious recipes!
Finally, "the Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski (sp?) is another good one - I read it in about two days over Christmas vacation!
Good luck!
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