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I started reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett yesterday after having just finished Shutter Island.
Actually I wasn't expecting much. I find that when I finish a book that is truly a good read, as Shutter Island is, I sort of dread starting a new one (but that doesn't stop me) because I'm afraid I will be let down.
I ABSOLUTELY agree, Ketabcha! The Help was an amazing book...I felt like I was in the rooms with the characters; like I was eavesdropping, listening to all their secrets. It was so easy to visualize all the homes, streets, men, ladies and kids! One of those books that you hate to finish because then it's...over!
I'm new to this thread so hope I'm not repeating a book you've already discussed (couldn't read back 233 pages!). I recently finished "How Starbucks Saved My Life," by Michael Gates Gill. Good book, quick read. Interesting how a fired big time exec learns to live among ordinary people and actually like his life better.
As mentioned by another poster, I read authors. I also read genres and I'm particularly fond of fantasy and science fiction. Right now I'm reading Neil Gaimanand have mixed feelings about what I've read so far by the author. My favorite authors are Stephen King (The Stand); Dean Koontz (all his books); Octavia Butler (all of her books but especially her last book, Fledgling, a very interesting take on vampire lore); loved Bridge of Birds an obscure fantasy novel by Barry Hughart; thoroughly enjoy James Patterson novels; love J. California Cooper novels and short stories especially In Search of Satisfaction. I have reread The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy several times. I have this quirky ability to read a book or watch a movie and forget it almost completely so I can read it (or watch it) again with the same or more enjoyment as a first time read.
I'm new to this thread so hope I'm not repeating a book you've already discussed (couldn't read back 233 pages!). I recently finished "How Starbucks Saved My Life," by Michael Gates Gill. Good book, quick read. Interesting how a fired big time exec learns to live among ordinary people and actually like his life better.
I read that not too long ago.
It was a good read.
If you like that book, you'll probably like The Power of Half. It just came out.
"Stormy Weather" by Paulette Jiles. A surprisingly lovely book by an author I had never heard of. Astonishing turns of language describe life for a girl growing up in depression-era Texas.
^I have to read Outliers, by Blink's author (Gladwell? hmm..) for book club this week.
This afternoon I finished Peony in Love. I liked Snowflower & the Secret Fan a lot, so I picked up Peony. I don't care much for romance, and it was too sappy at parts, but much of it was very good. I like that Lisa See's books have a lot about the inner lives of women & parts of Chinese culture that are more obscure.
Recently finished Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals by Peter Matthiessen. I bought it a few years ago because I had enjoyed something else he wrote, but just got around to reading it. It is about his experiences with Zen Buddhism, but more than that, for me, it was about him working through his need to macho and control his way through life.
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