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A Half Book store opened near me and I want to go buy some books to take to my Mother (4.5 hours away) weekend after next.
She's an ethnic German educated in Russia so despite not having finished the equivalent of high school she has read classics book like Tolstoy and Rand but also mentioned that she liked all of Dick Francis' books. She lives in a small town and has read a variety of what she can find there. Its hard to figure what she'll like and won't. But I think she does read for entertainment more as she gets older not just the heavy stuff. She liked a couple of the the Arkady Renko novels by Martin Cruz Smith I lent her.
Fiction that has a factual basis or with an interesting sub-culture (like the horse world in Dick Frances) would be good bets
Things she won't read
Anything with a lot of sex, characters of sexual orientation, too much foul lang
WWII, lived through it, not interested
Anything she considers too silly or stupid - I'm assuming sci-fi/fantasy falls in to this category
"Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand--about the famous race horse and American culture/history. Non-fiction but trust me, she'll love it.
"The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness D'Orczy
I think she would enjoy "the amber room" by steve berry. It is fiction, but works in the account of the stolen russian amber room. It has now been re-constructed. I saw it on tv on good morning america after having read the book!
I know this will sound strange but she might really enjoy the Zane Gray books. They tell about America during the early years of the push westward to California. I've actually learned a bit from the history in the books. Things like the Comstock Lode, silver and gold mining. It's fictional characters set in nonfiction circumstances.
I never would have even considered reading them until one of the guys at work loaned me one and I was very impressed and kept reading them. I introduced him to Martin Cruz Smith so turn about is fair trade.
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