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I keep a list of my "to read" books, otherwise I'd spend too much time reading that list, rather than a book on it. I often shuffle the order of them because what I was once so excited about reading has me less than enthralled a day or a week or a month later.
After reading a great book, it's harder to choose the next one. That's what just happened. Alice LaPlante's Turn of Mind broke me -- nothing on my list "feels" like it would be as good. Here are the first 30 on my list. I guess I'll start from the top?
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A Circle of Wives (not my type of story but she wrote Turn of Mind, so…)
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (memoir)
The Book of Unknown Americans
The Hundred-Year House
The Good Girl
The Children Act
The Good Luck of Right Now
Go Ask Alice (I read it when I was a kid)
Mrs. Hemingway
The Girls From Corona Del Mar
Giovanni’s Room
Remember Me Like This
Not My Father’s Son (memoir)
The Paying Guests
Fingersmith
Nora Webster
The Face on the Milk Carton (kid’s book but it sounded fascinating)
Mark Twain’s Other Woman
The Bone Clocks
Anthropology of an American Girl
Lisey’s Story
Boys and Girls Together
Kate Kerrigan trilogy -- Ellis Island, City of Hope, Land of Dreams
The Green Mile
The Underground Girls of Kabul (non-fiction)
Columbine
Sag Harbor
The Glass Room
The Fall
There are 200+ that follow...
Oh no you didn't post part of your to read list. Like we don't have enough books to read, lol. I have 850 books on my to read list and it is still growing
I hear you about what to read next. We need a shuffle button for our lists, lol. I will go through my list sometimes and order some from the library. Sometimes it takes me 8 pages of books to get 6 new ones to read. It's all about my mood at the time.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
He tries to capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation…
I just finished Family Album by Penelope Lively. I really liked it and definitely liked it more than the first one of hers I read, Moon Tiger. This was suggested here by(?) and I agree- it was a very good read.
I think on the shallow part, I really appreciate that her books are under 300 pages. It's a very attainable goal for me.
I think her writing does draw me in, but it it's not really a light read. ( I also find the language, which is current British is sometimes does have me wondering what she is meaning).
I will definitely read more of her.
I am now finally beginning The Invention of Wings.
I just finished A Circle of Wives by Alice Laplante. It's her 2nd novel and follows her masterpiece Turn of Mind. I read them one right after the other. She's that good.
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I just finished A Circle of Wives by Alice Laplante. It's her 2nd novel and follows her masterpiece Turn of Mind. I read them one right after the other. She's that good.
That's the perfect word for Turn of Mind: masterpiece.
ETA: I *may* have just written an email to the author.
ETA2: And, not even 15 minutes later, I got a response from her: Dawn: Thank you so much for your kind note. I really appreciate feedback from readers like you. My mother had Alzheimer's, so it was a work of love dedicated to her to write Turn of Mind.
That's the perfect word for Turn of Mind: masterpiece.
ETA: I *may* have just written an email to the author.
ETA2: And, not even 15 minutes later, I got a response from her: Dawn: Thank you so much for your kind note. I really appreciate feedback from readers like you. My mother had Alzheimer's, so it was a work of love dedicated to her to write Turn of Mind.
I love how you connect with authors, Dawn.
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Like we don't have enough books to read, lol. I have 850 books on my to read list and it is still growing
is sometimes does have me wondering what she is meaning).
