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If you liked Angela's Ashes you might want to read the book McCort wrote that is a bit of a continuation of Ashes. It's title is 'Tis." The title is a typical Irish remark and the book is a good read.
I'm reading another Cormac McCarthy book now (Blood Meridian) and think The Road might be next for me. I hope you'll let us know how you like it!
Both of the books are very good, Toosie. I preferred The Road but Blood Meridian is right up there with it. IMHO, anything that McCarthy writes is bound to be excellent. Oh how I wish I could write like he does.
I've borrowed a copy of Gone Girl and will give it a try. I don't know what it's about other than it's a thriller. Is it violent and/or gory? If so, I won't get far.
Gone Girl is not bloody and really not violent. It's more a psychological thriller. I must also add that I really enjoyed the first few pages and then I became bored with it. Neither one of the two main characters is anyone I would want as a friend. I simply did not like them and I didn't like the story.
I started listening to Samuel Beckett's "Molloy" on my Zune this morning while working out a quilted sleeve for my laptop, and it is an absolute delight! I don't think I could read it, with all the digressions and asides, but the reader is doing a great job of it.
Thanks for your feedback. I haven't read any reviews of the book but, when JTUR mentioned it, I wondered how Larson portrayed some of Dodd's ingrained attitudes and his Nazi contact's impressions of him. I also wondered if it reads like a biography or not. Might have to add this to my ever-expanding to-read pile.
Re: In The Garden of Beasts, I thought Larson was pretty fair towards all characters, not inserting his own opinions but merely portraying the opinions of Dodd's contemporaries. I didn't know anything about Ambassador Dodd or his daughter before I read this book and I felt it was a pretty evenhanded telling of Dodd's time as ambassador. I enjoyed the book. I read Devil in the White City a few years ago and enjoyed it as well, but liked the parts about Burnham more than the parts about the serial killer. In Beasts, I liked it all equally. Beasts was definitely an engrossing book; I could sit for a few hours at a time and read it, which is not always the case for me with other books I read.
I stayed up to the wee hours this morning finishing Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which is something I rarely do. It was so, so good! I think I read about half of the book yesterday! I love non-fiction that tells stories about a town or a region and the people who live there. Within the past year I read Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz, which I also loved, and Midnight reminded me of that book, since they both had stories about different people who lived in the South. This is the first time I've lived in the South (and I don't count when I lived in Virginia because I lived so close to Washington DC it didn't really feel like the South.) I found I've enjoyed reading books about Southerners while I've lived here and this one definitely fit the bill! We only live 5 1/2 hours from Savannah and I can't wait to visit!
Does anyone have any recommendations of non-fiction books that read like Midnight? They don't have to be Southern-based, they just have to tell stories of people who live in a town or a region. Thanks!
I'm not sure what I'm going to read next. I'm leaning towards Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, which has been patiently waiting on my bookshelf for me to read it for quite some time now.
Gone Girl is not bloody and really not violent. It's more a psychological thriller. I must also add that I really enjoyed the first few pages and then I became bored with it. Neither one of the two main characters is anyone I would want as a friend. I simply did not like them and I didn't like the story.
I've actually had Gone Girl on my to read list. Maybe I'll keep it on the back burner.
I just finished "Favorite Wife" by Susan Ray Schmidt (which I just had to read, after reading Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer). Last night I started "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony. I've had the Incarnations of Immortality series in my to read pile forever.
Anyone read or reading Blindness by Jose Saramago? I am struggling with his style of writing. The pages and pages of one long paragraph and lack of "conversation" are making my eyes cross.
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