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I'm nearly through "Dead until Dark" - recommended on one of the other book threads. Good read and it took me only 3 days to read it. Altho' it's quite short...
Next in line: Peony in love. Also recommended by this thread.
Just into Mark Spragg's "An Unfinished Life" Nice smooth and clever read. If you liked Kent Haruf, you will probably also enjoy this book. Excellent, observant characterizations of human nature. (There's a movie, starring Robert Redford, but I have not seen it.)
I'm actually reading "Pledged" by Alexandra Robbins...it's part of a required assignment that I'm working on. It gives a little more insight on Greek life.
I am John Grisham junkie, but am running out of his books. I love taking glimpses into worlds I previously had no idea about. I didn't have the knowledge of the lawyers' world before stumbling on him. I know there is a lot of fiction in his books but the overall picture of how lawyers/courts/high flyers work is satisfying to me.
Though I must say his books are not for re-reading. They are fact-like, and you don't have the inclination to be re-reading facts.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marques is something that I pick off my shelf over and over in different times of my life.
Jodi Picoult is the other author that I would love to read all her works. I am fascinated learning about, again, problems I didn't know about previously - a child born for the sole reason of providing healthy stem cells to her sibling; teenager running away to Alaska; private investigator's life etc.
Her books again are not for re-reading. What is it with modern books? Can anyone define for me this that I can't quite put my finger on? Why books are not re-readable, I hate to say "disposable" because they both (John Grisham and Jodi Picoult) are superb writers?
I think part of the not re-reading those authors is you know the story already and it's anticlimactic to read it a second time. There is sort of a suspense feeling in that you just don't know what is going to happen next but of course the 2nd time around you know. But with older stuff it's not written like that but it's still really good.
I started The Color of Water last night, based on recommendations in this thread, and so far I'm really enjoying it. James McBride is a good writer and it's an interesting story.
Today I'm going by the local library to pick up "The Botany of Desire" and "Fast Food Nation."
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