Just as the title says, I want some new books to read, and I'm running out of ideas. So please name a book (or more ^_^) that you enjoyed. Genre, author etc doesn't matter as long as its not a book already listed on my profile (but I dont expect you to check so no worries) JUST LIST BOOKS!!!!! Thanks ^_^

I had the pleasure of reading The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe and Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan through the Barnes and Noble First Look book club and thought both were great. The first is already out (and a bestseller I think!) and the second should be out soon.

after briefly peered at you library , I thought you could be interested at Geraldine Brooks books, The Year of the Plague or People of the Book
but maybe I'm wrong

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jul 3, 2009, 11:33am.

It looks like, among other things, you like good fantasy and young adult books. You might like Graceling by Kristen Cashore. Also, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Different, but powerful, is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Also, Wake by Lisa McMann.

If you want to try an adult wizard in Chicago, the Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcher are fun. Storm Front is the first one.

Welcome to LT. Watch it, it can become addicting. : )

After swinging by your library, I see you've read Nicholas Sparks and Fannie Flagg. Have you read The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks or Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg? Those are high on my list. The Rescue is my favorite Nicholas Sparks and Can't Wait... is just funny. One of the best books I've read recently was The Guernsey Potato Peel and Literary Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. One of my all-time favorite series of books is The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. (And I'm counting the days till the HBO series comes out on DVD so I can finally watch it!)

Please feel free to stop by my "library", say "hi", and take a peek, you may - hopefully - find something there you like. Happy Hunting!

Have you looked at your LibraryThing recommendations?

For a classic how about Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell?

Fantasy~ The Graveyard Book or Coraline by Neil Gaiman I enjoyed his books

I see you have Memoirs of a Geisha in your library try The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evens and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger were all good reads for me

Good luck in our quest but take a look at your LT recommendations like jimroberts said to give you more suggestions :)

Happy Reading!!!

I loved, loved, loved Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. (See my review)

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jul 3, 2009, 12:49pm.

My 'biggie' so far this year is The Other Hand aka Little Bee by Chris Cleave. About a Nigerian woman who ends up in a British refugee camp. When she finally leaves the camp she sets off to look for a woman she met years earlier back in her own country under dramatic circumstances. A deeply emotionaly read that kept me up all night and stopped me being able to concentrate on anything else for nearly a week after I finished it.

I enjoy books by Terry Pratchett, such as Small Gods and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (this last is especially good if you've read The Rats of NIMH). The Amber Spyglass books are excellent. Homeless Bird and The Lady of Ch'iao Kuo. These are a few of my favorites.

I like your library. But, gasp!, as (sing-song to the tune of "Monster Mash")

I was peeking into your library to take in the sight
When my eyes beheld an eerie blight
For as my loading bar began to rise
And much to my surprise . . .

Your library did not mesh
No, it did not mesh
And when I hit "Refresh"
It still will not mesh
My mind began to thresh
For it will not mesh
Something was missing, causing stress
Ooh, I won a trip to Marrakesh!

And from my suite in the Hotel East
To the bazaar where the minstrels feast
The people all came from their humble abodes
To hear a story from tongues of gold

And as I listened to the story-tellers of Marrrakesh weave their tales, it struck me. The Prince of Stories, that's what was missing! You don't have any graphic novels (comic books)! Specifically, Gaiman's stories about the Prince of Stories, the Sandman. So, read The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. You will not be disappointed. (And sorry, I got a bit carried away and lost sight of the goal for a while)

Tell Me A Riddle by Tillie Olsen. I've been trying to work up the cojones to read this ever since I came across this review: "When she wrote Tell Me a Riddle , Tillie Olsen, like William Blake, covered paper with words 'for the angels to read.' "

The short story "Voyage of the Iguana" by Steve Aylett, in the Fast Ships, Black Sails anthology. Because even though I'd last read it three months ago, I haven't been able to stop laughing for the last half-hour when I remembered the line "I run a tight ship."

Some others: On My Way to Paradise, The Dispossessed, or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. And, though you if you have a heart, you won't be thanking me for this, Odd Thomas. Still not over it. Anything by Barbara Kingsolver; she has such a an amazing voice. Same for Patricia A. McKillip.

One further addendum. Seeing as you're new, click on the "Recommendations" link, located in the header, right next to "Profile." Then you do what we all do, go on a splurge! Oh, after you've clicked on the link for the book, do a Ctrl+F "Will you like it?" It's a very useful feature.

I'd like to welcome you aboard to this wonderful community of book lovers teetering on the edge of becoming biblio-maniacs. But I wouldn't trade it for the world (though I might settle for a validated copy of Shakespeare's Cardenio). As Virginia Woolf put it so eloquently:

"I have sometimes dreamt . . . that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, 'Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.' "

Now, stop reading my ramblings and go crazy already. Just don't forget to have fun.

Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Ago 17, 2009, 11:47pm.