Book Recommendations

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I know they have been around for ages, but I regularly read the All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriott. Ahhhhh, to live in England......

[sjankis630]

Both of Jeffrey Eugenides' books (The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex) are great, I only wish he published more often.

I had read Middlesex last year on my quest to finally get through a Pulitzer winner every year. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I am getting to you. I ran into my niece by chance at the mall the other day and she told me that she had recently gone to her reading group and guess what book they read. Middlesex, she was surprised that her old stuffy uncle had read something so ... interesting.
Actually the book had some interesting history wound up in it too as well as a good story.

[foxfair]

I know they have been around for ages, but I regularly read the All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriott. Ahhhhh, to live in England......

Ever watch the show eleanorrumming? My parents watched it obsessively when I was a kid, the theme music is etched into my memory. As is the image of a man with his whole arm up a cow.

[sjankis630]

I always recommend William Least Heat Moons Blue Highways. Just a great travel book with a lot of thought and life put into it. Just a man, his conversion van and the open highway. (The back highways I should mention)

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Ever watch the show eleanorrumming?

Oh my yes, foxfair. In fact, I have the whole series (3 of them, I believe) on tape!

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I just read 2 good novels of suspense by two different authors. I don't remember the titles (they always sound alike to me) but the authors are Stephanie Kane and Sallie Bissell.
Usually I find books in this genre to be cliched and boring, but these were pretty good. Liked the characterization in both. I definitely recommend these authors and will be tracking down other books by them.

[razzy]

I loved Middlesex. It was one of my favorite books from last year.

And word to the David Sedaris love.

I'm a big historical fiction nerd and will take any and all recommendations for this genre. If the main character is a female and their is art and/or society involved, I am so in.

Some favorites: Girl with a Pearl Earring and I am Madame X. Though I'm willing to be that the former isn't a favorite around here.

Has anyone read Best Travel Writing of 2004?

[darlinglilly]

I know that The Crimson Petal and the White isn't the most popular book but it really delivered

I'm glad to hear that. I've let it sit for awhile. Now it's next on my list.
I'm currently reading Reading Lolita in Tehran and Bad Men by John Connolly. It's pretty creepy so far.

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I liked "Girl With a Pearl Earring" when I first read it (a lot). I just reread it last week. I still liked it, but not as much as on my first read. (and most of her books since have been pretty terrible.)
For a fun, romantic historical novel, try Beneath a Silent Moon. I liked it a lot.

[Alexis Machine]

I'd like to recommend one of my new favorite books, Kiss Me, Judas, by Will Christopher Baer. It's based on the urban legend of a man waking up in a hotel bathroom missing a kidney. Only in this book, he goes after the people who took it. Also, The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow. A loser ends up in prison, and is offered a one chance deal for freedom: he has to impersonate a dead drug dealer who looks exact like him.