A coworker I often share books with shared one with me this morning that I'm quite excited about--A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. As Linda said, it is the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Kite Runner. My coworker said she read the book in 3 consecutive hours on Sunday morning, so I'm assuming that means it's a good one, since she will not stay with a book that isn't capturing her interest.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7356 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I finished listening to Carl Hiaasen's Basket Case yesterday. I had a quick one CD of Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash and Phyllis McGinley poetry read by each then went into Hiaasen's first solo book Tourist Season. I laugh just thinking of the title the way Hiaasen means it. These books are good to listen to - there spicy enough to keep my interest.
I finished Iacocca's newest book on Saturday and am now more than 100 pages in Khaled Hosseini's sophomore book A Thousand Splendid Suns. I so loved his first book ]i]The Kite Runner[/i] I knew I was going to read this book as soon as it came out. so far, it is not a dissapointment.
I love Kris Radish's books, they are about women helping women. The one I am reading now, is about a woman who has died and sends her six best friends over her lifetime to a traveling funeral. She sends her first friend a box with red hightop tennis shoes, her trademark, and a letter with the names of the other 5 women. They don't know each other, but are only connected to this woman and now to each other, they travel from the east coast to the west coast picking each other up, to toss her ashes over the Golden Gate Bridge.....it it humrous, sad, enlightening in relationships between women, and just wonderfully delightful reading. The title of the book is: Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral. Amazon has copies in their used books fairly inexpensively. Once you get hooked on Kris Radish, you'll want to read all her books.
It's never too late to get it right.
Posts: 3473 | Location: Central USA | Registered: March 11, 2004
I'm reading Lee Iacocca's newest book Where Have All the Leaders Gone?. I really like it, but Mr. Iacocca represents my views. I started it yesterday and will probably finish it tonight.
I completed my second read of "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson. I have never read a book twice in a row in my life, but I enjoyed it both times. I saw things the second time that I missed the first time and got some clarity about the interplay of the many characters. I recommend it highly, but it is on the darker side (though not teary), esp. re children/family, so may not be a great read for everyone.
I'm finally making headway on "A Walk in the WOods" by Bill Bryson and am enjoying it much more now than I was in the first third.
With the intense rush project I was working on yesterday and today, I didn't feel like reading at lunch so I did crossword puzzles. But I do need to bring in a new book to read at work. Thinking of (finally) reading the Bill Clinton autobio that was loaned to me a year or so ago.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7356 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
It has been so long since this post has been at the top, I've been through another book and almost another.
Last weekend I read Helene Hanff's Letter from New York. Hanff wrote a favorite book which was turned into a movie: 84 Charing Cross which was a compilation of letters between Hanff and a London bookseller over a period of years. This book was a compilation of scripts from a 5 minute show she broadcast for the BBC.
I loved the book since I was able to visual so much of what she was talking about - which was New York City.
The book I'm almost done with is The Faith Club. It is by three women: 1 Muslim, 1 Christian, 1 Jew. They investigate what each respective religion means to the individual as well as how it is perceived by others. I highly recommend this book. It is enlightening.
Originally posted by Sheltieguy: I just finished Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", a strange and interesting book featuring time travel, flying saucers, and the fire bombing of Dresden.
(The author was a POW in Dresden at the time.)
"Nothing happened that night. It was the next night that about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die. So it goes."
I love, love, love Kur Vonnegut. I started reading his books in high school. One of my favorites is "Cat's Cradle".
Dawn
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire." anonymous
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I just finished Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", a strange and interesting book featuring time travel, flying saucers, and the real-world fire bombing of Dresden.
(The author was a POW in Dresden at the time.)
"Nothing happened that night. It was the next night that about one hundred and thirty thousand people in Dresden would die. So it goes."
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I'm almost done with a new book that I just read about a few weeks ago in the newspaper. It's The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein. Harry is now 96 and this is his first book. It's the story of part of his childhood growing up near Manchester, England where Jews lived on one side of the street and the Christians on the other. Not always an easy peace.
I recommend the book.
I just started listening to Carl Hiaassen's Basket Case. This will be typical Hiaassen - very enjoyable.
Sandy or someone had told me that the book I was reading when I created this thread last summer (Dive from Clausen's Pier) had been made into a TV movie. I just happened to stumble across it on Lifetime channel this weekend and watched it. It was okay...they followed the story of the book quite closely...but a lot got cut out (of course) and it didn't thrill me.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
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I am re-reading Case Histories by Kate Atkinson at work (started my 2nd read the day after finishing my 1st read--a first for me, I think). I liked it a lot but there were so many stories and characters, I felt a little confused--hence the second read to put the pieces together and see if I can see the signs of what was to come earlier.
At home, I recently started A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. It's not thrilling me so far, but they've just gotten started on the walk.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7356 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I used to have one around here called "Lapsing into a Comma". I had a lot of trouble with commas in the papers I turned in during college and dd bought me that book. I still have trouble knowing when to use them.
"Live your life so that you are not afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
Posts: 4087 | Location: NE Atlanta (Chamblee, Doraville, Norcross, Duluth) | Registered: March 15, 2004
Finished Mary Higgins Clark's newest one and have moved on to Jeanette Walls' memoir The Glass Castle. She really came from a dysfunctional family!!! Wow! It's an easy read in the sense it's not full of big words and it's going quickly. It's a heavy read concerning the topic. Makes me feel my family wasn't as dysfunctional as I thought.
Because of some differing opinions with my editor, I have stacked up on books about grammar and punctuation. I've been skimming one I read a while ago Eat Shoots and Leaves by Lynn Truss. Have also browsing through Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay.
and dd bought me that book.
