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NBR: Book recommendations please!
You ladies always rock when I ask this, twice before I got some really excellent suggestions so I am here to beg once more for some awesome books to read. Thanks!
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Re: NBR: Book recommendations please!
Have you read The Help? It is really good, IMO.
I'm currently reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (and then the other books in the series.) And I just bought The Book Thief on the recommendation of a friend.
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I'm currently reading The October Killings, by Wessel Ebersohn, and it's good so far. (A little slow, but very interesting and I thikn it'll pick up now that the set up is complete... I'm about 1/3 way through.) I'm also reading The Science of Kissing, which is non-fiction but really interesting. That's by Shirl Kirschenbaum (sp?).
Others I've recently enjoyed are:
And some on my list of 'to-reads' are:
Enjoy!
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I don't know what genre you normally like, but I like a little horror, but mostly thriller/suspense. The Passage by Justin Cronin was awesome, Full Dark No Stars by Stephen King is a collection of short stories that are really good (except I didn't like the second one very much), and right now I'm reading Hell's Corner by David Baldacci (sort of political/government thriller) and that's also pretty good.
I also liked The Help even though that's not the kind of book I normally like.
Don't you hate when that happens?
OP, what genres do you like? I recently read some really light books from Sarah Addison Allen which were lots of fun.
If you like chick lit than I hands down I recomend A Total Waste of Makeup by Kim Gruenenfelder and it's sequel Misery Loves Cabernet. They are hilarious great chick lit.
For something more serious I did really like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.
It makes me feel so violated. I know it's silly, but then I feel like I have to broadcast the fact that I loved the book before Oprah
We just read Loving Frank for our book club and it was really good. It is historical fiction about Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress.
The Dragon Tattoo series is great.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Anything by Jen Lancaster. She will have you laughing out loud.
I really enjoyed The Help as well.
I'm on a non-fiction kick right now.
I just finished At Home by Bill Bryson and it was SO interesting. He basically narrates a tour through his home, doing a history lesson on why things are the way they are. Why we have buttons on clothes, the origin of common phrases, etc.
I'm reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. He discusses why extraordinarily successful people are successful. Like, there are computer programmers....and there's Bill Gates. Why him? What did he do? It's fascinating.
I'm also reading On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor . It's a small little book about the history of kindness and how we've gotten to where kindness equals weakness. Or where it's not seen as a common trait- it's rare that we do things for other's without selfish motivation. They go back to Thomas Hobbes, Martin Luther, Adam Smith, the Enlightenment. It's pretty amazing so far.