Water for Elephants? Other book recs?

cutcopypaste · June 2011

Lately I have been bored out of my mind so I am thinking about reading Water for Elephants. Has anyone read it/do you recommend it? I'm also open to any book recommendations. I really want to start reading a book that I just can't put down, the last couple of books I've read were alright but not just totally enthralling...

domesticatedhuman · June 2011

I wasn't super into it but a lot of people have really loved it. It was kind of long for the actual content IMO.

A Fraction of the Whole is my recent favourite book, but I also liked The Shadow of the Wind.

lala1608 · June 2011

read it, loved it...can't wait to see the movie

other good books...something borrowed, something blue (both by Emily Giffin), Jemima J by Jane Green (she has other good books too)

A good pregnant book...Knocked up by Rebecca Eckler

All of these books are good entertainment and easy readers

Mrvswife · June 2011

LOVE Water for Elephants!

Also The Senators Wife is good- read that a few years ago though.

mclaugh · June 2011

Loved Water for Elephants! I can't wait to see the movie. Also reading The Help right now and it is so good.

A few other authors with easy fun reads are Janet Evanovich and Patricia Gaffney, Sue Monk Kidd.

Hope that helps, happy reading

lilwildthing · June 2011

I loved Water For Elephants. I really liked The Help too.

michelle142 · June 2011

I LOVED Water for Elephants. One of my favorites.

I read a lot and review most of my reads in my blog.

A few other favorites include Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah, The Hunger Games Trilogy, Wintergirls and I'm currently loving The Book Thief.

michelle142 · June 2011

I also love anything by Tana French

lbparadis · June 2011

I've read the first three in the Hunger Games series in less than a week. I did not anticipate liking these books at all (not really a scifi/fantasy fan).

I would give them a shot.

MrsT624 · June 2011

I really liked Water for Elephants!

I also highly recommend the Hunger Games trilogy. Such good books! I am going to read them again after I re-read the entire Harry Potter series )

karaknr · June 2011

michelle142:
I LOVED Water for Elephants. One of my favorites.

I read a lot and review most of my reads in my blog.

A few other favorites include Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah, The Hunger Games Trilogy, Wintergirls and I'm currently loving The Book Thief.

THIS! I loved Firefly Lane and The Hunger Games! I also read Water for Elephants a few years ago and while I liked it, it wasnt really one of those "get lost in the book" type stories to me.

I suggest the Hunger Games Trilogy if you want something to totally get submerged in. Since all three novels are already out it's easy to get swept up in the whole thing. (then again I like any series books).

Other good ones to get lost in:

The Shiver series (Wolves of Mercy Falls). The second novel Linger is out though the final novel Forever wont be out until July.

Meridian THIS is a fantastic YA fantasy novel. I loved it. Also a series though only the first book is out right now. Second will be out in July.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series is great, but it takes a few chapters to really get started. Keep reading though because it gets good.

I recently just bought the Trylle Trilogy because it was cheap and I was trying to keep myself busy with something, but I actually thought it was REALLY good! The books are Torn, Switched and Ascend. All three are out.

My Sister's Keeper is still one of the best books Ive read. If youve seen the movie still read the book. The endings are totally different.

Actually I can really get in to anything by Jodie Picoult, so all those books.

And for good measure, I have to throw in my favorite classic Wurthering Heights because it's just a good novel.

Have fun! I love a good story!

cutcopypaste · June 2011

About the hunger games.. reading a quick plot synopsis they didn't sound all that interesting to me. But I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan and it sounds like people who are recommending them also like HP. That being said do you think I would easily be able to get into them?

Also, I forgot about the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books!! My mom LOVES those, I'm gonna buy those.

rubyjem00 · June 2011

I would have to second (third? eighth?) the Hunger Games Trilogy. Great, great series. I also recently read The Name of the Wind along with the second book in the series, The Wiseman's Fear. They would have never been anything I would have thought to pick up myself but they were recommended to me and were really good.

A good place to look is the Nest Book Club. There are lots of people over there with great book recommendations.

karaknr · June 2011

cutcopypaste:
About the hunger games.. reading a quick plot synopsis they didn't sound all that interesting to me. But I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan and it sounds like people who are recommending them also like HP. That being said do you think I would easily be able to get into them?
Also, I forgot about the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books!! My mom LOVES those, I'm gonna buy those.

It took me forever before I finally bought the first book (though it was recommended to me long ago) because of this too. I just didnt think it sounded like something Id be interested in. But the way that it's written keeps you so intrigued throughout the series. It's very good even though I didnt think it would be. It has some really cool underlying themes too that I really enjoyed (though I generally dont care about themes and am just in it for the story). But the concept of corrupt government was pretty awesome in this, though the action keeps you super enthralled.

I also loved HP, but it's nothing like it in most ways. But the writing is similar in the fact that it gives you just the right amount of detail/ emotion/ action/ plot twists and character development. Perfectly balanced. At least up until the last book. The main character got a bit whiny in the last one for the first few chapters, but recovered well.

I also wanted to recommend 1000 Splendid Suns. This was NOT a book I wouldve picked up on my own, but it is such a great story and, while fiction, still so informative of how life is in Afghanistan and the middle east for so many women. good good book!

Mye · June 2011

here's a list of books i read recently

https://myinitialsaremom.blogspot.com/search/label/books

mmecarter · June 2011

I would recommend Water for Elephants. I read it a long time ago and loved it, then read it again when I heard it was being made into a movie to refresh my memory on it, and loved it again!

Other books I love...

Anything by Emily Giffin. I like the Time Travelor's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, but her second book Her Fearful Symmetry was much better. I also like anything by Jennifer Weiner...she wrote Good In Bed (which is my favorite by her,) Goodnight Nobody, In Her Shoes (which wasn't my favorite,) Best Friends Forever...the list goes on and on.

awillis13 · June 2011

Haven't read Water for Elephants, but other book recommendations:

Have a Little Faith - Mitch Albom

The Paris Wife - Paula McClain

Never Let Me GO - Kazuo Ishiguro

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

Half-Broke Horses - Jeanette Walls

and my all-time favorite book - is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Mass-girl-at-heart · June 2011

I just finished Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum. This is the synopsis from Amazon "Family secrets of Nazi Germany are at the core of this powerful first novel told in two narratives that alternate between New Heidelberg, Minnesota, in the present, and the small town of Weimar near Buchenwald during World War II. Trudy is a professor of German history in Minnesota, where she's teaching a seminar on women's roles in Nazi Germany and conducting interviews with Germans about how they're dealing with what they did during the war. But her mother, Anna, won't talk about it, not even to her own daughter. Trudy knows, she remembers, that Anna was mistress to a big Nazi camp officer. Why did she do it? Was he Trudy's father?"

I thought it was very good.