Are you interested in any specific genre or just a good book?
@bmojsilo - Just looking for good stuff to read. I read all sorts of genre of books.
@Kristenmomof3 - I like John Grisham, just about every book he wrote is awesome.
I am currently reading Voyagers 2: The Secrets of Amenti.
Crazy stuff.
Tina Fey’s Bossypants!!!
I loved The Host by Stephanie Meyer…way different from the Twilight Series, it was great! I also loved Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly series starting with Grave Secret (she wrote the true blood series but this is way different from that). I’m actually finally reading the Vampire books by Anne Rice and then I have the Hunger series lined up on my Kindle. Oh and the Shiver series was great too!
What genre are you looking for?
The Heart’s Code (: (: (:
@wyckdstorm - May have to check out Charlaine Harris
@Kristenmomof3 - It tells about how heart is not just a pump. The heart also thinks, remembers, communicates with other hearts, helps regulate immunity, and contains stored information that continually pulses through our body. Long story short, it’s full of amazing stories of transplant recipients who experienced profound changes in their lifestyles and cancer patients who recognized their illness before diagnosis, as well as data from scientists and sources on cellular memory and the power of subtle energy. If I’m not wrong there are stories about the transplant recipients who got memories that actually have never happened to them. Apparently those memories belong to the donors. It sure is a really good book I love it (: (: (: You might find the synopsis on google.
It’s by Dr. Paul Pearsall
@wyckdstorm - I also loved the Host. It was excellent and I want to read it again after I forget it some. It really had the emotion of the book instilled right into you. Definitely recommend that book. It’s not her run of the mill Twilight bullshit.
Also I’ve recently read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, and it’s sequels, “The Girl who Played with Fire” and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” and they just got better and better.
I’ve also read a number of Swedish Crime Thrillers, “The Dark Room” being one that I thought was really excellent. Also, I’ve read Dean Koontz’s “TickTock” (very weird), and “Intensity” which is a murder-thriller of sorts, and it was excellent as well. I am currently on “Strangers” by Dean Koontz.
Hope that gives you some for thought!
@haloed - You would never have believed The Host was written by the author of Twilight…I heard its being looked at into being made into a movie. I have the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on stand by, ugh I have so many to read…lol, but I read every day. I love Dean Kootnz, he’s bipolar and he writes best when he’s off his meds…lol. You should read Shattered and House of Thunder by him and Servants of Twilight, my favs by him!
@wyckdstorm - I shall! My aunt has tons of his books, I’m reading ones she lent to me. I will ask for those after I get through some more of the ones I have! And yeah The Host is being made into a movie, but I don’t think it could possibly communicate the inner struggle she had with the alien, you know? It was such a fantastic book, you’d think Stephanie Meyer had split personality and wrote that amazing one first, and never again.
I could list a thousand!
The most recent I reread was The Unquiet Mind and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Have you read To Kill a Mockingbird? The Road Long Way Gone The Soloist The Girl (trilogy that someone above me mentioned) Under the Dome
HUGS! and Happy Reading!
The Help
Water for Elephants
Ape House
The life of Pi
Shantaram
Some books everyone should read: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
I can’t wait to get my hands on the Steve Jobs Biography
I don’t read fiction.
– Sam Harris: The Moral Landscape
– Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World
– Carl Sagan: Dragons of Eden
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Kuhn.
Partial to historical fiction:
Wilbur Smith – Courtney series – http://www.wilbursmithbooks.com/books/courtney - I started with “Bird of Prey” continued forward , then have been going back and reading the earlier works.
Charles Frazier – “Cold Mountian” (book is much better than the movie)
Michael Shaara – “Killer Angels”
I just read a biography of Dorothy Day called _All is Grace_, by Jim Forest. I recommend it highly.
Recently read The Bridge of San Luis Rey, My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece, and Sophie’s World. Also As A Man Thinketh.
Sex at Dawn
i am reading the ender’s series. I am not usually into sci-fi but these are just too good.
anything by jodi picoult. i find that you get a really entertaining but deep, thought-provoking book from her. my fave is my sister’s keeper. and for something that just draws on your heart-strings and makes you laugh Anne of Green Gable Series.
If you like fantasy, read any book by Diana Wynne Jones. She is a wonderful fantasy author. Or if you like mysteries, Joan Lowery Nixon is a great mystery author and Lois Duncan writes great suspense books. Philip Pullman is another author you should check out. Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is amazing.
our library bookclub selection for this month Nov is Shanghi Girls by Lisa See and it was really good.
The Edible Woman-Margaret Atwood The Famished Road-Ben Okri The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho Pure Sunshine-Brian James The Stranger-Albert Camus The Time Travel’s Wife-Audrey Niffenegger A Push and A Shove -Christopher Kelly Oryx and Crake-Margaret Atwood Running with Scisors-Augusten Burroughs Feed-Mira Grant Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho Brida – Paulo Coelho The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
The Opposite of Love by Helen Benedict
My occupational status sort of necessitates extreme frugality. But I love e-books. So I haunt Project Gutenberg. I’ve rediscovered the 19’th century authors. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities. Alexander Dumas’ The Count Of Monte Cristo. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. These old books are astonishing. They’re written in an older, more formal style, so it takes some patience to wade through them sometimes. But they still have the power to move and stir hearts. Tales of love, adventure, good and evil.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey the comic.
Stranger in a Strange Land, A Fraction of the Whole, World War Z, Microserfs, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I read all genres of books and right now I’m on a sci-fi kick, and reading all Orson Scott Card’s stuff. Ender’s Game was an excellent book (as were all the sequels! and the parallel series, which I am reading right now)
He also wrote a fantasy series, which I thought was excellent, the first book was called Seventh Son. A good fantasy novel that just recently came out was The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, it was a great read. Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, is awesome, also.
For other genres, James Patterson writes excellent mystery novels (I love his Alex Cross series). One of my favorite mystery/paranormal series was by Charlaine Harris, she wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books (which were made into the TV series, True Blood) but she also wrote another series about a woman who could find dead bodies and know how they died and it was an excellent 4-book series, I read them in a week! (The first one is called Grave Sight)
I could keep going (I’m a serious book freak.. I always have at least five checked out from the library! ) but I’ll leave it at that!
Timeline- by Michael Crichton Sensei- by David Charney David Copperfield- by Charles Dickens Amazonia- by James Rollins Lord of Darkness- by Robert Silverberg Tarzan- by Edgar Rice Burroughs Montezuma’s Daughter- by Rider H. Haggard Papillon- by Henry Charriere
of human bondage.
it starts off slow with a boy’s education life, but the topics cover vary so greatly, especially the tumultuous love story with mildred. it was so heart wretching, yet it all seemed so true, the things he accepted, endured, sacrificed all for love.
“The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett. Super fantastic! Someone else mentioned “To Kill A Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, which is an American classic! Love it. “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank- one of the best books I have ever read and one that has had the greatest impact on me, second to only the Bible.
Fiction – anything by Anne Rice! I am also a huge Laurell K. Hamilton fan, though be warned her books are very explicit and adult in nature. Margaret Atwood is also an amazing author – I recommend her books “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Penelopiad.” Stephen Pressfield’s “Gates of Fire” is also excellent, though it has graphic war violence and the ending is terribly sad. Nelson DeMille and Amy Tan are also excellent authors.
For non-fiction, I recommend Barbara Demick’s “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea”, Jan Goodwin’s “Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World”, Geraldine Brooks’s “Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women” and Jean Sassoon’s “Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia.” (I think my friend’s interest in Islamic women’s studies has worn off….) If you can’t find anything you like, let me know and I can recommend more! My house is practically a library!
@wyckdstorm - the host is pretty much my favorite book i would suggest perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky/go ask alice (anonymous author)/identical by ellen hopkins (unless you’re triggered by child/sexual abuse)or the vampire academy series, if you like magic/fiction/vampiresi just finished welcome to the monkey house by kurt vonnegut and catcher in the rye by jd sallinger. =](if you’ve never heard about it, you should check out librarything.com and it suggests books based on what you’ve read previously.)
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Are you interested in any specific genre or just a good book?
@bmojsilo - Just looking for good stuff to read. I read all sorts of genre of books.
@Kristenmomof3 - I like John Grisham, just about every book he wrote is awesome.
I am currently reading Voyagers 2: The Secrets of Amenti.
Crazy stuff.
Tina Fey’s Bossypants!!!
I loved The Host by Stephanie Meyer…way different from the Twilight Series, it was great! I also loved Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly series starting with Grave Secret (she wrote the true blood series but this is way different from that). I’m actually finally reading the Vampire books by Anne Rice and then I have the Hunger series lined up on my Kindle. Oh and the Shiver series was great too!
What genre are you looking for?
The Heart’s Code (: (: (:
@wyckdstorm - May have to check out Charlaine Harris
@jmallory - I read all sorts of stuff
@fabolousclown - What is that about? Who is it by?
@Kristenmomof3 - It tells about how heart is not just a pump. The heart also thinks, remembers, communicates with other hearts, helps
regulate immunity, and contains stored information that continually
pulses through our body. Long story short, it’s full of amazing stories of transplant recipients who experienced profound changes in their lifestyles and cancer patients who recognized their illness before diagnosis, as well as data from scientists and sources on cellular memory and the power of subtle energy. If I’m not wrong there are stories about the transplant recipients who got memories that actually have never happened to them. Apparently those memories belong to the donors. It sure is a really good book I love it (: (: (: You might find the synopsis on google.
It’s by Dr. Paul Pearsall
@wyckdstorm - I also loved the Host. It was excellent and I want to read it again after I forget it some. It really had the emotion of the book instilled right into you. Definitely recommend that book. It’s not her run of the mill Twilight bullshit.
Also I’ve recently read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, and it’s sequels, “The Girl who Played with Fire” and “The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” and they just got better and better.
I’ve also read a number of Swedish Crime Thrillers, “The Dark Room” being one that I thought was really excellent. Also, I’ve read Dean Koontz’s “TickTock” (very weird), and “Intensity” which is a murder-thriller of sorts, and it was excellent as well. I am currently on “Strangers” by Dean Koontz.
Hope that gives you some for thought!
@haloed - You would never have believed The Host was written by the author of Twilight…I heard its being looked at into being made into a movie. I have the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on stand by, ugh I have so many to read…lol, but I read every day. I love Dean Kootnz, he’s bipolar and he writes best when he’s off his meds…lol. You should read Shattered and House of Thunder by him and Servants of Twilight, my favs by him!
@wyckdstorm - I shall! My aunt has tons of his books, I’m reading ones she lent to me. I will ask for those after I get through some more of the ones I have! And yeah The Host is being made into a movie, but I don’t think it could possibly communicate the inner struggle she had with the alien, you know? It was such a fantastic book, you’d think Stephanie Meyer had split personality and wrote that amazing one first, and never again.
I could list a thousand!
The most recent I reread was The Unquiet Mind and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Have you read To Kill a Mockingbird?
The Road
Long Way Gone
The Soloist
The Girl (trilogy that someone above me mentioned)
Under the Dome
HUGS! and Happy Reading!
The Help
Water for Elephants
Ape House
The life of Pi
Shantaram
Some books everyone should read: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
I can’t wait to get my hands on the Steve Jobs Biography
I don’t read fiction.
– Sam Harris: The Moral Landscape
– Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World
– Carl Sagan: Dragons of Eden
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Kuhn.
Partial to historical fiction:
Wilbur Smith – Courtney series – http://www.wilbursmithbooks.com/books/courtney - I started with “Bird of Prey” continued forward , then have been going back and reading the earlier works.
Charles Frazier – “Cold Mountian” (book is much better than the movie)
Michael Shaara – “Killer Angels”
I just read a biography of Dorothy Day called _All is Grace_, by Jim Forest. I recommend it highly.
Recently read The Bridge of San Luis Rey, My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece, and Sophie’s World. Also As A Man Thinketh.
Sex at Dawn
i am reading the ender’s series. I am not usually into sci-fi but these are just too good.
anything by jodi picoult. i find that you get a really entertaining but deep, thought-provoking book from her. my fave is my sister’s keeper. and for something that just draws on your heart-strings and makes you laugh Anne of Green Gable Series.
If you like fantasy, read any book by Diana Wynne Jones. She is a wonderful fantasy author. Or if you like mysteries, Joan Lowery Nixon is a great mystery author and Lois Duncan writes great suspense books. Philip Pullman is another author you should check out. Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is amazing.
our library bookclub selection for this month Nov is Shanghi Girls by Lisa See and it was really good.
The Edible Woman-Margaret Atwood
The Famished Road-Ben Okri
The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho
Pure Sunshine-Brian James
The Stranger-Albert Camus
The Time Travel’s Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
A Push and A Shove -Christopher Kelly
Oryx and Crake-Margaret Atwood
Running with Scisors-Augusten Burroughs
Feed-Mira Grant
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho
Brida – Paulo Coelho
The Handmaid’s Tale-Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
The Opposite of Love by Helen Benedict
My occupational status sort of necessitates extreme frugality. But I love e-books. So I haunt Project Gutenberg. I’ve rediscovered the 19’th century authors. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities. Alexander Dumas’ The Count Of Monte Cristo. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. These old books are astonishing. They’re written in an older, more formal style, so it takes some patience to wade through them sometimes. But they still have the power to move and stir hearts. Tales of love, adventure, good and evil.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey the comic.
Stranger in a Strange Land, A Fraction of the Whole, World War Z, Microserfs, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
I read all genres of books and right now I’m on a sci-fi kick, and reading all Orson Scott Card’s stuff.
Ender’s Game was an excellent book (as were all the sequels! and the parallel series, which I am reading right now)
He also wrote a fantasy series, which I thought was excellent, the first book was called Seventh Son.
A good fantasy novel that just recently came out was The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, it was a great read.
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, is awesome, also.
For other genres, James Patterson writes excellent mystery novels (I love his Alex Cross series).
One of my favorite mystery/paranormal series was by Charlaine Harris, she wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books (which were made into the TV series, True Blood) but she also wrote another series about a woman who could find dead bodies and know how they died and it was an excellent 4-book series, I read them in a week! (The first one is called Grave Sight)
I could keep going (I’m a serious book freak.. I always have at least five checked out from the library!
) but I’ll leave it at that!
Timeline- by Michael Crichton
Sensei- by David Charney
David Copperfield- by Charles Dickens
Amazonia- by James Rollins
Lord of Darkness- by Robert Silverberg
Tarzan- by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Montezuma’s Daughter- by Rider H. Haggard
Papillon- by Henry Charriere
of human bondage.
it starts off slow with a boy’s education life, but the topics cover vary so greatly, especially the tumultuous love story with mildred. it was so heart wretching, yet it all seemed so true, the things he accepted, endured, sacrificed all for love.
“The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett. Super fantastic! Someone else mentioned “To Kill A Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, which is an American classic! Love it. “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank- one of the best books I have ever read and one that has had the greatest impact on me, second to only the Bible.
Fiction – anything by Anne Rice! I am also a huge Laurell K. Hamilton fan, though be warned her books are very explicit and adult in nature. Margaret Atwood is also an amazing author – I recommend her books “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Penelopiad.” Stephen Pressfield’s “Gates of Fire” is also excellent, though it has graphic war violence and the ending is terribly sad. Nelson DeMille and Amy Tan are also excellent authors.
For non-fiction, I recommend Barbara Demick’s “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea”, Jan Goodwin’s “Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World”, Geraldine Brooks’s “Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women” and Jean Sassoon’s “Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia.”
(I think my friend’s interest in Islamic women’s studies has worn off….)
If you can’t find anything you like, let me know and I can recommend more! My house is practically a library!
@wyckdstorm - the host is pretty much my favorite book
i would suggest perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky/go ask alice (anonymous author)/identical by ellen hopkins (unless you’re triggered by child/sexual abuse)or the vampire academy series, if you like magic/fiction/vampiresi just finished welcome to the monkey house by kurt vonnegut and catcher in the rye by jd sallinger. =](if you’ve never heard about it, you should check out librarything.com and it suggests books based on what you’ve read previously.)