Saturday, July 26, 2008
Help.
I need book recommendations. A colleague suggested a year ago that I read the Donna Leon mystery series, and I started the first book, thought "eh..." and kept reading, and now I'm hooked! I'm going to read them ALL! And I want MORE! MORE BOOKS!!!! Besides, it's Summer Reading time again, and I've got to muster up a list of six not-embarrassing books to turn in as an entry for a lottery to win a weekend retreat. So please, recommend me something.... I'm expecting you all to do a better job with this than you did for me last summer when you recommended NOTHING!
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We are alive! Not much to report. Cook has a new job, still in government, but doing a different kind of work. I have the same job. Duchess ...
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- Foreskin's Lament
- The Book Thief
- The Wondrously Brief Life of Oscar Wao
- St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
- A Short History of Tractors in Urkrainian
Henning Mankell's mystery series featuring the lumpy yet intruiging Inspector Kurt Wallender. Set in Sweden.
I am loving keeping up with the Dutch-Cook-Non-Coffee-Drinkers, BTW...
Love CM
My roommate recommends the Daniel Silva mysteries. I recommend Cormac McCarthy (especially The Road) and anything by Laurie R. King (Sherlock Holmes redux and contemporary lesbian police procedurals, plus a few non-genre efforts thrown in for good measure). Forgive me if I have already recommended these. As you know, I am more of an authority on non-not-embarrassing books, such as the historical romances of Candice Proctor.
Lady Audley's Secret (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862)
Country of the Pointed Firs (Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896)
The Golden Compass (P. Pullman, 1995)
The Railway Children (Edith Nesbit, 1906)
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