Maybe the problem is unique to me. But I don’t think so. I’ve seen too many crossed out names in books I’ve picked up in second hand stores. [Click below to read the rest of Sarah Powley's essay.]
Two Girl Scout Seniors created this bulletin board for Elementary librarians featuring books that break gender stereotypes or are gender neutral. "Good Books are for Everyone" includes a pink side and a blue side, but books on each side are the same!
Which John Irving book should I consider picking up next?
Also, I haven't seen Cider House Rules, but I know it was considered a successful movie. As much as I enjoyed A Prayer for Owen Meany, I'm wondering whether that book could transfer to movie or video. I can't imagine the actors who could play Owen throughout his life, and whether such depiction would "ruin" the book for those who then see the movie. What do you think?
On 12/27/14, Ha HA wrote: > A Prayer for Owen Meany is a great book (my favorite of his I > think). > > I also loved A Son of the Circus and the Fourth Hand. > > I started Last Night in Twisted River, couldn't get into it, > put it down and never went back to it. > > On 12/27/14, jme wrote: >> My first and favorite was <u>The World According to >> Garp</u>. The movie was much less dark and was definitely >> condensed, but it is also one of my favorite movies. >> >> <u>The Cider House Rules</u> is probably my second >> favorite. The movie of that was good, too, but it lacked >> some of the "magic" I felt when reading the book.
On 12/27/14, jme wrote: > Somehow I missed <u>The Fourth Hand.</u> Too bad I just > ordered from Amazon this morning. Well, it's my next book on > the new list. > > > On 12/27/14, Ha HA wrote: >> A Prayer for Owen Meany is a great book (my favorite of his I >> think). >> >> I also loved A Son of the Circus and the Fourth Hand. >> >> I started Last Night in Twisted River, couldn't get into it, >> put it down and never went back to it. >> >> On 12/27/14, jme wrote: >>> My first and favorite was <u>The World According to >>> Garp</u>. The movie was much less dark and was definitely >>> condensed, but it is also one of my favorite movies. >>> >>> <u>The Cider House Rules</u> is probably my second >>> favorite. The movie of that was good, too, but it lacked >>> some of the "magic" I felt when reading the book.
I don't like most "chick lit," and I don't like romance. But I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books, and I love John Grisham's courtroom novels. I loved the Monk books, but I don't know if that's continuing. Suggestions for others?
In the category of light "beach reads": the Virgil Flowers series by John Sanford and the Women's Murder Club series (so far 1-13) by James Patterson.
judy5ca wrote: > I'm enjoying the Inspector Banks series by British writer > Peter Robinson. I'm also a fan of PD James (I think she > died recently) and Elizabeth George. > > Judy
This week, while sick and out on snow days, I have been listening to Grace Livingston Hill books on librivox.org. They are simple books, and overly wholesome, but the heroines, while innocent and wholesome, are also independent and strong-willed. You know she's going to get they guy she's fallen for, but that isn't really her goal. I remember a friend and I read them when we were in high school, and neither of us was really into sweet and wholesome or into evangelical Christians. There is more to these books and I am enjoying them now. Though I'm mixing them up with a little John Grisham, for a little change. I may have mentioned this already, but I'm also listening to Father Brown mysteries on libravox.org. I think I've listened to all of them. now, though.
I love the sound and imagery present in the title "Snow Falling on Cedars." For me, it's very evocative of snowfalls in the woods when I was a child. Peaceful. Sparkle. Silence. If it's possible for a sound to be detectable only to the mind's ear (the auditory equivalent of the mind's eye), it is present in the woods when snow is falling on cedars.
I also like the title "House of Sand and Fog."
I did enjoy reading both books, beyond the wonderful titles.
Ah, and two are Anne Tyler books. Accide...See MoreOn 2/21/15, judy5ca wrote: > Interesting that you like titles with imagery, Kathleen. I > tend to like titles that aren't understood until I read the book: > > Last Night in Twisted River > The Accidental Tourist > Digging to America > You Shall Know Our Velocity! > > Judy
Ah, and two are Anne Tyler books. Accidental Tourist was the first I read of Tyler's books. If I had to choose one author as my favorite, I think it would be Anne Tyler. Her quirky, sometimes downright eccentric characters are word-painted so well!
Last Night in Twisted River was the first Irving book I read, after you recommended it. I enjoyed it then A Prayer for Owen Meany and Cider House Rules. Thank you for getting me interested in John Irving.
/21/15, Jme wrote: > A Thousand Years of Solitude An American Tragedy Bonfire > of the Vanities. The World A cording to Garp > > > > These are just the titles, what I love are the stories, > stories with themes and images and characters and senes > that have stayed with me over the years.
I'm linking to an interesting article that might be interesting to Booktalkers. I was unfamiliar with the story.
Vanishing Act - Barbara Newhall Follett was a prodigy who transfixed the literary world—and then vanished forever. Article by Paul Collins is a fascinating account of an amazing child author and her later disappearance.