Planning Ahead
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fourthtimer
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I picked up a copy of The Kite Runner on-island last June and finished it in a couple of days between naps. I highly recommend it. Since then other good books, all fiction, include a couple by Michael Crichton (I enjoy most of his books), one of Nelson DeMille's earlier books, The Talbot Odyssey (I liked it more than most of his more recent novels), and earlier this week I finished Follett's sequel World Without End (it was really engrossing, but my paperback copy weighs a ton so you may want to hire a porter to carry it back and forth to Saline Beach for you).
Les Miserables and War and Peace (really) are both on the nightstand right now with a few others. I hope the Dearly Beloved buys a couple of Baldacci books soon or she will insist I finish those two so the table can be dusted.
Les Miserables and War and Peace (really) are both on the nightstand right now with a few others. I hope the Dearly Beloved buys a couple of Baldacci books soon or she will insist I finish those two so the table can be dusted.
rivertrash
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I've mentioned a couple of these before, but in response to your question, here are a few I have read recently that you might consider if you haven't already. The Art of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein. Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva. Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley. The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb. An old classic that I had not read before, The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (politically incorrect with regard to native Americans - written in 1945). Just found out about James Lee Burke, writer of a series of books about a washed up dirty New Orleans cop named Dave Robicheaux who now lives in New Iberia, LA, home of Tabasco pepper sauce (that has nothing to do with the books). Actually, these books aren't nearly classy enough for you, Amy, but I've gotten a kick out of a couple of the first ones, Neon Rain, and Black Cherry Blues.
amyb
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I have 2 Burke's on the pile to go! Maybe Rosita will stash them away for you if I entrust her with them!..I picked up RACING IN THE RAIN after your review. Read it last weekend-I did not want to put it down. I can see the movie in my mind's eye-sad no middle aged Paul Newman around to cast in it. On the whole it held my interest but in the end not one of my best of 2008. I like Silva and I will look for it.Thanks for the tips, Amy
julianne
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Amy,
Just read "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly---Terrific. "Moscow Rules", as mentioned by others, is also very good. "Testimony" by Anita Shreve is thought-provoking but not her best.
Have you ever used "Daily Lit"?---www.dailylit.com. I am addicted to it. You get an e-mailed passage from one or more books every day. I'm re-reading "War and Peace" this way and am getting much more out of it than I did when I ploughed through it years ago. I've enjoyed so many classics and old favorites in my daily lit and since I'm at a different point in life, I approach them with a fresh eye.
Julia
Just read "The Brass Verdict" by Michael Connelly---Terrific. "Moscow Rules", as mentioned by others, is also very good. "Testimony" by Anita Shreve is thought-provoking but not her best.
Have you ever used "Daily Lit"?---www.dailylit.com. I am addicted to it. You get an e-mailed passage from one or more books every day. I'm re-reading "War and Peace" this way and am getting much more out of it than I did when I ploughed through it years ago. I've enjoyed so many classics and old favorites in my daily lit and since I'm at a different point in life, I approach them with a fresh eye.
Julia
KevinS
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Regarding classic books... It was intersting to find that an on-island American friend and I were both reading the same classic book recently. She was reading Rudayrd Kipling's Kim in hardcopy, I was reading it on Kindle.
To answer Amy's question, I downloaded Ken Follet's World Without End to my Kindle while I was sitting at the gate in SJU, and that's what I'm currently reading.
To answer Amy's question, I downloaded Ken Follet's World Without End to my Kindle while I was sitting at the gate in SJU, and that's what I'm currently reading.
