(1) To Read & (2) Just Finished.
I used to spend 2+ hours commuting a day. I was traveling often. I was burning through books. Lots & lots of books. And then - I stopped working. I stopped commuting. I stopped reading for some reason.
I've missed it.
I finished my first book in over 3 months when we were in Costa Rica. Daughter of Fortune (Allende). Friend Sarah Jane & I share literary tastes, & when she gave it to me for my birthday last fall, I just knew I'd love it.
I loved it.
Some friends & I - via our virtual book club - are discussing it here.
I picked up Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris) today, after Erin's recommendation (we share tastes, too). Have you seen his spot on Letterman? He's hilarious. I'm excited. It made for a lovely shopping experience, too. The two Upper East Side Barnes & Noble stores merged together, into a massive new store that is over 20,000 square feet. I wandered for about an hour today. It's beautiful. I love books.
Any other suggested reads? I'm determined to get through a few more great books this summer (& hopefully several while I'm traveling to & at the lake). I need to make up for lost time.
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If you haven't read "The Time-Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger, you MUST! It's fabulous. Also, two books that I loved in the last year were "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (a professor at MIT...where I work) and "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Both have won the Pulitzer and are uh-mazing.
hi kathryn!
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Just read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Both sad but really good. And The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, also sad but great.
Ooh, Angie, I loved all three of those books - I've read them all in the past 2 years. And Diana, I loved Middlesex, too. I haven't read the other two you mentioned.
sedaris is best read aloud, i think. i read me talk pretty one day to matt while we road-tripped somewhere. i couldn't get through the sentences because i was laughing so hard at sedaris and at matt, and i had tears blurring up my vision. that's a fun memory.
In light of everyone else's comments this one might be a bit fluffy, but I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society! You read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert already didn't you? Her new one, Weddings and Evictions, comes out this summer I believe.
Your Mom may have already mentioned, but our book club did all give a thumbs up to the Guersey book. I liked the little book Peaks and Valleys by the same author as "Who Moved The Cheese?" If you liked Stephanie Myer's vampire books, you might like her first adult novel - The Host. I did. It is sci-fi for sure.
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