Recommend a Book You've Read Recently and Enjoyed

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ya bout a young girl whose immigrant fam manages a motel near disneyland

Thanks! DD read it a few years ago and liked it. And I just saw that it’s part of the 6th grade ELA curriculum at DS’s school. Glad to hear it’s good enough to recommend to a group of adult readers! 👍

Lol, it’s not! What a strange recommendation. It’s cute for 4th/5th/6th graders.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read this recently but it you have never read Judy Bloom’s Summer Sisters, it’s worth a read. I remember also liking Wifey.

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Summer Sisters is one of my all time favorites. I remember being skeptical the first time it was suggested to me given the author, but it was really good! Great coming-of-age story examining the nuances of an unbalanced friendship told over the course of several years/decades.

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Anonymous wrote:Notes on an Execution (Danya Kukafka)
Girl in Snow (Danya Kukafka)
Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel)
More Than You’ll Ever Know (Katie Gutierrez)
Billy Summers (Stephen King)

I really liked all of these, in varying degrees. I also recently read Bewilderness (Karen Tucker) and The Violence (Delilah Dawson). I didn’t dislike either, but weren’t as great as the others.

Judging only from these book titles, I’m already feeling stressed out.

LOL - so recommend books that don’t stress you out. Different people enjoy different things, PP.

Notes on an execution was very good. Not a warm feel good story, but interesting nonetheless

PP who originally mentioned Notes on an Execution - agreed. It’s very compelling, in its way.

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The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadorian. Much, much better than the truly awful movie made a few years back. I am so glad that I read the book first

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Ducks by Kate Beaton. An absolutely wonderful memoir about her years working on the Alberta oil sands to pay off her college debt. So thoughtful and well written/drawn.

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Non fiction but amazing - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Also would recommend Code Girls (pairs well with the fictional Rose Code). I also was surprised how much I liked Shonda Rhimes’ “The Year of Yes”

For fiction I’d second The Gentleman in Moscow. If you’re open to fantasy at all, I loved Chakraborty’s Daevabad trilogy.

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Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman. She's a legend.

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OP here. Reviving this post to recommend Gabrielle Zevin's new book, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow".


https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-novel-Gabrielle-Zevin/dp/0593321200

I didn't love her previous book (Young Jane Young), but Tomorrow completely blew me away. Multi-layered and thought-provoking with both a strong plot and real emotional resonance. (I literally gasped in surprise and worry at a few points.)

I also loved the way Zevin wove multiple themes throughout the book. Familiar concepts and experiences kept resurfacing, but in new and interesting ways. And I found myself delighting in some of the metaphors and self-references as the book went on.

But more than anything else, I completely fell in love with the characters and was so invested in their journeys! I seriously think I'm going to miss Sam and Sadie.

P.S. If anyone else read this book and is interested in discussing it a bit, please start a new thread and I'd be happy to join in.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Reviving this post to recommend Gabrielle Zevin's new book, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow".


https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-novel-Gabrielle-Zevin/dp/0593321200

I didn't love her previous book (Young Jane Young), but Tomorrow completely blew me away. Multi-layered and thought-provoking with both a strong plot and real emotional resonance. (I literally gasped in surprise and worry at a few points.)

I also loved the way Zevin wove multiple themes throughout the book. Familiar concepts and experiences kept resurfacing, but in new and interesting ways. And I found myself delighting in some of the metaphors and self-references as the book went on.

But more than anything else, I completely fell in love with the characters and was so invested in their journeys! I seriously think I'm going to miss Sam and Sadie.

P.S. If anyone else read this book and is interested in discussing it a bit, please start a new thread and I'd be happy to join in.

You captured my intense love for this book well. The characters really took hold of my heart. Instant entry into my top 10 favorite books of all time list.

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Is tommorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow a romance? The blurb makes it sound like it’s about a “not like other romances” romance from the beginning as childhood friends and how they navigate career success.

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Anonymous wrote:Is tommorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow a romance? The blurb makes it sound like it’s about a “not like other romances” romance from the beginning as childhood friends and how they navigate career success.

Also, if you are an “oregon trail” generation who wasn’t and isn’t into video games, would you still like it?

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Anonymous wrote:Is tommorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow a romance? The blurb makes it sound like it’s about a “not like other romances” romance from the beginning as childhood friends and how they navigate career success.

Not in the traditional sense, no. But, there certainly is love there. Great book!

Also, I want to plug Viola Davis’s memoir, Finding Me. What an amazingly talented and driven woman! Love her!

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Anonymous wrote:Is tommorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow a romance? The blurb makes it sound like it’s about a “not like other romances” romance from the beginning as childhood friends and how they navigate career success.

This book is like licorice. There are people who love it and there are people who loathe it. Read some reviews on GoodReads and see if you want to proceed. It was not for me.

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I read a book called Curfew by Jayne Cowie and loved it. It takes place in a semi-dystopian society where men are fitted with an ankle monitor at the age of 10 and have a strict curfew from 7 pm-7 am. It tells the story of 3 different women who are interconnected. The books begins with the murder of one of them, but you don't know which one.

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Anonymous wrote:The Guncle. I loved it, but it’s certainly not woman-centered.

Why does it have to be woman centered? No other books are allowed?