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Cutting for Stone
Molokai Also enjoy Lisa See as some others mentioned |
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Room
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Considering that illiterate means "unable to read and write," I think you are incorrect. |
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| Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin is one of the best works of new fiction I've read in years. Smart but engrossing to read. |
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The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Tells the story of Hemingway and his love story with his first wife while he was writing A Thousand Splendid Suns in Pais in 20's. |
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Another vote for "Room" I started it yesterday and I'm almost finished.
I was looking for Crooked Letter, but B&N didn't have it in stock. I'm going to order it from Amazon today. |
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Non-fiction but totally engrossing reading:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - about the dramatic intersection of cultural differences and Western medicine. The Emperor of All Maladies - A Biography of Cancer (Pulitzer Prize winner, so no slouch on the "illiterate" scale) On my list to read: The Greatest Journey - McCullough In the Garden of Beasts (Larsen's (Devil in the White City) new one) A Visit from the Goon Squad - Egan (also on short lists everywhere) Swamplandia - Russell (same) The Wierd Sisters (Brown) A Discovery of Witches (Harkness) Oh - and just because it's been written in the last ten years does not make it "illierate" - that smacks of ignorance more than reading Picoult or anything else. Faulkner and Steinbeck were not the end all and be all of literature. |
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| Typo - "illiterate" |
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I had no idea Hemingway was Afghani. |
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 - I think the OP meant to say A Moveable Feast and her brain is in the usual Monday fog.
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room
a visit from the goon squad the adults |
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I love Connie Willis but I think All Clear is one of her worst books-- I couldn't even finish it (the two books were supposed to be one book and I think she really needed a better editor to keep it to one book). I would recommend To Say Nothing of the Dog, the Doomsday Book, or Bellwether over Blackout/All Clear. |
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Ok, here's one that I've never seen recommended on one of these threads: Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin. It's not new, it's not soon to be a major motion picture, and it's about as far from a light fluffy bestseller as you can get.
That said, it's... well, it's indescribable. Magical, gut-wrenching, joyous, weird, and totally thrilling. I found that it wasn't great for reading before bed. I needed to be "on" to read this book. I think it may be the only book that actually made my cry. Certain images are still with me, two years later. I wanted to live up to it, so to speak, to give it everything I had. It redefined my personal definition of great modern literature. |
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| PP, I totally agree re. Winter's Tale. And you are right, you have to be in the right mood for it. I normally zip through books but had to keep putting that one down, reading other things, and coming back to it so it took me forever to get through, but it stays with me. |
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Girls of Riyadh. I do not read a lot of "chick lit", but I enjoyed this one about Saudi Arabian young women.
The Forgotten Garden. Had never heard of of Kate Morton, but was interested as she was Australian. Thought it was a respectable light read. |