Anonymous
Post 04/24/2015 12:57     Subject: Re:Heading to the beach next week and so excited to READ!!! Any good recs?
One other: Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2015 21:01     Subject: Heading to the beach next week and so excited to READ!!! Any good recs?
Anonymous wrote:Girl on the train.


Thinking about downloading this one. Was it good?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2015 17:26     Subject: Heading to the beach next week and so excited to READ!!! Any good recs?
Night Film
Child 44 (an adaptation coming out soon)
Children of Men
Ready player one
The yellow birds
You should have known
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 22:35     Subject: Heading to the beach next week and so excited to READ!!! Any good recs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Martian, by Andy Weir. You're welcome.


+1

My top 3 reads from last year -

Station 11 - Emily St John Mandel
All the Light We Cannot Wee - Anthony Doerr (and now Pulitzer Prize winner)
and
The Martian.


Ha! I literally just finished Station Eleven 15 minutes ago. I was blown away by how good it was.

The book I finished right before it was All the Light We Cannot See -also terrific.

I will now add The Martian to my library queue. And, PP, I wish I could start a book club with you!

(My other recommendations would be The Night Circus and Big Little Lies (definitely a beach read)


Not PP but I would just say I know a lot of people love the Martian but to me it doesn't really belong in the same category as Station Eleven or All the Light We Cannot See. It's more of a plot-driven MacGuyver-esque story than a beautifully written novel, if that makes any sense.

FWIW, I liked Mr. Penumbra and Longbourn (if you are a Jane Austen fan)
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 22:28     Subject: Heading to the beach next week and so excited to READ!!! Any good recs?
The Tea Rose