books
I’m one of those people who reads a lot. One of those people who gets far too excited when entering a bookstore. Who choses to spend money on hardcovers rather than hard drugs- and probably gets the same high doing it. However, I have a horrible memory. I can never remember book titles or author names, so when I try to describe a book I love to a friend I always turn slack jawed like a 17 year old boy the first time he’s at the strippers and draw a blank. Which? Is incredibly annoying. So to stop the madness, I’m going to be listing the books I read each month.
Feel free to give suggestions or let me know of books you loved, I’m always looking for new reads. Books that have a link, will send you to Book Me In, a book review site I’m a member of.
January
Anybody out there?- Marian Keyes
Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Know It All- A.J. Jacobs (one of my all time favourite books ever)
Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire- Rafe Esquith
A Great and Terrible Beauty- Libba Bray
Picture Perfect- Jodi Picoult
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2006- Edited by Dave Eggers
February
As You Like It- William Shakespeare
Digging To America- Anne Tyler
Flat Stanley- Jeff Brown
March
Mercy- Jodi Picoult
The Post- Birthday World- Lionel Shriver
Stephanie’s Ponytail- Robert Munsch
The Paper Bag Princess- Robert Munsch
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing- Melissa Bank
April
Mortimer- Robert Munsch
I *love* Jodi Picoult! Her books are amazingly written! I haven’t read them all yet. Picture Perfect is one of those books on my “to be read” shelf. Let me know how its!
I’ve been meaning to read the Best American Non-Required Reading. And A.J. Jacobs cracks me up. I love how I forget half the factoids in the book, and then come back and laugh as hard as I did the first time. Though one I won’t forget - we experience orgasms as infants? That kinda takes all the fun out of sex.
Paullina Simons. She has an epic love story crossing several decades. It’s 3 books. You could stop with the first one, but why would you want to?
The Bronze Horseman
The Bridge to Holy Cross
The Summer Garden
“White Oleander” and “Paint it Black” by Janet Fitch… specifically the latter, as it has not been made into a Michelle Pfeiffer movie. PIB was a burn-the-midnight-oil read for me the first time… and the second…
I just read Twilight and I absolutely loved it!! It is a series and the movie is coming out in December. You should try it!!