I just finished two excellent books... Water for Elephants - By Sara Gruen & Lovely Bones - By Alice Sebold Water for Elephants was a really easy read that kept me interested throughout the entire story. I loved her visual style and the characters. Lovely Bones is a sad novel, but ends beautifully. I am glad that I read both of these. Has anyone read the following? I would love to know if they are worth getting or not. Sugar Queen Garden Spells Kindness of Strangers Darkest Evening of the Year When Crickets Cry Sunday at Tiffany's House of Leaves
I recently read the first too books of the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. Pretty good with lots of plot twists and I like that the story line is organized in a rather unique way. pretty good and the chapters are super short so you can read one in like three minutes and put it down if you want. My only complaint is that the story moves alon really really fast, a bit faster than I'd like but it's still pretty good and the characters are right up my alley.
"Raise the Titantic" Clive Cussler "Area 7" Matthew Reilly "The General's Daughter" Nelson DeMille "The Navigator" Clive Cussler
"The Magician: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel." Very interesting read, witty, and creative. All the ingredients for a marvelous book.
Breaking Dawn (The last book of the Twilight Saga) And because I love them so much I finished Twilight again today!!
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. An excellent book that places Native Americans in the history and development of the Northeast from 1600-1800s, largely from their perspective. I'm working on the review now...
I'm still on Anthony Burgess' erudite but entertaining epic "Earthly Powers", the fictional autobiography of a homosexual dramatist set against the history of most of the 20th century.
I finished the Dark Tower 4 by Stephen King the other night and am well on my way (around 170 or so) pages into number 5. I've read the series before and it's brilliant and messes with your mind a lot, it's great to visit those worlds again
I just finished "Lady Rocheford", a biography about Anne Boleyn's sister-in-law, and also just finished Alexander Tocqueville's "Democracy In America". Both excellent books. I liked them both so much that I bought them from the book exchange so I wouldn't have to give them back.
Just finished "All The Pretty Horses." Not a big fan of it. I've started Black Hawk Down, now. It's pretty good so far.
I'm reading The Prince, one book in a series by Francine Rivers. She's actually my favorite author, but I'm really thinking that if The Prince had been the first book she ever tried to get published, it never would have made it. It's very dry and slow. Not at all like her other works. I'm shocked, really. Before that it was the fourth book of the Twilight series. A mere 750 pages or so... But, it was great for the most part. She seemed to lose her previous style a few time and go into more of an overly discriptive, droning style for the first section of the book and I think she lost a lot of readers there. The second portion was better and the last portion superb.
I read Firebird, because I remembered really liking it when I read it a long time ago. I still like it, but I've come to the conclusion that the main character is a ^%(&*$ idiot.
I bought John Updike's Rabbit trilogy in a charity shop, and am reading the first book, Rabbit Run. a great, humane and poetic writer. strangely, he died on Tuesday just as I began it. He seems more relevant than Saul Bellow and philip Roth. I also love Joyce Carol Oates.
Finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series books 3-6 in the last three weeks. Amazing tale and the pace really picks up and you can't put it down, you just have to know what happens next
