I just wanted to say to everyone involved and also to everyone else that this week’s GEEK theme was really fun to participate in. A big thank you to DEWEY for coordinating this and thank you to those who asked me questions. I realize that my book reviews are usually not very insightful (and difficult for me to compose); I have enjoyed the direct Q & A approach.
With that in mind, please help me select my next book? This list of my in house tbr choices should be a good indication of the variety of reading I like (or not?):
Geek Love / Katherine Dunn – because Chartroose loved it
Life of Pi / Yann Martel – is this on the 1001 Well Read List?
The Center of Everything / Laura Moriarty – gift from Chartroose
Hard City / Clark Howard – another gift from Chartroose (THANK YOU! and thank you for the bookmarks, too.)
coming soon via BookMooch: The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood – because I enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale
She’s Come Undone / Wally Lamb – I thought Trish rec’d but I think maybe I should have chosen I Know This Much Is True…
Mystic River / Dennis Lehane – many recommendations, it’s Boston-based, loved the movie
Books I’ve read by not yet posted a review: When We Were Orphans / Kazuo Ishiguro – again, THANKS to Chartroose!
The Way Life Should Be / Christina Baker Kline (Thank you Jill aka Softdrink – a giveaway win.)
Books I have started and put aside for now: Einstein / Ronald W. Clark
Anna Karenina – / Tolstoy (I know, I know…)
I ♥ my bookblogfriends! Thank you.
I vote for Oscar Wao, so I can be jealous of yet another person who’s read it.
Or, you can read Geek Love and we can compare notes, since I’ll be reading it soon.
Or, Salman Rushdie…I’ve been trying to read The Enchantress of Florence for what seems like forever. I’d be curious to see if anyone else thinks he writes the longest sentences in the history of literature.
These first two are library books so I’ve got a deadline. Whichever is shorter will be first. The Rushdie is 552 pages and tiny TINY! print.
You’re welcome, darling!
Ah…
I have trouble choosing books to read next to there so many sometimes I want to read them all at once. lol
I pick She Come Undone mostly because it the only one I read.
Or I would the Salman Rushdie book I have never read anything by him.
ha! you DO sound confuzzled about books!
I would recommend She’s Come Undone or Mystic River.
That makes two votes for the Lamb book. I’m eager to read a Lehane, too…
I would recommend Life of Pi.
Thank you. I’ve heard it’s impossible to stop once you start it.
My vote goes to Thunderstruck… really great true crime story.
Thank you for voting! When I bought this, I thought it was fiction. (I’m a goofball) I am looking forward to it.
I vote for Oscar Wao..I can’t believe that book’s not here in Korea yet! grrr!
Well, I didn’t make it to the library like I thought I would so I had to pick up something else. I’m hoping I can breeze right through it. In fact, my dear, if I had seen this WAO book when I was at Borders (and trying to avoid buying any books – WHY was I there, again!?) I probably would have bought this. (and would have let you mooch it) But I was only waiting for a friend and trying not to look around!
I’ve only read two of those – Midnight’s Children and Oscar Wao – but I enjoyed both a lot!
I’ve read Life of Pi and Midnight’s Children, and I LOVED them both. I’ve also read Geek Love, which, coincidentally, I posted about today.
I’m almost thru Life of Pi and it IS good. Do you think it will be a good jumping off point to Midnight’s Children – the India aspect, I guess. I loved your review of Geek Love; I just haven’t been by to comment yet.