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Can we make book recommendations in this post?

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Re: Can we make book recommendations in this post?

  • imageKatiesCats:

    I just finished a Jon Krakauer binge: Under the Banner of Heaven


    I read this not too long ago because of all the recommendations here and I hated it. I generally enjoyed the story but I felt like the author had an agenda and I could've told the story more effectively with a more neutral tone.

    I'm currently reading How to be an American Housewife by  Margaret Dilloway. It's fluff, but it's enjoyable fluff.

  • Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin is a worthwhile read.

    Room (Emma Donahue) was pretty good if you haven't read it yet.

     

    On the non-fiction side,  Drift (Rachel Maddow) and Other People's Children (Lisa Delpit) are on my to-read list.  It's been awhile since I've read a NF book... I've been on a dystopian lit bender lately.

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  • imageLucille Bluth:
    fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science - I didn't know a lot about Christian Scientists before I read this and it was disturbing and fascinating.

    I'll be downloading this and I'll let you know if it's bullshiit or not :) 

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  • Currently enjoying A Visit From the Goon Squad.
  • imagehawkeye+:

    Has anyone ever read American Gods? I just started the sample and so far it's......weird.

    Curious if anyone had thoughts on it.

    I loved it. I tend to love all things Neil Gaiman, though.

    I'm also a long-time King fan, and I started 11/22/63 in the hospital, waiting for my contrax to get regular (I soon put it down, though ;-))--I haven't picked it up since.  

    I am serious...and don't call me Shirley.
  • imageJermysgirl:

    imageLucille Bluth:
    fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science - I didn't know a lot about Christian Scientists before I read this and it was disturbing and fascinating.

    I'll be downloading this and I'll let you know if it's bullshiit or not :) 

    Please do! I'd love to know what you think and discuss. :)

  • I'm currently reading:

    Fluff - To Defy a King by Elizabeth Chadwick

    Slightly less Fluff - Elizabeth I by Margaret George

    Not fluff - Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf.  Actually quite interesting.

     

    I tried reading Tony Blair's memoir but just couldn't get into it.  I'm finding that my recreational reading needs to be on the lighter side these days.

  • imageBottle Of White:

    Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin is a worthwhile read.

    Yes.  Definitely.  That book got under my skin and I still think about it months later.

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