Book Suggestions

[Fili]

Hey, so I thought it could be cool to have a separate thread for books
we might want to read. I definitely like the idea of reading Eat,
Pray, Love next. Since I work at the library, I see a lot of books
and kind of know what's popular. So here are a couple that might be
good:

The Help by Stockett, Kathryn
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not
crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them,
three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and
the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one
another. (stole from the library website)

The girl with the dragon tattoo
Larsson, Stieg
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of
one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian
uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he
believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael
Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the
bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-
year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-
earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for
ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely
team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through
the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of
Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves--
From publisher description. (There's a kit at the library too if we
want to be responsible and it comes with discussion questions! I'd
probably have to put it on hold though.)

The memory keeper's daughter
Edwards, Kim
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to
deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet
when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's
Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he
makes a split- second decision that will alter all of their lives
forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and
never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the
infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child
herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a
quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each
other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter
night. (There's a book club kit for this one, too.)

[Mosigg]

All of these sound awesome, especially the tattoo one!! That's one of
the books I've wanted to read!!!!!!!!! Wuwu

[Mosigg]

see how long the wait is on the book kit ;)

[Amanda Johnson]

I read the help and it is a good book but a little hard to read and get into. My mom just finished the girl with the dragon tattoo and didn't like it lol but I would be ok with reading it.

[Fili]

Hey well I put my name on the hold list for the kit. I know it's due
I think next week, so I think I'm next...

[Mosigg]

So, does that mean we need to finish "Eat Pray Love" soon? haha ;)
also I think we should post books we've been interested in for awhile
now on this thread... That way when its time for voting on a new book
we can come here and read some descriptions ;)

[Fili]

Oh I put a hold on both...I think. That way I can just steal the
discussion questions.

[Fili]

Oh, and I've also been wanting to read a Chuck Palahniuk book. He's
the author of Fight Club.

On Aug 10, 4:48 pm, Mosigg <morgan21...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Mosigg]

Okay Jerrome wanted me to post this one (SWEAR! which I think sounds
ammmmmmmazing!)
My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares
Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life
after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite
her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers
it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and
recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a
curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together
throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally,
apart. A love always too short.

Here are a few I have on my LONG list of things I need to read (lol)
A Million Little Pieces By James Frey
It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug abuser and how
he copes with rehabilitation in a Twelve Steps-oriented treatment
center.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir
Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his
father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of
tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the
Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the
United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper by Jack
Coughlin
With more than sixty confirmed kills, Jack Coughlin is the Marine
Corps' top-ranked sniper. Shooteris his harrowing first-person account
of a sniper's life on and off the modern battlefield G unnery Sgt.
Jack Coughlin is a divorced father of two with an Ivy League
background who grew up in the wealthy Boston suburb of Waltham. He had
thirty-six kills in Iraq- thirteen in a twenty-four hour period during
Operation Iraqi Freedom-and has one of the most successful records of
any sniper on active duty.Now, after twenty years behind the scope of
a long-range precision rifle, Coughlin has written a highly personal
story about his deadly craft, taking readers deep inside an invisible
society that is off-limits to outsiders. This is not a heroic
battlefield memoir, but the careful study of an exceptional man who
must keep his sanity while carrying forward one of the deadliest
legacies in the U.S. military today.

[Fili]

Ok, here is one that I've recently heard a couple of people say they
loved:

The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zapon

Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in
shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his
eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's
face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an
antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery
of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book
dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for
someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to
choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it
is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the
novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he
sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers
that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every
book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in
existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has
opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets - an epic story
of murder, madness, and doomed love.

[Fili]

I vote we read My Name is Memory next. Anyone else have a suggestion/
vote?

[Mosigg]

I was thinking maybe doing a funny read like: sh*t my dad says by
Justin halpern.... Google it, looks hilarious...