<p>I forgot to mention another one I loved…Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain. I liked Cold Mountain but didn’t love it. I really liked Thirteen Moons better.</p>
<p>Ellis, I remember seeing the movie version of “the Hiding Place” many years ago when I was in high sch. What a courageous story.</p>
<p>Pack Mom, I didn’t realize that there was a movie made about the Hiding Place. Thanks for telling me. I see that it’s at our library-I’ll have to watch it. </p>
<p>It is about personal courage. It does seem excellent for h.s. kids.</p>
<p>i just re-read evening by susan minot. next up…true evil by greg iles</p>
<p>We’ve dog-eared several copies of the Hiding Place.<br>
Went to the library today with a list of books from this thread to see what I could find on tape, and had very little success. Skinny Dip was the only one I could find that was mentioned here. Came home with a few others as well - random picks. I’ll let you know if we find any winners. Trip is day after tomorrow.</p>
<p>wbow:
I loved all of the big stone gap novels by adriana trigiani. They are also good to listen to.</p>
<p>I bumped this thread because I’m currently reading The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud and I recall reading some commentary about it here. I’m about 125 pages into it. While it won’t go down as one of my favorites, so far I enjoying it. Although I agree that the main characters aren’t particularly likeable, so far I’m staying with it.</p>
<p>Some books that I’ve enjoyed recently:</p>
<p>The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Loved this one)
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Little Children by Tom Perrotta</p>
<p>I recently tried (for the second time, originally I started to read it years ago) to read “Mona in the Promised Land” by Gish Jen, but by around page 50 I had to put it down. The plot (teen-age Chinese-American girl in the late 60s decides that she wants to convert to Judaism) sounded intriguing but it was a big disappointment. Way too much narration, not much of a plot, and the characters weren’t interesting enough to hold my attention.</p>
<p>I liked Prep, I loved Little Children (I love Tom Perotta anyway), and I laughed my behind off reading Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs.</p>