I just finished Lottery. I had a hard time putting it down. Quick read but definitely one that will stay with me for a while.
Finished The Boys on the Boat last night. I am not a big reader of non-fiction, but I really enjoyed it. I was surprised to learn that the sport of crew has been around as long as it has in the U.S. and I thought Joeâs resiliency was remarkable.
Am just starting The Book Thief based on multiple recommendations here. Next up are Rules of Civility and Zeitoun for the same reason. I trust you folks. 
During the fall, I needed a long-term project, something which would absorb my attention and yet not require great quantities of mental or emotional horsepower. So I started to compile all of the recommendations here, and the selections of the CC Book Club, and it turned out to be the perfect task. Iâm almost done, and it looks like itâll run to maybe 1200 titles.
I hate to keep this precious information to myself, but I donât know how to share it with you folks. I surely couldnât post it here; it would take pages and pages of the thread.
Wow, LasMa! Iâd love to have your list. Compiling all the suggestions here is something Iâve thought of doing and never gotten around to. Good on ya!
I would like your list too, LasMa.
Three years ago I started a book log of every book I read along with authorâs name. I mark it if I especially like it. The list is handwritten, but I recently went through it and put the info into an excel sheet which I have shared via email to friends. I would be happy to share that list with ccâers , but like LasMa have no idea how to do that.
Just finished Twelve Years a Slave, a true account of a free born black man living in the North during slavery times who gets kidnapped and sold into slavery. He remains a slave for twelve horrific years. It is now an award winning movie. The manâs name is Solomon Northup.
One of the best books Iâve ever read.
Just started And the Mountains Echoed, loved Kite Runner and Ten Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author.
Speaking of book logs, are any of you on the Goodreads website? Social network for readers like us. You log and rate out of five stars all the books youâve read and can leave a written review if youâd like.
I get lots of my books from recommendations on goodreads. Itâs a really great website.
I am on Goodreads
LasMa, could the CC Recommended Reading list be added as a sticky in the parents cafe? If itâs alphabetical, other books could be added later. I canât envision how long the post would be but it would be really cool to see.
Havenât posted on this thread in ages (and, in fact, was off CC completely for quite a few months), but I love that so many of my favorite threads are still going strong!
Iâm on Goodreads â I find it a convenient way to log all my reading, as opposed to compiling everything on my own list. I always find it interesting to see the variety of ratings for a particular book. Sometime I agree, and other times I simply canât imagine why someone would give that book that rating, good or bad. I also use Goodreads to keep an ongoing list of books I want to read - titles I get from here, from magazines, the NY Times Book Review, whatever.
Enjoyed âAnd the Mountains Echoed,â though perhaps not quite so much as his first 2. The writing is still excellent, but I thought parts of it didnât quite hang together.
Would love your list, LasMa.
Good idea, psychmomma. Iâll ask one of the mods.
Someone took a stab at this earlier in the thread (probably 30 pages ago ) and posted all we had discussed. It took several posts to list them all at that time, and that was a lot of books ago!
The next book on my list is Winterâs Tale by Mark Helprin.
Would enjoy lasma list
Iâd be interested in the list, too.
I get a lot of my suggestions from the Goodreads books of the year nominees, and I like to do the reading challenge for the year-- last year my goal was to read 20 books, I set it to 20 this year again since I finished my 20th book in December, but I am hoping to read more like 30. Weâll see!
I just started Burial Rights from the goodreads nominees last night, and I am wondering if I am really going to read this one. It starts with all sorts of explanations of Icelandic culture that you need to know to follow the story, and a map-- and then the first few pages are letters. I always have a hard time with books where the characters have really âforeignâ names because I end up switching the characters around in my head, and the letters are written in the same voice so I canât tell who is who. And one of those Icelandic âhintsâ was that surnames are the fatherâs name followed by son or dottir, so you have no way of telling who is related to who. I hope the whole book isnât this way. It seems the first book I pick after one I really like is always a drag.
Iâd be interested to know if it picks up, Emaheevul07. Thanks.
I just finished Anjelica Hustonâs memoir, A Story Lately Told. I wasnât sure about it when I started it but wow, what a compelling story. Sheâs brutally honest, and oh my goodness, what a life she has had. And this book ends when she was in her early 20s! She actually wrote it herself, by hand, which in and of itself, is unusual in a celebrity memoir. I look forward to the second book, which will come out later this year.
I would also love to get your list Lasma. I just âfinishedâ The Goldfinch and was disappointed. I rarely do not finish a book that I have started but I cheated to get through this one. I made it 1/2 way through and then finished by reading the 1st sentence of each paragraph. Sadly, I donât feel I missed anything and I got the whole story. It was very wordy, the characters were not interesting, the story was implausible. Did not enjoy at al!
Fortunately, I followed with Boys in a Boat. Iâm 1/2 way through and I love it - itâs hard to put down!
Emmaheevul- looks very interesting. I love being immersed in another culture. Funny about the Icelandic last names. We have a new boy at one of the schools I teach at from Iceland and he was just explaining how that works. His first name is Fritheric, his sons LAST name with be Frithericson. His last name is Alexson, after his father whose first name is Alex. Itâs how they keep track of lineage.
I may be recommending this book for book club. I am starting to feel that so many of the books that are typically read in book clubs are âtypical book club booksâ. Everyone raves about them, we read them, and while itâs usually a story with a cool twist, I am left feeling empty after reading it ( a bit dramatic, I know). Somehow, I am not sure how well this book would be received at book club, I have a feeling I would love it.
Anyone get what Iâm saying about âtypical book club booksâ ?
I doâŠletâs just say there is a reason I have never lasted in a book club.