^^^^Sounds riveting.
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
My Mom just recommended a book called Fingersmith. Anyone out there read it?
Recently read Hitlerās Holy Relics - āAn American art historian turned Army sleuth tracks down the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, hidden by Nazis at the end of World War II.ā Though I know very little about art history and WWII, I really enjoyed this non-fiction mystery.
Now Iām reading Agathe von Trapp: Memories Before And After The Sound Of Music. The prose is simple, but the story she tells about her childhood is amazing.
I had very mixed feelings about āLit.ā Ultimately, her conversion seemed rather narcissistic to me, largely about God answering her prayers with money and fellowships and worldly success. At one point she says, clearly intended as a joke, something along the lines of āJesus loves me better than other people,ā but I wonder if itās entirely a joke. Still, if it works for her and helps her to stay sober, itās all good.
The best book Iāve read recently is āI Will Bear Witness, Volume I, 1933-1941,ā by Victor Klemperer. Iām currently in the middle of the second volume of his diaries, covering 1942-1945, and itās even more compelling.
The best book Iāve ever read has to be Dreamcatcher,by Stephen King.Critics massacred the book,but Iām guessing they are either jealous,or have never really gotten serious with their reading.
The book is about four friends,and a fifth friend who has downs syndrome,plus the invasion of aliens which trigger a man feeding virus called āthe byrus/ripleyā that grows as a fungi on human flesh.Steve Kingās a regular genius.
āThe Five Quarters of the Orangeā by Joanne Harris
God, I read Dreamcatcher years and years ago when it came out. The first section of the book wasnāt bad, if you like gruesomely revolting scenes in which somebody dies on the toilet because an alien monster bursts out of his rear end, but the rest was excruciatingly dull and cliched ā the typical evil government/corporate menace theme.
@ Donna, ditto on Klemperer. Currently am really enjoying, for lack of a better term, āBerlin at Warā by Roger Moorhouse.
I just read āAtlas of Depression: The Noon Day Demonā by Andrew Solomon. Someone close to me suffers from depression. This book was hugely helpful to me in better understanding the illness. Oddly, it was a very enjoyable, uplifting read.
Sewemma, Just wowā¦that book is a huge undertaking. I read it when it came out because Iām in the psych profession (psychiatrist). Itās an encompassing lesson on depression, but it is so much more, including a fatherās determination to save his son. There is a quote by the author that has stayed with me; I am paraphrasing, but he states how the price of love is grief/loss. I find that to be so true.
Presently I am reading āUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptionā (not sure if itās already been mentioned).
^Iām giving āUnbrokenā to my dad for Christmas, after hearing the author read an excerpt on NPR. Highly recommend it.
I read we need to talk about Kevin. It is really something. Highly recommend.
It has been a while since I read āFive Quarters of the Orangeā mentioned hereā¦ but I do highly recommend. Some of my recent reads have been āThe White Tigerā, āThe Elegance of the Hedgehogā and āOlive Kittredgeā. I recommend all-currently catching up āThree Cups of Teaā.
Got around to reading āWe need to talk about Kevinā. From the topic, I thought it would be sort of āmovie-of-the-weekā, but I found it very well-written and compelling.
Thanks for the recommendation.
New book by Walter Mosley- āLast Days of Ptolomy Greyā I usually enjoy Mosleyās books, this one was especially sensitive and gritty.
I loved Cutting for Stone.
Read The Dome by Stephen King. He really weaves a world that is totally believable.
Canāt remember if I posted this one before or notāFeed, by Mira Grant. About zombies and bloggers. 
A great readā¦I got it from the library and 3 of my kids read it after me as well.
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (author of Seabiscuit). Amazing story of one manās true experience in WWII.
Itās been suggested by many- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks.
For those who have read this book, you will find her article in New Yorker (2007), about her research and a more factual account of the āincredibleā events about the saga of Sarajevo Haggadah.
From her website- a link to the article!
<a href=āhttp://geraldinebrooks.com/people.html[/url]ā>http://geraldinebrooks.com/people.html</a>
Geraldineās essay detailing the WWar II history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, āThe Book of Exodus: A double rescue in wartime Sarajevoā, appeared in the New Yorker Dec 3, 2007