A friend from high school recently asked me to make him a book list because he wants to read more this year (I think he made one of those so-called new year's resolutions). I really really like to make lists so I obliged him this little snippet of my unending knowledge in a categorized list form. Then I thought I'd share it with the 5 or so people who tune into my life web-style for several reasons: 1) There are some good books on this list and you should read them. I am a big fan of reading. 2) I know I'm forgetting some good ones 3) I know there are so many good ones out there that I haven't read ... so now I am taking suggestions from the audience. you.
Political/Cultural: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - sooooo good
Spiritual/Scientific Fiction: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown - this is the prequel to Da Vinci Code and it isn't spectacularly written necessarily but it is interesting and suspenseful
Southern: Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns - anyone from a small southern town can identify with so many aspects of this book
Spiritual: Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller - really any of his books .... the guy has a good sense of humor
Short Stories: Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros - my favorite, as you might remember, is Eleven
Kind of Twisted but Really Funny: How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater by Marc Acito - don't judge ... I enjoy a funny book
Autobiographical/Journalistic: Be True to Your School by Bob Green - way before reality shows became "the thing" there was Bob Green
Currently Reading: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Books I Would Like to Read Sometime:
Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara - what can I say ... revolutionaries are hot
Asylum by Patrick McGrath - a good friend said it has a crazy twist ending
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - I figure if her short ones are good then her long ones probably are too
Naked by David Sedaris - He's is very funny and the book has been on my shelf for at least 3 years
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - So if a prequel comes before and a sequel comes after, would this book just be a quel??
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - I started it (in spanish) summer after freshman year and never finished
Ok now it's your turn. GO!
5 comments:
i would also recommend any don miller book. any frog and toad, silverstein, how to books, or seamus heaney (poetry). i would like to finish one i just started, "your god is too safe".
mamie, you should say yes to coming out with me to the comedy festival. talk to you soon.
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thanks for the list...i like the Kite Runner too
oh. funny thing. your link to erin's blog is addressed to "theweave" instead of "theweaver" and it goes to some fellow named timothy's blog. i thought you might like to know.
You will love House on Mango Street. It's wonderful.
And thanks for the list. I'll have to try some of these out.
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