tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post6581321914571069573..comments2023-05-06T06:01:24.652-07:00Comments on Drop it like a trig class: Looking for suggestions...Anne At Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02980087155991051007noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post-30625251464618580432008-12-13T01:22:00.000-08:002008-12-13T01:22:00.000-08:00Annie - try reading something by Erik Larson! His ...Annie - try reading something by Erik Larson! <BR/><BR/>His first book, "Devil in the White City", was about the architectural revolution during the build up of the world fair in Chicago in 1892, and had a parallell story of a murderer in town. It was such a good book! And it's all based on true facts. <BR/><BR/>I'm now reading his third book, "Thunderstruck", and learning more about the beginning of wireless communication than I ever thought possible ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post-8255051152433305292008-12-11T11:06:00.000-08:002008-12-11T11:06:00.000-08:00Ethan Frome left me wanting to punch every last ch...Ethan Frome left me wanting to punch every last character in the book; that's the only book that's ever really made me feel that way. I'm a huge fan of Russian literature, (I did my undergrad thesis on Dostoevsky), so I'd recommend Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov, and I absolutely, positively, glowingly suggest Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. The Devil comes to Moscow, a man writes a novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate that turns the New Testament on its head, (not in a way that would really bother the religious, as I'm a fairly devout Catholic), and there's a giant talking cat, and witches, not to mention lots of inside jokes about life in the USSR.Mana Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04007963229816791984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post-23961047012584573012008-12-10T17:28:00.000-08:002008-12-10T17:28:00.000-08:00In trying to answer this question I've gone over m...In trying to answer this question I've gone over my list of what I've read this year, and realized that rather little of it have I liked particularly (that's a ridiculous sentence, but for the life of me I can't untie it). Anyway, I'll have to think about that.<BR/><BR/>In the spirit of "Britishy humor," as Kerry put it, have you read McCall Smith? It's on the light side but quality stuff and entertaining. <BR/><BR/>Definitely do Jane Eyre. Alana mentioned Patchett - I read Bel Canto this year, and it was great. <BR/><BR/>Something makes me want to say Trollope and Galsworthy.Mella DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09533666041615939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post-89775858159310477692008-12-10T14:53:00.000-08:002008-12-10T14:53:00.000-08:00After 3 Men In A Boat, take a look at Connie Willi...After 3 Men In A Boat, take a look at Connie Willis's To Say Nothing Of The Dog.<BR/><BR/>Let me summarize what you like: epic scope, twisty plots, smart/dry Britishy humor. <BR/><BR/>I used to do this professionally, so indulge me--have you ever seen Bill Willingham's Fables In Exile? It's a comic series collected into many books, and IMO he does Gaiman better than Gaiman. M.M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions? The Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser? Some of the classic Wilkie Collins? Let me know if you want more ideas.Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382434220023284946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post-35900562710388443812008-12-10T13:03:00.000-08:002008-12-10T13:03:00.000-08:00Check out The Saturday review of Books, if you've ...Check out The Saturday review of Books, if you've time. It's a collection of links to reviews. <BR/><BR/>http://www.semicolonblog.com/?p=3248<BR/><BR/>I think the last fiction I read was "The other Boleyn" by Phillippa Gregory. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was quite excellent. The others haven't been quite as good--one with Hannah the fool as the central character ws all right--but I couldn't get past the first few chapters of "The Other Queen."<BR/><BR/>Have you read an Anne Patchett novel lately?Alana in Canadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08440969357242099169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-270966642800942088.post-37388683765831246922008-12-10T12:54:00.000-08:002008-12-10T12:54:00.000-08:00I hope you enjoy Three Men in a Boat, because if y...I hope you enjoy Three Men in a Boat, because if you don't, it's my fault!scbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048966584552769915noreply@blogger.com