My new favorite website. Many great classics, in full-text, online, for free! From Jane Austen to Edith Wharton, with a bit of Homer, Dostoevsky and others thrown in between.
I'm looking for good book recommendations. Any suggestions? Just to give you a sense of my tastes Something Borrowed is as light and fluffy as I will go. Really appreciated Time Traveler's Wife, We Were the Mulvaneys, Lovely Bones, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible, any Jane Austen or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dostoevsky was difficult to get through, but I know C&P is an important piece of work and I'll read it someday...
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Hi Pauline! =P
Time Traveler's Wife was so good...Stef recommended it to me.
As far as new fiction, I'm usually pretty picky. But I liked My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. And I don't know if you've read any of Margaret Atwood's books (she's a contemporary Canadian poet/writer), but she's awesome. The Handmaiden's Tale, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace. Also, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi is really good, but you have to be willing to read/interested in some literary analysis.
I couldn't get through We Were the Mulvaneys or Lovely Bones, but I haven't yet tried reading The Poisonwood Bible...perhaps that'll be next. =)
I read Memoir of a Geisha when it came out. It was good. Poisonwood Bible was one of my favorites for a while. Did you read "Kite Runner"? If you haven't, I'll bring it on Sunday. One amazing book. Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" is one of my favorites of all time. Most of the stories (it's a short story collection) is based in Boston area, so it was even more enjoyable. She's an amazing writer.
You can have C&P back whenever you want. I won't be able to read it except for vacations. ALSO, i'd recommend the Brother's Karamozov. I liked it better than crime and punishment.
I've been rereading a lot novels that I read in high school, and that has been very fun. Recommended: Jane Austen's _Persuasion_ and Edith Wharton's _Glimpses of the Moon_. Thomas Mann's _Buddenbrooks_ is also really good, though rather burly, if you like the 800 page plus 19th c type novels. And of course, *everyone* should read George Eliot's _Middlemarch_, the best English 19th c novel ever!!!
Are you going to read her follow-up novel, Something Blue? I'm anxious to read it but I promised myself I'd finish my stack of unread books before I buy a new one.
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