Comments on: Read Any Good Books Lately?

By: Brandi

Brandi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:36:13 +0000

I wrote A Heart of Stone twice.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:34:23 +0000

These are some of books I love love LOVE:
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Night, The Zookeeper’s Wife, A Heart of Stone, All Over But the Shoutin’, Things Fall Apart, A Heart of Stone, and Everything Is Illuminated

If you like “young adult” literature:
Number the Stars, My Brother Sam is Dead, Witches, Matilda

One that I really want to read (but haven’t yet):
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:58:10 +0000

Smart book: Annie Dillard’s For the Time Being. It’s a “spriritual” book, which I tend to lean away from, but it asks some questions that I found myself unable to answer at the time. It’s got some good challenges for people of faith, and some great quotes.

Good read: the Thursday Next novels. There are four of them, starting with The Eyre Affair, and Amy Harlan recommended them to me. They’re sort of hard-boiled with overtones of literary geekiness.

Total trash: The Anita Blake novels by Laurell K. Hamilton are fun but with little to no nutritive content. They’re kind of schlocky horror meets Buffy meets Sam Spade, heavy emphasis on the Buffy.

Parting shot: Things I Learned About My Dad: In Therapy, edited by Heather Armstrong. It’s a collection of essays on fatherhood from various bloggers. Nice because it’s naturally segmented and also relevant to your recent foray into parenthood.

By: Amy Harlan

Amy Harlan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:24:45 +0000

They won;t get you far but I love “Imagine” by Steve Turner, and “Perelandra” by CS Lewis for my airport reads.

By: Michael Kelley

Michael Kelley — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:34 +0000

I got a couple – Loved Keller’s “The Prodigal God.” It will take you about 2 hours to get through. Also, I really dug “4 Pillars of a Man’s Heart” by Stu Webber.

By: Craig Kinsley

Craig Kinsley — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:07:13 +0000

Yo bro, check out “How We Decide” by Jonah Lehrer. I got through a good amount of the book while waiting in a Walden Books at an airport. It’s really interesting. It’s a psych book, but not too high-brow. Also, I second your point about Twilight ruining adolescent females. In fact I have a whole theory on these types of books and movies ruining females in the same degree that pornography ruins males. Anyway… much love!