This is a common topic amongst my friends, and since a friend of mine asked me for a list of my favorite books, I thought I'd make it a blog. After all, I hate reading so-so books, because I donate hours of my valuable time to a book! It had better be good! So, I love to get books on personal recommendation before I read them. In fact, someone pretty much has to rave about a book to get me to pick it up. Here are my raves:
The Help is a new one - I love how the author writes in different character "voices" for each chapter. Based on the attitude of these Junior Leaguers to their "Help", you would think it was 1900, not 1960! This one I could not put down, and really gets you rooting for the heroine.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. What a fabulous piece of historic fiction. I cannot imagine the amount of research that went into this writing, and I also cannot believe it's written by a man. I really can't explain why, I just felt like it was written by a female while I was reading, and had paid no attention to the name of the author. I was shocked to find the female voice in my mind was none other than Arthur Golden, who, if memory serves, is a 40-something professor.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I may have a higher appreciation of this book because of my background in psychiatric nursing, but....The first chapter is THE funniest thing I have ever read. I laughed out loud so much that I finally just broke down and read the entire chapter out loud to my husband, who thought it was totally brilliant. Recommended to me by my NYC cousin, Nicole, it was definitely up my alley.
Out of time for today. Good Reads, the Sequel coming up...
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