I'm pretty active over at paperbackswap.com. I've blogged about it before, but it bears repeating. Post a book, get a book. Free. That's all there is and there ain't no more. Burma Shave.For your viewing pleasure, here's my list of books to be read. I will not go to the library until these are completed. I will not! No matter how much Larry Brown is calling me from amongst the shelves. Or how appealing the library scent is. Or how the librarians have probably forgotten what I look like. I WON'T GO!
Have you read any of these? Maybe someone has a suggestion of what should be first...
...or any that should be added. (I'm so weak!)
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Amistad by Alexs D. Pate
The Bachman Books by Stephen King
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Duchess of Windsor by Michael Bloch
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Every Breath You Take by Judith McNaught
A Faint Cold Fear by Robert Daley
From Generation to Generation: Devotional Thoughts Drawn from the Past by Peter Kennedy
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana by Haven Kimmel
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Just Desserts: Martha Stewart the Unauthorized Biography by Jerry Oppenheimer
Lady by Thomas Tryon
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Memoirs of an Unfit Mother by Anne Robinson
Moby Dick or the White Whale by Herman Melville
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Rainmaker by John Grisham
Real Women Don't Pump Gas by Joyce Jillson
Saved by the Light by Paul Perry, Raymond A. Moody and Dannion Brinkley
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Shadow of Cain by Vincent Bugliosi
Something's Alive on the Titanic by Robert Serling
The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Soup and Me Robert Newton Peck
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
The Visitation by Frank Peretti
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? And Other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language by David Feldman
(Okay, now I realize the Larry Brown comment sounds a little strange. Larry Brown was an author from Oxford, Mississippi [just a hop, skip and jump from here]. His books just suck me in and I can't stop reading them til the end. I always want more. And it's always nice when somebody writes about a place you've been. I always feel a little bit famous. Ooh, Silence of the Lambs! The first lady was kidnapped from Winchester Street in Memphis. I've been there!!! That's almost as cool as being tight with the Timberlakes.)
6 comments:
That's a good list - nice variety. I've read about half of them. Read Grisham's "The Firm." It's set in Memphis, too, and I knew exactly where everything was.
When you get through that list, I'll send you a list of mystery authors.
Mitch Albom's books are really special to me and I recommend them to everyone, especially 'Tuesday's with Morrie' -have you read that one? I like your list!
I remember Fall on Your Knees making a huge impression on me, but I'll be darned if I remember what it was. Read that first. And you ever read Alice Sebold's Lovely Bones? Oh, that's good.
wow, that's a nice collection there. I have to say I have not read anything in a long while. I need to get back to it.
OK, here's a suggestion from a diehard and long-term fan of Twain. If you wish to read "Huck Finn", but have not yet read "Tom Sawyer", read "Tom" first. It was written before "Huck"; provides a fleshing out of the characters that adds to the enjoyment of "Huck"; and is, IMHO, a better book, to boot. Most would not agree with that final bit, but I stick by it.
"Tom" is a fairly quick read, will take about half or 1/3 as long as "Huck". If you can get the editions illustrated by Jo Polseno and Gerald McCann (I forget who illustrated which) I think it would add to the enjoyment. As a child, those were the editions I enjoyed devouring in my bedroom :-)
You know my problem...I hoard books...it's always "I may read that again one day" till I've got shelves and shelves of books that mostly will sit there, only hoarded...I must try to change that!
Sandi
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