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The Mermaid Chair 553 reviews
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2006
Read this book!
Sue Monk Kidd is an amazing writer. Her images, depth of character and storyline won me over completely. A most unusual, startling and warming book all in one. This one stays in my library.
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Sharpe's Enemy (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #15) 13 reviews
Bernard Cornwell
Penguin Group, 2001
Cornwell is simply the best
Bernard Cornwell remains at his best in this novel. Bernard Cornwell is a writer who's really good at what he does. The story is supenseful, the characters are interesting (Cornwell makes you either care about them or hate their guts),and the narrative is superbly paced. I love the movies (Sean Bean is the English Clint Eastwood), but the books are so much better than the movies, so much ...
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Collapse 391 reviews
Jared Diamond
Penguin Group, 2005
Great book
I read Guns, Germs, and Steel and was so impressed that I bought Collapse. Although it is slightly less engrossing (perhaps because it is about a less uplifting topic), it is still an amazing book.
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Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)125 reviews
Jan Karon
Penguin Group, 2008
She's Done it Again!!
I just stayed up late and finished "Home to Holly Springs." I must confess that I checked it out from the library, for the first time NOT buying the latest Karon book as I've done in the past, because I just couldn't believe she could pull off another storyline as well as she's done in the past. But she did...I'll be buying my own copy soon.
The characters are refreshing and easy to relate ...
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Heart of Darkness (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)379 reviews
Joseph Conrad
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 1999
"Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works
I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. Jessie L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, T. S. ...
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of An Unlikely Stripper 79 reviews
Penguin Group, 2007
Phenomenal book written from an aberrant point of view
Fabulous work that I could physically not put down. This book is to stripping what The Naked Ape is to humans. The author does not go for the easy kill of a tell all recollection of crazy times, rather she approaches the subject more from an anthropologists point of view but in a hysterical way. Cody is truly craftswoman with words, able to compress hilarious descriptions of disgusting ...
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A New Song (The Mitford Years, Book 5)166 reviews
Jan Karon
Penguin Group, Inc, 2000
Typical !
Typical for Karon, this book seems to force me to go to the store and buy the next one.Unfortunately, I read much faster than she writes.
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Sushi for Beginners107 reviews
Marian Keyes
Penguin Group, 2001
Contagious !!! Funny !!
This book is so funny. This is the first book from Marian Keyes that I read. After this book, I had to go to the bookstore and buy everything she has written. Her books are full of great characters, looks of fun things going on with the story line and returning characters in her books. Always funny, always romantic and always something unexpected.
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The Better Brain Book 17 reviews
Penguin Group, 2007
Great information!
So glad I came accross this book.
So easy to read and absorb the helpful information this book is full of cover to cover! :)
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A Light in the Window (The Mitford Years, Book 2)69 reviews
Jan Karon
Penguin Group, Inc, 1996
A Light in the Window
I recently discovered the Mitford Series and have completed books one through 6. A Light in the Window is book two in this charming and captivating series. I had just finished reading a few very heavy books that were wonderful, but draining, and was looking for something light and fun to read. When I began reading the first book in the Mitford Years series I was completely hooked, and now ...
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The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-184914 reviews
Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith
Penguin Group, 1992
"Low lie the fields of Athenry"
"By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
'Michael, they have taken you away
For you stole Trevelyan's corn
So the young might see the morn'
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay..."
THE GREAT HUNGER is the definitive history of the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1849. When the Englishwoman Cecil Woodham-Smith published this book in 1962 she was vilified and branded a ...
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Warrior's Song (Medieval Song Quartet #4) 26 reviews
Catherine Coulter
Penguin Group, 2001
DON'T BE SO HARD ON COULTER
I must agree that the story lacks in Jerval's character, which he should have been a little more interesting. Jerval really could have been sexy!! Graleam is an awsome character in the fact that he is a warrior and is used to getting what he wants. I think that the rape scene was to bring Chandra down and bend to Graleam's will. Back in the 1700's I'm sure that worse things happend. I liked ...
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At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years, Book 1)387 reviews
Jan Karon
Penguin Group, 2008
My Mom loves this Audio Book
I got this audio book CD for my mom (60) for Christmas. She has a long commute and she has really enjoyed entering the world of Mitford to pass the time. She feels like she knows the characters. She enjoyed it so much, that my dad got her the second book in the series as soon as she was done with it.
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In This Mountain99 reviews
Penguin Group, 2007
Mitford Series - In This Mountain
Jan Karon does a great job with this whole series - haven't found a book yet I didn't enjoy!
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