Comments on: Seeking: A Good Page-Turner

By: daisies

daisies — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:55:30 +0000

i want a book club !!! i am reading:

The Ladies Lending Library by janice kulyk keefer
The Time Travelers Wife by audrey niffenegger
moral disorder (collection of short stories by margaret atwood)

By: She Likes Purple

She Likes Purple — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:33:33 +0000

Pride and Prejudice. And so far, NOT IMPRESSED. After that Love in the Time of Cholera, because One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of my favorites, ever.

And then possibly one of the other 500 books I own but haven’t read.

Good luck!

By: Pickles & Dimes

Pickles & Dimes — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:10:04 +0000

I second the vote for The Secret Life of Bees - very good!

I’m in between books right now, as I just finished The Husband by Dean Koontz (I KNOW!) and I feel the need to find a really “good” book to purge my mind.

By: Gooseberried

Gooseberried — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:27:30 +0000

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It’s amazing so far.

By: Tobie

Tobie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:25:18 +0000

P.S. If you are looking for a couple of funny, good, books check out Stupid & Contagious and, Forget About It. Both by Caprice Crane.

By: Tobie

Tobie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:22:41 +0000

After discovering paperbackswap.com a couple of months ago, I’ve now got about 30 books in my TBR pile. I’m right there with you.

By: Teej

Teej — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:46:45 +0000

Oh! Oh! My favorite subject.

I am reading “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian,” and I am quite pleased so far. I just finished “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” and it was so good that it made me ache and love. And ache with love. I also read “The Zero,” which was dizzying and maddening and good, but not in a comforting sort of way. In a he-really-captured-how-disturbing-and-disturbed-the-world-is sort of way.

Do tell if your picks are good. I need a constant supply.

By: Ern

Ern — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:29:11 +0000

They make hardbound romance novels?

I’m working on Sophie’s World, which I like, but when I put it down I’m not torn and rent asunder by my desire to pick it RIGHT back UP again. So I’ve been working on it for like 6 months.

I have all these non-fiction books in my queue. Which I love! But I’ve been so busy lately that I think I need to find a page-turner.

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Sure! they do. Although I could have completely fabricated that, but I do think I’ve seen once, once? I am admittedly not in that aisle too often. ; )

And if you are looking for “page-turner” and “non-fiction” I strongly recommend “Into the Wild.” It’s amazing. Really.

By: san

san — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:15:18 +0000

Damn, damn! Can I come and join your book club? I want to be in one again.

One good book I want to recommend: The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.

Loved it.

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I almost! picked that up last week. It looked really interesting. And you can surely be in my book club. So far there is just me, and our meetings mostly consist of me wishing I could make appetizing pound-cake.