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small fry · Chanel

good books recs

Pepper · Kenneth Cole

"Running With Scissors" - I'm just finishing it and loved it!!!

"The Ruins" by Scott Smith - I haven't read it, but my sister swears it's the best book she has ever read.

mikacat · Coach

don't know what you are in the mood for

but the Harry Potter books are good
Shopaholic series
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation ---about Toyota but they cite all kinds of other companies like ANthropology, IPOD, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Ford, Chrysler, Cadillac. Dell, etc. I read it this week and it was really interesting

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

Recent good, light reads that are sort of girlie but tolerable:

Something Borrowed - emily griffin
Something Blue - emily griffin
Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner
In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner

Excellent reads, not so girlie but centered around women:

My Sister's Keeper - jodi picoult
Prep - curtis sittenfeld

EXCELLENT change your life reads:

Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

XtinaStyles wrote:

Recent good, light reads that are sort of girlie but tolerable:

Something Borrowed - emily griffin
Something Blue - emily griffin

I totally second these . Great books.

For a very intense and moving book I suggest:

Bastard out of Carolina

Blue eyes (toni morrison)

Kelly · Hermes

For a lighter book, I just read Stacked: a 32DDD reports from the front

It's a book of essays about, well, boobs. Some of it is tedious, but I finished it in two days because some of it is really interesting, too - she befriends the woman with the largest implants in the world, eats topless at a cafe for a photographer's book, and talks to cross dressers about their desire for breasts.

I haven't read anything else lately, unless you want to hear all about my textbooks!:smile:

ETA: I recommend Dracula for everyone to read. It's definitely spooky in parts, but is is such a good book and very well written.

-- Edited by ttara123 at 20:12, 2007-02-25

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

ttara123 wrote:

For a lighter book, I just read Stacked: a 32DDD reports from the front

It's a book of essays about, well, boobs. Some of it is tedious, but I finished it in two days because some of it is really interesting, too - she befriends the woman with the largest implants in the world, eats topless at a cafe for a photographer's book, and talks to cross dressers about their desire for breasts.

I haven't read anything else lately, unless you want to hear all about my textbooks!:smile:

ETA: I recommend Dracula for everyone to read. It's definitely spooky in parts, but is is such a good book and very well written.

-- Edited by ttara123 at 20:12, 2007-02-25

Intriguing. Hmmm ... May have to read it!

kenzie · Chanel

Good Grief by Lollie Winston
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

small fry · Chanel

Thanks ladies, AllieGurl these books sound very good by the reviews on amazon reviews, going to see if my library has them Bastard out of Carolina ,Blue eyes (toni morrison)

Xtinastyles I will check these out too

Something Borrowed - emily griffin
Something Blue - emily griffin

clothes_horse · Dooney & Bourke

i like dean koontz books, i'm currently reading the odd thomas series: odd thomas, forever odd and brother odd. my all time favorite book of his is watchers.

jacks435 · Kenneth Cole

Some recent favorites:

Atonement by Ian McEwan
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

I absolutely loved all of these. The first two are a little heavier, but definitely worth it.

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

I cried about 10x reading that book, another great one.

kenzie wrote:

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

jrhampt · Kenneth Cole

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Great book, and I think it won a Pulitzer. It's a long letter from an older man to his young son. He's looking at life from the perspective of someone who is going to die soon, but it's not gloomy in the least -- more of a celebration of life, even though that sounds really cheesy.

LRae9107 · Nine West

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's hilarious, entertaining and challenging.

ejc423 · Coach

I kind of hate chick lit but I enjoy Jennifer Weiner's books if you are looking for something light:
Good in Bed
In Her Shoes
Little Earthquakes
I think there are a couple of others I'm blanking on.

boobaby · Kate Spade

Books I've enjoyed recently:

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (so funny)
David Sedaris - any of his books, really

And I always recommend her, but Francine Prose, anything she has written. She is probably my favorite contemporary writer.

bluediamond · Dooney & Bourke

Right now I love anything by Paolo Coelho. (Brazilian author)

If you type his name in Amazon you'll find a lot of his titles. A lot of his books are about finding who you are.

Sevilla · BCBG

bluediamond wrote:

Right now I love anything by Paolo Coelho. (Brazilian author)

If you type his name in Amazon you'll find a lot of his titles. A lot of his books are about finding who you are.

I totally second this. Most of his books are really great, though my all-time favorite is The Alchemist.

blubirde · Chanel

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I've been reading it for awhile - it's looong). It's super good and it's described as Harry Potter for adults, although I think that's misleading. It treats the study of magic as if it's a real subject, like history, and it's set in England in the early 19th century.

It's actually pretty awesome. The bookstore guy told me tons of people are telling him it's the best book they've ever read, period. I wouldn't go that far (beat my Austen and Dosteovsky? I think not) but it's definitely one of the best I've read in a few years.