Good Books You've Read Lately

[greggytorned]

I'm finishing The A List series by Zoey Dean. Quite an entertaining read. There are 10 books in the series. If you love the Gossip Girl books, you guys will love this. The protagonist is a protagonist through and through, very refreshing from the anti-heorines of GG. There's a spin off already so I have to catch up.

[F-A Soldier]

Anybody read "Water for Elephants"?...I've been really wanting to read it but I usually prefer to ask people first.

[C.I.C.C.I]

hardback
384 pages
copyright 2003
ISBN 0-765-30928-9

THE LAST DAYS - JOEL C ROSENBERG

Osama Bin Laden is Dead.
Saddam Hussein is Buried.
Baghdad lies in Ruins.

Now the eyes of the world are on Jerusalem as Jon Bennett --- a Wall Street strategist turned senior White House adviser --- his beautiful CIA partner Erin McCoy, and the U.S. secretary of state arrive in the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

On the table; a dramatic and potentially historic Arab-Israeli peace plan, of which Bennett is the chief architect. At the heart of the proposed treaty is the discovery of black gold deep underneath the Mediterranean --- a vast and spectacular tract of oil and natural gas that could offer unprecedented riches for every Muslim, Christian, and Jew in Israel and Palestine.

With the international media closely trackign the story, the American message is as daring as it is direct: Both sides must put behind them centuries of bitter, violent hostilities to sign a peace treaty. Both sides must trulyl cooperate on drilling, pumping, refining, and shippng the newly found petroleum. Both sides must work together to develop a dynamic, new, integrated economy to take advantage of the stunning opportunity. Then --- and only then --- the United States will help underwrite the billions of dollars of venture capital needed to turn the dream into reality.

But in the shadows lie men whose hearts are filled with evil --- men who do not relish a post-Saddam era, men for whom the prospect of a Palestinian peace accord with Israel goes against everything for which their fathers have fought and died. Such men --- and the countries that finance them --- are ready to do anything necessary to slaughter those who stand in their way. The clock is ticking. can Bennett, McCoy, and the American president make peace before the Middle East once again erupts in war?

[C.I.C.C.I]

Paperback
186 pages
Copyright 1964
ISBN 0-8166-3862-4


A SINGLE MAN -CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD


When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life of his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.

[running_kat]

I am reading The Known World by Edward Jones. Next in line are:

1.) The God of Small Things- Arundhati Roy
2.) The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
3.) The Road- Cormac McCarthy
4.) Sacred Hunger-Barry Unsworth

I purchase OL and by bulk coz its cheaper. And when available na paperback edition ng Tears In The Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March by Micahel and Elizabeth Norman, oorder ako.

[studstar]

Betrayal of The Philippines (forgot the author)

[ashley12345]

bagong reader pa lang ako ng john grisham books, astig talaga!
thankful ako sa tita ko at binigay niya sakin collection niya ng grisham books, haha

[cyberfunk]

Originally Posted by ashley12345

bagong reader pa lang ako ng john grisham books, astig talaga!
thankful ako sa tita ko at binigay niya sakin collection niya ng grisham books, haha

Mostly legal thrillers ba? Try to read A Painted House in between to break the monotony and Playing for pizza to catch Grisham's knack for humor. Sa mga libro nya matatakam ka sa mga Italian food eh.

[ashley12345]

^

oh? di ko alam na may books pala siyang nagawa na iba ang genre..

ang galing! hopefully mabasa ko nga yun..

[baby_gee3]

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson. (Book 3 of Millenium Trilogy)

It's such a shame that Stieg died when these books became popular. His character "Lisbeth Salander" is such an interesting antihero that draws the reader in more ways than one. I hope to God that the 4th book, though unfinished, will miraculously be completed by his girlfriend and that his family will allow it to be published and solve whatever familial issues they have. Such wishful thinking.

[bubuyog^_^]

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

the book is about following one's dreams and really having the guts to risk it all if only to achieve his/her goal. it's really inspiring. i'm not really a book worm. somehow, this book found it's way to me and somehow i am able to finish it.

Maybe i needed it :P

[jaytot]

percy jackson! the lightning thief and the sea of monsters

[phil14:3]

...and I thought I'm such a book nerd. lol.

I try to read everything, really.

But good books I've read lately? hmmm.

I just finished Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. It was slow in the beginning but if you stay with it I think you will enjoy it, as I did! It is about two American deep wreck divers who find a German sub off the New Jersey coastline.

I know this much is true By Wally Lamb is one of my all time favorite books. It's pretty big (over 900 pages, under 1000 though). But it was soooo good. it's written in 1st person and it's about 2 twin brothers. The one speaking is the normal one, his brother is a paranoid schizophrenic. It was amazing and I'd definitely read it again.

also Faithless By Karen Slaughter. Its a suspense novel and had a lot of twists and turns and kept me guessing until the end.

if any of you guys like adventure thrills, i'd recommend the following authors:

Clive Cussler
James Rollins
Matthew Reilly

[redwine18]

WHY MEN LOVE BlTCHES: FROM DOORMAT TO DREAMGIRL - A WOMAN'S GUIDE
by SHERRY ARGOV

I recommend this book to every girls, ladies and women. A National Bestseller. Habang binabasa ko to, natatawa nalang ako dahil nakakarelate ako sa mga scenarios sa libro. Must read girls!

[aluminum foil]

Pareho lang ba ang content ng ebook tska yung hard copy? Ang mahal kasi minsan bilhin nung hard copy.

thanks

[angus25]

Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago. I am blogging about it for days now. If interested, please visit Book Rhapsody.

[C.I.C.C.I]

hardback
290 pages
copyright 1990
ISBN 0-8050-1176-5

THE LAST STATION: A NOVEL OF TOLSTOY'S LAST YEAR - JAY PARINI

By 1910, Leo Tolstoy , the world's most famout author, had become an almost religious figure surrounded in his lavish estate south of Moscow by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Chertkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealkth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight for his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station at Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspaperman campt outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Fifty yards away, the countess and her adult children simmer in a first-class train as Chertkov denies them access to Toltoy's deathbed.

Narrated in six different voice, including Tolstoy's own form his diaries and fiction, this epic story unfolds with all the suspense of a thriller. Out of the delicate interplay of voice and text emerge his life and work with all their grotesque contradictions. Tolstoy's marriage to Sofya Andreyevna, one of the most infamous mismatches in history, is depicted with sensitivity. A portrit of a literary genius who aspired to nothing less than sainthood, The Last Station is richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction.



hardback
268 pages
copyright 2004
ISBN 0-312-31594-5

MAGICAL THINKING - AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS

From the number one bestselling author of Running With Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burrough's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.

It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:

"Yes, you, Augusten You were great. We want you." I can now trace my manic adult tendencies to this moment. It was the frist time I felt deeply thrilled about something just a fraction of an instant after being completely crushed. I believe those three words "We want you" were enough to cause my brain to rewire itself, and from then on, I would require more than other people. ... from Magical Thinking's Commercial Break"

A contest of wills with a derailed cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A different kind of "roof work." Dating an undertaker who drives a mini-van. This is the fabric of Augusten Burrough's life: a collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to tread.



hardback
176 pages
copyright 2008

WISHFUL DRINKING - CARRIE FISHER

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed

[fibble-nibble]

i am so looking for a new book right now, and i think i'm finally running out of lists of goodies to buy, can anyone recommend me a really good one, i like suspense thrillers, and something that has to do with life, my favorites are Mary Higgins clark, paulo coelho, tracy chevalier...

recommendations please

[saint_enaj]

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk...

next in line, Gangs of Pitch by Brent Lee...

[cyberfunk]

Originally Posted by fibble-nibble

i am so looking for a new book right now, and i think i'm finally running out of lists of goodies to buy, can anyone recommend me a really good one, i like suspense thrillers, and something that has to do with life, my favorites are Mary Higgins clark, paulo coelho, tracy chevalier...

recommendations please

With your list of favorites mukhang broad yung taste mo. Try mo yung Millenium Series ni Stieg Larsson.