| Author | |
guitarnan
Forum Moderator
Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: Maryland
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 10883
|
| Posted: March 03 2010 at 9:28pm | IP Logged
|
 |
|
I am at that dismal point at which I go to the library and can't find anything to read. 
Please share some book titles with me!
Here's what I like to read:
History
Biography
Mysteries
Historical fiction
Cultural information/popular history (e.g. Three Cups of Tea, Cod)
Here's what I don't like:
Southern fiction (sorry, Mr. Faulkner!)
Charles Dickens
Political commentary
Please help...I've already re-read my at-home favorites and would love to be inspired by your recent reading experiences!
__________________
Nancy in MD. Mom of ds (24) & dd (18); 31-year Navy wife, move coordinator and keeper of home fires. Writer and dance mom.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JodieLyn
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 06 2006
Location: Oregon
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 12234
|
| Posted: March 03 2010 at 9:30pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
I've been hunting in the youth section lately for books that I may have missed.. like
The Girl of the Limberlost - that was lovely.
__________________
Jodie, wife to Dave
G-18, B-17, G-15, G-14, B-13, B-11, G-9, B-7, B-5, B-4
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-Sir Walter Scott
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Natalia
Forum All-Star
Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: Louisiana
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1343
|
| Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:18pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Nancy,
You don't like Southern fiction meaning Faulkner, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty,right? but what about books set in the South? I just finished reading a book called The Help. It is set in Jackson, MS in the 1960 at the time where integration was taking place. It is told from the perspective of the maids that work for white families. It is very good!
The Help
I also read Rebecca by Daphne du Murier for the first time recently. It definitely grabbed my attention. I went to read a biography of the author and  blech, I wasn't inspired by her life at all.
Have you read anything by Edith Pargeter (another name used by Ellis Peter)? I read her Heaven Tree Trilogy a while back and loved it. It is quite and undertaking because it is long but it is wonderful. The Heaven Tree TrilogyIt takes place in the Middle Ages in England.
What about the Kristin Lavransdater? have you read that?
Mystery, I recently read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.
In the YA section I have read recently (you didn't say if you liked Juvenile/Young Adult books but you didn't say you didn't like them ;-))
The Hunger Games and its sequel Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale.It is the first on a quartet. I haven't read the other ones but will soon. I also loved her book Princess Academy.
What about the nostalgic series about the Malones Meet the Malones
I am out of ideas for now,
__________________
Natalia
http://pannuestrodecadadia.blogspot.com
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JodieLyn
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 06 2006
Location: Oregon
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 12234
|
| Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:50pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Oh yes, the Shannon Hale books are fun to read.. I've read the first 3 of the 4.
__________________
Jodie, wife to Dave
G-18, B-17, G-15, G-14, B-13, B-11, G-9, B-7, B-5, B-4
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-Sir Walter Scott
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
DominaCaeli
Forum All-Star
Joined: April 24 2007
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3711
|
| Posted: March 03 2010 at 11:05pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Natalia wrote:
I also read Rebecca by Daphne du Murier for the first time recently.
<snip>
Mystery, I recently read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.
<snip>
The Hunger Games and its sequel Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) |
|
|
I second all of these. 
Other recent reads that might fit your criteria:
- Mrs. Tim Christie, by D.E. Stevenson (mentioned over in the Book Club area of the forums)
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley (middle-grade historical mystery)
- The Quest for Shakespeare, by Joseph Pearce
__________________
Blessings,
Celeste
Joyous Lessons
Mommy to six: three boys (8, 4, newborn) and four girls (7, 5, 2, and 1)
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Chari
Forum Moderator
Joined: Jan 28 2005
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 5228
|
| Posted: March 04 2010 at 1:06am | IP Logged
|
|
|
Nancy..............have you looked in our book club stickies for our yearly book lists?
some of our members have made yearly reading lists from those lists
The Legend of the Celtic Stone-----the history of Scotland is wonderful!!
__________________
Chari...Take Up & Read
Dh Marty 27yrs...3 lovely maidens: Anne 24, Sarah 20 & Maddelyn 17 and 3 chivalrous sons: Matthew 22, Garrett 16 & Malachy 11
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
CrunchyMom
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 03 2007
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 6385
|
| Posted: March 04 2010 at 8:29am | IP Logged
|
|
|
I second Sigrid Undset (Kristin Lavransdatter) if you haven't read her. Just beautiful and perfect for lent!
__________________
Lindsay
Five Boys(6/04) (6/06) (9/08)(3/11),(7/13), and 1 girl (5/16)
My Symphony
[URL=http://mysymphonygarden.blogspot.com/]Lost in the Cosmos[/UR
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
drmommy
Forum Pro
Joined: Dec 14 2009
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 394
|
| Posted: March 04 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
anything by Edward Rutherford
The Princes of Ireland
Sarum
Russka
New York
Dublin
and I am sure a couple more I can't think of. I really like these books...historical with some fiction.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
SeaStar
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 16 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 9068
|
| Posted: March 04 2010 at 5:53pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
I'm just reading Mrs. Tim Carries On...
It's the author's diary from WWII. I keep going back and rereading her
husband's experiences at Dunkirk. The whole thing gives me goosebumps.
This one is my favorite so far from the author (D E Stevenson)
__________________
Melinda, mom to ds ('02) and dd ('04)
SQUILT Music Appreciation
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
SaraP
Forum All-Star
Joined: Dec 15 2005
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 531
|
| Posted: March 04 2010 at 6:10pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
A third for Kristen Lavransdatter
Anya Seton also wrote good historical fiction.
You've probably already read Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, but if not RUN to your library for them - they are that good! (The ones finished by Jill Patton Walsh are fun, too.)
Georgette Heyer wrote both mystery and historical fiction and I enjoy her regency romances when I want something really fluffy.
__________________
Mama to six on earth, two in heaven and two waiting in Russia. Foxberry Farm Almanac
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JenPre
Forum Pro
Joined: June 16 2009
Location: Rhode Island
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 366
|
| Posted: March 05 2010 at 9:19pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
I just read Cassandra and Jane by Jill Pitkeathley. It's a fiction novel about the lives of Jane and Cassandra Austin.
After reading it I decided to start reading some of Jane Austen's books as I've never read any so am now on a "rabbit trail" of reading Pride and Prejudice with Emma up next!
__________________
Jen
Mommy to Marie-Therese born 12/4/09
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
4Real Forums : Tea and Conversation
Topic: Book Suggestions?
