Comments on: Connect Through Reading 2012 – 4 Book Reviews

By: The Single Nester

The Single Nester — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:37:03 +0000

I love to see what other people are reading. Right now, I am reading “In the Merde for Love.”

By: Dine & Dish

Dine & Dish — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:35:36 +0000

I haven’t but now am totally interested! Off to add it to my reading list. Thank you!!

By: Dine & Dish

Dine & Dish — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:35:36 +0000

I haven’t but now am totally interested! Off to add it to my reading list. Thank you!!

By: fabiola@notjustbaked

fabiola@notjustbaked — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:13:45 +0000

I haven’t read any of these, but Sharp Objects was on my radar. Mostly for the title, strangely enough I do that sometimes. Although I hope to finish the mountain of books I have waiting for me, I am adding a couple of these to my read do list. it is funny, I go through reading periods, and then not so much. But I am always happier when I am reading more than my blogs, newspapers and such. I need books in my life always.

By: Roxanna@WholesomeHedonist

Roxanna@WholesomeHedonist — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:06:18 +0000

I always look forward to your book review posts! I’m putting The orchard and Shelter me on my list, thanks to you. By the way, have you read The Underside of Joy? It sounds similar to Shelter Me and is a real page-turner; it’s about a woman who moves in with a man and his two young kids, when the mother who abandoned them returns. I couldn’t put it down.

Another one I’m reading lately is The Sisters Brothers – it’s completely not my kind of book (a shoot-em-up Western,) but it’s a multiple award winner and I can completely see why. It’s a fast read, but compelling and funny and engaging at the same time.

By: Aggie

Aggie — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:43:57 +0000

You’ll have to tell me how Saving Max is…have been wanting to pick up that one for a while. I loved The Orchard too.

I like Carry The One’s cover 🙂 so that one may just get on my list too, need to update the library queue!

I’m on my way to pick up Stephen King’s one that you read…the one with the “date” 🙂 Can’t wait to read it, have heard it come up in conversations a couple times since you told me about it.

I have Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises on my side table, I have been interested in reading his books since finishing The Paris Wife.

I also have Divergent on standby, it’s supposed to be “better than Hunger Games”…I keep forgetting to start it! Lol.

And don’t laugh, but I brought home Lincoln from Costco the other day. I have a thing for Presidents, and with this movie coming out I was drawn to the book. However, it is HUGE. I need to hunker down one day and just read 🙂

By: camille

camille — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:15:08 +0000

I’m rereading the collected novels of Flann O’Brien – right now I’m reading [i]At Swim-Two-Birds[/i] and while it might not be the most accessible type of story in the world – very self-referential, it’s a story about a guy writing about a guy writing about all these characters from Irish mythology (with a few regular Dubliners thrown in for good measure) – I still get a kick out of it anyway.

Flann O’Brien’s is also the name of a pretty good pub around the way. I like the Brendan Behan better, though, and wouldn’t you know, I like reading Brendan Behan better too. But if you’re going to have a pub, you should almost certainly name it after an author.

By: Bet Mercer

Bet Mercer — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:12:00 +0000

Have you read Wendell Berry’s “Jayber Crow”? It’s one of his fiction works, but like most of his writing touches on farming and nature, similar to how you described “The Orchard”. A bit odd at times, it also serves up lines of pure poetry at times. Worth a read.