Thursday
Feb252010
Feeling Like Giving Away a Galley
Thursday, February 25, 2010 And since I'm running this show, I say, let's do it! Who's up for another contest for a galley copy of The One That I Want?
I think we've already exhausted the "do you want to see into the future," and "where would you like to see yourself in the future" possibilities, so let's just make this one easy.
Below, post the last great book you read - and NO, none of mine have to be named, that will not curry favor :) - and you'll be entered to win. I'll choose the winner at random on Sunday night and post here on Monday.
Ready, set, go.
Reader Comments (86)
I just finished Pieces of Happily Ever After and really enjoyed it!
It would have to be "In the Woods" by Tana French. Just brilliant and inspiring. . . and it's already inspired another aspiring novelist to whom I recommended it.
Bob
Last fall, I ready "After You," by Julie Buxbaum, and it's still the most captivating novel I've read in a long time! I'm currently (about to finish!) The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, and I adore it! I usually keep to fiction, but her non-fiction account of her own happiness project has piqued my interest in non-fiction again, too!!
CATCHING FIRE (and before that, HUNGER GAMES) by Suzanne Collins. AMAZING, compelling, fun, heartbreaking books!
I really enjoyed Woodsburner by my friend John Pipkin. It won a best first novel award from somebody or other. It's a look at an incident that happened to the young Thoreau - he burned down several hundred acres of woods around Walden pond. Some really vivid characters, a nice New England-y feel and interesting (if sometimes just a bit implausible) intertwining of lives. The most fun I've had reading a "literary" novel recently.
I really enjoyed "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary Pearson.
I just read, back to back, Emily Giffin's Something Borrowed and Something Blue. Loved them!!!
Colm Toibin's Brooklyn.
Emily Giffin "Something Borrowed." It was the first "light" novel I truly enjoyed and recommended to my friends. It's entertaining, the love story is captivating and the words are just flowing!
Emily Giffin "Something Borrowed." It was the first "light" novel I truly enjoyed and recommended to my friends. It's entertaining, the love story is captivating and the words are just flowing!
Cecelia Ahern-"Thanks for the memories"
All her books are so good, but I really just felt like this was my favorite.
I read "What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell recently. I loved the way it got me thinking, "Why are things like that? Why do we do it that way?" A great read, covering a variety of topics.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
My grandmother passed Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden on to me and I loved it! One of those rare books you can really get lost in...
I recently finished reading 'The Wednesday Letters' by Jason F. Wright. I do not usually read fiction but it was a book that was suggested by a friend. I read it from cover to cover without putting it down and it left me feeling inspired to do more for the ones I love. Some times it is the small things we do that end up making the most impact in lives of those we love.
According to Jane by Marilyn Brant was a great read.
Margay
I'm reading Andre Agassi's biography "Open" right now and really enjoying it.
So glad you asked this question because I just finished Print the Legend by Craig McDonald and can't praise it highly enough. It's a bit different from the genres mostly represented above, crime fiction, but don't let that scare you off. What a wonderful, original, incredible piece of work.
Love hearing what everyone else is reading, thanks for sharing!
I read BLAME by Michelle Huneven and just loved every second of it.
Jen Lancaster's Pretty in Plaid
Call me crazy but I love the classics - Scarlett Letter, Wuthering Hieghts, Jane Eyre, etc and can read them over and over. I love true crime - any kind of crime and mysteries (Dean Koontz). Occasionally I will read informational books - including encyclopedias in the past. I do love a great chapter book that makes me feel as if I can be part of it too. So I guess I will read anything and often.
However, the most recent book I have read is a Reader's Digest book from 1940's I believe. More like a "dictionary" of sorts that was given to me. I collect old books and bibles and this just fascinated me to see the change in our English Language.
I just finished Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. It's a transformative story and very, very affecting.
Belong To Me by Marisa de los Santos. It is poetry is motion.
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.
I read "It's Not That I'm Bitter...or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World" by Gina Barreca. It's laugh-out-loud funny!