I have a to read list a mile long it seems. I'm finding new reading material faster than I can get through what I already have. Life is currently motoring by at a neck breaking pace and I scarcely have time to read more than Goodnight Moon and If You Give a Moose a Muffin each day.
Over our past weeks of illness I did manage to dig up and finish Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult. It was good. Very good. It was slow to start but picked up pace in the middle with compelling lead characters with an interesting dynamic. More than any of that though it did pose some very thought provoking questions about the struggle of being a parent. Without ruining the plot I can't say much but it is a good read. And one of the only Picoult books that didn't disappoint me on the last page.
Here's whats on my immediate to read list:
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
The Friday Night Knitting Club, Kate Jacobs
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (I never did read these as a kid)
What's on yours?
Chronicles of Narnia...oh my...so fabulous!
The Time Traveler's Wife though...wow. One of the most well written books I've ever read, but it's disturbing in the extreme and very, very graphic in places.
Posted by: Kimberly | September 24, 2008 at 04:20 PM
I'm glad you are feeling better!!
I'm still trying to finish the Twilight series. I'm almost done with #3, and have #4 waiting patiently for me. It's taking me FOREVER to get through them. I started them just after Cannon was born, and I've only come this far. I'm so ashamed....
Posted by: Robin | September 24, 2008 at 07:21 PM
As I get older (and yes, I am pretty OLD now!!), I find I like to read smaller books...lazy bugger that I am. I haunt the Teen section in the library and choose books that I know that my 14 year old boy (who is a voracious reader) would like. Then I read them too.
A must read in my opinion is called How I Live Now by Meg Rosof.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1475 but the Aussie book cover is different.
k8
Posted by: Kate | September 24, 2008 at 08:18 PM
This is actually a recommendation, but Water for Elephants was my favortie read over the summer.
Posted by: phhhst | September 27, 2008 at 11:16 AM
i've been hoping to read THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE as well.
oh and i second HOW I LIVE NOW. a teensy bit disturbing, but good.
Posted by: nic | September 28, 2008 at 08:20 PM
A Brief History of Time. Just kidding, my reading list will probably be Elephant Welliphant, Leonardo the Terrible Monster and Mr Strong.
I never seem to get time to get into a novel!
Posted by: Tara@From Dawn Till Rusk | September 29, 2008 at 08:40 AM
would love to hear what you think of the time travellers wife - one of my all time favorite reads
Posted by: kristen - gock's frocks | October 14, 2008 at 10:23 PM