Read Any Good Books Lately?
‘Cause I sure haven’tby j. brotherlove
I was talking to Wood last night and realized I haven’t read a book in a very long time. A couple of years ago, I started writing the Best Novel Ever and limited my reading to prevent bleed-through. I’ve since shelved the book idea but I never started back reading much — tsk tsk.
So I asked my Twitter friends “the last really good (fictional) novel you read?” and here’s what they recommended:
- Widdershins by Charles de Lint
- Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
- The Known World by Edward P Jones
- The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
- A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Company by Max Barry
- Interpreter Of Maladies by short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
- Bird at My Window by Rosa Guy
Feel free to add any titles you’d like me (or others) to check out in the comments.
how did I miss that question?
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowel
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana, Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
That’s just a start. I could go on but I’ll stop now.
I missed your Twitter too J!
I second the recommendation for MiddleSex. It is a page turner for sure.
Another friend of mine recommended Wicked, too. And I seem to remember Jason getting wrapped up in Middlesex.
I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It seemed like an important book to read since it won the Pulitzer last year and Oprah made such a big deal about it for her book club. It’s a post-apocalyptic, scifi-ish novel… so it’s really different from anything else she’s selected.
Be warned… it’s really depressing! But the relationship between the man and his son is quite lovely.
I’ve read and highly recommend both Middlesex and Wicked.
The Known World is excellent! Highly recommend it. Notable American Women: A Novel by Ben Marcus. Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn. And if you haven’t read it yet and want to take an interesting ride- Samuel Delany’s Hogg: A Novel.
I love Gregory Maguire’s Confession’s of an Ugly Stepsister.
Also ,
11 Minutes by Paulo Coehlo
Jaded by Kevin E Taylor
‘Wicked’ ruled. I have few of G.Mac’s other books too.
This is an old book, but it is still a riveting story about the workings of our body and the work of men and women of medicine through history…..
The Body is the Hero.
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