Friday, February 24, 2006
Book Talk
I would like to know about some good books and good writers, both serious and escape, and will start with some of my own recommendations.
Most recent: I just finished "Saving Fish from Drowning" by Amy Tan, which is mostly set in Burma aka Myanmar, and is really good. I read it pretty much straight through, because it is a page-turner in addition to having all kinds of interesting sub-plots going on and having a narrator who has just died and is telling the story as a kind of ghost. Weird, but good -- with a lot of fascinating background on Burma, and a truly bizarre plot. I recommend it. (The only other thing I ever read about Burma was Kipling's "On the Road to Mandalay," and it's changed a whole lot since then!)
Most recent escape reading : Robert Crais' "The Forgotten Man," an Elvis Cole novel. Also liked "Mr. Paradise" by Elmore Leonard. Both very good for bedtime reading.
Most recent: I just finished "Saving Fish from Drowning" by Amy Tan, which is mostly set in Burma aka Myanmar, and is really good. I read it pretty much straight through, because it is a page-turner in addition to having all kinds of interesting sub-plots going on and having a narrator who has just died and is telling the story as a kind of ghost. Weird, but good -- with a lot of fascinating background on Burma, and a truly bizarre plot. I recommend it. (The only other thing I ever read about Burma was Kipling's "On the Road to Mandalay," and it's changed a whole lot since then!)
Most recent escape reading : Robert Crais' "The Forgotten Man," an Elvis Cole novel. Also liked "Mr. Paradise" by Elmore Leonard. Both very good for bedtime reading.
# posted by Charlotte @ 9:36 PM 
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i have the forgotten man but i haven't read it yet. i've been reading mostly trash lately, lisa gardner and michael connelly. and i read the blog mystery that i left for you.
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: Saturday, February 25, 2006
: Saturday, February 25, 2006
I think that what I call "escape" reading, you call "trash." Mainly the thing I don't like is books about horrible sadistic serial killers, and there seems to be a lot of that.
I stopped reading Patricia Cornwell for that reason, so it wasn't a literary merit issue. She's certainly good. (I don't mind violence, cursing, sex etc. or even thugs and mafia. (I loved The Godfather) I just have a hard time going to sleep if I read about psychopathic monsters.
I stopped reading Patricia Cornwell for that reason, so it wasn't a literary merit issue. She's certainly good. (I don't mind violence, cursing, sex etc. or even thugs and mafia. (I loved The Godfather) I just have a hard time going to sleep if I read about psychopathic monsters.
i do read serial killers, but i get a little tired of them after a while. i hope you will eventually be published so i can start reading YOUR books. i promise to call them anything but trash.:)
# posted by : Saturday, February 25, 2006
: Saturday, February 25, 2006
I hope so, too. I am now in the 10th (!)month of waiting to hear from the people who wanted to see the manuscript, and trying to decide whether or not to send them a cheerful little note of equiry.
Barely, you should let no spring write about you..I think you are a fascinating, intelligent person...I have always been a fan!
# posted by : Wednesday, March 01, 2006
: Wednesday, March 01, 2006
my favorite cousin and i once had a get rich scheme of writing a book about our lives which would be basically just naming people we knew so those people would buy our book just to see their name in print. our other plan was to do a soap opera based on our family and we never have to work at writing a screenplay because they were always doing something weird every day. we still may do the soap opera. i am going to a cousin's child's wedding next week with a drumming circle and the bride will be carrying a bouquest of spatulas from her locally famous spatula collection. the cake will have two fake spatulas with faces rather than a bride and groom. i know people would watch our show!!
# posted by : Wednesday, March 01, 2006
: Wednesday, March 01, 2006
florida. the spatula collection story was in the jacksonville newspaper.
# posted by : Thursday, March 02, 2006
: Thursday, March 02, 2006
I like the idea of selling a book on the basis of mentioning names. I have been thinking about writing a novel about a group of elderly men who are lured into a basketball cult having to do with a coach from the 1950s and 60s, or possibly a dynamite Great American Novel about an agribusiness guy with a great smile who becomes a governor.
The spatula thing could not possibly have been made up so I assumed it was real. But how does a spatula collection become famous?
The spatula thing could not possibly have been made up so I assumed it was real. But how does a spatula collection become famous?
my guess is that it was a very slow news day. of course i may change my mind when i see some of the actual spatulas. i'm sure i can get my daughter to do a digital photo for the blog.
# posted by : Thursday, March 02, 2006
: Thursday, March 02, 2006
i was home sick today, so i read the forgotten man. it was good, with alot of twists and turns.
# posted by : Monday, March 06, 2006
: Monday, March 06, 2006
home sick again so i read lisa gardner's alone. it was pretty good with alot of twists and turns with a medical mystery thrown in as well.
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