Feel free to add suggestions.
Currently Reading:
- The Hypnotist, Lars Kepler
On my Radar:
- After This, Alice McDermott
- The Echo Maker, Richard Power
- Drop City, TC Boyle
- Passage to India, EM Forester
- The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- Nothing Daunted, The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, Dorothy Wickenden
- Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History, Ben Mezrich
- The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mt. Rainier, Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
- The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter, Mark Seal
- State of Wonder, Ann Patchet
Recently Finished:
- French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew, Peter Mayle 1/02
- Little Bee, Chris Cleave 01/12
- The Snowman, Jo Nesbo 01/15
Have you ever heard of a book called “Monkey go home!”? Have you thought about having that on your night stand?
Excellent suggestion, “roland”. As luck would have it, my generous and well read husband loaned me his beloved copy! Thanks.
Have you gotten to the part where the monkeys really get into trouble?
If you haven’t read the two Realities of the Foreign Service books, check them out. Gets you pumped for the new lifestyle!
Ooo! I know what you were doing! You were reading through the Pulitzer list!
Richard Russo is my absolute FAVORITE, as is Jhumpa Lahiri! I didn’t have the guts to read Comfort Me with Apples, and I checked out Olive Kitteridge from the library but it my checkout time expired before I could get to it, darnit.
it’s true. I do use the Pulitzer nominees and winners as guides when my own list starts to feel stale and predictable. Why are guts required to read Ruth Reichl’s book? It was great. Olive was excellent- recheck it, well worth a double check.
How do you like Columbine? A friend’s review persuaded me to put it on my wish list, but I haven’t started it yet.
I’m currently reading “The Elegance of the Hedgehog,” which I see you’ve already read. And I really like Murakami, but haven’t read the one on your list. (I developed quite a fondness for JapLit when we lived in Ukraine — somehow it seemed to be the only English language books we could find besides Harry Potter and Tolkein.)
I’d love to read something set in the DC area or related to the history around here. Do you have any recommendations?
Hi there, it was so nice to meet you both last night. Sorry we didn’t get a chance to talk more. Your blog is lovely, as is your family. All boys!!?! Wow.
I am really enjoying Columbine. I don’t usually read much nonfiction but it has inspired me to broaden the horizons. Do you love Elegance? I really did. We can talk books when we meet again later today? Oh- and Happy mother’s day!
Just finished “Elegance…” today. So good.
I think you’d really like “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman. I read it a few years ago, but it came to mind today and I wanted to mention it to you.
Wanted to let you know that if I can find it, my copy of “In Cold Blood” is on its way to you.
Reading Drop City right now and love it, true T.C. Boyle. Next on my list is Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt.
Hi Eve! Was talking to your mom yesterday who forwarded your blog. The little “Bushbaby” is adorable (not at all as how I imagined a Bushbaby to look
) congratulations to you both.