Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

[Skelly]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

reading this now:



It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "Hide her." And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

[Peasie]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Lawd Skelly. Dis book wi mek Gen bawl

[Skelly]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

only Gen?

[SandiF]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

I read Water for Elephants.

My sister and the lady at the bookstore recommended this book highly, and they swore that I would not be able to put it down. Well, I didn't found the story to be terribly exciting just middle ground. The main character Jake as a young man was a bit too wimpish for me.. completely suckered by love (but I can't blame him, I'm a sucker for love also). What I could not stand about Jake was the fact that he did not live up to his homage as a keeper and lover of animals...twice in the story line he stood back and did nothing as the circus horse trainer beat a hapless elephant. What I loved about the story was the research into depression age and traveling circuses.

The book I am now reading is "No Way Down". This is based on the 2008 true events of how 11 climbers died while climbing the world's most deadliest mountain in the Himalayas... K2. The author used interviews from the survivors to compile the book. Very interesting. The book brings out the mindset of mountain climbers... their strong determination, the high focus, deep fearlessness (despite the obvious danger most were hell bent on reaching the summit) , they all seem to possess a positive attitude, and have a strength that does not allow them to give in.

Next book on the list is Whiteout by Ken Follett...

[Tony_Royal]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

"Depressing" It all depends on the type of reader you are. Meaning if you prefer Fiction, you will tend to find Non-Fiction boring. In my case I hate fiction (except for the 3 little pigs). Therefore you will only be entertained from the areas that interest you. What do you like to read?

[Skelly]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

If you like 3 Little Pigs you will probably like Animal Farm

[evanovitch]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Evan i just bought the first one in the series! </div></div>

finished the first one in the series last night...coincidentally , i caught an episode of the tv show....it , the episode , dealt with a bit i had just read in the book...stay true to the dialogue i see...so far...

[Gen]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

not reading dat eedah. The poor likkel baby

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">only Gen? </div></div>

[Peasie]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

OK. Putting down the Gladwell book until later

Picking up Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. I read her other novel, Purple Hibiscus, and loved it. It stayed with me for awhile . Her writing is clear even as her subject is complex.

&quot;A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as &quot;the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,&quot; Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed.

With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and they must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.

Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all.&quot;

Sorry Gen, this one is not for you

[seemiyah]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

I read Purple Hibiscus too, I thought it was a good book was not pleased with how it ended though. I bought Half of a Yellow Sun but I haven't read it yet. I went to hear the author talk at a book fair, she was really good. If you haven't seen it yet a lot of people reference this talk she gave at TED

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[Gen]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Wrong I actually like Chimamanda's work.

Loved her Ted speech as well.

[kia027]

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Reading
Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World by Lisa Bloom (Gloria Allred's daughter)

[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner.

[evanovitch]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

started

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

reading it inbetween the Game of Thrones...incidentally the latest in the series was just released

[Gen]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

there is an afghan based book mi been meaning to read enuh...mi nuh think a this one though