I am experiencing Post Idea Overload! There are too many things I want to post about right now! I’m planning to talk more about kundalini yoga, announce the Book Contest winner (of course!), and other stuff too. This will all be in the next couple days.
But before I announce the winner, I wanted to spend a little more time looking at the responses you good people shared. We looked at your favorite books from childhood and now…
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Question #2: What is a book that really made you laugh and/or cry?
callmeabookworm: Heart Seizure: A Novel by Bill Fitzhugh – “This is a dark comedy or satire that’s just too hilarious for words. “
psycicflower: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – “Since one person has done laugh I’ll do sad.”
DaveP: Matewix by Charles Hamilton-James (”perfect toilet reading”) and The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (”pure class”).
Allison: Heart of a Champion by Carl Deuker – “I won’t give away the ending, but TOTALLY sad.”
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Question #3: What are you reading?
Felicia and DaveP were both reading The Stand: Expanded Edition by Stephen King.
callmeabookworm had just finished The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan.
Elisa was reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. You can find out what she though of it here.
psycicflower had just started Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence by David Fontana .
Samir was finding he enjoyed One Half of Robertson Davies (I don’t have a good link for that one, but look it up for more info).
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And finally…
Question #4: Tell me about a book (or series) that may not be well-known, but that you really enjoyed and would like to recommend to others.
callmeabookworm - The time-travel trilogy that begins with Reflections in the Nile by J. Suzanne Frank.
Anna – Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist’s Travelogue by Michael D. Yates
Shula - Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts
That’s quite a lot of wonderful book chatter to explore! Thank you again to every single person who participated.
I’ll announce the winner tomorrow!
July 3, 2007 at 2:21 am
Great Round-up Emma.
One Half of Robertson Davies isn’t exactly a blockbuster type book, and so isn’t the easiest to find out about online. If anyone is interested you can see a general listing page about it over at Fantastic Fiction.
Better yet, there is a very nice recent review of the book over at The Armchair Critic which I agree with wholeheartedly. I’m sure I’ll write a post about it once I get around to finishing it. The trouble is that “work” gets in the way, and being a compilation of written pieces, the book encourages my procrastination.