Do you ever wonder what your reading "to-do" list would be, if you were surrounded by books everyday? Like a kid hoarding treats in a candy store, I cannot stop adding to my piles of books waiting to be read. At our staff meetings each month, we share our opinions about our reading joys and disappointments.
Here are some from the October meeting:
THUMBS UP
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson- fascinating- and a refresher course in physics
Defying Dementia: Understanding and Preventing Alzheimer's and Related Disorders by Robert Levine -good advice; do you exercise enough??
Leave the Building Quickly:True Stories by Cynthia Kaplan- clever humorous essays on contemporary life
Service Included: Four Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch- an eye opener for restaurant goers
Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke - Dave Robicheaux crime thriller with Katrina as backdrop
Unhooked: how young women pursue sex, delay love and lose at both by Laura Sessions Stepp-the hard lessons of high school & college age dating
Category 7 by Bill Evans- rogue weather science creates the strongest storm in history
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett- 1864 Aukland Island saga of two shipwrecks & their survivors
MIXED REVIEWS
Snow by Orhan Pamuk - multi-layered tale of yearning of body and soul set in a remote Turkish town
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini -love & friendship in hard times
Away: a novel by Amy Bloom- love and desire propel a journey of discovery
Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard- a legend, mystery& guilt with dark secrets slowly revealed.
Comments (1)
Thanks for sharing the some book views from your October meeting. I hope you'll continue with these posts in the future.
Posted by Norm T. | November 5, 2007 8:18 PM
Posted on November 5, 2007 20:18