
I'm also reading two books on waste water treatment plants - don't ask, it's for work - anyone out there want to school me on the finer points of MBR systems? But I digress. I recently got an email about what we as a city are reading. Here's the list
Non-fiction
1. True Compass: A Memoir
2. Outliers: The Story of Success
3. Going Rogue: An American Life
4. Have a Little Faith: A True Story
5. When the Game Was Ours
6. The Last Lecture
7. The Yankee Years
8. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
9. Guinness World Records 2010
10. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Fiction
1. The Lost Symbol
2. The Help
3. I, Alex Cross
4. Under the Dome
5. The Associate
6. Handle With Care
7. The Last Song
8. The Girl Who Played with Fire
9. That Old Cape Magic
10. The Host
Stephenie Meyer is that Twilight lady, right? That's one book I won't be reading. There was one night that I was suffering from a bit of insomnia so I turned on the TV and ended up watching Twilight at like 4am on HBO. Let me get one thing straight, instead of catching on fire in sunlight, her vampires sparkle? No thanks.
Click (here) for a link to the see what other cities are reading.
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Anonymous Said,
Have to tell you, I DESPISE the Twilight books with a passion (yes, I read the first couple), but I love The Host. It is a fantastic story. If you like Margaret Atwood, I think you would really like The Host. Don't discredit it.
Also make sure if you read Oryx and Crake that you read the follow up to it, The Year of the Flood. It is a better book than Oryx and Crake, I thought.
The Stieg Larsson books are terrific. I also recommend in the sci-fi type genre that people check out the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Great book and I just heard they are making it into a movie.
Sorry I just turned this into my own personal book review. I am an avid reader and I would hate to see people discredit a good book because of a crap book that came before it.
Posted on 3/8/10, 9:57 AM
Beantown Bloggery Said,
Hi Gigi,
Thanks for letting me know. Actually it's funny I just got around to reading Oryx and Crake because I read The Blind Assassin first and hated it, so I was off Atwood for a while.
Good to know that The Host is a different book from those Twilight ones, I never would have bothered to look it up. I'll look into it once I finish the books I currently have.
Cheers,
BTB
Posted on 3/8/10, 11:16 PM