OT: good books

[eofelis]

I am revisiting some books I have read in the past by Jo-Anne Mapson. I've been re-reading Hank & Chloe. What a fun book, witty characters, horses, the twists and turns of life. Sequel of this book is Loving Chloe. I also need to track down some other books of hers: Blue Rodeo and Shadow Ranch. She has also written several other books.

It's been a great way to avoid my chemistry homework....

I also love Barbara Kingsolver. Animal Dreams is my favorite of hers.
And Bill Bryson is great too.

I'm also a fan of Jean Auel's Earth's Children books. Good story, also feeds smoe of my anthropology interests.

[brok]

The Devil in the White City, Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson. It has a great deal of history about Chicago during the time of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Being from Illinois it was especially interesting to me but I would think everyone would enjoy it.

[Susan126]

And you ladies have given me some great summer read choices.

I'm always looking for good books to read. My best friend, who lives on the east coast (I'm on the west coast) we are both library media assistants and we read books together and then discuss them. Especially during our summer break. We must read a dozen or more books over summer break. Every morning we sign in and chat away or email each other and discuss the last chapters we read with our morning coffee. It's a great way to begin a summer morning. Coffee, good friend, discussing a book. Then we sign off and I go for my morning ride! It's become a summer time ritual for us. She is on at 9 eastern and I am on at 6 pacific we usually chat for about an hour or more. We've been doing it since 1997! The year my husband, kids and I moved out here. We used to work in the same school district back east. We decided to stay in touch and WOW we have! I will have to share some of your recommendations with her.

[DrBee]

I'm not sure if you're a science fiction fan or not, but Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (and their sequels) are outstanding. These are the kind of books that you stay up all night to read and you don't even realize it. They are by Orson Scott Card.

[Susan126]

I'm not sure if you're a science fiction fan or not, but Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (and their sequels) are outstanding. These are the kind of books that you stay up all night to read and you don't even realize it. They are by Orson Scott Card.

I love science fiction! And I especially love books that you just have to read, even into the night, to see what happens!

Gee, but my list is growing! LOL BUT that's great! Thanks!

[kjay]

This is a GREAT thread. Having been an English major eons ago, I must have read nearly everything out there (or so I'd like to think), so nowadays, I will not pick up any fiction, but I love true adventure. One of my passions is camels, so I think I've read all there is to read about camel expeditions across the deserts, etc. However, knowing that this is not making any of you salivate, I will tell you about the book I just finished (because it's not about camels, per se) which is Desert Flower by Waris Dirie, a Somalian nomad in her early years who faced painful and difficult challanges and later became a famous international model. Today she has her own foundation and web site for the purpose of educating people about female genital mutilation, a practice still going on today. I found this book by "googling" the word camels.