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recent reads
Salaam
Instead of going into explanations or summaries, I figure I'll just post an incomplete sample list of my recent reads the last few months and whether I'd recommend them or not. I'd like to see other folks' reads as well, I'm always looking for something new to discover:
Madras on Rainy Days- Samina Ali (good)
The Bookseller of Kabul - good
The Tao of Islam- Sachiko Murata (excellent, but very densly packed with info.)
A People's History of the US- Zinn (good, alternative perspective from what's normally taught, etc)
Middle Earth: Poems by Henri Cole (excellent!!!)
Very Far North (poetry) Timothy Murphy (metric, v good)
What Narcissism Means to Me (poetry) Tony Hoagland (decent)
The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood (EXCELLENT)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves- Lynne Truss (funny, punctuation)
Prodigal Summer- Barbara Kingsolver (very good)
The Poisonwood Bible- Kingsolver (good)
The Women of Brewster Place- Gloria Naylor (excellent!)
The Men of Brewster Place- Naylor (excellent!)
The Kite Runner (of course, excellent)
My Father's Rifle- Hiner Saleem (v good, but more of a novella. Interesting to read a Kurdish writer)
Paradise- Toni Morrison (Excellent, of course)
Instead of going into explanations or summaries, I figure I'll just post an incomplete sample list of my recent reads the last few months and whether I'd recommend them or not. I'd like to see other folks' reads as well, I'm always looking for something new to discover:
Madras on Rainy Days- Samina Ali (good)
The Bookseller of Kabul - good
The Tao of Islam- Sachiko Murata (excellent, but very densly packed with info.)
A People's History of the US- Zinn (good, alternative perspective from what's normally taught, etc)
Middle Earth: Poems by Henri Cole (excellent!!!)
Very Far North (poetry) Timothy Murphy (metric, v good)
What Narcissism Means to Me (poetry) Tony Hoagland (decent)
The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood (EXCELLENT)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves- Lynne Truss (funny, punctuation)
Prodigal Summer- Barbara Kingsolver (very good)
The Poisonwood Bible- Kingsolver (good)
The Women of Brewster Place- Gloria Naylor (excellent!)
The Men of Brewster Place- Naylor (excellent!)
The Kite Runner (of course, excellent)
My Father's Rifle- Hiner Saleem (v good, but more of a novella. Interesting to read a Kurdish writer)
Paradise- Toni Morrison (Excellent, of course)
Comments on this journal
How do you like it so far?
2. Life of Pi - Great storeyteller that Martel.
3. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan - I did not like this at all.
4. Les Miserables - No need to say anything
5. Ibn-e-Fatouma - Was O.K. Mahfouz has better books.
6. The Unconsoled - KICKACSS initially i thought, 'what a useless writer...' it was only when i realized there is this deliberate intent on the author's part to break the confines of time and space did I find it totally enthralling. It's a book apart.
hey have u read it before??