What have you read lately that you loved?

-- Meghan (faeriebaby@hotmail.com), April 29, 2000

Answers

I just finished "Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts, and it was actually pretty good. I also just finished "Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge" by Jim Schutze, which was a bargain book I found at a local bookstore. It was a true story about 7 Florida teenages who killed a bullying classmate. It was strange and disturbing, especially the picture of the guy after they got done killing him and left him in a swamp. I like true crime books and all that good stuff, but...YUCK!! Not bad for the $4 I spent on it.

Umm...that's about all I've read lately. In general, I'd recommend "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom and anything by Robert Fulghum. (My favorite is "Uh Oh:Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refridgerator Door." Yes, I'm a freak.)

Hmm...I suppose I should go study for finals now. Ugh.

-- Jenn (Hockeygirl_68@yahoo.com), April 30, 2000.

Finals!!!! Jenn, what are those????? tee hee. I'm coming up for air after two today!!!!

Um....I'll agree...Tuesdays with Morrie kicked ass!!!! I tore through that book in about two hours flat!!! I loved it.

The Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield is good as well as the three sequels that follow it. Gives an interesting interpretation about how we are all interconnected.

Bridget Jones: Diary by ?? can't remember. Was a funny read, too!

The Honk and Holler by ?? was good too.

I'll be back if I remember names and stuff! Brain Fart!

~Amber

-- Amber (amber_star_cat@hotmail.com), May 01, 2000.

oooo... i LOVE Barbara Kingsolver. if you haven't read The Bean Trees, by her, you should. funny, full of spirit, insightful.

also i love Anne Lamott. i have never read any of her novels, but i would like to. i have read her non-fiction book on writing, creativity and life generally, called Bird By Bird. it's incredibly funny.

SARK of course. SARK SARK SARK.

i have been re-reading The Lord of the Rings. it's wonderful, wonderful stuff.

other recent favorite books: The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle), Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), Charlotte's Web (E.B. White), anything by Orson Scott Card, Robin McKinley, Cynthia Voigt, or Margaret Atwood. aw yeah.

-- Falwyn (falwyn@diaryland.com), May 01, 2000.

1984, need I say more? Yes I think I will, A Seperate Peace happens to be one of my favorites and anything else by John Knowles

-- kelly mcg! (jacksfan30@aol.com), May 05, 2000.

I have to agree, Memoirs of a Geisha was (and still is) one of my favorites, as is She's come undone (which I just finished for the 4th time).

If you like Sark, you'll like Spilling Open, the art of being yourself, by Sabrina Ward Harrison.

The next book I want to read is called Falling Leaves, The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter.

-- Crystal (cforsley@mail.com), July 22, 2000.