HIT: ADULT READING

[Palib <Palib@AOL.COM>]

Thanks for all the vacation reading suggestions.  Here they are:
Well, I can recommend two books by Terris McMahan Grimes.  I am fortunate to
know Terris ... she is as nice a person as one could ask to meet, and is a
VERY fine new mystery writer (and an awarding winning one at that).  She has
two books out so far (both in paperback): "Somebody Else's Child" and "Blood
Will Tell."  (A third book is due out later this year.)  Her books are set in
Sacramento.  Some of the language is a bit gritty, but not out of place -- and
she laces her writing with a lovely, dry wit and deftly drawn characters.  The
books are best read in the order listed (which is the order of publication),
but don't have to be.
For whatever it is worth, I just finished reading Richard Wright's "Black Boy"
(recently mentioned on LM_Net in the wake of the hoopla over the San Francisco
Board of Education).  It was fascinating.  He was a writer of enormous
clarity, precision, and power, and the book is hard to put down.
from Ken
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Winona's Web - Coogan!!!!!
Tuscan Sun - ??
from Ann Chase
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Sarah Conley               Ellen Gilchrist
Sharpshooter Blues    Lewis Nordan
Journey to Ithaca           Anita Desai
July 7                   Jill McCorkle
Reef                     Romesh Gunesekera
The God of Small Things  Arundahti Roy
Blood and Chocolate      Annette Curtis Krause
Montana, 1948           Larry Watson
from Jane Hyde
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Try reading some of Elizabeth Berg's novels:
        Range of Motion
        Pull of the Moon
from Caribou Maine
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The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope--a sort of 19th century  "Bonfire of
the Vanities"--very funny, touching, and highly readable.
from  Constance Vidor
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Cold Mountain  Charles Fraiser
We Were the Mulvanies  Joyce Carol Oates
The Gospel According to the Son  Norman Mailer
from Carolyn R. Roys
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 (all non-fiction)
 Where White Men Fear To Tread, by Russell Means;
 Moving Violations, by John Hockenberry
from Michelle
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I enjoyed the Whispers of the .... series by  Tom Hron
                                                          the People of 
the....series by Gear
from Kathy Mentjes
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*A Prayer for Owen Meany* by John Irving.
Binchy,  *Evening Class* is just out in pbk.
 Anything off of Oprah's list has been great!
 *Patty Jane's House of Curl* by Landtvik
*The Road from Coorain* by Jill Ker Conway.
from J'aime L. Foust
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I am reading Cold Mountain right now and LOVING it!  Charles Frazier has a
way with the English language....
from  Sue Miller
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The Leopard by Lampedusa
It's about the life, times and decline of an aristocratic Sicilian Family
based on the author's own.
On Peresphone's Island    by Simeti     also about Sicily but modern times.
Monet's Table
...the house, the food and the homelife of Claude Monet. Can't remeber the
author.
A Place(House) in Normandy
...life and times of a house and the American family that owned it.
A Tuscan Year
 Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
from  Leslie Greaves Radloff
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Pope Joan by Donna Wolfolk-Cross was a wonderful historical novel (and
intriguing.)
        I'm now reading Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and loving it.
Other favorites:
        Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
        Glass Lake          by Maeve Binchy
        Chatham School Affair by  Thomas Cook
        Tenderness by Robert Cormier
        Angela' Ashes by Frank McCourt
If anyone wants to know, Paradise by Toni Morrison was NOT as good as Oprah
insists. I did my senior college American Lit. paper on Morrison (got an A!)
so I know she can be difficult but this novel is too chopped up to have any
emotional impact. If you want to relax over vacation, forget this one!
from  Vickie  Reutter
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Robert Parker's newest Spencer novel Sudden Mischief,
anything of the cat mysteries by Lillian Braun and anything by Mary
Higgins Clark.
from Sandy Johnson
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Snow in August  Peter Hammil
from Pam Hatton

Enjoy!!!!!!
Pam Hatton
Geneseo Middle/High School Librarian
Geneseo, NY
palib@aol.com

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