HIT: Adult Reads

[Robie Martin <robiem@vikingnet.net>]

Here's a partial listing of the recommended adult reads that wonderful
LM_Netters have suggested.  The remainder of this list will be posted
next week (after Spring Break) because I forwarded many of them to
school and now do not have access to them at home!  You'll notice that
many of us are reading the same thing.  (You guys caused me to spend a
small fortune over the weekend at Borders!)  Keep those suggestions
coming!



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Please read Randall's Wall by Carol Fenner.  Anywone working with
children should read this book.

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The author of _Ellen Foster_ is Kaye Gibbons.  I love her work.  _A
Cure for Dreams_, _A Virtuous Woman_, and _Charms for the Easy Life_ are

three of her books that you might want to read if you enjoyed _Ellen
Foster_.
    I also heartily recommend _Handling Sin_, which I read a few months
ago.  "Hilarious" and "rollicking" are two descriptive words the book
brings to mind.  It reminded me somewhat of _A Confederacy of Dunces_,
but the characters are much warmer and more loveable.  Try it.


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I will finish Simeti's _On Persephone's Island;  Desiring Italy ed.
Susan
Cahill; Tim Parks _Italian Neighbors and _Turkish Delights_.   I might
throw
in a few cookbooks to keep ideas in that vein fresh.


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_Ellen Foster _ by Kaye Gibbons

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Cold Mountain by Fraiser
She's Come Undone  Wally Lamb
The Gospel According to the Son   Norman Mailer
Gone South  Robert McCammon

are the last four I read.  Loved them all.  Cold Mountain was powerful.
The Gospel was for personal growth.

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I'm probably very late reading this because kiddie lit takes up so much
of
my time, but I'm right now deep into The Hot Zone and I highly recommend

it. I't the true story of the outbreak and search for the source of the
Ebola virus, and it's as good as most fiction thrillers.

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A great Civil War book that is popular right now is "Cold Mountain" by
Frasier.  It's only out in hard cover so far.


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*  *    Robie Martin
  ^        Librarian, Parsons Middle School
\__/    Parsons, KS 67357

robiem@vikingnet.net

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