Book Lovers Club

If you sisters also want LOL and fall off your bed hiliarious...READ GEOFF DYER!  Begin with Out of Sheer Rage and then if you enjoy it, read his latest, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition.  He's THE MAN!

Joe Queenen is also another hilarious writer....

  I love books that make me laugh out loud so will look into some of the above mentioned.  I have been home from work for two days, just feeling sort of crappy, so sat in the sun and did some reading.  I finished Twilight and was surprised that I actually liked it and  want to read the next one to find out what happens with Edward and Bella.  Yesterday  I started  reading Pawley's Island which is just a book I picked up at a yardsale awhile back..... so now I want to go to Pawley's Island.  That is something I do...I read about places and then think I need to go there.  John Grisham got to me Memphis.

Marybe...Sorry to hear that you aren't feeling well.  Regarding visiting places after you've read about them, I ran off to visit Chicago after I read Erik Larson's Devil in the White City.  There's something special about visiting a place that you've envisioned and you appreciate the backstory of the ground you are standing on.

I live in New York and never tire of it when I read stories where the backdrop is New York.  I also enjoy reading architecture and history of New York books.  Whenever I walk or drive around the city, I drive my family NUTS because I marvel at EVERYTHING about the city.

James Michener is also one of those authors that breathes life into the areas he bases his stories on.

Voracious- I haven't read This is Where I leave you yet.  But I am going to request it at the library on Friday.

Just finished Secret Daughter by Shilpi Gowda.  Total tear jerker, I couldn't put it down

ruth- I read the same book The Paris Wife about a month ago and I enjoyed it too.  It got me interested in trying to read more about Hemingway....but I haven't done it yet!

I loved Suite Francaise!!!

For The Paris Wife readers, here is what happened to Ernest & Hadley's son Bumby:

John "Jack" Hadley Nicanor Hemingway (October 10, 1923 - December 1, 2000) was an American writer and conservationist. He was born in Toronto, Canada, the only child of American writer Ernest Hemingway's marriage to his first wife Hadley Richardson. He would later gain two half-brothers from Hemingway's second marriage to Pauline Pfeiffer. Jack was named for his mother and a noted Spanish matador Nicanor Villalta y Serris, whom his father had grown to admire in the year of Jack's birth.^[1]

Nicknamed "Bumby", Hemingway spent his early years in Paris, France, and the Austrian Alps. Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, were his godparents.^[2]

He served in World War II as a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a United States wartime intelligence agency formed during World War II-and the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency-working specifically with the French Resistance. In October 1944 he was wounded and captured by the Nazis behind their lines in the Vosges, France.^[3] He was kept as a prisoner-of-war at Mosberg Prison Camp until April 1945.^[4]

Following World War II he was stationed in West Berlin, Germany. Hemingway married Byra L. "Puck" Whittlesey on June 25, 1949, in Paris, attended by Julia Child and Alice B. Toklas. The couple had three children: Joan "Muffet" Hemingway (born 1950), Margaux Louise Hemingway (1954-1996), an actress and model, and Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born 1961), an actress, entrepreneur and writer.^[4] Puck died in 1988. Margaux died of a barbiturate overdose at age 42.

He helped finish his father's autobiography, A Moveable Feast (1964)-his father's set of memoirs of his life in 1920s Paris-which was published three years after his father's death in 1961. Throughout his life, Jack Hemingway was an avid fly fisherman. He visited several of the world's best salmon rivers, such as the Norwegian Lærdalselva River. Hemingway also wrote an autobiography, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My life with and without Papa.

He died on December 1, 2000, at age 77, after suffering complications of heart surgery in New York City.

Loved The Help too. One of my all time favorite books.

THE PARIS WIFE is getting added to my Kindle soon!!

I finished SOPHIE'S CHOICE, and it really blew me away. Fabulous book. Now I need to rent the movie, so I can see Meryl Strep as Sophie.

Next up is PARROT AND OLIVIER GO TO AMERICA by Peter Carey. I've read about everything of his, and I love him.

I agree, that Nora Ephron's I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK will have you wetting your panties with laughter!

Loved Suite Francoise, Sarah's Key was good but hauntingly sad.  I definitely gravitate to books based on events during WWII or England anytime before the 1600's

Hello, v pleased to have discovered this thread as I'm an avid reader too... I had a bit of difficulty getting into The Book Thief, but it grew on me, and really enjoyed it from about the middle of the book to the end... For those of you who enjoy books set in the war there is a novel called Birdsong by Sebastien Faulkes, set in World War 1 not 2, but it gives brilliant and vivid descriptions of the trench war and the camp hospitals in France 1914-1918.

I vary the type of books I read depending on time of year and how much time I have available...and more recently, whether I'm recovering from chemo or not...week after chemo I go for crime or comedy so at the moment I'm reading the memoirs of a British comedian called Dawn French entitled 'Dear Fatty', but I imagine you wouldn't know her in the States...

I'm delighted to find this thread - I also plodded through The Year of the Flood. I thought it was just me, so thanks!

Hello msmpatty..yes had heard of Bryson, but not read him, so thanks for recommendations.. will stock up!

My fiance brought A Walk in the Woods along to the hospital and read it to me on surgery day. I was actually laughing out loud even then. Talk about therapeutic! I have enjoyed Tarquin Hall's Vish Puri books. The Case of the Missing Servant and The Man who Died Laughing. The books are set in India and feature a likable PI. Fun and filled w/ interesting tidbits about daily life in India and yummy food descriptions. Vish is fond of eating! Also, would recommend The Help, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson. When all this BC stuff first started going down for me, all I could concentrate on were M.C. Beaton's Hamish books. Little, simple "cozies" that don't take much thought but are still enjoyable. Probably because they are set in a little town on the coast of Scotland!