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  • sarah1968uk
    sarah1968uk Member Posts: 580
    edited October 2011

     Yes, my son is almost 13 and every bit of HW is a battle!  He's not a fiction reader either, but understands really complicated concepts of science and nat.hist from TV or books. He has ASD and can quote stuff verbatim. Thanks again for ideas for reading.

     Sarah x

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited October 2011
    I'm just starting The Wife by Meg Wolitzer.  I know it's been brought up many pages back, by voracious.  It's one of those easy to read books that has taken me right in.  Just where I need to be right now...
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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2011

    VR - some of my favorite adventures were written by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

    Riptide, Thunderhead, and The Ice Limit are three that come to mind.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited October 2011

    I am on the beach here reading Fall of the Giants and am really enjoying it.I think Ken Follet is one of my favorite authors.

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited October 2011

    http://www.amazon.com/Thrillers-100-Must-Reads-David-Morrell/dp/1933515562

    Badger....Thanks for the recommendations for the DH!  I got the book, (link above) Thrillers:  100 Must Reads, last year and have been getting him selections from the book.  The authors you mentioned are in the book!

    Wenweb...If you enjoyed The Wife, I highly recommend If Not Love by Kay Langdale.  Another quick and easy book to read but resonates long after you've finished reading it.  Quite empowering too! 

    http://us.macmillan.com/ifnotlove/KayLangdale

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited October 2011
    Thanks VR  If Not Love  added to my to read wish list.  I'll probably go for it next :)
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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited October 2011
    mumayan:  I thoroughly enjoyed Fall of Giants, too.  It is supposed to be a trilogy and I am eager for the next installment.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

      I just got back from seeing the movie Sarah's Key.  There were not many people in the theater since I went to the noon show, but there was one couple still sitting in the back row when I left after watching the credits and the man asked me what I thought and I said Oh, I thought it was very good and he then asked if I knew what I was in for when I came to see the movie and I replied Oh yes, I read the book.  They didn't know it was a book before it became a movie so they are now going to read it.  Right now I am reading a book I got at the library sale Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and I just finished The Crowning Glory of the Callla Lily Ponder by the woman did the YaYa Sisterhood book and also a Fannie Flagg book.  My usual selections, light fiction that doesn't really make you think too much.   

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited October 2011

    Mary I really enjoyed the book and the movie was done quite well.

    Yes Elizabeth I intend to read the trillogy as well.

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited October 2011

    Marybe... Major Pettigrew is a sweet story. Read it while I was getting radiation. Funny how you sometimes remember things like that.



    Regarding, If Not Love.... Stoic VR has a confession... Got a little weepy at the end of reading the book....





    Back to non-fiction. Death in the City of Light. Sitting here on my front porch now in my Lazy-Boy outdoor recliner reading it. Will not be getting up from this chair any time soon. The book, a Dewey 364, rocks!!! Oy how I am addicted to 364 books! class='post_sig'>Doctor told me regarding my prognosis that I WASN'T on the Titanic! Hmmm...Really?....Okay! 2/10 Pure Mucinous Breast Cancer, Oncotype DX 15, Stage 1, Grade 1, 1.8 cm, 0/2 nodes, ER+ 90% PR+ 70% HER2- Node Negative

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited October 2011

    Just finished Tuesdays with Morrie.  Very easy, quick read.  So sad, yet uplifting.

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  • mebmarj
    mebmarj Member Posts: 380
    edited October 2011

    If you liked Tuesdays with Morrie, check out Mitch Albom's, the Five People You Meet in Heaven. A good read that makes people understand how much they matter to others in soooo many different ways.

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited October 2011
    VR  Weepy is good Wink
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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited October 2011
    I loved Tuesdays with Morrie.  I would also recommend For One More Day by MItch Albom.
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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited October 2011

    I have had all the Mitch Albom novels in my hands but never bought them.I try not to read a book that I feel might depress me.Jodi picoult is another good author but has depressing themes so I  avoid her as well.

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  • hrf
    hrf Member Posts: 3,225
    edited October 2011

    I'm with you mumayan. I read 2 of Jodi Picoult's books and won't read any more. I did read the Five People You Meet in Heaven and that was enough for me. Both authors are very talented and write well but I don't like the depressing themes either.

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited October 2011

    boy this thread is great.

    The Endurance by Shackleton.. (going south or something like that) is an awesome fascinating and rather grim read.

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited October 2011

    Apple. Thanks for the recommendation. I put a reserve on it. It's in the Youth category. You just reminded me that when I want a dumbed down version of learning something... I will often go into the Youth section. Sometimes the books in the adult section are way over my head. I often don't need to read a book by a scholar when a Youth version will explain to me what I want to know. I also love the oversize books in the children's room.

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited October 2011

    http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/harper.html

    Give me my father's body - the story of Minik the New York Eskimo by Kenn Harper.

    This is non-fiction about the sole survivor of a group of Inuits Robert Peary convinced to return from Greenland with him to NYC in 1897 to be showcased at the Museum of Natural History.  

    mention of the book on Shackleton and weepy books, made me think of this one. 

    Julie E

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited October 2011

    Shackleton was THE explorer.. there have also been better written (imho) about shackle ton.

    Minik the New Eskimo sounds like a good read.

    If you like explorer adventure books, Joseph Conrad and, and. and.. i'll come back with his name, are excellent.

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited October 2011

    Apple, the title to search for would be Give Me My Father's Body by Kenn Harper, I neglected to capitalize it!

    The book wasn't so much about the exploration, but the consequences of exploration and it made me consider how the museums I have enjoyed visiting obtained their artifacts - and at what cost to the people from whom they were taken.

    Julie E

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited October 2011

    Into Thin Air by Jon Krakaur was a book my son read in middle school.  I picked it up and read it.  Non-fiction book about a group of climbers who attempted Mt. Everest.  Short, well written and very interesting.  I have a lot of respect for those sherpas.

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  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 904
    edited October 2011

    I just finished reading "The Help"    I didn't see the movie yet, but everyone is telling me that the book is a lot better.  Great read - you will not be disappointed.

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited October 2011

    kim40, that was actually one of the very rare instances where I thought the movie was even better than the book.  I don't think you'll be disappointed in that either.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited October 2011
    I read the  book last week and never go to see movies maybe this time I should.Undecided
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  • LynnVA
    LynnVA Member Posts: 174
    edited October 2011

    The Help is one of the best books I have read in years and the movie for once was just as good! I have never cried so much in public in my life as I did in that movie theater!

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  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 904
    edited October 2011

    I've just started to read "The Book of Negros" by Lawerence Hill.  As anyone else read it? 

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited October 2011

    Kim... My Canadian 92 year old uncle read the book last year and recommended it. The author is Canadian.

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited October 2011

    I have "The Book of Negros" on my to read list, but haven't read it yet.  I agree with what most others are saying about "The Help".  Usually the book is MUCH better than the movie hands down.  The only reason I went to see the movie was because many ladies on this thread said how good it was.  I found it to be almost as good as the book and was not one bit disappointed.  I cried too!!

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  • sarah1968uk
    sarah1968uk Member Posts: 580
    edited October 2011

     Just finished "The Help" yesterday and loved it. I did want evil Hilly to come to a sticky end, or something, though, but I guess the cake episode was more subtle and had more embarrassment potential!  Thanks for recommendation. The movie is out here at the end of the month - 3 of its stars were on Breakfast TV last week. Will be seeing it with my Mum - more of a women's film, I would think.

     Sarah x

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