Book Lovers Club

Timbuktu - this thread is NOT for breast cancer books, it is for "pure escapism". There is another discussion board called Recommend your Resources under Day to Day Matters on which there are several lists of books on breast cancer.  Come back here when you just want to immerse yourself in a great book.

Julie E

fgm.....when I began visiting this thread, I mentioned some of my favorite books. Among my favorites are those with Jewish themes....mostly non-fiction.  One of the most footnoted non-fiction books that I read is Lis Harris' Holy Days.  Harris was a writer for New Yorker magazine.  Her assignment was to follow an orthodox Jewish family during the High Holidays.  She and New Yorker readers were so interested in what she wrote about, she went on to spend a year within the orthodox community of Brooklyn.  I can't recommend this book enough!

http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Days-World-Hasidic-Family/dp/0684813661

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/24/books/books-of-the-times-101286.html

Another terrific book is The Rebbe's Army:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rebbes-Army-Inside-Chabad-Lubavitch/dp/0805211381

The Jew Store:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Jew-Store-Stella-Suberman/dp/1565123301

And...another author who we mention on this thread frequently, Erik Larson wrote a terrific book, Isaac's Storm about the Galveston Hurricane and includes Galveston's Rabbi Henry Cohen....who later went on to help thousands of Jews through the port of Galveston and see them settle them in the mid-west, west and good ol' Texas!  More about Rabbi Cohen can be learned from "The Galveston Movement."

http://www.amazon.com/Isaacs-Storm-Deadliest-Hurricane-History/dp/0375708278

Getting back to Tova Mirvis.....When I met her, she mentioned that she did a lot of her writing in a Starbucks.  In her latest book, she includes a character who does much of her writing in a coffee house....Many of the areas of New York that she mentions, and their back stories, I'm familiar with because architecture is among my many enjoyments in my life, as well as it's history.  Seems she has a love for New York that equals mine and the book is rich with New York historical details.....

And finally, Unorthodox...I did start the book, but chose not to finish it.  I'm all too familiar with  the good and the bad of "The Inside World." 

I will look at the second book that you recommended!

Voracious-thank you for all of your recommendations. I've enjoy Larson's books, too. Here are some other books I've read with Jewish themes.

Have you read Harry Bernstein's book's, The invisible Wall, The Dream, and The Golden Willow? I liked all of them. 

 Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy is about a young Jewish man who joins the Peace Corp and is sent to inland China. I learned a lot about China. Not sure if I ever want to visit there.

The Middlesteins by Jami Attenburg.  I met the author and enjoyed listening to her speak

Good Harbor by Anita Diamant

Hilda and Pearl by Alice Mattison

moon....I saw all of the controversy that her book created...that's why I had to take a peak of her book...

F.....I enjoyed The Middlesteins.....will have to check out some of the others you recommended....

oh! The READER'S version of ruined! You had me scared! LOL

Voracious, it sounds like the conclusions drawn in The Emperor of All Maladies. I had no idea that breakthroughs in medicine were so hard fought.

wrenn...page 30, 2nd paragraph!  😨

I will find the book. This is a subject I find quite interesting.

Hello! I have been in a reading slump (need to finish up with a big project before Friday), but thought you would all appreciate this:

Ruth - The End of Your Life Book Club was wonderful.  I've referred to the lists in the back several times to remember a few more oldies I wanted to find.  And recently - finally - moved it from the living room table to the shelf.  Maybe I should take it back down and put it by my bed to read again.

I'm reading Baldacci's Zero Day & liking it better than the last one of his I read.  Next up is Daniel Silva's The Engish Girl. 

I have read all of Baldacci's books and highly recommend Wish You Well.  This book and One Summer and The Christmas Train are very different from all of his other books.

DH enjoyed reading Vince Flynn's books too!  So sad that he passed at such a young age....

Almost finished reading The Remedy!  Will polish it off before the day is done.  The book is quite detailed. Interesting parts include Lister's discovery of how germs are transmitted.  In a previous book that I read that, Ruth also enjoyed, Destiny of the Republic, Lister makes a brief appearance.  Recall the assassination of President Garfield.  In Destiny of the Republic the story explains how the germ theory was already accepted in Europe before Garfield was shot.  The author and many others believe that Garfield could have survived had the Germ Theory been accepted on this side of the pond and proper protocols been put into place.  So, American physicians came out looking pretty bad in the story of Garfield's asassination.  BUT, now this is a very big BUT,  from the time Lister made his discovery, which we learn in this book in great detail, and UNTIL the proper protocols were implemented in Europe took MANY, MANY YEARS!  The Remedy's author not only makes this point very clear, but he also applies this point to modern medicine as well.  While medical discoveries take a long time to occur, implementation into practice both today and in yesteryears, takes a longer amount of time than anyone could imagine!  Doyle's role in this fabulous book is that he helped both physicians and people understand the role of how modern medicine would begin to play a role in people's lives, not just in crime...

I see great correlations in this book with Eric Topol, MD's book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine.  These books delve into the culture of medical exploration and how a medical discovery shakes and shifts the established protocols.....This book ushers in the establishment of medicine as we know it looks today.  Topol's book gives us glimpses of what it should look like in decades from now.....

Anyone who had to Migrate to Kobo from Sony having problems transferring their books?

Ruth, good one! Doesn't everyone buy a new purse based on whether a book will fit or not?