Favorite Books/Authors

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Well it is a new decade…I have found a lot of interesting books to read…so here are the ones I can remember for

2010

• 4-25-10 I have just started another Beverly Lewis book about the Amish….I will let you know about that later.
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult was made into a movie and it is a 3 hanky book as well, but I dreaded reading it because I knew the ending, what I didn’t realize was how interesting Jodi is as an author.  Once I started it, I couldn’t lay it down.
• The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx is such an intriquing character study…it won a pulitzer prize  and now I know why it was very original in style and it had hooked me early and each chapter had the added bonus of teaching the reader about how to make knots..something I learned originally in girl scouts.
• As Hot as it Was, You Ought to Thank Me was a good read from the viewpoint of a teenage girl coming of age.  I love those kinds of books.
• The Big Sky by A. B Guthrie was a change of venue for me, a western flavor story about a young man becoming a real cowboy. 
• The Small Room by May Sarton was a good book about a young teacher finding her way as a new teacher, discovering that honesty comes with a price.  It was a good story about the effect of cheating on the lives of everyone concerned.
• A Painted House by John Grisham was a surprise to me.  It is my first Grisham novel and he wrote this one from the point of view of a young boy of seven living on a cotton farm.  It reminds me of how life must have been for my mother.  It was a really good study of the different characters.  A mother who really wants to leave the farm, a story of three generations living together, it was a nice surprise.
• Martha Grimes is an excellent writer.  I read Belle Ruin and Cold Flat Junction – she wrote with the voice of a 12 year old coming of age and solving mysteries that had gone unsolved for years.  She was fun, the reading was effortless and I hated for the stories to end. 
• Jodi Picoult wrote Plain Truth – about an Amish mystery with a full education of how the Plain people live.  Good reading.
• Jane Kirkpatrick wrote No Eye Can See, a thrilling saga of people moving west in the stage coach days.  We get to follow the life of a blind heroine.  The story was one I will read again…it had a little of everything I like in a book.  Love Suspense and History.
• Anita Shreve wrote about a woman  meeting her childhood sweetheart, and then what happens when one chooses one of two choices.  Moving writer.
• Michael Hoeye wrote The Sands of Time.  It helped me to see that an author doesn’t have to write about people to get us all involved in a story…about mice.  It was a fun read.  It dealt with the mystery of cats.

2009

1. I have recently become a Beverly Lewis Fan.  She wrote:  The Postcard, Sanctuary, The Betrayal, The Sacrifice  – all very interesting about the Amish and Plain people.  I devoured her books all the summer of ’09.
2. Rodman Philbrick is a new author I just discovered .  He writes futuristic stuff.   The one I read was “The Last Book in the Universe” It was so good I had to read it in one evening!  What an incredible imagination the author has.
3. I also like Susan Howatch, I just finished  ”Mystical Paths” – it mixes the spiritual and the psychic – right up my alley.  It was so deep, it took me three days.  It dealt with a young man having a nervous and spiritual breakdown and the man who helped him work through it.  Fascinating Reading!
4. As of today, 10-18-09, I finished “ The Book Club” by Mary Alice  Monroe.  She wove together the lives of women involved in a book club.  I hated for it to end.  I felt I knew those women.
5. I finished a  Barbara Delinsky book today 10-21  The Title is “Three Wishes”.  It was very entertaining.  You can’t go wrong with this author.  This one was about a near-death experience and how it affected her life afterwards.
6. I have chosen a Susan Wiggs PB called  “Just Breathe” I see it is a book about change…one of my favorite subjects.  I really enjoyed the characters in this book so I quickly found another Susan Wiggs book “Table for Five” which was just as entertaining.  Both books dealt with families that  are broken and then somehow mended or blended into new families.
7. October 29th -I found another Susan Howatch book – Absolute Truths.  This is “heavy reading” .  It deals with failures and redemption, dealing with loss of a loved one, and forgiveness of oneself and others.
8. November 2nd I started “Exit the Rainmaker” – a very controversial subject.  It is about a man who decides one day to just walk away from his life, how it affects everyone,  and then it goes back and reconstructs how it happened.  This is a 2nd book by author Jonathan Coleman.  He also wrote “Mother’s Request” which I haven’t read yet.  I like his writing style…he leaves no stone unturned.
9. Nov 9th – starting “A New Kind of Christian” – a tale of two friends on a spiritual journey. By Brian McClaren.  This book is “deep” so I read a little then lay it aside.
10. Meanwhile I read a really different kind of book – An Infinity of Little Hours” – engrossing account of the Carthusian Monks during the early 1960′s.  It traces the steps of 5 young men just entering the world’s most austere monastic order.  It was essentially unchanged from the year 1084 until 1965.   It is illustrated, so you feel you know the men and their trials.  I really “grew” reading this one.

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