need some ideas for books

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1) Blindness by Jose Saramego
2) American Gods Damn, I loved this book. 12/28/09
3) A Reliable Wife, 12/29/09
4)Sweetheart, I most likely will not be reading any more of this series because the relationship between the main detective and the serial killer is something that disturbs me greatly. I do not wish to have anymore of those thoughts in my brain.12/31/09
5)Plainsong This was a beautiful novel. I will read more from this author. 01/01/10
6) Julie and Julia, 02/01/10
7) Blind Submission, 02/02/10
8) Strength in What Remains, 02/07/10
9)I have begun the Sharpe series, and the first of the Master and Commander series is waiting for me. Enjoyed Sharpe's Tiger. Have already lent it to a family member to enjoy also. 02/21/10
10) Crystal Singer, 02/24/10
11) Interpreter of Maladies, 03/21/10
12) The Forgotten Garden, 03/27/10
13) Sharpe's Triumph, 05/ /10
14) Sharpe's Fortress, 06/02/10
15) Sharpe's Trafalgar, 06/03/10
16) Sharpe's Prey, 06/04/10
17) Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading, 06/07/10
18) An Alphabetical Life, 06/12/10
19) Library: An Unquiet History, 06/12/10
 
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Right now I'm reading God is not great by cristopher Hitchens.

Last book I read was Exit to Eden. Book started out good but then fell flat.
 
Right now I'm reading God is not great by cristopher Hitchens.

Last book I read was Exit to Eden. Book started out good but then fell flat.

Hitchens' writing is oddly twisty, and ideas, not my idea of good for my religious soul. Thank you though for suggesting them.

Exit written by Rice or Rampling?

fuck is one and the same.
 
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Wrinkle in Time..

okay kids book but still....
 
I just started reading Sweetheart, the sequel to Heartsick(both New York times bestsellers), by Chealsea Cain.

Think Hannibal Lecter as a hot female psychiatrist, and Clarice Starling as a male cop obsessed with her. There's torture and a scary erotic undercurrent, not for the squeamish.
 
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (sp?)

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

Anything at all by Wade Davis

The Red Hourglass by Gordon Grice

The "Sharpe" series

The "Master And Commander" series

Anything by Tim Powers

Anything by Bruce Chatwin

Plainsong by Kent Haruf



I got lots more...
 
carnivores of light and darkness~alan dean foster
ashes of britannia~haley elizabeth garwood
 
If you're adding Rice to the list, check out Pandora... unless you've already read the Vampire series.
 
"The Hermit of Peking," also under the title "A Secret Life" - a biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, written in 1975. I realize that that sounds unpromising, but you will swear, by the end of it, that you have discovered not only an amusing book, but also the biography of the most prolific, shameless, and bold-faced liar in human history.

The sheer scope and sweep of the man's fraud is breathtaking. He was, at various times, an arms merchant, a secret agent, a purveyor of battleships, a seller of banknotes, a benefactor of the Bodleian Library, and a respected scholar of Chinese letter and history - and he is proven, in this delightfully written book, to have been an outright fraud and scoundrel in every one of those activities, not to mention in his remarkably wide-ranging and, erm, versatile claims about his sexual exploits. A truly amusing read.
 
Wrinkle in Time..

okay kids book but still....
It has been a great long time since I read that and I have seen it in the stacks here at home. Okay, I'll go hunt it out.
 
I just started reading Sweetheart, the sequel to Heartsick(both New York times bestsellers), by Chealsea Cain.

Think Hannibal Lecter as a hot female psychiatrist, and Clarice Starling as a male cop obsessed with her. There's torture and a scary erotic undercurrent, not for the squeamish.

I have looked it over and will give the first book a test run. The whole idea of torture makes me uneasy.
 
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (sp?)

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

Anything at all by Wade Davis

The Red Hourglass by Gordon Grice

The "Sharpe" series

The "Master And Commander" series

Anything by Tim Powers

Anything by Bruce Chatwin

Plainsong by Kent Haruf



I got lots more...
I have the strong feeling that this is what sex with you would be like, a wide and generous banquet. If I didn't feel fondly towards you this would have turned my head.

I feel like my birthday has arrived, with lots of presents. Thank you dear.
 
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