I am looking for a good book to read over break...what would you recommend for me?! :)?

Question

Hi, winter break is coming up, and its time to find a good book!
some things about me:
-I am Majoring in Conservation
-my two favorite classes right now are art survey and biology
-the last book a read was Angelas Ashes (lover it)
-I liked the book Hot Zone

Can you think of anything I would like? Thank you!

Answer 1

Hmm, we sound similar! Some authors I can highly recommend: Annie Dillard (naturalist/philosopher: esp. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), Barbara Kingsolver (she writes fiction but has a graduate degree in biology), and David Quammen (one of the most eloquent and humorous writers ever-- nonfiction biology-related page turners!). If you've never read Silent Spring, it's a must. Another idea: Barbara McClintock's biography, A Feeling for the Organism. ~Enjoy!~

Answer 2

there is a series of books written by an English vet named James Herriott.there are 4 books in the series starting with
(1) "all things bright and beautiful"
(2) "all creatures great and small"
(3) "all things wise and wonderful"
(4) "the Lord God made them all"
it may seem like a lot, but these books are truly wonderful.an account of his life as a rural vet in the 30's -50's
if it seems like too much go for "sailing alone around the world" by Captain Joshua Slocum. it s his account of being the first man (on record) to do that very thing.

Answer 3

I think you would like the book Money Hungry because it is a interesting book. But it has nothing to deal with what you requested. I used to love to read books but some got boring so I just stopped. It was about something like the dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. That was really interesting to me. There is a book called The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston.

Answer 4

Try the book Ishmael.
It is about a man that finds an unlikely guru in the form of a telepathic gorrila.
Makes one look at society with an objective view.
If that is not your cup of tea, anything written by JRR Tolkien is great.
His style begins books slowly but is a trove of literary genius once the reader commits.

Answer 5

Going by you list I'd say try Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. This book starts out light but covers a very dark subject! A bit of, history, humor, and sadness...

From Publishers Weekly:

What would it sound like if a foreigner wrote a novel in broken English? Foer answers this question to marvelous effect in his inspired though uneven first novel. Much of the book is narrated by Ukrainian student Alex Perchov, whose hilarious and, in their own way, pitch-perfect malapropisms flourish under the influence of a thesaurus. Alex works for his family's travel agency, which caters to Jews who want to explore their ancestral shtetls. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novel's other hero, is such a Jew an American college student looking for the Ukrainian woman who hid his grandfather from the Nazis. He, Alex, Alex's depressive grandfather and his grandfather's "seeing-eye *****" set out to find the elusive woman. Alex's descriptions of this "very rigid search" and his accompanying letters to Jonathan are interspersed with Jonathan's own mythical history of his grandfather's shtetl. Jonathan's great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Brod is the central figure in this history, which focuses mostly on the 18th and 19th centuries. Though there are some moments of demented genius here, on the whole the historical sections are less assured. There's a whiff of kitsch in Foer's jolly cast of pompous rabbis, cuckolded usurers and sharp-tongued widows, and the tone wavers between cozy ethnic humor, heady pontification and sentimental magic-realist whimsy. Nonetheless, Foer deftly handles the intricate story-within-a-story plot, and the layers of suspense build as the shtetl hurtles toward the devastation of the 20th century while Alex and Jonathan and Grandfather close in on the object of their search. An impressive, original debut. (Apr. 16)Forecast: Eagerly awaited since an excerpt was featured in the New Yorker's 2001 "Debut Fiction" issue, Everything Is Illuminated comes reasonably close to living up to the hype. Rights have so far been sold in 12 countries, the novel is a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and a main selection of Traditions Book Club, and Foer will embark on an author tour expect lively sales.

Answer 6

Majoring in conservation?, have you read the book Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond? This books "probes what caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, ad what can we learn from their fates?"

Answer 7

Did the film "Splash" start out as a book? I loved the film P.S. Just had a look at Wikipedia and it looks as though it may be just a film. If you haven't seen it and you love mermaids, you really must try to get hold of a copy. It's directed by Ron Howard and stars Tim Hanks as a man who is reunited with a mermaid who had saved him from drowning when he was a boy - he falls in love with her without realising she is a mermaid.

Answer 8

Burro Genius

Answer 9

Twilight and New Moon by stephanie Meyer.they are great books about a girl named bella who falls in love with a vampire..

Answer 10

King Fortis the Brave!