Tell us a little about a book you have read recently? Did you enjoy it?

Answer 1

I recently finished a book called "The Girls" by Lori Lansens.
Twenty-nice year old Rose and Ruby Darlen have never spent a moment apart from each other. They have never gone for a walk, alone. They have never had a private conversation. They have never once looked each other in the eye.
Rose and Ruby are the oldest living craniopagus twins [siamese twins joined at the side of the head]. The book is written from both of "The Girls" points of view and tells us about the life of being a siamese twin.
It's a good read but easy to put down.
The blurb really draws you in and so does the first few chapters, but after 200 pages you get a bit bored of trying to guess who is talking.
By the end I was glad it was finished.

Answer 2

Hi there Skycat, I have just read a book called Bless the child by Cathy Cash Spellman. I thought it was brilliant, and I couldnt put it down. It is about a forty-two year old grandmother. Maggie O'Connor, whose drug addicted daughter dumps her new born baby on her mother's doorstep. Maggie brings the little girl up on her own. She calls her Cody, and they both become very close. Three years later, the drug addicted daughter (now 'clean') snatches Cody back. Maggie finds out that the daughter has married a man who is part of a satanic cult. And it turns out that Cody happens to be mankinds last hope in the war against Good and Evil. The story that unfolds is about Maggies fight to save Cody. It makes compelling reading. It has become one of my favourite books. I really recommend it to you (If that is the kind of stuff you like).

Answer 3

I have read Anna Karinina, President Bill Clinton's autobiography, A Random Act by Cindi Broaddus (Dr. Phil McGraw's sister-in-law) and I am currently half-way through Self Matters by Dr. Phil McGraw.
This was my second reading of Anna Karinina. I enjoyed it.
Bill Clinton's autobiography was very good. I just love him! A Random Act left me a little cold. And since I have had intensive therapy for a lifetime of abuse, Self Matters, I feel, does not really apply to my life at present. All I need to fix me is a life-changing amount of money.
May God bless you.

Answer 4

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas Hofstadter

I'm still in the middle of it actually so to draw any major conclusions would be presumptuous, but in the author's own words:

"GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"

Answer 5

"Artemis" by Julian Stockwin. Excellent reading. He writes with a lifetime of experience at sea, a good knowledge of the period he chooses to portray ( Georgian England) and an excellent command of English. Although I am not particularly interested in things maritime this author includes sufficient "human interest" of a sympathetic nature to make his stories acceptable to the most disinterested landlubber and this book has marvellous comical interludes. I can thoroughly recommend it. It is also available in audio books and is a beguiling accompaniment to any other activities the listener might wish to pursue.

Answer 6

I read Cell by Stephen King, that was excellent, I couldn't put it down!

I then read My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, that was very good too!

I'm hoping to get the new Harry Potter book tomorrow or next week some time and I will start to read that!

Answer 7

"The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade" by Ann Fessler. Amazing book, being a mother, it made me cry

Answer 8

I picked up a book from the Simon Romantic Comedy series (Major Crush by Jennifer Echols) because I was looking for your average summer-read. I loved it! It's about Virginia, who has to co-drum major with her rival Drew. Both of them have to pretend to be friends, or they'll lose their positions as drum majors. At least that's what their teacher says. In the end ... well, you'll have to read it. But it's funny and real and romantic. I loved this one. It made me want to read more of the series. =)

Answer 9

"Perfection Salad". It's a great sociological book about women in the late 1800's-early 1900's and how learning how to cook better meals instead of gruel actually got them out more in society and even empowered them to work outside of the home. It's a fascinating read.

Answer 10

His Dark Materials Trilogy...

And yes, it's my favorite trilogy, my third time reading it.
The Golden Compass (the first book) is going to be out in theatres this Dec. It's a fantasy.

It's supposed to be a pre-teen, teen book, but it's very complex and most wouldn't understand the book very well.

I recommend it for kids older than 13 and beyond.