Book ideas?

**baxjul** · 11-26-2005, 06:42 PM

I'm requesting books from the library, and I can't think of any. Help me come up with some! TIA

**canadian gardener** · 11-26-2005, 07:15 PM

fiction or non?

what genre fiction?

What area of non fiction?

**baxjul** · 11-26-2005, 07:23 PM

I'll read anything! Nonfiction and Fiction.

For fiction, I like the ones set in the late 1800's, usually about out west somewhere. But, I also like modern mysteries too.

And any kind of Nonfiction!

**canadian gardener** · 11-26-2005, 07:54 PM

ok

Eat Shrink and be Merry is the latest cookbook from the looneyspoon sisters. I borrowed it, and it's fun. I am cooking a recipe from it tonight for the second time.

Try the America's test kitchen books, they are great. The Best Recipe is one. They publish Cooks Illustrated.

If you like the pride and predjudice era, then try Georgette Heyer's romances if you've read all your Jane Austens and want more.

She also writes a terrific murder mystery.

Murder mystery favourites of mine: Dorothy Sayers, G. Heyer, Josephine Tey.

Non fiction, do you want physics (In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality by John Gribbin), macro economics (Hazlitt's Economics in one lesson for a classic or anything by Thomas Sowell), decorating (look at the Pottery Barn books) or maybe Don Aslett's Clutter's Last Stand for a classic that always gets me moving on dejunking.

Faster housecleaning is found in Jeff Campbells clean team books (check clean team site for titles) or Bonnie Runyon McCullough's books on running homes and families in a frugal and efficient way.

**canadian gardener** · 11-26-2005, 07:57 PM

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy is a classic easy read from Richard Maybury that I love. He has a whole series that explain law and economics and things like velocity and how economic boom and bust cycles work. Really a fun read for what can be a dry subject.

Google Thomas Sowell. He is a wonderful writer and his essays are really thought provoking on the subjects of social issues, economics, poverty, government.

I haven't met a thomas S. book that I didn't like

Milton Friedman is another favourite.

**Kimberlina** · 11-26-2005, 08:00 PM

Okay, I'm going to go through my list of books I've read in the last year and tell you the ones I liked:

The Lovely Bones

Shadow Divers

The Guadians of Ga'hool series (young adult series about owls- very good reads, though)

The Red Tent

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Middlesex

The Time Traveler's Wife

Peter and the Starcatchers

The Secret Life of Bees (Though I did NOT like the Mermaid Chair)

My Sister's Keeper

The Eyre Affair, The Well Of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, and Lost in a Good Book, all by Jasper Fforde.

Okay, those have been my favorite books this year. I am readin the Historian right now, and also have The Memory of Running out.

Rather than me telling you about them, I'd suggest you go to amazon.com and look up th ones that sound promising. I always go there, because you can see the books other people bought, etc, and get more ideas.

**canadian gardener** · 11-26-2005, 08:03 PM

more physics
The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene is a wonderful read in addition to the Gribbin book above.

Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku is another of my favourites on that genre.

And if you like there is a book by julian Barbour that is totally mind blowing called The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics in which he talks about time being sort of shattered little shards strung together that we experience as a seamless going forward but that really might just be like a bunch of little bits of glass on the floor that all relate, but are experienced in a sequence.

He is irritating to the establishment in the physics world which is also a plus.

Even the people who reviewed the book for the cover couldnt' resist a dig at him. Mind you the ideas he presents are about as horrifyingly possible as Einsteins theory of relativity when it came out and turned the world upside down.

**canadian gardener** · 11-26-2005, 08:10 PM

For sheer joy burble and babble there is always PG Wodehouse.

I Claudius and Claudius the God are two historical fiction books that I love by Robert Graves.

Thrush Green by Miss Read is a wonderful book with tons of equally enjoyable gentle observations of life in a small town. Has sequels galore. I love them.

**Kimberlina** · 11-26-2005, 08:10 PM

Oh, and though I have only re-read this year, I love most anything by Ken Follett.

**Jellybeanz** · 11-26-2005, 08:34 PM

A few that I remember reading in the last year or so that were good :

These is My Words by Nancy Turner ( set in the late 1800's I think) Really good read.

The Diary of Mattie Spencer and Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly ** Very highly recommended.

Those are a few off the top of my head.I think all of these are in that time frame you said you liked. :-)

Canadian Gardener.. I'm into physic books too :-) Even though I can't understand all of it, what I do "get" is absoluting fascninating.

**baxjul** · 11-26-2005, 09:11 PM

Thank you so much!!!!

**slowtypinwoman** · 11-26-2005, 09:23 PM

I started Memiors of a Geisha today and it has captured me since the first page. I wanted to read it when it first came out but didn't get to it. Now that it is a movie I want to read it before I see it. I also HIGHLY recomend all the Harry Potter books.
For sheer fluff I love Nora Roberts.