I have what is known as book backup, because of yoga school, so I was excited/dismayed to see that many of my books at the library are ready. I am still plowing through the most recent book in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. If you haven't checked that out, you might want to. It seems to be one of the few series that everyone likes. For example:
my mother
D
D's mother
and I
all like it.
Harry Potter does not fare so well. Out of the above group:
my mother read one Harry Potter book, and didn't read any others
D has read them all
D's mother doesn't read them
I don't read them
Anyway, so the following books are ready for me at the library: The Au Pairs sequel by Melissa de la Cruz (this is a YA series about 3 au pairs in the Hamptons); Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire; Birds of America by Lorrie Moore; and Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner.
The word-of-mouth on Goodnight Nobody is all over the place. Lisa doesn't really care for it. I read the reviews at Amazon and they seemed to be evenly divided between:
This book is awesome! It is just as good as Jennifer Weiner's other 3 books. She is so funny, etc.
and
This book @%#&! Jennifer Weiner should not write mysteries. She should return to chick lit.
I guess it'll be interesting to see.
my mother
D
D's mother
and I
all like it.
Harry Potter does not fare so well. Out of the above group:
my mother read one Harry Potter book, and didn't read any others
D has read them all
D's mother doesn't read them
I don't read them
Anyway, so the following books are ready for me at the library: The Au Pairs sequel by Melissa de la Cruz (this is a YA series about 3 au pairs in the Hamptons); Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire; Birds of America by Lorrie Moore; and Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner.
The word-of-mouth on Goodnight Nobody is all over the place. Lisa doesn't really care for it. I read the reviews at Amazon and they seemed to be evenly divided between:
This book is awesome! It is just as good as Jennifer Weiner's other 3 books. She is so funny, etc.
and
This book @%#&! Jennifer Weiner should not write mysteries. She should return to chick lit.
I guess it'll be interesting to see.
Comments
Oh well....
Lorrie Moore---Skip GN and read this! I love Lorrie Moore. Short fiction is so much harder to write than full novels, and she does it better than just about anyone.
If you like Lorrie Moore, try David Benioff (When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories).
Carolyn - the detective series author is Alexander McCall Smith. They're not really mysteries, they're just sweet and heartwarming. (In a non-nauseating way ;)
Bdogg - I know what you mean. I remember the main characters of Wicked, but that's about it. I started reading Son of a Witch and I'm a little like, Wha? but I think everything will be explained soon.
Lisa - I actually started Goodnight Nobody and it's working its usual Weiner magic for me (well, maybe not as much as Little Earthquakes, which i thought was incredibly awesome). However, I did read 2 of the Lorrie Moore stories too. I like her a lot and have all her other books on hold at the library. I read her book "Like Life" on my Boston-NYC train ride.
And, everybody - I'm doing a weird experiment where I'm reading all my library books at once. Well, except for 2 that I couldn't get into - one by Charles Baxter (recommended by a friend) and one by T.C. Boyle (whom I usually like). We'll see which one I finish first ;)
;)