I Make My Own Rules: Book Meme Day 25
Oct. 7th, 2010 09:07 pmI decided I didn't like days 21-24, so I am skipping to:
Day 25 - Any five books from your "to be read" stack
( Here's the entire meme, for anyone interested in snagging )
If anyone else has any recommendations, any AWESOME books that I simply MUST read, please let me know! I really do pay attention to people's recs and rely on them when deciding what I'm going to read next.
I also have a stack of non-fiction books I got on the writing process, and Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks. I read anything and everything, so be it a cookbook, a text book, poetry, science fiction, biography, whatever--if you love it, rec it!
Day 25 - Any five books from your "to be read" stack
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Recommended to me by several people, notably the lovely
rewindclunkplay, I am excited and also nervous to read this book. It promises to be a good read, but may just cut a little too close to home in reminding me of my own issues with anxiety and depression. I'll give it a go. - Crush, by Richard Siken. A book of poetry recommended to me by
tourdefierce, a girl who seems to know her poetry. It has an introduction by Louise Glück! I ♥ her! - Doctor Who: The King's Dragon, by Una McCormack. What can I say? I'm a nerdy Who fan girl. I've already read The Glamour Chase (pretty good) and Nuclear Time (don't bother).
- Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins. I don't know, you guys: this is one of those series that I love for the idea and the characters, but it kind of falls apart in its execution. My biggest criticism? Is that it reads like a YA book, which a good YA book shouldn't. I've started Catching Fire, and am already wondering how Collins is going to manage to keep the "Gale or Peeta, which one will she choose?" storyline going through the third book without making me want to bludgeon myself into unconsciousness with the hardcover.
- Eleanor Rushing, by Patty Friedmann. I started this book, but it kind of got pushed to the side by other things I wanted to read. (And other things I had to read.) It's about an erotomaniac who falls in love with a local preacher. What drew me to it was that it's a first person narrative, and I love the mystery of the unreliable narrator: what details of her story are true, and what are the delusions? I should get back to it soon.
( Here's the entire meme, for anyone interested in snagging )
If anyone else has any recommendations, any AWESOME books that I simply MUST read, please let me know! I really do pay attention to people's recs and rely on them when deciding what I'm going to read next.
I also have a stack of non-fiction books I got on the writing process, and Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks. I read anything and everything, so be it a cookbook, a text book, poetry, science fiction, biography, whatever--if you love it, rec it!