I already read a number of them and read two or three books a week….read Daniel DiSilva for excitement and I have other great recommendations…right now I am into Ellen Feldman and her “The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank” is amazing.
I liked seeing Liesel’s pescreptive because everything I read about this subject before was from a Jewish person or American soldier’s pescreptive. It is interesting to see how kids grow up to form opinions and how people can only keep them to themselves so much. Sometimes it is too painful not to be kind! If you like this book, you should read The Red Scarf Girl too. It deals with similar issues for a girl coming of age in communist China who is torn between the values of her family and the values she is learning in school and society. This book also reminded me of Skellig in a way because I kept thinking that Max was like the weird, magical man who the kids found in the shed. If they do make it a movie, I hope that Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs it and it looks something like City of the Lost Children !
I simply enjoying browsing my local Paw ,Paw,Michigan local library they have a selection of outdated books for a mere 5 for a dollar i check regularly…
Also i love ordering books from Bargain books Edward R.Hamilton bookseller company is great too…
Also for books i enjoy my local Antwerp sunshine library book sale coming up this september 2011 ..but when the books are so much a bag full!!! As much as i love books i am unemployed so i watch for all bargains or freebies to add to my own personal home library too..I love collecting the Dummie series of books and idiot guide books on so many topics !!
That’s an easy question. For book recommendations, I always ask Linda Wolfe (former NYT book reviewer and member of the National Book Critics Circle). I enjoy reading her reviews in FabOver50. Also, I wish you’d credit her by name when you refer to “a former New York Times book reviewer.” The short reviews in this piece are mostly hers (except where noted as being from another FOF).
I use many of the resources already mentioned. In addition, ‘Bookmarks’ magazine –in print and online– does a great job of aggregating reviews from a variety of publications. I also solicit recommendations from the booksellers at my local independent bookstores.
This is a good list and I already have several of these books ready to go! I get most of my book recommendations from book sites that I love and respect: Bookbrowse, Bookreporter.com, and Goodreads. From all the “official” comments I receive from these sites, there’s also the general comments from everyday readers that I enjoy comparing. I’m never at a point when I don’t know what to read.
Book recommendations? Where to find? Reader, I have special radar swiveling and pulling me, pointing the way to Goodreads, Powells Books Site, friends in bookclubs, and best of all, libraries, where in Pasadena, the numbers 092 strike magic in my heart because that means memoir. I’ve also written 2 – Without A Net: A Sojourn in Russia, and You Carry the Heavy Stuff, available through me, Lulu and Amazon. Good luck to all who read!
I just finished reading “In The Garden of Beasts” and I flew through it! I love reading non-fiction and I have a special love of history. This read doesn’t disappoint! Reading of the infancy of the Nazi Party in the early 1930s and its evolution thereafter was riveting. The intrigue experienced by the US Ambassador to Germany was made all the more interesting through the amoral antics of his adult daughter and her liaisons with high-ranking Nazis and Russian agents. You will instantly recognize the names of so very many famous Americans visiting Germany at the time. As with all of Larson’s books, you learn something and you enjoy an excellent story too!
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Yentl says:
I already read a number of them and read two or three books a week….read Daniel DiSilva for excitement and I have other great recommendations…right now I am into Ellen Feldman and her “The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank” is amazing.
Recky says:
I liked seeing Liesel’s pescreptive because everything I read about this subject before was from a Jewish person or American soldier’s pescreptive. It is interesting to see how kids grow up to form opinions and how people can only keep them to themselves so much. Sometimes it is too painful not to be kind! If you like this book, you should read The Red Scarf Girl too. It deals with similar issues for a girl coming of age in communist China who is torn between the values of her family and the values she is learning in school and society. This book also reminded me of Skellig in a way because I kept thinking that Max was like the weird, magical man who the kids found in the shed. If they do make it a movie, I hope that Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs it and it looks something like City of the Lost Children !
polishcharmer says:
I simply enjoying browsing my local Paw ,Paw,Michigan local library they have a selection of outdated books for a mere 5 for a dollar i check regularly…
Also i love ordering books from Bargain books Edward R.Hamilton bookseller company is great too…
Also for books i enjoy my local Antwerp sunshine library book sale coming up this september 2011 ..but when the books are so much a bag full!!! As much as i love books i am unemployed so i watch for all bargains or freebies to add to my own personal home library too..I love collecting the Dummie series of books and idiot guide books on so many topics !!
Jessica Bernstein says:
That’s an easy question. For book recommendations, I always ask Linda Wolfe (former NYT book reviewer and member of the National Book Critics Circle). I enjoy reading her reviews in FabOver50. Also, I wish you’d credit her by name when you refer to “a former New York Times book reviewer.” The short reviews in this piece are mostly hers (except where noted as being from another FOF).
{Weekly Roundup} | Fab Over Fifty Style Blog says:
[…] P.S. “You have to read this.” […]
Clara says:
I use many of the resources already mentioned. In addition, ‘Bookmarks’ magazine –in print and online– does a great job of aggregating reviews from a variety of publications. I also solicit recommendations from the booksellers at my local independent bookstores.
Tricia Douglas says:
This is a good list and I already have several of these books ready to go! I get most of my book recommendations from book sites that I love and respect: Bookbrowse, Bookreporter.com, and Goodreads. From all the “official” comments I receive from these sites, there’s also the general comments from everyday readers that I enjoy comparing. I’m never at a point when I don’t know what to read.
Linda Wolfe says:
Hi Tricia,
I hope my columns for FabOverFifty will be another source you’ll consult.
Best, Linda
Esther Bradley-DeTally says:
Book recommendations? Where to find? Reader, I have special radar swiveling and pulling me, pointing the way to Goodreads, Powells Books Site, friends in bookclubs, and best of all, libraries, where in Pasadena, the numbers 092 strike magic in my heart because that means memoir. I’ve also written 2 – Without A Net: A Sojourn in Russia, and You Carry the Heavy Stuff, available through me, Lulu and Amazon. Good luck to all who read!
BlueBear says:
I just finished reading “In The Garden of Beasts” and I flew through it! I love reading non-fiction and I have a special love of history. This read doesn’t disappoint! Reading of the infancy of the Nazi Party in the early 1930s and its evolution thereafter was riveting. The intrigue experienced by the US Ambassador to Germany was made all the more interesting through the amoral antics of his adult daughter and her liaisons with high-ranking Nazis and Russian agents. You will instantly recognize the names of so very many famous Americans visiting Germany at the time. As with all of Larson’s books, you learn something and you enjoy an excellent story too!
Linda Wolfe says:
Hi BlueBear
So glad you agree with me about Larson’s new book. Riveting is indeed the word for this book.
Ginnie Kellum says:
Thanks for the advice. I’m buying 3 of them.
Linda Wolfe says:
Hi Ginnie,
Which three?