So far this summer the best books I've read have been Newberys--::giggles::--if you want a listing of every Newbery there is, it's on my school website...
...if you'd like something a little more grown-up, so to speak, the best book I read last semester was probably Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik. I read this for an English project on Gopnik because I think his writing is simply amazing (if a little snobby once in a while) and this's the only book he's put out so far. It's nonfiction, about five years he spent in Paris with his family. Some of the book is about French government, some about his thoughts on French culture (art, food, other stuff), and quite a bit is about his family. It's pretty long, but the themes he draws are really universal, and anyway, it's interesting.
If you want something historical that reads like fiction, there's an autobiography of the Air Force soldier who got shot down in Bosnia and then rescued, Scott O'Grady, called Return With Honor. It's been a few years since I read it, but I remember liking it.
That's all I've got. If you try any of them, I hope you like them. :)
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Date: 2005-05-24 06:29 pm (UTC)So far this summer the best books I've read have been Newberys--::giggles::--if you want a listing of every Newbery there is, it's on my school website...
...if you'd like something a little more grown-up, so to speak, the best book I read last semester was probably Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik. I read this for an English project on Gopnik because I think his writing is simply amazing (if a little snobby once in a while) and this's the only book he's put out so far. It's nonfiction, about five years he spent in Paris with his family. Some of the book is about French government, some about his thoughts on French culture (art, food, other stuff), and quite a bit is about his family. It's pretty long, but the themes he draws are really universal, and anyway, it's interesting.
If you want something historical that reads like fiction, there's an autobiography of the Air Force soldier who got shot down in Bosnia and then rescued, Scott O'Grady, called Return With Honor. It's been a few years since I read it, but I remember liking it.
That's all I've got. If you try any of them, I hope you like them. :)
-Kellie