Books

[lotusbiosm]

OK, so, I just got directions to the local branch of the DC public library, which is like 5 blocks maximum from my house. And it being summer, I have time to read for fun. I read all of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Saturday, and I'm speeding along through Order of the Phoenix too. (I'm refreshing for when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out) I'm certain to get some books for my birthday, but as that isn't until July, I need something to tide me over until then. I got two books at Easter, but they're not really "sit down and read" books, so much as "throw in your bag to have in case you get stuck somewhere with nothing to do" books. Which is fine, but I want something I can sink my teeth into. Which is where you, dear readers, come in. Recommend me some books. Old classics, new favorites, long, short, romantic, comedic, tragic, whatever. Feel free to ask questions before making rec's, and my userinfo should give you some sense of what I like.

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Books! ::beams::

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I read your info. Hope it helps.

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

[(Anonymous)]

(Return With Honor goes into O'Grady's Christian faith, by the way--I'm not trying to be all super-moral in my book-listing; it's just the way it runs, and since you used to go to Jude's sometimes with Kristin, I didn't figure it bothered you any.)