50 Books - books 39-46
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siercia39. Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella This is the book that the movie Field of Dreams was based on. I loved it. The movie was true to the feel of the book. It did differ in a couple of ways from the movie. Most notably, the author in the book is not "Terence Mann", but J.D. Salinger. Having the author be someone who was real, who's work I'd read, and who's story I knew gave the book a more personal feel. There were a few other changes, but I won't reveal them here.
40. Jester - James Patterson This was recommended to me by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaasirpent. New author to me, so I grabbed it from the library. In a nutshell, guy goes t fight in the Crusades, and comes home to find his wife missing and his son murdered. He journeys to try and find his wife, disguised as a Jester. Before long, he's made enemies of two prominent nobles, and doens't know WHO to trust anymore. I enjoyed the story, but sadly figured out half of the big mystery long before they got to it in the book. The surprise at the end I didn't predict.
41. The Fourth Wall - Barbara Paul My mom lent this to me, and on a quick look, it looks to be out of print. This is a pity, as this was one of the best mysteries I've read in a long time. A new play is opening on Broadway, and before long, it sems as if someone has it in for the cast and perhaps the play itself - actors are maimed, the set is destroyed, finally someone is murdered. The attacks keep happening, and the police have no leads. As well as being a well written mystery, it's also an interesting story, with well developed characters.
42. The Joy of Knitting - Lisa Meyers Half knitting instruction, half essays on knitting. Reasonably enjoyable, if you're interested in knitting.
43. The Sorcerer's Academy??? ???? I borrwed this one from my mom as well - It's a collection of loosly tied together story of first year students at an American based school for would-be sorcerers. I'm not sure I've got the title right, and each story was writtin by someone different. The stories were entertaining, if a bit uneven, since they were written by many different people.
44-46. The Quilter's Apprentice, Round Robin, and Cross Country Quilters - Jennifer Chiaverini These are all part of series, based around the quilting community in a small town in Pennsylvania. So far, I *really* enjoyed the first one, where we meet the characters and learn their history, and enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd ones less - they were less about personal story, history and quilting then they are "chick lit" that's loosely bound together by a vague quilting theme. I'm currenly reading the fourth in the series, and it's looking up - looks like it's getting back to my favorite character, and delving more into the history of her family. Its also discussing the role that quilts may or may not have played in the Underground Railroad, which is a topic of interest to me. So, there's hope for the series.
40. Jester - James Patterson This was recommended to me by
kaasirpent. New author to me, so I grabbed it from the library. In a nutshell, guy goes t fight in the Crusades, and comes home to find his wife missing and his son murdered. He journeys to try and find his wife, disguised as a Jester. Before long, he's made enemies of two prominent nobles, and doens't know WHO to trust anymore. I enjoyed the story, but sadly figured out half of the big mystery long before they got to it in the book. The surprise at the end I didn't predict. 41. The Fourth Wall - Barbara Paul My mom lent this to me, and on a quick look, it looks to be out of print. This is a pity, as this was one of the best mysteries I've read in a long time. A new play is opening on Broadway, and before long, it sems as if someone has it in for the cast and perhaps the play itself - actors are maimed, the set is destroyed, finally someone is murdered. The attacks keep happening, and the police have no leads. As well as being a well written mystery, it's also an interesting story, with well developed characters.
42. The Joy of Knitting - Lisa Meyers Half knitting instruction, half essays on knitting. Reasonably enjoyable, if you're interested in knitting.
43. The Sorcerer's Academy??? ???? I borrwed this one from my mom as well - It's a collection of loosly tied together story of first year students at an American based school for would-be sorcerers. I'm not sure I've got the title right, and each story was writtin by someone different. The stories were entertaining, if a bit uneven, since they were written by many different people.
44-46. The Quilter's Apprentice, Round Robin, and Cross Country Quilters - Jennifer Chiaverini These are all part of series, based around the quilting community in a small town in Pennsylvania. So far, I *really* enjoyed the first one, where we meet the characters and learn their history, and enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd ones less - they were less about personal story, history and quilting then they are "chick lit" that's loosely bound together by a vague quilting theme. I'm currenly reading the fourth in the series, and it's looking up - looks like it's getting back to my favorite character, and delving more into the history of her family. Its also discussing the role that quilts may or may not have played in the Underground Railroad, which is a topic of interest to me. So, there's hope for the series.
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Date: 2003-09-11 07:01 am (UTC)Title: "Learning to Fly"
Author: Sam Keene
Subject: Non-fiction. Introspections in a life of no regrets while learning how to work on the flying trapeze.
(Its out of print. Or you could borrow it from me but you have to return it since it is a favorite book of mine.)
Also try these if you can:
Title: "How to Travel with a Salmon"
Author: Umberto Eco
Subject: Short stories across the board in subject. Some are Eco's usual dry wit. Others are reather slow and pointlessly existential.
Title: "How to Cook a Wolf"
Author: MFK Fisher
Subject: Non-fiction Essays. Combination of essay/stories about living in the great depression and recipes intended for feeding a large family on a small budget.
Title:"Pre-Raphaelites In Love"
Author: Gay Daly
Subject: Non-Fiction Biographic. The story of all the major players in the shaping of the English Pre-Raphaelite art movement. This art movement was the predecessor to Art-Nouveau and the Aarts and Crafts movement. It was the revival of a Renaisseance-like belief in integrated arts and produced such artists as D.G. Rosetti, Christina Rosetti, William Morris, J.W. Waterhouse, J.E. Millais, and J. Ruskin. This one reads like a soap opera rather than a biography. The things these people did with their lives were truly shocking for the Victorian era in which they lived.
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