I need a book to read. I would go to my bookworm list, but I'm not in the mood for anything serious. Thus far, everything I've read off that list has been pretty good, but I'm looking for something a little more "light entertainment" and a little less "serious litterature." It's my last week before both school and work start up again. So let my brain fully turn to mush just this once, and I'll whip it back into shape in no time.
I'm going to London this weekend and will pick something up there. What do you suggest?
No Nora Roberts, Tom Clancy, or other crap fiction allowed. Just something good, if maybe a little light.
Books I've heard good things about: The Time Traveller's Wife.
Going Nucular (by the guy who does language commentary on NPR, Stephen Fatsis or something) is a collection of short 2-3 page essays on how we use language now. I enjoy it.
If you want novel-ish but not garbagy and you haven't read them, the books by Torey Hayden are touching. She's a special ed teacher, and she's written a lot of books about her 'kids'.
And there is, of couse, Jon Stewart's book, "America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction."
(yeah, thought you might like that one.)
how about some nice chick lit? a jane green book perhaps? or the no. 1 ladies private detective agency by alexander mccall smith. its a good and light read.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
it's not stephen fatsis, it's jeffrey nunnberg. Sorry!
All has been noted, and will be brought to the nearest British bookstore...
I think the Jon Stewart book is at the top of the list right now, although, seriously, I should lay low on the politics for a bit. Although I guess that book isn't "real" politics.
My books -- mine, mine, mine mine. . . . fluffy of the fluffiest, first one's cheap and they're not as trashy as clancy. Okay, maybe as. But not more.
Uum seriously? I kind of like the Inconvenient Wife. I'm currently reading loads of romances and essays by Joseph Mitchell called The Bottom of the Harbor. And the Bartimaeous trilogy kiddies -- though honestly those books are good.
I too have heard lots of good stuff about the Ladies Detective Agency books. If you're looking for pure "easy reading" with pretty much no intellectual content, Lisa Jewell (sp?) books are a favourite of mine.
Ooh just had another idea - read any Joanne Harris? She wrote Chocolat, and the excellent Coastliners as well as a few others. Worth checking out.