Ok, in keeping with the Reduced Shakespeare model, we're filling up the book category in one message. There will be two categories for the book list, one for thumbs up and one for thumbs down.
Thumbs up:
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell. It has been getting some rough reviews but we really like it -- a good beach read, it's tone is a cross between early women's movement info and People magazine.
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picault -- great writer and a great story (but we should also add that the book lacks a great ending)
Heydey by Kurt Anderson -- rolicking good story of gold rush era
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson -- a wet story of a modern saint set in the pacific northwest.
Little Book of Atheism -- first half offers dull proofs that god doesn't exist but the second half
is filled with interesting material about spirituality without god.
is filled with interesting material about spirituality without god.
Thumbs Down:
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. Lots of hype and publicity, but no there there.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn -- tries way too hard
The Yiddish Policeman's Ball by Michael Chabon -- the first book of his I haven't liked.
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