Tell Me What to Read: Round 7
And here we are in 2010 – time for a new year of Tell Me What To Read. You all know the drill, I think. Recommend a book that you think I ought to read, and I’ll pick one at random from the list.
It can be any genre, any age level, and have been published last week or three hundred years ago. You can pick it because it’s a book that everyone should read or because it changed your life or because it is great literature or just because it entertained you. You can DEFINITELY suggest the same book you suggested last month.
Here’s how it goes:
- Comment with the title of one book you think I should read (any book you want). One title only, please, lest my brain explode.
- I’ll select one comment at random and announce it on the blog later this week
- On the off-chance that I’ve already read the book you select, I’ll contact you and ask for a follow-up suggestion (make sure there is a way to contact you either by blog or email).
- I’ll get a copy of the book and read it by the end of January.
- I’ll write a review of it here. Even if I hate the book, I will not hate you.
And. . .go!
I was just thinking today, 'oh, it's almost time again for tell me what to read! can't wait to see which great books get nominated this month!' And then I checked my google reader and voila, my wish was granted.
My suggestion for this month is Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (and then, if you can get your hands on it, the Persephone Classics paperback edition because it's so pretty).
I was scraping ice off the car windshield this morning in TX and thinking about how it was going up there in Boston. Glad to see this posting!
I'd like to nominate Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
P.S. Stay warm.
I think you'd love "The City of Thieves" by David Benioff. Excellent, kind of modern Historical Fiction. And it's a coming of age story.
Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World.
Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
by Alison Weir
OK, I can't remember if I've suggested this one before or not, but Schuyler's Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson. Apologies if this is a duplicate.
What Dreams May Come
How about A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson? It's very amusing nonfiction. I didn't see it in your Goodreads page, so I hope you haven't read it yet.
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy, by LA Meyer. I just finished the 7 books written so far and couldn't get enough of them. Historical YA fiction. I know you said only 1 title, but in case the first book doesn't grab you enough, the series only gets better and better as you go along!
I'm going to go with The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman this time. It's the first in the series (The Land of Elyon books)–I've read three of the four (or four of the five?) and enjoyed them all. Sort of Chronicals of Narnia, Prydain Chronicals genre. Enjoy!
"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie," by Alan Bradley. Even if you don't pick it for Tell Me What to Read, you MUST read it sometime. I think you'd like the heroine (11 year old amateur chemist + murder + English countryside = pretty darn good).
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
I will suggest this every month until it gets picked. :o)
xox
I'm not giving up…still recommending The Help by Katherine Stockett.
Fablehave by Brandon Mull. I really enjoyed this one and thought it was quite unique and interesting.
magicians assistant.
again 🙂
Since repetition appears to be the name of the game, I'm going for Amy's Eyes by Richard Kennedy.
The Last Summer (of you and me) by Ann Brashares.
It is her first novel for "grown-ups" and I really enjoyed it.
1000 White Women- very similar to These Is My Words. I loved them both
I would have you read Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles. I need another opinion!
Grace by Richard Paul Evans. So excited to hear which one you pick!!