I like memoirs of crazy people, or people who have gone through rough times. I read My Lobotomy and really liked it, though it was SUPER graphic at times. Now I am Facebook friends with the author! HOLLA!
Oh, that sounds good--I love memoirs like that. Not that he had to go through it, obviously, but it's interesting to read what happened and how they came out of it.
Have you ever read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls? It's a pretty crazy memoir. Not about the author herself being crazy, just her family. It's really good, though...
I just finished reading Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family (or the title is something that approximates that). It was really good also. I thought it would have been more about food & the restaurant life, but it was really just a lot of character portraits of the author's sort-of-strange family.
Currently reading The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell. Not something I normally would have picked up (was a Christmas present), but I'm totally digging it. It's a bunch of essays on American culture and politics from what the mainstream would probably consider an "alternative" viewpoint. She has interesting opinions, she's funny, and I'm learning stuff, too.
Before that it was The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, who is one of my favorite writers. The book is basically the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme rewritten as a murder mystery. Clever as shit. Kind of that dry, British sense of humor -- think Douglas Adams meets Monty Python.
Before THAT I read The World According to Garp. Standard John Irving fare (all the same plotlines from his other books tossed into a blender and pulsed for, like, a quarter of a second), but I loved it just like I love all of his other stuff.
The last book I read was Twilight (actually, the last 3 books I read were the first 3 in the Twilight series if I'm being accurate). Don't read Twilight or its ilk. IT SUCKS YOU IN UNTIL YOU FEEL HORRIBLE ABOUT YOURSELF.
The book I read before that was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and before that was The Gift of Fear. Both lovely in their own way.
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I just finished reading Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family (or the title is something that approximates that). It was really good also. I thought it would have been more about food & the restaurant life, but it was really just a lot of character portraits of the author's sort-of-strange family.
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if you're into a bit of mystery read bram stoker's dracula first and the historian by elizabeth kostova after.
i should be able to recommend heaps more as my booknerding skills keep improving, but my mind's quite empty right now.
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Before that it was The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, who is one of my favorite writers. The book is basically the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme rewritten as a murder mystery. Clever as shit. Kind of that dry, British sense of humor -- think Douglas Adams meets Monty Python.
Before THAT I read The World According to Garp. Standard John Irving fare (all the same plotlines from his other books tossed into a blender and pulsed for, like, a quarter of a second), but I loved it just like I love all of his other stuff.
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The book I read before that was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and before that was The Gift of Fear. Both lovely in their own way.
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