People are always recommending books to me which 'you have to read this' exhortations. Here is the latest of these 'must reads' which are loaded up on my kindle. Some of these deserve a good long review, others are to be purchased for the library collection at Bialik, and still others are for recommendation to my book club:
Jonathan Franzen. Freedom (reading the sample tonight before bedtime)
Scott Spenser. Man in the Woods.
Barbara Kingsolver. The Lacuna.
Alan Furst. Spies of the Balkans.
Colum McCann. Let the great world spin.
Aharon Appelfeld. Blooms od Darkness.
Others, such as 'Commencement' by J.Courtney Sullivan, and 'Secret Daughter' by Shilpi Somaya Gow, as well as Jamie Ford's 'Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet', are titles I stumbled on in airport bookstores, along with Janna McMahan's 'The Ocean Inside'. I have read the samples and would consider recommending these for a good read on the road, or in a deck chair on the dock.
Gary Shteynhart is taking us for another wild ride in his latest 'Super Sad True Love Story'. Buyer beware though, Shteynhart is not for the literary faint of heart.
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