Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Herding Cats Challenge II


Hosted by Renay at Let's Get Literate.

April 1 - December 31st, 2009

My list of five books read in 2007, 2008, or 2009 that I loved:

1.Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
2.The Lizard by Karen Connelly
3.Sorry by Gail Jones

My choices of others' selections to read with completed books highlighted or linked to reviews:

1.The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
2.The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
3.Ten Cents A Dance by Christine Fletcher
4.Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
5.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen

I welcome comments and opinions on any of these books, or reading recommendations of good literary fiction.

3 comments:

  1. I'm glad to see you liked The Swallows of Kabul. I'm saving it for Dewey's Read-a-thon this month (will be reading slim books, lol). I also just got a copy of The Library at Night the other day.. it looks really wonderful, with all the photos and such. Happy reading!

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  2. I really liked the Housekeeper and the Professor. :)

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  3. I haven't read any of the books from your favorites book, sad to say. The Swallows of Kabul is on my TBR shelf. I read The Attack by the same author a couple of years ago and really liked it.

    I haven't decided yet what books to read for this challenge. I should probably take a look at the list soon and see!

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