Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Maybe you could just take all the books and start your own library

To recap: we are moving and I decided to take only my favorite two hundred or so books with me. These other losers are getting donated unless someone wants to read one? Some of them are pretty good, but just didn't make the cut. Some I bought with every intention of reading but deep down I know I will never get to them.

Memoirs/Personal Essay Collections:

Leftovers:

  • Garden of Beasts by Jeffrey Deaver (probably good and suspenseful)
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (if you read my previous posts, you know that this book has spent some time in our fireplace. Also, my son ate a little bit of the cover off. Is there anyone out there who didn't read this growing up???)
  • A Rare Murder in Princeton (I grew up near Princeton so thought maybe I would enjoy reading about someone getting murdered in my town? According to the cover there are recipes included. Of what, I have no idea)
  • Writing a Woman's Life (I doubt this is going to be in high demand unless someone has a term paper to write)
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (This won a National Book Award! Someone should read it and then lend it back to me if it is any good)
  • Sisters of the Road (mystery, I think)
  • Handling Sin (This looks good, but it's over 600 pages long, and since it's not Harry Potter, I don't have time for it)

4 comments:

Dina said...

I read Garden of the Beasts and it is VERY scary. I'll be happy to take most of what you are giving away.
Pretty soon Nate will learn and vocalize the concept "off" in relation to any sailor suits he may not be wanting to wear.

But maybe he was just hungry when you took that picture
MOM

behind the fourth door said...

Bag up any good beach reads for me. We need some good books down in Ocean City for our renters and moi to read while down there.

Unknown said...

If Dina and Eva (hello you two!!!) don't take Shiksa Goddess or The Corrections, I'd love to read them and would be happy to pass them on when I'm done!

Eva, I recommend "The Pursuit of Love" by Nancy Mitford for an easy beach read. I found it so entertaining! I have yet to read the second "Love in a Cold Climate" (the two books are typically published together in one) and will pick it up again when I finally finish "The House of Mondavi," which I find to be a completely "meh" book given all the praise it received!

Dina said...

I made it through 3 pages of A Rare Murder in Princeton, and I love mysteries. You wrote better in second grade.
LOVE
MOM