Mama ([info]madamemama) wrote in [info]book_soup,
2005-07-28 07:12:00

My Top Ten

Cane by Jean Toomer

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O’Nan

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nefisi

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Time Travellers Wife by Audery Niffenegger

Also, you can read my book reviews for this year here:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=madamemama&keyword=Book+reviews+2005&filter=all

I'll compile a complete list and put it in Memories tonight. This was a good idea. :)

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[info]sweet3mich

July 27 2005, 23:25:24 UTC 6 years ago

I also read "My Name is Asher Lev" and remember enjoying it quite a bit. It inspired me to also read "The Chosen." I started "Davita's Harp" but for reasons I can't remember I never finished it.

[info]madamemama

July 28 2005, 23:45:34 UTC 6 years ago

Did you like "The Chosen"? I started it a few years ago, but then I left it on an airplane (with my drivers license as a book mark! I'm such an idiot!) and I never got around to re-purchasing it.

[info]sweet3mich

August 3 2005, 09:44:56 UTC 6 years ago

Sorry I took so long to reply to this...I forgot about it. I did like "The Chosen" and that's about all I can say about it. Sadly I do not remember much of what it was about as it was several years ago that I read it. I do not have a gift to retaining that kind of information unless I *really* like a book then I have no choice but to remember it. Long story short, if I hadn't liked it I wouldn't have remembered that I had read it. :o) Make any sense to you!?

[info]poobster

July 28 2005, 02:52:50 UTC 6 years ago

Someone's an Oprah Book Club member! :)

[info]madamemama

July 28 2005, 10:01:06 UTC 6 years ago

haha
Actually, nope. Were you refering to Grapes of Wrath and The Good Earth? I read them both years ago. Although, I will say I usually agree with Oprah's selections. :)

[info]poobster

July 28 2005, 16:00:59 UTC 6 years ago

I don't like her new ones. She's trying to be all "Look at me, I'm a smart black woman" and it bugs.

I like her former ones that were good for recreational reading.

[info]madamemama

July 28 2005, 23:44:25 UTC 6 years ago

See, and I like her new stuff better. Her old choices all seemed the same to me and they were such downers.

[info]poobster

July 28 2005, 23:53:55 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah you're probably too smart for the old ones. Hehe, I'm too dumb and impatient for the new ones.

[info]poobster

July 28 2005, 16:02:14 UTC 6 years ago

I have also read The Time Traveler's Wife, Grapes of Wrath (I'm blasphemous, hated it).

I'm currently reading My Sister's Keeper.

[info]madamemama

July 28 2005, 23:44:38 UTC 6 years ago

Did you like The Time Traveler's Wife?

[info]poobster

July 28 2005, 23:53:17 UTC 6 years ago

I did like it. I gave copies of it to several friends and family that year.

I think the trick with that book is to be forewarned that it's not written chronologically. I really liked watching the pieces of the puzzle fit together. I am thinking of reading it again.
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