What are you reading? (or books you highly recommend)

[Debs Flock]

Please share descriptions of what you're currently reading (include genre/author). Also, feel free to share info on any books/authors you've read that you'd recommend to others.

 

[BantyChooks]

Books recommended/read:

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
A History of the World in 12 Maps
First Bite
Consider the Fork
The Hot Zone
The Great Influenza
A Prayer for the Dying
Spillover
Fowl Weather
How Carrots Won the Trojan War
Salt: A World History
Cod: Biography of the fish that changed the world
The Third Plate
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

 

[DwayneNLiz]

i am currently between books, but cant wait to start another!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

i would love to recommend a historical fiction novel by Ann Rinaldi though
I read it when i was in junior high (i think) but have read it again since then.
Hang A Thousand Trees with Ribbons
the story of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet in America and how she went from slavery to an adopted family member

it is a quick and easy read but leaves a great impression

 

[Pork Pie]

Subscribing

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm in the middle of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, a combination of 6 different stories by Douglas Adams. According to google it's "speculative fiction". Good read, it's one of my favourites.

 

[Debs Flock]

i would love to recommend a historical fiction novel by Ann Rinaldi though
I read it when i was in junior high (i think) but have read it again since then.
Hang A Thousand Trees with Ribbons
the story of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet in America and how she went from slavery to an adopted family member

it is a quick and easy read but leaves a great impression

That sounds good, Liz. I'm going to get it on my Nook.

I read 2 great books by John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath & East of Eden. I'd highly recommend both. I enjoy stories that are set in the early 1900's. His style of writing is very comfortable to me and Steinbeck is just enough descriptive. These authors that go on for pages to describe one setting drive me nuts!

 

[casportpony]

Great thread! You all probably aren't interested in the stuff I read, lol.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Great thread! You all probably aren't interested in the stuff I read, lol.

Scientific journals??
why not!

 

[casportpony]

Scientific journals??
why not!

Those and veterinary text books.