Which books did you read in April?

[shadforth]

The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux 5/5
Wingfoot by A.R Lloyd 3/5
The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque 5/5
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch 4/5
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside 2/5
On The Night Plain by J Robert Lennon 4/5
Flash Forward by Robert J Sawyer 4/5

 

[beer good]

Der Prozess - Kafka, Franz 5/5
Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In Its Downfall - Haines, Luke 4/5
Man In The Dark - Auster, Paul 3/5
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Winterson, Jeanette 4/5
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Austen/Grahame-Smith 4/5
Bavian - Aidt, Naja Marie 4/5
Gentlemen of the Road - Chabon, Michael 2/5
Persepolis I-IV - Satrapi, Marjane 4/5

 

[Comeflyaway]

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski (4.5)
The ZooKeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman (4)
Sing them Home, Stephanie Kallos (4)
A Country Called Home, by Kim Barnes (4)
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb (5)
Hurry Down Sunshine, by Michael Greenberg (3)
Dirt Music, by Tim Winton (4)
And I'm halfway through The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro... I really wanted to finish it up before May 1, but there isn't enough time in the day!

 

[abecedarian]

Viking:Odin's Child-Tim Severin 4/5

The Forgotten Soldier-Guy Sajer 4/5

The Mayflower-Nathaniel Philbrick 4/5

Garage Sale America- Bruce Littlefield 3/5

 

[Sin]

Kafka - The Trial – Great book!
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea – It was OK but I was not too impressed.

 

[Wells83]

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 5/5
Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin 4/5
Into the Tunnel, Gotz Ally 3/5
The Journal of a Plague Year, Daniel Defoe 3.5/5
The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx 4/5
I am Legend, Richard Matheson, 4/5
Summer Crossing, Truman Capote 3/5
So Long at the Fair, Christina Schwarz 3/5

 

[Libra]

The Trial: Kafka
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: Dai Sijie
Nectar in a Sieve : Kamala Markandaya
The Stallion:Georgina Brown
The Forger:Cioma Schönhaus

 

[Disenthral]

The Appeal - John Grisham
The Ice People - Rene Barjavel
Daughter of God - Lewis Perdue
The Ruins - Scott Smith
Shock wave - Clive Cussler

 

[dude]

Joy in the Morning - Betty Smith
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J Gaines

 

[Occlith]

The Venetian's Wife and The Museum at Purgatory by Nick Bantock.

 

[Robert]

The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Passage To Mutiny by Alexander Kent
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Showdown at Yellow Butte by Louis L’Amour
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

 

[dude]

Moon Palace by Paul Auster
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

oooh, how are these? I'm reading my first Paul Auster book right now and can already tell that I'll want to read more. The Bluest Eye is on my list to be read soon also.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock – Carolyn Keene
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
The Dragon King’s Palace – Laura Joh Rowland
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel – Michael Scott
Rurouni Kenshin: Voyage to the Moon World – Koaru Shizuka

 

[Bob Magness]

Old Man's War - John Scalzi 5/5
Turn Coat (Dresden Files #11) - Jim Butcher 4/5
Infected - Scott Sigler 4/5
Contagious - Scott Sigler 4/5
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 5/5

 

[Comeflyaway]

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock – Carolyn Keene

That book got me HOOKED on Nancy Drew, and books in general

 

[Fantasy Moon]

That book got me HOOKED on Nancy Drew, and books in general

At my previous job one of my co-workers bought this for my birthday. I read a lot of the old books when I was little, but I'd never read this one. This was my first perusal of the first Nancy Drew book.

 

[Robert]

oooh, how are these? I'm reading my first Paul Auster book right now and can already tell that I'll want to read more. The Bluest Eye is on my list to be read soon also.

Both books are well worth your while. The subject matter made the Bluest Eye the most difficult to read of the two, but it was also the better book. My daughter had to read it for class and I got the book when she was through with it. There are a lot of little things in this book that would make for some interesting discussion. I hope your copy has an afterwards.

Moon Palace was my first Paul Auster book, and I too have decided to read more from Auster. Well written, interesting characters, and the desire to find out how he was going to reveal three generations of the same family when he started with a character than knew almost nothing about his own father made it a page turner.

 

[tears of life]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven -- Mitch Albom
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas -- John Boyne
True Believer - Nicholas Sparks

 

[dude]

Moon Palace was my first Paul Auster book, and I too have decided to read more from Auster. Well written, interesting characters, and the desire to find out how he was going to reveal three generations of the same family when he started with a character than knew almost nothing about his own father made it a page turner.

I'm finding his characters to be incredibly diverse and very well-portrayed. Lots of characters too and he introduces them in a very fluid way and not just battering you with names left and right.

 

[Landslide]

Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith