Comments on: Books You Gotta Read?

By: Verity Dierauf

Verity Dierauf — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:14:53 +0000

Nice to have some recommendations for books!
I just picked up (from our coffee ship, which has a bookshelf for contributions and exchanges) “The Consant Gardener by LeCarre. The title makes it sound like it would fit right in to this subject matter, but I suspect not.

However, Ed’s veggie gardens, here in the backyard and up at the community garden are are thriving with all kinds of greens! One of the benefits of living in the Bay Area during winter.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:28:35 +0000

I love anything by Jhumpa Lahiri. Right now I am finishing her newest book Unaccustomed Earth, which is a collection of short stories about Bengali families living in the U.S. or England.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:44:11 +0000

One of my all-time favorites is Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, based on a true story of a mining engineer’s wife’s life in the West.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:08:26 +0000

Hi Rachel,
Nice to see your new blog post… you have such great way with words…
Was watching the movie “Julie & Julia” last night and thought about you…
I just may go to the library and get her book… thanks for the insight…
I really need to start reading this year… am right now focused on adding exercize into my daily routine, b/c it has been lacking for a while now… but maybe I can read WHILE I am on the treadmill!
Lynn

By: David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:40:45 +0000

Monique, if you should go to Chicago, take the “Devil in the White City Tour” offered by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. I, like so many of our friends, really enjoyed this book.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:33:42 +0000

Your comments about Palin’s book made me think of the point made in the NY Times article of Jan. 3, that our brains need to keep considering many different points of view to keep active and lively. See “Adult Learning, How to Train the Aging Brain”–one of the most e-mailed NYT articles this week.

By: Monique McFadden

Monique McFadden — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:24:30 +0000

A few other good ones are both by Erik Larson, Thunderstruck and Devil in the White City. I am reading The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, but not far enough in yet to have an opinion.
After reading your blog, watch out Dave, Moni might be Going Rogue too…I have to admit she is intriguing despite her views. I watched her on Oprah and even though I would never vote for her, she is pretty likable and appeals to so many people. Hmmmm……

By: Dave McFadden

Dave McFadden — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:39:18 +0000

OMG… Rachel’s gone Rogue. Next thing you know she will be throwing around “you betchas” and enrolling her kids in hockey camp!

I will be reading a summary of Going Rogue on Twitter.

Try the “Big Burn” by Tim Egan. Great book. Hot, Flat and Crowded (or anything else by Friedman) is also great. The Other One… a new book by David Guterson is fantastic.

As you can see we still read the old fashioned way.