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Cherie's Favorite Books @ Book & Movie Reviews     Jun 30 2003 - 10:04 PST I adore books that give the reader a glimpse of another world, the passions and pains of another life. I devour books, inhale their characters, and for a moment, see the world from the intimacy of another's perspective. cherie writes: I have a passion for books. "Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."--Paul Auster. "Through the use of books, I had the whole world at my feet, could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything."--Benjamin Carson. "In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."--Ralph Waldo Emerson "A great book should leave you...slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."--William Styron "The best moments in reading are when you come across something--a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things--which you had thought unique and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."--Alan Bennett Here is a list of some of my favorites and a list of what I am currently reading. Cherie’s Favorite Books: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon East of Eden by John Steinbeck Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton The Alchemist: a Fable about Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Books read in 2009: On the Road by Jack Kerouac--OK Empire Falls by Richard Russo--Good Midnights with the Mystic, a Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss By Cheryl Simone and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev--Interesting Books read in 2008: Lord of the Flies by William Golding--Classic The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett--Good Bel Canto by Ann Patchett--Very good Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart--Great The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde--Classic, Great Evening by Susan Minot--Skip it The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai--OK The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields--Good A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon--OK A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson--Great The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins--Interesting The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho--OK A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson--Great The Devil and Miss Prym by Paul Coelho--Good Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes--Great, Classic Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson--skip it The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton--OK beach read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls--Very Good A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle--Great Travels by Michael Crichton--Liked it. Cast Away by Lucy Irvine--Good beach book. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry--Amazing read Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason—skip it The Pearl by John Steinbeck Books read in 2007: Wind, Sand and Stars by Antonine de Saint-Exupery--Wonderful Chasing the Wind, the Autobiography of Steve Fossett--OK, Interesting Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris--Good, Funny, Quick Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs--Good The Wild Muir: 22 of John Muir's Greatest Adventures--OK Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert--Great! Cannery Row by John Steinbeck--Great, Classic Ya-Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells--Good Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells--Very Good Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer--Very Good Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonal--Great Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, edited by Jennifer L Leo The Life of Hunger by Amelie Nothomb Loving Sabotage by Amelie Nothomb In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty by W.L. Rusho Books read in 2006: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer--Loved it! Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy--A MUST READ classic The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells--Very Good Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler--Good You, on a Diet by Roizen & Oz--Great & informative Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler--Good In Cold Blood by Truman Capote--Great When You're Falling, Dive by Cheri Huber--Great Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik--Good "beach read" Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton--Great Deception Point by Dan Brown--Quick beach read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd--Very Good Girl with a Pearl Earring--Tracy Chevalier--Very Good Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides--OK The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini--Good Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams--Good The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe--Fair A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGary Morris--readable but strange & disturbing Books read in 2005: You, the Owner's Manual by Roizen & Oz--Great & informative A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith--Classic Adrift by Steven Callahan--Great story of survival at sea The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff--Great, simple classic wisdom The Life of Pi by Yann Martel--Great Burmese Days by George Orwell--Good 10,000 Lovers by Edeet Ravel--OK The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway--Classic The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz (re-read)--Great The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank--Very Good, quick read Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller--OK The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck--A classic, must read Getting a Life by Helen Simpson--Skip it In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez--Loved it Conversations with God, Book 1 by Neale Donald Walsch--Great Conversations with God, Book 2 by Neale Donald Walsch--OK The Ultimate Weight Solution by Dr. Phil McGraw--Very Good Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez--OK The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown--Great beach book Angels & Demons by Dan Brown--Great beach book The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger--I didn't like the characters, they were too cliche, stereotypical, and didn't have integrity. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi--OK, but didn't realize its potential. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg--Very Good Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss--his best work Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell--Classic simple wisdom The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald--a classic, must read Now is the Time to Open your Heart by Alice Walker--OK, not Walker's best The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran--amazing, Must Read! The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck--Classic The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver--very good The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares--Good beach book Click on each picture to see it full size. read comments (0) | write comment| views: 22361    | rated: 0.0    printer-friendly version