Good book suggestions please...
By lullabelle •
I am in need of some inspiration. Can you help by suggesting a really good book that you have read recently. My collection is getting "stuck in a rutt" and needs some help. All suggestions are welcome, but please keep them clean and available in Qatar!!! Thanks. :)
I liked Evelyn: A True Story by Evelyn Doyle
BTW, I have an extra new copy of "Angels & Demons" if didn't read it.
In the Cookies of Life, FRIENDS are the Chocolate Chips
www.bastook.com
Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins.
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Jitterbug Perform, by Tom Robbins.
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
The book that made me hook in reading is "Hannah's Gift - Lessons From a Life Fully Lived". true story written by a Hannah's mother. I don't think it is available here buy I can lend you mine.
now I am reading "Girls of Riyadh" and I can't keep it out of my hands.
In the Cookies of Life, FRIENDS are the Chocolate Chips
www.bastook.com
I picked up The Monk who Sold His Ferrari the other day but didn't buy it in the end, might go back and get it now, thx.
try Paulo Coelho books, they are my fave, inspiring. also Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude). and Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven
JERVIS: Is the last book in "Wheel Of Time" out yet?
As for the original post, I can strongly recommend Stieg Larsson's Trilogy "The Girl WIth the Dragon Tattoo", The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest".
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough...
want a real tear-jerker?try any of Khalid Hosseini's books...."A Thousand Splendid Suns" and "The Kite-Runner"
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
ALCHEMIST, BY PAULO COHELO, VERY INSPIRING BOOK, AND YOU CAN ALSO READ THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI BY ROBIN SHARMA
be honest and be fearless god will be always with you
saggi, don't be.. ;)
I always have about three to four books on the go with varied styles and always like something that will make me thing. Currently reading Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco which is pretty good. Anything by Louis de Bernières who wrote Captain Corellis Mandolin.
why am i not surprised at Bestheartman's suggestion?
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
agree with bestheartman
the best book in world
HOLY QURAN-E-PAK
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'' Live for Nothing or Die for Something ''
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BY Allah
lullabelle try to read Skipping Christmas also by John Grisham.
im reading Sidney Sheldon novels.. :)
these books kept me company when i felt i had the whole world was against me-
the brief wonderful life of oscar wao-junot diaz
revolting recipes-roald dahl
netherland-joseph o'neill
the hunger games-suzanne collins
happy reading...
...I work in the evenings :(
no worries, thats about 4 days at the pool!!!!!
I have more time to read here than in the UK, its always an adventure...lets keep the suggestions flowing...
sounds like a plan. Thx.
Reading Lolita in Tehran was given to me before I left the States. It's a memoir, still reading it, very engaging.
Any motivation given by any Book wont last more than a month...
NO matter how good the book is.
It is not something you have to feel guilty about...
And think you not doing the things the way mentioned...
it is natural...
To be motivated to do something... think of the success .. or wht after reaching the goal....
If you really want it...
You ll go for it.....
Chase the dreams....
If you try to do wht others think you can - CONFIDENCE
If you try to do wht others think you can't - over confidence....
But if you know wht you want... and have energy to believe you ll get it - THT is INTUITION which is never wrong.....
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it
...its on the list...
If you like John Grisham kind of stuff then you ought to read The Firm..
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
looking forward to...Bubbles in the Bath by Ivor Windeebottom...lol
Not yet. I have about 3 or 4 more on hand to read. Have read the following:
Bleachers
The Summons
The Brethren
The Runaway Jury
The Chamber
The Client
A Time to Kill
and nearly finished the Broker.
All great books, apart from Bleachers as it is focused on American football which I know nothing about!
Happy to pass them on...
The Island by Victoria Hislop is a beautiful book, so are the books by Douglas Kennedy & Steve Berry.
Aisha-Taweela
DUNE : Frank Herbert
or my favourite, Bubbles in the Bath by Ivor Windeebottom.
Nearly finished the Broker! Its a goodie!! Enjoy... :)
sounds good, PM me when you get it back, would like to have a read of it.
Some great suggestions coming guys, thx :)
Yeap...Paulo is pretty famous even in english, i haven't read anything from him, actually being honest, i haven't read too much since high school time, that is about 20 years ago hahahaha... lately i went through Love in times of cholera..and one of the sci fi "El caballo de troya" of JJ Benitez...some sci fi novel about aliens introduction into our culture.. ummmm ... dont have some other recommendations on mind...
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
MrsTimebandit - I agree, she's so talented.
Jervis - Paulo Choelo is a fantastic writer, but it can take some time to understand his ways. I've had to put a couple of his books down and go back to them after a couple of days when I've been in the right frame of mind for his style.
Snessy....yes, it's pretty new I think. It's my favourite book of hers. She was a pundit on 'Strictly Come Dancing' last year, and she was absolutely hilarious! She's had a lot of problems in her life, and she uses those in her books - she's very clever at weaving comedy and tragedy together.
'Up there for thinking....down there for dancing.'
is for Jervis and the Samurai book
but its the kind of thing that I am looking for!
keep them coming. I will read anything that has a good story line, not too into soppy romance tho!! I love John Grisham, Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert, Iain Rankin...please keep the suggestions flowing its not only me that benefits...
MrsTimeBandit - I love Marian Keyes' books - have you seen her? She's like a crazy irish woman but yet so talented.
Is This Charming Man new? I've not read that one.
"Opinions are like bottoms - neither should be shown in public"
Marion Keyes is also great - intelligent chick-lit. I read 'This Charming Man' recently, and it's fantastic - a good mix of humour and serious issues.
'Up there for thinking....down there for dancing.'
100 years of solitude rewarded a Nobel Prize to Gabo Garcia.... is a very interesting novel where you can find a lot of references of latinamerican culture, the way of thinking of Latin american people about many of things, like, our ancestors used to think that when relatives got married their kids would born having a pork tail...may be such believing was inspired by specifics cases but they generalized, such belief is told in the novel and is well known across most of latin american countries that our grandpas or their grandpas used to believe that... is a nice history..long but nice.... i only read it in spanish, but had a look on the english version and is quit good...
I love John Grisham too, the books are definitely better than the films.
For some girlie books... have you read any Sophie Kinsella?
"Opinions are like bottoms - neither should be shown in public"
What kind of books you generally read or inclined to read?
Salam
...is that the Samurai guy???
would you believe it! I love his books.
Love in times of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
I've recently read through most of the John Grisham books, give them a try.
"Opinions are like bottoms - neither should be shown in public"