My list of books I really need to or want to read and/or finish:
1. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (OSC Book Club)
2. Waiting by Ha Jin (OSC Book Club)
3. Channeling Mark Twain by Carol Muske Dukes (OSC Book Club)
4. Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
5. Espresso Shot by Cleo Coyle
6. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (also a Jewish Lit Challenge choice)
7. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (holdover from 2008)
---8. Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire (holdover from 2008)---Nope. Couldn't get into it, so I give up.
1. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (OSC Book Club)
3. Channeling Mark Twain by Carol Muske Dukes (OSC Book Club)
6. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (also a Jewish Lit Challenge choice)
---8. Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire (holdover from 2008)---Nope. Couldn't get into it, so I give up.
ALTERNATES:
Suite française by Irène Némirovsky
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee
Getting into Character by Brandilyn Collins
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Big Girls Don't Whine by Jan Silvious
2 comments:
I taught Maguire's "Confessions" in a Contemporary Literature course as a postmodern treatment of archetypes, so if you finish it and find yourself craving an in-depth discussion of its themes, shoot me an e-mail :^)
I have Knit Two on my shelf also but didn't see it when I made my list :(
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