Books I Have Recently Read (a list).
Okay, to start out, and because I’m not quite in the frame of mind to write about a book right now, I’m going to list the books I have recently (within the past few months). Be aware, the “rating system” I have donned is merely to indicate how much I liked each book. I will not argue the literary worth of any book I read. Not into that sort of snobbery. But, without further ado, the list…
Books I’ve Recently Read
1-5 Star Rating
- We Were The Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates *****
- The Secret – Rhonda Byrne *****
- Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn ****
- The IHOP Papers – Ali Leibgott ****1/2
- Flower Children — Maxine Swann **
- Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name – Vendela Veda ***
- Household Words – Joan Silber ***
- How To Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer **
- Stories – Anton Chekhov (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translate) ***1/2 (not finished)
- The Color Of Love – Gene Cheek *****
- Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs ****
- Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About The American Obsession – Studs Terkel *****
- She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb *****
- Rape: A Love Story – Joyce Carol Oates **
- Caucasia – Danzy Senna *****
- Symptomatic – Danzy Senna ***
- (that book about Fragile X syndrome? Can’t remember title?)
