sparks (sparks) wrote in 50bookchallenge,
@ 2008-01-16 09:54:00

We need to get this community going! The 50 book challenge is worth it, in my opinion.

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 22
Pages to date: 5657
Average pages/book: 257

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

(Post a new comment)

	solar 2008-01-16 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	The Glass Castle, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Water for Elephants were all absolutely fantastic. In fact, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer is a book to check out also. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	solar 2008-01-16 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and Naked. David Sedaris is one of the funniest men on the planet. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sparks 2008-01-16 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Do you know if Jonathan Safran Foer has written anything else? I've enjoyed his writing style so much. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

solar
2008-01-17 04:58 am UTC (link)

I'm pretty sure those are his only two by himself. I do know that he wrote a book called The Fixer with Bernard Malamud & The Future Dictionary of America with a few other authors. I was iffy on checking out Malamud at first but now that I found out he has worked with Foer it's an absolute must! Foer's one of my favorites; probably because he's Jewish or because he's best friends with Natalie Portman!

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sparks 2008-01-17 07:54 am UTC (link)
	I'll have to look into those. I was astonished by how wonderfully Foer mangled the English grammar/story-telling and how genius that makes him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lightthetorches 2008-01-17 03:00 pm UTC (link)
	if you liked Naked, then I'd suggest Me Talk Pretty One Day as well. Though I haven't finished it (I'm terrible about picking up books and then starting new ones in the middle of them), what I have read it really good. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sparks 2008-01-17 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	It's on my list of things to read! (Reply to this)(Parent)

scribbld is part of the horse.13 network
Design by Jimmy B.
Logo created by hitsuzen.
Scribbld System Status