Speaking of Kindle....vacation reads?

pinkpinot

Ooh Missy I'll have to check that out, sounds like a book I would LOVE.

Uh I cannot wait for this book to come out:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8621462-a-monster-calls

I love Patrick Ness, he wrote the Chaos Walking series and the ACR reviews on the latest sound so good.  Siobhan Dowd originally started the book but died suddenly of cancer and Patrick took over the project. 

crfische

OH ALSO.

Gayle Forman's "If I Stay" and the follow up "Where She Went" are just really, really good quick reads.

Then I read her other book Sisters in Sanity and I loved that, too.

missy68

Here's a link to a website about that book (actually, it's the author's website):

http://eriklarsonbooks.com/2011/05/now-and-then-plus-can-it-really-be-true-the-end-of-the-window-sill-wars/

pinkpinot

Another interesting book I read was Still Alice.  It's beautifully written from the perspective a Harvard Professor who is going through early onset Alzheimer's.

Snippylynn

A book that I read that just ccompletely threw me for a loop emotionally was The Glass Castle.  Holy hell.

laurenpm

pink- Have you read Sarah's Key? It's SO good. Heart-wrenching but an amazing story. 

crfische

OOOHHH, these are good recommendations. What's the Glass Castle all aboot?

laurenpm

Glass Castle is also super good.  It's the life-story of this girl whose parents are basically homeless drifters.  They just travel all over the place and squat in run down houses or whatever they can find.  I super duper recommend it! It may even be a true story...I'm not 100% on that though.

annakb8

I just added like 10 books to my Amazon wish list because of this thread. When I go broke because I spent all my money on books I'm blaming y'all.

crfische

AND WHAT ABOUT SARAH'S KEY!

The Glass Castle is a go then. That sounds right up my alley!

Snippylynn

http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Castle-Memoir-Alex-Awards/dp/0743247531

It was actually kind of hard for me because the dad character reminded me of my own.

laurenpm

Sarah's Key- you're gonna love it.  It's a story told from the perspective of a little girl whose family gets taken away by the Nazi's she locks her little brother in a hidden cupboard to save him from the Nazi's (because she gets taken away too) and she has to live with wondering if he ever got out or what happened to him.  IT IS INTENSE. But oh so good. 

pinkpinot

I have Sarah's Key on my to read list!  I also want to read Night by Eli Wiesel which I read in a newspaper that a judge ordered a kid to read as part of a punishment for something disgusting he did a Jewish student, I forget the details now but the book sounds fantastic.

The Book Thief is another good Holocaust one, the narrator is DEATH. 

FutureMrsTR

Misy - I thought Devil in the White City was all non-fiction.  Is that what you mean?

crfische

THAT'S A WINNER.

ADDED.

laurenpm

ALSO if you all are in to holocaust books look into The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society....I could go on all day haha

FutureMrsTR

Pink - you've never read Night!??!  Holy cow, I thought everyone read that in high school.  Do it now.  It's amazing.  As is Dawn, also by Eli Weisel.

pinkpinot

The Trylle Trilogy by Amanda Hocking were very cute/fast reads.  I have all 3 and they are all loanable if anyone is interested.  These particular books were about trolls, lol.

pinkpinot

Now I can't wait to read it, T.  I think the HS I went to really sucked.  I just read Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time ever, last week!

annakb8

I thought everyone had read Night as well. It is really good, and really short. Elie Weisel came to my college and I couldn't go see him because I had a test at the same time. My mom saw him speak once and said he has a really strong presence and that the only other person she has ever encountered with the same kind of aura or whatever is Pope John Paul II.

laurenpm

Ima be honest...I have no idea what Night is.  But I feel like it's probably something I should read. 

Snippylynn

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_speaking-of-kindlevacation-reads?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:391a3ca4-4fce-4ec8-ba8a-59049024287aPost:710aa28a-7dd0-4405-a3f0-0d58ceb1e9eb">Re: Speaking of Kindle....vacation reads?</a>:
[QUOTE]Pink - you've never read Night!??!  Holy cow, I thought everyone read that in high school.  Do it now.  It's amazing.  As is Dawn, also by Eli Weisel.
Posted by FutureMrsTR[/QUOTE]

It wasn't assigned reading in my High school either, but I read it for the first time when I was 12 I think.  Definitely an incredible book.

Beachy730

I never read or heard of Night.  Now I will need to add it.  I think I need to save this thread for all the book recs, or else I'll go broke right now.

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The perfect vacation read:
I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Sloane Crosley)

Also fun:
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)

I also read A Wrinkle in Time on a vacation a couple of years ago. It's meant for a young audience, but I found rereading it after so many years was quite enjoyable.

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_speaking-of-kindlevacation-reads?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:391a3ca4-4fce-4ec8-ba8a-59049024287aPost:e6c2cc78-b37d-495e-8782-c74ca288a1df">Re: Speaking of Kindle....vacation reads?</a>:
[QUOTE]The Book Thief (LOVED this)
Posted by pinkpinot[/QUOTE]
This was SO good. Very sad though.

missy68

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_speaking-of-kindlevacation-reads?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:391a3ca4-4fce-4ec8-ba8a-59049024287aPost:55ef9e89-7368-4999-8156-d75b74f1002f">Re: Speaking of Kindle....vacation reads?</a>:
[QUOTE]Misy - I thought Devil in the White City was all non-fiction.  Is that what you mean?
Posted by FutureMrsTR[/QUOTE]

It is all non fiction, as is this new one, and his 2nd book (Thunderstruck). He has other books, but these are his 3 best known. Devil is about the World's Fair in Chicago, and at the same time a notorious serial killer in Chicago, Dr. H.H. Holmes.

That website I gave lists all of his books. He just has a knack for taking some portion of history and researching other things that go along with it at the same time, and interweaving them. It's fascinating.

missy68

Pink - Elie Wiesel has Night, Dawn and a 3rd book in the "trilogy" - it was originally called The Accident, but is now called Day.
They are amazing books.

Ones that are more religious, but powerfully moving also about being in camps and surviving (or not surviving) are books by Corrie Ten Boom. My grandparents had several of her books on their shelves and I read them over and over again.

FutureMrsTR

Yeah, I loved Devil in the White City.