Comments on: An assigned book….

By: denise

denise — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:23:52 +0000

I went and looked them up and I think these are books my dad recommended and I ummm ignored him. My father’s taste in books frightens me. Now I’ve got another “real person” recommendation, I’m adding them to the list.

Thanks very much!

By: Meg L.

Meg L. — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:20:42 +0000

You know, I had seen the references to Austen, but didn’t connect the dots when I saw this list.

Shaara’s son wrote the bookends to Killer Angels (one was made into a movie a couple of years ago – Gods and Generals) and then went backwards in time and did the Mexican War (same characters, just younger) and then the Revolutionary War. I have the other books, but haven’t read them yet.

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:49:58 +0000

Oh shoot, I didn’t update! I updated someplace else but not here. And of course Michelle thinks it is summer so she didn’t update either.

We finally narrowed it down to House on Mango St, Silent Spring, Sense & Sensiblity and The Awakening.

She chose Sense & Sensiblity and is now regretting her choice.

If you haven’t read The Awakening, you definitely should. I loved it.

Thanks for the help with Agee, I was about to add it to her list for next year! Boringly bad is something we can’t do.

Hmmmm, I didn’t know his son had written books. I need to track those down.

By: Meg L.

Meg L. — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:03:54 +0000

My 2 cents:

Don’t read Agee. My book group read that 2 years ago and its sooooo boringly bad.

Chopin has promise. Boy just read a short story by her and the Awakening is now on my list. She’s a little dated now, but amazing what she wrote given the time.

I highly recommend Shaara. Again, my book group read it and I went into it thinking I’ll hate a ‘war’ book. It was so good that I read his son’s books that bookend Killer Angels to cover the entire Civil War.