Everyone’s Madly Busy: Would You Make Some Fast Book Recommendations for Gift Giving?

Dr. E, About "3. Books of /for Thinking, Depth, Sanity", I like "Women Who Run With the Wolves." Seriously. I love a good mix of stories and shared consciousness and psychology. I love stories, and I really like your explanations. So, hmmm, maybe it fits in the #9 category, too? ;) Sorry, I can't help you with finding something new. I'm only good for one title per comment. :)

I like "The Tao of Pooh". I'm not sure what category that's in. Pooh explains ...
I like "The Artist's Way". It's about creativity, how easily it is denied and how to find it again.
I like books of information simply presented, like dictionaries for children and anatomy and physiology for non-medical people. I don't recall the name of my favorite in that category, but it has drawings of organs in various disease states (with information about those conditions).
I'm years behind on reading. Don't mind me. :)

by email from FloridaGolfer_Avid Reader

favorite books:
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart - Katie Singer
Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

I love antique books. I love to read something that people were reading a 100 years ago. It is even better if the book itself is 100 years old. I buy things on eBay at used bookstores, and reprints. I have quite a genealogy library... I like to know what my ancestors were up to.

As a child:
Any biography. They used to have these little books that had various pictures of the historic person's life on the front. They were specifically written for children. I remember reading so many. I really liked Marie Curie, Molly Pitcher, Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln and Little Turtle to name a few.

The Boxcar Children series
The Trixie Beldon series
Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys
Little House on the Prairie (all)

[Regarding] My Children:
The Sniper - Theodore Taylor
The Magic Treehouse Series
Junie B. Series
[My son] loves the classics, especially anything with swashbuckling in it...Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea...

[re] Husbands:
Mine is a prolific reader. I buy him anything analyzing the mideast situation. He especially likes Thomas Friedman. Any Biography of a historical person he is interested in... loves fiction, too. He will devour a book and I will hear him laughing in the next room. A Prayer for Owen Meanie, The Looming Tower, The Shipping News, Guns of August, Conspiracy of Fools, From Beirut to Jerusalem...

Oh, and guilty pleasures are:

Three Sisters Trilogy - Nora Roberts
Any "Highlander" book by Karen Moning

I love books, bookstores, book aisles...Just put a table of books out and I must stop and look. :)

FloridaGolfer_Avid Reader

here's a short list from a friend who is a 'misfit reader,' he's a lawyer who says he has no time to read, other than cases. But he reads more nearly than I do...

1. serious reading for strength: Pogo (the realist)
2. Humorous reading, anything by Blount and Harlan Ellison
3. Sanity, Cathcher in the Rye, just to remember how helacious it all used to be
4. Anything by a thinker who has info about other parts of the world and people who are different than me
5. As important what I wont read: crapola by screaming hysterical haters who think they're oh so clever, when in fact they're all so pud-ful
6. To sleep and dream: Pessoa
7. Books for men, anything on real modern day gladiators; vince lombardi still stands the test of time in most ways. Any of the books by good sane coaches
8. Kids books: my kids liked Judy Blume when they were meeting the world for the first time, and any of the DK books, hell I like the DK books. Just read one on R&R, excellent
9. Guilty pleasures: will read Gerry Spence, and will read Agatha, but prefer Stephen King, and anything on how to play a better game. Like to read books about how politicians bs the public. True crime.

dang my comment got eaten. :(

oh no Jilly> try again? I will check back. I'd love to know what y ou recommend



dr.e

1. Books for Strength

Invisible Sisters by Jessica Handler (being published in April - my friend's memoir)

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness by Pema Chodron

Radical Gratitude And Other Life Lessons Learned in Siberia by Andrew Bienkowski and Mary Akers

2. Books of Humor and/or Creativity

The Gift by Lewis Hyde

Poetry and Commitment by Adrienne Rich and Mark Doty

The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser

3. Books of /for Thinking, Depth, Sanity

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day by Ray Oldenburg

Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by Neil Howe & William Strauss

4. Books for Males in your life

Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) by Donald Hall

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake

Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Jr.

5. Books of your Guilty Pleasures (fantasy books)

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon

War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Harry Potter books

6. Bestsellers, Backlist, Midlist books

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

7. Poetry books

Extremities by Timothy Kelly

Cadaver Dogs by Rebecca Loudon

Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey

Complete Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova

8. Books you loved as a child

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

Mr. Pine's Purple House by Leonard Kessler

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Beatinest Boy by Jesse Stuart

9. Books you love as an adult

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

10. Category of your choice (science)

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage

Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution by Gavin Weightman

Pain in America - and how our government makes it worse! by John P. Flannery II & Holly S. Flannery

Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata

more poetry books I thought of & I'll stop haha

Diva by Rafael Campo
Hoops by Major Jackson
Blood Run by Allison Hedge Coke
Calendars by Annie Finch
Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith

those are excellent Jilly... Mr Pine's Purple House!!

and no doubt you have read various about Tesla; just in case, I'd recommend to you any of the works that show the rattlesnake versus roadrunner fights that went on between him and Edison.

ANd Akhmatova... I dont think I have yet gotten through the collected works, but that it is such a thick book of her thoughts is satisfying... especially since her work was nearly lost forever in the russian purges. I see some books in your list I and many others I know would like to read very much. Thank you!


dr.e