last month's best read

[bouquin]

What's the best book (+author) that you read last month? Please also give the reason why you liked it.

[subterranean]

Hi, bouquin.

Welcome on board. I personally don't have any monthly reading list, esp. these days when I got tight deadlines at work. I started reading Earthly Powers around mid Nov. Then I put it away and started to read The Curios Incident.... It finished earlier this month, and I continue reading Earthly Powers.

I can say that The Curios Incident... is a fine book. I enjoyed reading it. And so far, reading Earthly Powers is also a fascinating experience. It's my first Burgess' (only have watched the movie version of Clockwork...) and it tells about the life journey of a homosexual writer who lived during the great war. Some parts of the story, I think were inspired by real events in his life (like the journey to Malaysia), which makes the book even more interesting to read.

[DragonScale101]

I think the best book I read last month was Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause. Yeah, it's a teen book, but I liked it anyway. I bought it at B + N and read it all in one day (stayed up until four a.m. to finish that damn book) and the entirety of the book was absolutely magnificent, but the ending was so horrible, it's not even funny. The ending completely contradicted everything she had done in the rest of the book.

Another really good one (also with horrible, horrible ending) was Wings of a Falcon, by Cynthia Voigt. I found it on the shelf in my lit. teacher's classroom and the book was absolutely wonderful, but about ten chapters from the end, she... can't say unless somebody here decides to read it. But it became so bad I actually skipped some seven chapters from that part and just read the last chapter. Of course, the main character was an overconfident berk, but still... Great books, bad endings.

[Idril]

That's a tough one, I read some good books last month but I think I would have to go with No Ordinary Summer by Konstantin Fedin. It's the second book in a trilogy and it built very nicely on the first novel, developing the characters further and taking us further into the Bolshevik revolution. I think one of the reasons why I respond to this book so much is because it's like the counter part to one of my favorite books, Quiet Flows the Don. It covers the same time period, a lot of the same battles just from the Red perspective.

[Poetess]

Author: Keith Wilkerson
Book:Midnight Raiders


I was on a school trip to a streamship that stopped on our coast with a huge library.
I liked some books, yet I chose this one because of the title and the story - about Cherubim trainees on Earth.

[bouquin]

Hi, bouquin.

Welcome on board. I personally don't have any monthly reading list, esp. these days when I got tight deadlines at work. I started reading Earthly Powers around mid Nov. Then I put it away and started to read The Curios Incident.... It finished earlier this month, and I continue reading Earthly Powers.

I can say that The Curios Incident... is a fine book. I enjoyed reading it. And so far, reading Earthly Powers is also a fascinating experience. It's my first Burgess' (only have watched the movie version of Clockwork...) and it tells about the life journey of a homosexual writer who lived during the great war. Some parts of the story, I think were inspired by real events in his life (like the journey to Malaysia), which makes the book even more interesting to read.


I read The Curious Incident ... a couple of years ago ... it's such a unique story, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The best book for me last month was Sweet Land Stories by E. L. Doctorow. It's a collection of 5 short stories; each one is a masterpiece, told in a restrained, wry yet compelling and even disturbing way and I was absolutely dazzled. I've always had a particular fondness for the short story genre.

[Scheherazade]

I read The Curious Incident ... a couple of years ago ... it's such a unique story, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There has been some discussions on this book a while ago:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12662

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12826