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Comment by wiffledust on August 2, 2011 at 10:52pm

and this is the amazon description of "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett:

 

In State of Wonder, pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isn’t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungle’s unforgiving humidity and insects, making State of Wonder a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of today’s master storytellers. Emotional, vivid, and a work of literature that will surely resonate with readers in the weeks and months to come, State of Wonder truly is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself. --Jessica Schein

Comment by wiffledust on August 2, 2011 at 10:50pm

A summer suggestion from the New York Times Bestseller List..."The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain. This one comes to us in the voice of Hadley Richardson, Hemingway's first wife...Hemingway was just 20 when they met, and they had an intense courtship filled with love letters.....sounds like a cool idea for a book!

Comment by margaret kraft on July 24, 2011 at 2:33pm

I am reading a novel that I hope is the first in a series.  Claire Dewitt and The City of the Dead, by Sara Gran.  I have been a mystery reader since early childhood, and I am impressed with the originality of this detective and her methods.  There are certainly great characters out there, but I have yet to find one with the view of the world Claire has...wonderful to find in a world of cookie cutter tales.

Comment by Dave Schoeff on July 10, 2011 at 8:50am

I'm almost done with The Idea Hunter by Boynton and Fisher.  The thesis is that many of the ideas employed in new innovations and endeavors are repurposed from other disciplines, genres, etc.  The authors work through several basic personal strategies which are useful in discovering and using ideas from unlikely sources.

Comment by wiffledust on July 9, 2011 at 12:32pm

thanks for sharing that, margaret! great suggestions!!!!

Comment by wiffledust on July 9, 2011 at 12:31pm

a good article for anyone interested...the 20 most anticipated books of this summer...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/summer-books_b_891906.ht...

Comment by margaret kraft on June 30, 2011 at 8:35am

Just received "Woody Guthrie, American Radical" by Wil Kaufman--starting it today.  Also, just ordered singer/songwriter Josh RItter's debut novel "Bright Passages."  I love the way he uses words in lyrics, and I'm looking forward to see how well it translates.

Comment by wiffledust on June 30, 2011 at 12:05am

singer songwriter Dana Cooper just gave me permission to share this quote of his:

Saw the movie, listened to the book on tape, now have read the book "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by Peter Matthiessen. What an incredible read. Haunting, compassionate exploration of morality, spirituality and cultural struggle in the South American rain forest.

Comment by Carla "harpy" Eskelsen on May 26, 2011 at 3:05pm

Sheree, I do that alternating book thing, too. I'm currently plowing into the third book of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy. (The Trees, The Fields, The Town) which I adore. I love its spare unblinking honesty, and the feeling of what the east was like for the first settlers. I love the protagonist, Sayward Luckett, and Richter's ability to make the land, the time and the people intensely real and dimensional.

I'm also reading Wicked, and not enjoying it at all, though I wanted to; I find its premise intriguing. But, it's mostly tedious and unpleasant, so I read only a chapter or two and then go back to cleanse my palate with the clean, spare prose of Richter.

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on May 18, 2011 at 6:17pm

It may be awhile Helen :-) I am blogging about reading all the books I already own but have never read but I know that there will be a time in my future where I will be craving a good book so as I said, The Hours is now on my list of books I want to read but don't have!

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