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Post by adcooper on Jun 14, 2008 9:43:21 GMT -5
Bara mentioned a book by Joanne Harris (author of Chocolat) on another thread, which prompted me to browse the shelves at work. I found another title by this author and took it home....and loved it! Five Quarters of the Orange is largely set in German-occupied France during one summer. Has anyone read it? I told a couple of friends here about it and now they demand that I cook something French for them and invite them over so we can talk about the book.  It may be nothing more than quiche....and oranges! |
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Post by Goalie on Jun 16, 2008 8:32:22 GMT -5
I'm heading to my library today Ann, and I will look for this book. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Post by niaru on Jun 16, 2008 8:42:01 GMT -5
Thanks for the recommendation too, Ann! I just finished A breath of snow and ashes, after reading the whole series and I had that awful "now what?" feeling (although I feel much better knowing that the next one is in the works, lol, I thought this one was the last of the series! Phew!)
I loved Chocolat. Will read" 5 quarters" next! I hope my local library has it.
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Post by elizabeth_h on Jun 16, 2008 14:44:56 GMT -5
I read it a few years ago and enjoyed it!
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Post by adcooper on Jun 16, 2008 15:18:24 GMT -5
Niaru, Breath of Snow and Ashes? Tell me about that.
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Post by niaru on Jun 16, 2008 15:57:42 GMT -5
Ann, it's the latest book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon...which qualified as "fluff" in another thread. I have to admit tho, fluff or not, these books are immensely entertaining!
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Post by elizabeth_h on Jun 19, 2008 7:33:25 GMT -5
I have read the Outlander series too, except for Snow and Ashes (next on my list). Yes, very entertaining if not exactly intellectual reading.  |
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Post by niaru on Jun 19, 2008 9:14:14 GMT -5
I am really enjoying Five Quarters of the Orange. Some of those characters, man I have met them! lol!
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Post by adcooper on Jun 19, 2008 19:45:41 GMT -5
I felt some sympathy for several of the characters...even the mother (especially the mother  ) I'm trying another of Harris's books now, but haven't been hooked yet and keep dozing off after a few paragraphs. More a sign of my age than her writing, certainly. |
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Post by niaru on Jun 20, 2008 14:25:44 GMT -5
Which one is making you doze off, Ann? Five Quarters was a good read, well written! What other recommendations do you have up your sleeve? |
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Post by Lynne on Jun 20, 2008 19:22:12 GMT -5
Arg! I have so many unread books already.....so did I go and order this one? Of course! ARG!
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Post by adcooper on Jun 21, 2008 8:52:40 GMT -5
Claire, the one I'm snoozing through now is Holy Fool--a woman with a mysterious carnival past living in a convent with her child is haunted by an old and not very nice lover. See...with a set up like that you know it's the reader's fault for nodding off!
Hmmm....what else....? You've already read A Thousand Splendid Suns, I'm sure. That was a heck of a story. How about Gillian Bradshaw? I really like her historical fiction: Beacon at Alexandria, The Wolf Hunt, Island of Ghosts, Horses of Heaven. She also writes some Sci-Fi which I will read, but I like her stories set in ancient Rome the best.
Lynne, it's summer time! Read anything you want, any time you want, right!?
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Post by niaru on Jun 21, 2008 9:29:00 GMT -5
Oooh thanks! I haven't read anything by G. Bradshaw.
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Post by adcooper on Jun 22, 2008 18:35:06 GMT -5
Oh, here's another quick read that I enjoyed: Here If You Need Me, by Kate Braestrup. It's a memoir by a woman who became a Unitarian chaplain for search and rescue operations with the Maine Warden Service. Great stories and plenty of smart humor, in spite of some sad events. Niaru, you'd probably recognize the places she describes.
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Post by Lynne on Jun 23, 2008 6:39:57 GMT -5
ug.....soon I will live in a house full of unread books. And.....hehehe......I dig her last name but I bet it was tough in middle school.....heheh
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It may be nothing more than quiche....and oranges!
) I'm trying another of Harris's books now, but haven't been hooked yet and keep dozing off after a few paragraphs. More a sign of my age than her writing, certainly.
