I'm just going to list the books that are in my bedside notebook for starters.
(These are 2006 books, by the way.)
East by Edith Pattou (2005)--Dad gave it to me. He bought it in Chicago at Women and Children First, where it was recommended to him for "someone like me." I love children's literature. I really liked this one alot, although I felt like for sure based on the jacket description that I wasn't going to like it. Great story about coming of age, dealing with family baggage, finding and embracing yourself, being strong.
March by Geraldine Brooks (2005)--Recommended to by Steve and then by Maria Jose, I bought this book before I left to go to a conference in Atlanta. Based on his recommendation, I didn't really think I was going to like it but I also really liked it alot. I went out and bought Little Women while I was reading it because I wanted to remember that story while I was reading this one. This story is ten times better than Little Women and re-reading even a small portion of Little Women makes me wonder who I was when I liked that book so much. Probably just your typical 10 year old girl. Anyway, I thought March had really good reflection on race and social injustice and affirmed my own perspective and experience in some ways. I'm really glad I picked it up.
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (1994)--Recommended to me by Maria Jose. Again, I didn't think I was going to like this book because it was by Tim O'Brien and I've read some of his stuff before and found it very dark. Not that I don't like dark occasionally, just don't ever set out to read dark intentionally. And while this was a dark book, I really liked it alot. It was mysterious and compelling and engaging and I was very interested and into the characters.
The Well of the Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde--Just another fun book in a series of fun books. I don't think anything stands out in any individual one of these books more than any others. But they are fun to read and easy enough to pick up when I can't get into anything else.
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Website looks great.
I'm curious about the "feed" at the bottom of the page, which I have just subscribed to.
Speaking of books for 10-year-old girls, I actually found myself laughing almost out loud on a bus recently (which is a lot for me) while reading Anne of Windy Poplars, the fourth in the Anne of Green Gables series.
hmmm---you're still pecking away at the anne of green gables series huh? did the laugh make the book worth recommending?
I'm thinking that I need to include a place for people to make recommendations, or for me to at least track recommendations made to me. I think that would be helpful and interesting. got any ideas on formatting that?
I am so glad you are doing this. I adore the whole "Gnome Gnotebook" concept...of course that might be just because I adore you.
The laugh did not make the book worth recommending.
About creating a place for recommendations: add a new post with the title "Recommendations?" or some such. In the body of that post, explain that readers can leave their recommendations as comments to that post.
Then add a "Recommendations" link in one of the side columns that clicks to the "Recommendations" post. You can create that link by clicking on "View Post" on the dashboard (the link address will show up in the address bar).
I don't get the "gnome" theme, by the way. I assumed the notebook you had been using had a gnome theme to it.
when i was a child, dad gave me a blank notebook that was called the "gnome gnotebook" and had a picture of a gnome on the cover. We kept a journal of all the books i read in that notebook. It spanned several years and now is a very cool thing to look back on. so this is just a reincarnation of that.
i don't like the way that link showed up (the recommendations link). Got any ideas about how to edit it so that it looks better?
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