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Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 17, 2006, 03:11:14 pm ---Here's a Link to The Last of the Mohicans online:

http://www.americanliterature.com/LM/LMINDX.HTML

by James Fenimore Cooper

Let me know what you think of it. I had slow going with it. As for contemporary novels that delve into feelings, this is a somewhat difficult area because it is rather out of fashion to expound on feelings and motivations these days. But I would recommend Memoirs of a Geisha, Like Water for Chocolate, The Corrections and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.


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I haven't read Like Water for Chocolate, but I loved the other three.  The Corrections is timely for this season, though not very jolly.

Front-Ranger:
Like Water for Chocolate might make a good candidate for our next book club discussion. It's set in Mexico, and is considered to be one of the first and best examples of the magical realism genre.

Front-Ranger:
Momentum is building to read "The Last of the Wine" by Mary Renault. Thanks to injest for sujesting this, and starting a topic about it!!

Front-Ranger:
Some good recommendations for summer reading!

michaelflanagansf:
A lot of libraries have very good readers advisory services.  Here are a few I found online doing the 'If you liked the time traveler's wife' and 'If you liked the da vinci code' searches:

http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/FindAGoodBook.cfm

http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/BookListAction.cfm?list_num=280&ISBN=1931561648

http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/reading/davinci_code.html

http://www.overbooked.org/booklists/like/davincicode.html

http://www.lansing.lib.il.us/RA/readalike.htm

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