Saturday, June 21, 2014

Weekly Whine: You'd like this book

I do like to read a lot, and I admit I am usually on the lookout for new books. I've been into mystery and thriller books and I recently read everything the library had to offer by Tess Gerritsen.

So yes, I am looking for new books to read. But it baffles me the kind of recommendations that people who know me quite well seem to make to me.

For example, somebody who knows me very well and everything I like was recommending an Indian writer to me who writes about her early life in India. I don't know, maybe it's great, but it does not on any level seem like the kind of book I would read. My father-in-law is always recommending these weird guy books that I would never read ever. Like by authors that if I have read a book by them, I hated it. (Philip Roth, Don DeLillo)

If you know me and you actually have a decent book to recommend to me, fine. But don't play up something you read that you like that is obviously something that wouldn't interest me.

15 comments:

  1. Well, there is only so much I can figure out about you from your blog, but if you like mysteries, I really love Craig Johnson's series about Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. You really need to read the books in order because he really develops the main characters over time. First book is the Cold Dish.
    The Longmire drama series on A&E is based off the books. It's a decent show but the books are a million times better. The books are well written, funny, and often very poignant.

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  2. They are just trying to expand you horizons ;)

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  3. Most the time, I am so tired I can barely keep my eyes open. I don't need my horizons expanded. I need a book I can get lost in.

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  4. The Steel Van Man by Jason Stadtlander. He is my housemate's son and the book is a thriller with twists that you just won't expect.
    I was glued to it, and he is working on a movie deal so obviously others liked it too. Proud to say I knew him when......

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    1. Almost forgot, the entire Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They are really good.

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  5. Patricia Cornwall books.

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  6. Also Kathy Reichs, creator of the Bones tv series.

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  7. You like cooking, right? I seem to recall a few posts on the subject... Well mysteries plus cooking equals Diane Mott Davidson. I haven't read them since high school (because I am not a huge fan of mysteries), so I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but it's basically caterer solves mysteries. And then there's a bunch of recipes in the back! It's fun stuff.

    I'm also a fan of Andrew Greeley's (sp?) stuff, mainly because they're the right level of "dark but not too dark" and there's a bunch of stuff about religion on them.

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    1. Is Andrew Greeley still alive?

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  8. Ian Hamilton, author of the Ava Lee novels - about a kick ass Forensic Accountant

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  9. The Shambling Guide to NYC and the sequel about New Orleans by Mur Lafferty. Quick reads, completely great plots, easy to get lost in. I forgot I was an intern when I read them this year. Lots of fun without the silliness of some lighter "female" reads. This is a book about a travel writer writing a travel guide for the zombie/vampire/deity world of NYC. Don't know you, but I highly recommend these two books, and I'm anxiously awaiting more from the author in this series.

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  10. Haha, I have this problem too. I am a pretty avid reader and people love recommending books. Sometimes I wonder why people think I will enjoy what they recommend though. It's like, I enjoy science fiction and fantasy. *You* know this about me. We talk about this all the time. Why did you think I would enjoy The Fault in Our Stars???

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  11. Big stone gap by Adrianna trigiani

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  12. I've also enjoyed the amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters I started them out of order but I think crocodile on the sandbank is first.

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  13. I only take (and give) book recommendations to a select few people whose tastes seem to mirror mine. I've known them both for decades (one is my sister). Even there, there are fails once in a while, but generally that works. Thus, I have only two friends on goodreads. I don't really care what anyone else is reading.

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