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I'm stumped thinking of a good question to ask the reference desk. What about something having to do with music? Fritz Kreisler? The history of YouTube? Something. Suggestions are welcome. I need kind of a stumper of a question.
How about "I want to read a memoir of someone with bipolar disorder. What is available?"
Stephen King: Dreamcatcher
Too gross for words.
Ann Patchett: Taft: A Novel (P.S.)
Nothing she wrote before Bel Canto can ever compare, but this novel was pretty good anyway.
Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants: A Novel
Wow, I really like this book. It's entertaining, has good characters and is well-plotted.
Karen Joy Fowler: Wit's End
Go, KJF!
Mei Ng: Eating Chinese Food Naked: A Novel
This book jumped around from character to character in point of view, which took some getting used to. Overall it was pretty entertaining.
Samantha Gillison: The Undiscovered Country
Sort of a dreamy read. A couple with a child go to the interior of New Guinea and their marriage frays gradually. With a surprise ending!
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
In some ways better than his first, this book chronicles two women's lives in Afghanistan first under Soviet rule and then under the Taliban. I enjoyed it despite the hardships.
Anita Amirrezvani: The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
This was a good novel, very informative on the subject of rugmaking and social practices of the middle east a couple of hundred years ago.
Stanley E. Ely: Living Alone Creatively: How Twelve People Do It
Anne Tyler: Celestial Navigation
Each chapter is another character among people who know each other in Baltimore.
Ann Patchett: Run
The story of one fateful night when a family confronts itself. It's subtle and well-written and comes out in a satisfying way.
Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Great premise; a doctor delivers his own twins, and gives away the one with down syndrome to his nurse: sentimentally done. I enjoyed the book for the characters, however.
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