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I are going to the library this Sunday. 3nodding

I have a tendency to read out of the 'teen/young adult' or 'child' section, I'm trying to find something that's a little bit more of a challenge to read, but in general, any good books would be nice.

Don't like fantasy books. So yar.

Got any good book recommendations? heart

Novelicious:
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Note: You might find you prefer an edition like the Penguin Classic edition. I found that one EXTREMELY useful because all the little notes explaining certain cultural things and quotes and references and the French translations that other wise I completely would have missed.
T.C. Boyle's Drop City. Note: Hippies, drugs, sex, Alaska, Alaskan bush men. I liked it.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Note: I first read this when I was a bit younger then you, but it's one of those books with layers of subtlety so that when you go back and read it again, you get more out of it each time.
James Alexander Thom's Follow the River. Note: I read this AGES go and wanna pick it up for a re-read some time.
Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. Note: Hello, Clarisse. Or: It puts the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again. Brilliant.
Memoirs of a Geisha. Note: Better then the movie.
Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. Note: under NO circumstance should you read the old (1911-esque) translation. It's utter crap - native Portuguese speaker translating a French novel in to English. Bad, bad, bad. If you read this book, a most excellent translation is the Lowell Bair one.
Chaucer's Canterburry Tales. Note: The Wife of Bath's Tale is my favorite.
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. Note: This can be rough, fair warning. The book is way rougher then any of the film interpertations I've watched. But it's one of those books that you could argue changed how people behaved.

Some more younger adult but still really good:
Heidi. Note: It's SOOOOO CUTE!
King of the Wind. Note: Kinda rough. Looking back, I'm surprised it's classified as a kid's book. There's some dark stuff in it. It's still lighter then Black Beauty.
The Anne of Green Gables books. Note: Really sappy and sentimental. But sometimes we're just in the mood for that.

Not novels, but hella good:
Bryan Syke's Adam's Curse and Seven Daughters of Eve. Note: this is about DNA, Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA to be exact. It's bloody brilliant.
Elizabeth I: CEO. Note: History of Elizabeth I, Queen of England's reign. Essentially from a business prospective. Really good.


What, book worm? Me? Neeevvvaaahhhrr!

Oh my GOD I love Anne of Green Gables. The ending just left me so completely depressed and happy all at the same time!

Avonlea is such a beautiful place in my mind. :'D

I'm currently reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I'm only on the third chapter, but I really enjoyed the first two. You might find the first chapter overwhelmingly descriptive and has no substance, but I don't know, I enjoyed it.

I love description. Which is the only reason I can stand my summer reading, The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. Maybe we can be tortured by it together!

I was going to suggest The Hobbit... >> But, Party Monster, by James St. James?

Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside. 8.

I've read all of them at least once except Rilla, I didn't find a teenage Rilla engaging enough of a character to sit down and read. Anne's House of Dreams is kind of sad. But I think you might find Ingleside and Rainbow Valley more to your liking as they're more like Green Gables then Avonlea, Island and Poplars in terms of content - they're about Anne's children as children, not about adult romances as much.

Additionally, L.M. Montgomery wrote Chronicles of Avonlea and Further Chronicles of Avonlea which are both short stories surrounding the Avonlea folks and Anne Shirley does feature in some of them.

Ok, so, damn. Now I have to go down to the basement and get out my old A of GG books and reread them. Damnit Chester, I hope you're happy. xp heart