Comments on: Broadening our horizons

By: Cheri @ Blog This Mom!

Cheri @ Blog This Mom! — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:18:41 +0000

That smile wasn’t supposed to be winking.
If that matters.

By: Cheri @ Blog This Mom!

Cheri @ Blog This Mom! — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:18:01 +0000

I seem to do a lot more blog reading than book reading these days. I do take book recommendations from my favorite bloggers seriously. Thanks for yours.

By: The Bossy Yankee

The Bossy Yankee — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:17:21 +0000

I agree I love Jen Lacaster books and was so excited when she made it on the best seller list!

By: The Hen

The Hen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:22:50 +0000

Do read anything by Stanley Donwood, muse of Radiohead and a very talented artist and writer. His stories are bizarre and extreme, they leave you believing that his brain was wired very differently!
He is very clever and hilarious…and is a lovely friend.
High Brow lit..no, he calls it “no brow”…but that’s just him being self deprecating!

I especially like “The Catacombes of Terror” it’s set in Bath and is the most fantastic rip off of the detective genre – think Rockford Files with irony! It’s printed by him to look like a ‘Penguin’ book…but instead of the penguin there is his crying minotaur.

By: Jenn @ Juggling Life

Jenn @ Juggling Life — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:44:58 +0000

Self-publishing is really the wave of the future–I’ve read some great articles on it.

I’m definitely checking out Choke Creek and I wholeheartedly agree that getting book recommendations from people whose blogs I read is a huge bonus to blogging.

By: Auntie M

Auntie M — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:10:20 +0000

If you enjoy lyrical poetry that has amazing images and tells a story, try
Nina Romano’s Cooking Lessons.

Also check out books by: Tana French,
Graham Hurley, and for sexy suspense, Karen Rose.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:44:25 +0000

I’m so glad you did this post! I am in the mood for a new book (I’ve read all of mine way too many times) so this is helping me out a lot!

By: melissawest

melissawest — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:47:10 +0000

I just finished Rebecca Ramsey’s French by Heart and am checking out a book by Stacy Nykios next.

By: MomBabe

MomBabe — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:41:34 +0000

Okay, well, I haven’t read their books, but I read their blogs.

So, Heidi Ashworth of Dunhaven Place just published her first book, Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind.

And there’s http://blog.annettelyon.com/ She just wrote something or other too. Obviously, I haven’t read it. I know, how awesome of me.

By: bdaiss

bdaiss — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:05:28 +0000

I don’t follow many blogs, so I don’t have much insight there. And I have to admit…my #1 author is Stephen King. But! I read a wide variety beyond him.

I like some of the older “classic” but seldom heard of authors – Aldo Leopold & Edward Abbey especially. I also read a lot of sci-fi type stuff. I especially liked Kaoru Kurimoto’s Guin Saga. Right now I’m obsessed with Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series. It combines 2 of my favorite subjects – the magic world (wizards and faeires and trolls and such) and Chicago.

My list of “to-read” is about 12 pages long. Having a kid has seriously set me back. *sigh*