Comments on: Booking Through Thursday (25)

By: LisaMM

LisaMM — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:51:11 +0000

One L was a great book that I totally forgot about, I read it so long ago!

I like that you ask potential employees about their most recently read book. What happens if the answer is something like “How to build a bomb” or something equally wacky??

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:06:59 +0000

Hi there! I read The Handmaid’s Tale with my book club a few months back. It is good. I just got another Atwood book at a book sale this weekend. (Blind Assasin?) After reading Handmaid’s Tale I am interested this author. Handmaid’s Tale is a bit eerie, but really well written. Enjoy. I am interested in your thoughts. :) Toni

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:24:47 +0000

It may be dangerous to overly praise a book for someone, but Handmaid’s Tale is a chilling work of genius. I hope you enjoy it! Pride and Prejudice can never be read too much, can it? Bleak House is one I want to get to sometime soon, as well as revisiting Anne of Green Gables.

By: Mary Beth (Cats, Books, Life is Good)

Mary Beth (Cats, Books, Life is Good) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:43:36 +0000

Ahh, Anne! There’s a magnolia tree outside the window of my childhood bedroom that we always called the Snow Queen. And One L hit me like a ton of bricks the first time I read it! Scott Turow’s other books never lived up to it:)

By: Fern

Fern — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:44:45 +0000

Another Anne fan! I’m glad to hear it :)

By: Tina Kubala

Tina Kubala — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:02:21 +0000

I love Atwood. I hope you love Handmaid’s Tail as much as I do. Then go get Oryx and Crake or anything else she wrote.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:54:26 +0000

I certainly pick up books with nice covers, such as ones with a cute labrador, like The Art of Racing in the Rain. I hate movie tie-in covers. *sigh*

Handmaid’s Tale was creepy, but I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Maragret Atwood writes with such poised sense of time and a very crisp style. I am looking forward to reading your opinion on the book.

This question pretty much sums up many of the past ones.

I mostly read fiction, although once in a while a non-fiction, like history or a biography will interest me.

My favorite genres are historical fiction, foreign literature, and classics.

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By: blake

blake — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:52:08 +0000

And the most recent book I read was Tom Perrotta’s Little Children.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:43:52 +0000

I have to give you props on The Handmaid’s Tale and OneL – both are awesome books. And now that I work full time and have a baby, I am so picky with what I read and if a book doesn’t catch me right away, I toss it. I have so little time for reading, that I need to be drawn in right away.

I’m going to post away now!

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:39:56 +0000

There was a time when I would push on and finish any book I started. I’m stubborn that way. But lately, I’ve come to realize that time is precious, and there are so many good books waiting for me.

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