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Finished Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler - liked it very much and will read some more of her books.
Next read will be The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville recommended by Christina. Thanks. 52. Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. V. good, I shall definitely read more of her work. 52. Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler - very good. I shall definitely read more of her work. #63 I was wondering what to read after Ladder of Years Christina. It will be The Idea of Perfection - Thanks for recommending it.
I'm enjoying Ladder of Years. There were times in the past when I felt like re-inventing myself, but I'm glad now that I didn't. I'm still little old me!!! ... and read that entry. Seems to work. I will go back through this thread several times as I read. I loved Alias Graceand Ladder of Years, btw, for those of you taking those on. Read Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai - Enjoyed this book.
Next book is Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Ladder of Years Ann Tyler
Ex Libris Anne Fadiman ... is I've been reading, it hasn't been award winning and nominated books. Of all the books mentioned, I've only read two:
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. I know a lot of people hated this book. I didn't, but I didn't love it either. I am interested in stories where a woman is fed up with ... ... their heads?
Ex Libris Anne Fadiman A fun book to read, essays about books & reading. Glad I bought my own copy.
Ladder of Years Anne tyler --speaking of knocking sense into characters -- this was a good read, I love Anne tyler, but was the plot really plausible? I still enjoyed ... Went to another town for a Drs. appt. & discovered a used bookstore. Returned with:
Ladder of Years Ann Tyler
Crow Lake Mary Lawson
Selected poems of Edna St. Vincent Milay
Norton Anthology of American poetry (shorter version)
Reading in the Dark Seamus Deane
The Imaginary girlfriend ... I'm embarrassed to say that I've only read two from the list (but two more are in my TBR stacks).
The Ladder of Years. This was the last Anne Tyler novel I read--simply because it was so dull that I didn't want to read anymore Anne Tyler for awhile.
The Hundred Secret Sense. Good, but I ... ... Lands
Elspeth Sandys, River Lines
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses - shortlist
Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years - shortlist
Marianne Wiggins, Eveless Eden - shortlist
... you on all the rest that you mention. I really enjoyed Ahab's Wife--for about the first half, then it just droned on. Ladder of Years was the last Anne Tyler I read. I was so disappointed that I haven't bothered to pick up her more recent work.
#9 kiwiflowa, I enjoyed The Crimson ... ... but it would have been so much more enjoyable at 250-300 pages. And I grew weary of the imitation Melville language.
4) Ladder of Years - Usually Anne Tyler is a "reading pleasure guarantee" for me, but this story was more Janet Dailey or Nora Roberts than Tyler. Tyler's characters and ... ... recently read the other Anne Tyler you mentioned, where the woman walks away from her family at the beach. It's called Ladder of Years. I didn't think this was her best work, but I was intrigued by the premise. One of the members of my book club often talks about how much she hated this ... YES, Augusten Burroughs is hilarious....I read Running With Scissors, it was a scream.
Also, Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler cracked me up.
I found the first in the series of Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series to be deliciously sarcastic......very, very funny. 40) Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler (review) ... than the Blind Assassin parts (so far).
After that =, I will either dive into Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow or Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler. Leaning toward the Tyler book right now, but I may change my mind! =) Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
First Pass Under Heaven by Nathan Gray
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
The Secret of the Lost Tunnel by Franklin W. Dixon ... she got her Pulitzer for Breathing Lessons). I recently looked over a list of Women's Watershed Fiction from 2004, and Ladder of Years, another I thoroughly enjoyed, made the top 100. I noticed that several on that list http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/wwf_index.shtml
were among my ... *blush* Well, thank you. I have Ladder of Years and Digging to America on my shelves, as yet unread. I have not read A Patchwork Planet or Celestial Navigation either. I think my favorite of all the Tylers I have read was Saint Maybe, followed closely by The Amateur Marriage: a ... ... gospel according to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend by Christopher Moore
39) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
40) Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
41) Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
42) Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
43) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
44) The Ar ... ... by Robin McKinley recommended to me by a fellow LTer bluesalamanders.
Book #3
I have just started Anne Tyler's Ladder of Years for a book I recently joined.
... pretty much all of what he/she's written, until I hit a wall. I read a lot of Anne Tyler, for instance, until I hit The Ladder of Years. I was so frustrated by that book, it spoiled all the subsequent Tyler books for me.
Same for P. D. James, Piers Anthony, Stephen R. Donalds ...
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