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| BookCrossing Australia! : Group reading log: July 2009 | | 123 | Miss-Owl, August 21 | |
| The Sackful of Badgers : 15 Books | | 1 | athaena, August 20 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What 1001 book are you reading: July 2009 | | 103 | susiesharp, August 1 | |
| Hogwarts Express : Add a Word Drop a Word 7 | | 429 | cinnamonwink, July 31 | |
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| The Prizes : The Pulitzer | | 89 | Mr.Durick, April 21 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Wederbrand´s 2009 try for 75 | | 25 | Wederbrand, April 9 | |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : Favorite 5 Fiction Reads of 2008 | | 109 | pm11, March 2 | |
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| List Five Books Parlour Game : black and white | | 15 | ostrom, February 6 | |
| Girlybooks : What Books by Women are You Reading Now? January 2009 | | 102 | Nickelini, January 30 | |
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| List Five Books Parlour Game : ABCs | | 122 | mamalaz, January 1 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Aga's Challenge | | 169 | agatatera, December 2008 | |
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| 888 Challenge : Zero's 888 | | 73 | ReneeMarie, December 2008 | |
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| Book Nudgers : Nov. 17th polutropos seeks an immigration nudge | | 36 | cocoafiend, December 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : International edition? | | 34 | Stbalbach, November 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : christiguc - 888 | | 73 | billiejean, November 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 18 October 2008? | | 188 | bakersfieldbarbara, October 2008 | |
| 999 Challenge : Kiwidlowa's 999 challenge list | | 10 | kiwiflowa, October 2008 | |
| Girlybooks : Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and other novels by women about the mixed race experience | | 11 | almigwin, September 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Post with touchstone for all 1001? | | 16 | arukiyomi, September 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : TheTortoise 20 Fiction Book/10 Non-Fiction Book Challenge | | 13 | TheTortoise, August 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : August 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 113 | ktleyed, August 2008 | |
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| The Green Dragon : The Do Not Bother To Read Before You Die Thread | | 70 | theduckthief, July 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008 | | 119 | rachbxl, July 2008 | |
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| Someone explain it to me... : Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe | | 28 | kambrogi, June 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game | | 300 | BKieras, June 2008 | |
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| Girlybooks : THEME READ FOR MAY: Dislocated Women | | 62 | Cariola, May 2008 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : April 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list | | 83 | strandbooks, April 2008 | |
| Girlybooks : THEME READ FOR MARCH: Social Class | | 99 | SmithSJ01, April 2008 | |
| Best of British : Classic or contemporary | | 30 | Grammath, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Muslim women in the 1001 | | 11 | Nickelini, April 2008 | |
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15) The Hours by Michael Cunningham
16) The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton
17) Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
18) White Teeth by Zadie Smith
19) Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O' Nan
20) Tethered by Amy Mackinnon
21) Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
22) A Gate at the Stairs ... You know, I thought I had read White Teeth because I bought the book, but I must have bought it for someone else and not read it, because the details don't sound familiar. I'm going to have to borrow it again from the library. Thanks for reminding me! :-) Small Island sounds very good! Your description of it reminded me of White Teeth, except that this seems much more serious than White Teeth and not set in the present. I'll be adding to the TBR, and I'd recommend White Teeth to you if you haven't read it already! ... Orange is like a day without sunshine Orange prize winners and nominees:
A. Home by Marilynne Robinson
B. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
C. The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
D. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
E. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer ... ... slowly for me, had a hard time getting into it, but it absolutely grabbed me later. A must for moms of daughters.
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
6. Book of Dahlia yuck
7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
8. Interpreter of Maladies
9. I Feel Bad About My Neck by ... ... Bulgakov
Anthology of Japanese Literature
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The First Man by Albert Camus
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole oops, posted in the wrong place :) ... Schooling on mount TBR
42 Atonement
49 Life of Pi
50 The Feast of the Goat
52 The Devil and Miss Prym
54 White Teeth
63 The Blind Assassin
64 After the Quake
71 The Romantics on Mount TBR
77 Disgrace
78 Sputnik Sweetheart
80 Intimacy
81 Amsterdam
85 Ti ... ... by Michael Thomas
A Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
Travelling with Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub
Cut ... Bonnie- I think you meant Sharp Teeth on message #71. Correct? Although White Teeth was very good. I read it a few years ago. ... and was punished for it! ;-) Learned my lesson, won't do it again! Next books up (mostly because they're library books): White Teeth, Wives and Daughters and The Hour I First Believed. Thanks again for your lists! Finished Tipping the Velvet and found the beginning wonderful and much of the rest annoying. I'm onto White Teeth and have discovered that Zadie Smith is like a funny Salman Rushdie! ... and On the Road by Kerouac, both of which I get a hard time for.
I would like to say, however, that I liked White Teeth, Special Topics in Calamity Physics and The Fountainhead. White Teeth. ... Wife as it was recommended by a friend and enjoyed it. I'm now reading On Beauty by Zadie Smith as I liked both White Teeth and The Autograph Man.
Doesn't seem like much, does it? Well, one of the reasons I quit school was because I was having so much trouble sleeping (due to ... ... for my day off (which, naturally, I accidentally left in the fridge at work) but also TWO books from the charity shop - White Teeth by Zadie Smith (which strangely I've never much fancied, despite enjoying The Autograph Man) and a rather lovely replacement copy of I Capture the Castle. I ... All from Bookmooch:
Marjorie Morningstar
White Teeth
The Skull Beneath the Skin Way too late, sorry, but I would have definetly nudged you toward Fall on your Knees, besides Small Island and White Teeth. ... lis
7. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
8. Winnie The Pooh & The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
9. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
10. All Creatures Great & Small by James Herriot
11. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
12. The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mc ... ... Garden (Virago modern classics)
10. A Fine of Two Hundred Francs (Virago Modern Classics)
10 1001 books
1. White Teeth
2. At swim two boys
3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
4. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
5. The Inheritance of Loss
6. The Line of Beauty
7. Middle ... ...
33. Middlesex
38. Gabriel’s Gift
42. Atonement
48. Choke
49. Life of Pi
52. The Devil and Miss Prym
54. White Teeth
56. Under the Skin
63. The Blind Assassin ... May and I have to say that I am really enjoying it. And somewhere I heard that there are three others of the same vein by White so I will be seeking those out.
happy dayz,
belva ... May and I have to say that I am really enjoying it. And somewhere I heard that there are three others of the same vein by White so I will be seeking those out.
happy dayz,
belva ...
Next January we'll be doing this again in The Girlybooks group, but I'm not sure I'll be able to wait 'till then to read White Teeth. It looks too tempting by everyone's recommendations. 2000's
House of Leaves
The Blind Assassin
Middlesex
Fingersmith
White Teeth
On Beauty
Never Let Me Go
Bartleby and Co
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Platforme
Atonement
Snow
Kafka on the Shore
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
... ... those questions ended with prepositions?
No.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Archie from White Teeth. I felt like I could identify with him in a sad way, and the guy who played him in the PBS version reminded me of Roger Daltrey.
5) What book have you ... Updated Nudges - I think I have everyones.
Small Island 4 an' a bit
The Colour 5
Purple Hibiscus 4
White Teeth 4
Bel Canto 3 -1/2
The Hundred Secret Senses 2- 1/2
Brick Lane 2
Gilgamesh 2
The Stone Diaries 1
The Accidental 1
Inheritance of Loss 1/2
Everyman's Rul ... 77. White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Forgot to add this to my June reading. ... and Blue by Anna Quindlen
55. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
56. The Colour by Rose Tremain
57. White Teeth by Zadie Smith ... The Little Friend. The Autograph Man probably wasn't all that bad, but I did find it very disappointing following White Teeth. And The Little Friend was just frustrating - all atmosphere, nothing else. And I was rather lukewarm about A Child's Book of True Crime.
But ... ... was great, as was The Colour and I have to say that I must be one of the few who liked The Inheritance of Loss. oh, and White Teeth was great too . . . . >10
I have books on my TBR that are both 1001 and Orange nominees. They are...
White Teeth
Small Island new 1001 list
The Accidental new 1001 list
The Inheritance of Loss new 1001 list
I'll definately be reading Small Island this month. ... I knew it was going to end horribly. And so many others were great reads - Bel Canto, The Great Fire, Fingersmith, White Teeth, The Time Traveller's Wife - all five star reads for me, and I'm quite happy to push them onto anyone and everyone. So I'm looking forward to tackling some of ... 17. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe… by Richard Dawkins
18. White Teeth White Teeth ... but PH was quite moving.
I liked Small Island, Bel Canto, and The Stone Diaries, too. Read Brick Lane and White Teeth several years back and recall liking them but they haven't stuck with me as much as the others. Inheritance of Loss was just so-so for me.
Attempting to tally Nudges so far....
Small Island 4 an' a bit
The Colour 4
White Teeth 4
Bel Canto 3 -1/2
The Hundred Secret Senses 2- 1/2
Brick Lane 2
Purple Hibiscus 1
The Stone Diaries 1
Gilgamesh 1
The Accidental 1
Inheritance of Loss 1/2
Everyman's Rul ... KimB, I've nudged you for Bel Canto and White Teeth, I really enjoyed both of those very much. First for me for Orange July will be Joan London's Gilgamesh, because *someone* (wish I could remember who) just raved so much about it.
livrecache, I liked Fight Club too, although Palahniu ... KimB, I did like Bel Canto and White Teeth very much, my nudge goes to both of those. We've got a few matching TBR books for Orange July, and I was hoping to read Purple Hibiscus, Brick Lane and Gilgamesh (plus some others, Everyman's Rules looks mighty interesting too, but the others ... ... Senses--good, but kind of just another Amy Tan.
Brick Lane--really enjoyed this one, but the ending was a bit off.
White Teeth--loved it!
The Inheritance of Lost--I also gave up on it. I got about 75 pages in and the characters weren't grabbing me and nothing much was happening.
... My vote goes to White Teeth. Hi, Kim--I've read Small Island, Purple Hibiscus, Brick Lane, White Teeth, The Inheritance of Loss, Bel Canto, The Colour, and The Stone Diaries from your list. Honestly, I liked all of them very much (including The Inheritance of Loss, although I've heard more people who feel as Ji ... ... 1996 short-list
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2004 short-list
Brick Lane by Monica Ali 2004 short-list
White Teeth by Zadie Smith 2000 short-list
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2007 short-list
Second pile
Everymans Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffan ... i found a secondhand copy of White Teeth which i'm starting today, after just finishing The Inheritance of Loss ...
Short-listed
The Inheritance of Loss 2007
Everymans Rules for Scientific Living 2006
Purple Hibiscus 2004
White Teeth 2000
The Hundred Secret Senses 1996
long-listed
Girl in the Blue Dress 2009 - Bookring -I might start this one this month.
Sorry 2008 - Bookring -T ... ... for the past 10 minutes, but the only book I could find so far that is available on Kindle and not in your library is White Teeth by Zadie Smith, but I'm not sure if this is your cup of tea or not. Oh, I did love White Teeth when it came out, I thought it was quite marvellous. I can see what you mean by the "flattening", though.
The Fern Tattoo is going to be read soon, but KLL has requested The Master and Margarita to be read quickly (if at all possible) so she can take it overseas ... Just finished White Teeth as part of my slow trek through the 1001 ranges, and book number 5 of 10 of my SIY challenge. (I just might squeeze through, this time!) As a modern read after so many C19th and C20th classics, I actually didn't enjoy it all that much. The story was entertaining but I ... ... anyone ever read Notes from Underground? I'm currently doing something very atypical of me - reading two books at once (White Teeth before bed, Notes from Underground via DailyLit) - but I'm really enjoying my obligatory Russian for this SIY quarter.
I just wanted to share this quote ... livrecache>>> your 17 year old daughter sounds amazing! I'm in awe. Re White Teeth - it's quite startling reading contemporary fiction again, after a stint in the nineteenth century with Anna Karenina and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (I'm also currently teaching Wuthering Heights and Hamlet ... ... and Twilight. I'm glad my 13 year old is enjoying it but I've got no wish to go there myself. I'm tempted to pick up White Teeth now that you've said you've started it but I might stick to my plan. I've finally finished Great Expectations! Now reading Jack Maggs and I'm afraid I'm ... Yeah, I've just ordered Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
I read White Teeth a while a go, and I've been picking up and putting down The Corrections. I see what you mean.
Like you, Miss-Owl, I'd put A Clockwork Orange and The Lord of the Flies in the same way. My 17-year-old ... ... brutal read - I guess I enjoyed it in the same way I 'enjoyed' A Clockwork Orange, if that makes any sense.
Next up: White Teeth - for some reason the opening reminds me of The Corrections, so I'm hoping it will be equally, er, enjoyable :)
wookiebender>> Pride and Prejudice and Zomb ... My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List. ... Jude Morgan
Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A few classics:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
A Passage to India by E. ...
Books 8 and 9:
People Of The Book
White Teeth(both times I've finished it-this was my second time reading it)I've been on the bus. ... favorite 10 books:
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
America Day By Day by Simone de Beauvoir
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Blindness by José Saramago
Don Qu ... ... Zadie Smith's essay. What a wonderful 'voice' she has. Intellectually stimulating and insightful. I loved her first book White Teeth. I thought it was brilliant. I read Woolf's book A Room of One's Own decades ago, it has such an evocative title. I still long for a room of my own! I have ... 36. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Rating: 4 out of 5
I got to read this for a class. I don't think I would've found out how good it was otherwise. How can this monumentous book be summed up in a few short sentences? Let's just say that Smith's writing is brilliant, cuttingly witty ... 5. I thought White Teeth was excellent. There are plenty of reviews, so that's all I'll say. ... Haruki Murakami (607 pp)
4. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller (120 pp)
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (542 pp)
6. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (249 pp)
7. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (228 ... ... early 20th century England sure was one of those places.
On beauty I liked this Zadie Smith novel even better then White Teeth which I read some time back and that is saying something. It’s a very intelligent story written with a good portion of humor. Out of the three books you asked ... ... (I think it helps greatly if you've lived in New Orleans or have relatives from there, as I did)
A House for Mr. Biswas
White Teeth (I'll never forget the "Niece-of-Shame"!)
The Mystic Masseur
... writer pushes out a story - beginning, middle, end. It's like watching a TV show.
I've sampled new writers and read White Teeth but truly completed it only because I thought the writing was excellent. The story itself was quite convoluted.
I read an article somewhere that lamented ... ... The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
12. Life of Pi Yann Martel
13. The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho
14. White Teeth Zadie Smith
15. Saturday Ian McEwan
16. The Colour Rose Tremain
17. Elizabeth Costello J. M. Coetzee
18. Unless Carol Shields ... ... Lee 456. (Read July)
6.Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 932.(TBR)
7.Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 985.(Read Feb)
8.White teeth by Zadie Smith 54. (TBR)
9.Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Read Jan)
10.Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Read Feb)
11.Cloud Atlas ... ... of Moths is the same book as The Sister which I read as a Barnes and Noble First Look selection.
I finally finished White Teeth for Orange January and on to Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses also for Orange January.
currer-bell--took me a minute to get dead-tree. Too funny. 3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
This one took me several weeks to read which says a lot about it. There were flashes of humor and insight, but the characters and the story as a whole did not beckon me onward, making me anxious to frantically read at every opportunity which is my modus operandi ... ...but White Teeth is by a British author. Did you mean to choose that book for your Africa theme read?
I've had White Teeth on Mount TBR for sometime so I'm going to try to get my coffee-tainted teeth into that ;-) ... 5, #51)
35. Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey (YA paranormal, 4.5, #52)
36. White Teeth by Zadie Smith (adult, 4, #53)
37. Every Demon Has His Day by Cara Lockwood (adult paranormal, 3.5, #56)
38. Girl v. Boy by Yvonne Collins and ... ... by Philip Roth, 2001
300. *City of God by E.L. Doctorow, 2002
301. Under the Skin by Michel Faber, 2001
302. White Teeth by Zadie Smith, 2001
303. *An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma, 2007
304. Life of Pi by Yann Martel, 2002
305. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ... The White Road, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Bitter is the New Black, by Jen Lancaster
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
The Black Pearl, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber ... iga
2. the curious incident of the dog at night time - mark haddon
3. the demolished man - alfred bester
4. white teeth - zadie smith
5. the suspicions of mr whicher kate summerscale
6. the little stranger - sarah waters ... growth from 'village girl' to independant woman. So far I'm not seeing a lot of growth in **any** of the characters in White Teeth whether they are male or female, young or old. I've just started the second part focusing on the kids so I've a long way to go. Perhaps White Teeth is more a ... #74,
I loved Brick Lane. Gave up on White Teeth. I heard Zadie Smith being interviewed once and she said she didn't find writing about young women interesting because they have no "political consciousness"!
I thought at the time- no wonder I didn't care about her characters if she doesn't ... ... like I need to find a copy of The Road Home to add to the continent formerly known as M2BR.
I'm still working on White Teeth. Although I'm enjoying the humor and the author's view on life, the story itself is just not gripping me. I read Brick Lane last year and keep contrasting ... ... 11/01/09
2. Rowan Coleman - The Accidental Mother 21/01/09
3. Monica Ali - Brick Lane
4. Zadie Smith - White Teeth
5. Joanne Harris - Chocolat
6. Jane Green - Babyville 31/03/09
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9. I'm also reading White Teeth for my classics/1001 catagory and to double list it in my girlybooks catagory--as part of the girlybooks Orange January read.
>>Message 121: RamaraoGarimella I'd be very interested in learning what you feel are errors in the book. I'm not knowlegedable enough to ... ... got that one in my physical M2BR and had forgotten about it. OK, into the January read pile it goes when I am done with White Teeth.
Question for all--do you use tags for 'Orange short list' and 'Orange long list'? ... some were in December) Half of a Yellow Sun, Unless and Fugitive Pieces. I have a few others on Mount TBR such as White Teeth , The inheritance of Loss and The Poisonwood Bible, also all on the 1001 list.
I think The Road Home and Sorry are coming my way soon but I'm not ... I'm also just starting White Teeth (which I meant to read all of last year and just never quite got to it).
I've named one of my catagories in the 999 challenge 'girlybooks' after this group.
This group is so dangerous to Mt TBR which increases at an ginormous rate. ... kneejerk reaction against anything that seems to be heavily promoted in the chains (another reason I have still never read White Teeth, even though my brother insists it's amazing). ... remember why - it was ages ago - and I really couldn't see what the fuss was over On Beauty, so I'm not rushing to read White Teeth, but I know both were very popular. ... by Irene Nemirovsky
4. What is the What by Dave Eggers
3. Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
2. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
1. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Audiobooks in 2009
6. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 4.5 stars 8/1/2009 ... ... Sabbath's Theater
I may take a look at The Corrections
I'd like to take a look at some more Zadie Smith - I liked White Teeth very much. I think I have The Autograph Man buried somewhere...
There's a bunch of books that I picked up and look promising as a result of lurking in LT's C ... I have had my copy of White Teeth by Zadie Smith for several months, and am reading it this week.
So far, so good. Another world by Pat Barker
White teeth by Zadie Smith
Igorance by Milan Kundera (touchstone not working)
Under the skin by Michael Faber
Staying on by Paul Scott
The Seige of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
These are in no particular order ...
1. Midnight’s Children—Salman Rushdie
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. White Teeth—Zadie Smith
4. All Quiet on the Western Front—Erich Maria Remarque
5. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union—Michael Chabon
6. Parable of the Sower—Oct ... ... Love and am loving it... can't wait to discuss it here on this group...
This has also been a great nudge for me to start White Teeth this month. 2. Girlybooks (Nodding to the group with the same name)--books by and about women--fiction and nonfiction
1.White Teeth by Zadie Smith Girlybooks 3.5 stars Orange January *2 catagories Girlybooks and 1001/classics* finished 1/23/2009
2.The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy ... 1. 1001 Books and Classics (May need to split off into 1001 Books and non-1001)
1001 Books
1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith *2 catagories* finished 1/23/2009 3.5 stars
2.Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 4 stars 2 catagories finished 5/10/2009
3. Beloved by T ... On beauty was terrible and I gave up, although white teeth was brilliant. 7. Orange Prize nominees
1. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
2. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
3. Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. Dreams of Speaking, Gail Jones
5. The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
6. The Dark Room, Rachel Seiffert
7. The Girls, Lori Lansens ( ... It will be fun to find more Orange books in January. I have The Girls, and can find White Teeth, Purple Hibiscus, What I Loved and Hotel World at the library. The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ... ... 260)
133. Disarming the Narcissist - Wendy T. Behary (156)
134. The Perfect $100,000 House - Karrie Jacobs (291)
135. White Teeth - Zadie Smith (448)
136. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle (315)
137. Free For All - Don Borchert (223)
138. How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill ... ... so some of the suggested works I am familiar with, (Brick Lane, Joy Luck Club, Angela's Ashes, Typical American, White Teeth but thanks for all.
And in response to #12, I would say first-generation immigrants I find most interesting, but am happy to expand to a wider perspective.
... Apart from Small Island that already has been mentioned I'd nudge White Teeth by Zadie Smith. ... liked both Things Fall Apart and The Prime of Miss Jean Brody better.
And.... I didn't like On Beauty as much as White Teeth which I read this summer. There was something about the ending of On Beauty that didn't set quite right with me. I haven't read Autograph Man yet.
Alias ... 1.Having loved White Teeth I thought On Beauty was going to be as great. It was disappointing and I gave up on it part way through.
2. The High Flyer by Susan Howatch
Because of her continual use of the following terms: flufette, Tiger-thumper, nutterguff, dinosaurs, ... White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Xerxes Invades Greece by Herodotus
Yesterday's Men by George Turner
Zorro by Isabel Allende
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee ... Anne Morrow Lindbergh
105. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
106. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
107. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
108. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Loved white teeth but thought on beauty was predictable and very consciously 'academic fiction' in its writing. #149 and #150 - I read about 3 pages and put it up on BookMooch. Sorry, FicusFan. Didn't get very far into White Teeth either. Guess I'm not a Zadie Smith fan. ... Stone Diaries is excellent and led me to read anything by Carol Shields I could get my hands on! I wasn't impressed with White Teeth, but despite its size, it's an easy, pleasant read. >107 AMQS Give White Teeth the good old 50 page test. I thought this book was brilliant.
Just finished The Curious Incident. Very interesting, original and strangely enjoyable. I have just started Bring on the Girls, which had me laughing out loud over my breakfast this morning. First part ... I agree - woman in white is excellent and captivating.
Re: white teeth, I read it years ago before on beauty and thought it was a brilliant read - unlike on beauty! >107: AMQS, yes you should reconsider. White Teeth was a great book. I detested On Beauty too and gave up when I was not even a third through. But I had read White Teeth first, thank goodness because if I had read On Beauty first, I'm likely not to even have given White Teeth a chance. #106 The Tortoise, I had White Teeth in my TBR pile until I read On Beauty. I disliked On Beauty so much I returned White Teeth to its owner unread. Should I reconsider? >104 mrsradcliffe: I thought it was me - I abandoned On Beauty as well. Not as good as White Teeth, which I loved.
- TT
... recent releases because of other categories I've decided to work on. I'll also count either edition of the book.
1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
4. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
5. The Vi ... ... 2/03/2009
3. A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta 01/04/2009
4. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris June 2009
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith June 2009
6. The Colour by Rose Tremain June 2009
7. The Scarlett Feather by Maeve Binchy June 2009
8. Black and Blue by Anne Quindlen Ju ... 33. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Wow, what an epic novel - not unlike Dickens in its scope and characterisation. It was very funny, particularly the dialogue. A brilliant tale of immigrants in Britain and the impossibility of moulding the characters and determining the actions of ... ... of making me not want to read it (I'm counter-suggestible like that... my brother is still trying to persuade me to give White Teeth a chance). But I'm happy to be told otherwise! 61. White by Rosie Thomas
Touchstone not working - I'll see if I can edit it later.
A good book for curling up on the sofa with on a rainy Saturday morning - comfort reading. I didn't enjoy it anything like as much as Iris and Ruby, though, and for me it could easily have been much ... Life of Pi
The Feast of the Goat
An Obedient Father
The Devil and Miss Prym
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
White Teeth
The Heart of Redness
Under the Skin
Ignorance
Nineteen Seventy Seven
Celestial Harmonies
City of God
How the Dead Live
The Human Stain
The B ... ... Elephants, The Quiet American, Wicked (not that good), Guests of the Ayatollah, Anna Karenina, The Kite Runner, White Teeth, Will in the World, All the King's Men (one of the best I've ever read, by the way, Timebends, The Misfits, Hard News, Maps and Legends, One Day in ... 12. United Kingdom: White Teeth 54. White Teeth by Zadie Smith It's older than both Brick Lane and White Teeth. Early 1990s. White Teeth? Right now, I'm in London (with White Teeth) and in Kabul (with The Kite Runner) during the daylight. And just before going to sleep each day I move to New York (with The Nanny Diaries). ... What did you think of On Beauty by Zadie Smith? Or anyone else who has read it. I will be reading it soon. I thought White Teeth was brilliant when I read it in December 2000. ... the Spirits by Isabel Allende I loved her book Daughter of Fortune
On Beauty by Zadie Smith I loved her book White Teeth
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
Demelza by Winston Graham
Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham
Warleggan by Winston Graham
and 9 other Pol ... karenmarie, I would have mooched White Teeth from you but you only send within your own country. Ah! Well!
Never mind! ... what is - or was - a love match? Are you saying it's an allegory for the colonial dual culture experience? (I haven't read White Teeth)
... and I'll angel list them.
I picked up some others, that I need to decide if I'm going to read them or not, including White Teeth....see Ridgewaygirl, I DO listen to you! ;)
... gross), Wide Sargasso Sea (I read it before I read Jane Eyre, but couldn't really get into it--dunno why), Zadie Smith's White Teeth (objectively I thought it was very good and I enjoyed reading it, but at the same time...it's not something I'm really keen on re-reading), and some PG Wodehouse ... Grrr ..... arrgggh ..... ooff! *finally loses battle with thread* ..... off you go little one!
I'll add White Teeth to the list. Everyone said Zadie Smith was wonderful but I hated this one with a passion! ...
Wash this blood clean from my hand Fred Vargas
Flush Virginia Woolf
Bobbed hair and bathtub gin Marion meade
White teeth Zadie Smith
... and we can all get so militant about them! I've just Mooched another Zadie Smith, On Beauty, in case it was just White Teeth I hated .... we'll see! White Teeth by Zadie Smith - a library book.
Just a mid-year assessment: I think I'm doing well. I need to focus on my TBR pile more because not many of my books are in the owned pre-2008 section! 49. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
I'm getting an early start on my Orange July, and it was a great selection. ... href=/author/saramagojose>Jose Saramago
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
 The Thin Man/Big Boned
Nineteen Minutes/100 Years of Solitude
Slow Man/Fast Women
The Master/The Idiot
White Teeth/Black Beauty ... two, which I regretted.)
I liked Prep, but I know many people did not. I was not terribly fond of On Beauty (I think White Teeth is much better).
The Night Watch was lovely. I really enjoyed the structure of the novel, as well as the story within. I am a big fan of Waters' work.
Fr ... I've read White Teeth!
I've also read William Burroughs's Junky. Anyone else? Looks like no-one has read 1,001 Arabian Nights ...
What about White Teeth by Zadie Smith ? 223> Oh, I LOVED White Teeth! I have tried to read White Teeth by Zadie Smith 3 or 4 times now. Each time it gets put down & left for a very long time. I don't think it will be getting picked up again. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Red Dust by Gillian Slovo ... inclined to read it yet. Maybe next year.
#11 klarusu - I totally agree about Zadie Smith. Tried On Beauty and White Teeth and couldn't continue. There's just something about her writing that I abhor. ... of the paintings in it and Colin firth as Vermeer.
Charming billy I loved this book and the peek at Irish american life
White Teeth Strong story of immigrants in britain. Promising writer.
Ahab's wife One of the better historical novels.
Homestead A fun read as are her other books ... ... very good, wonderful sense of place)
Charming Billy (I remember liking this a lot, but can't remember details anymore)
White Teeth (really stuck with me--I thought she showed such promise)
The Blind Assassin (marvelous)
Ahab's Wife (I liked this one, although I know reactions are ... ... hjerte" Zakes Mda The Heart of Redness
43 Under huden Michel Faber Under the Skin
44 Hvite tenner Zadie Smith White Teeth
45 Menneskemerket Philip Roth The Human Stain
46 Himmelsk harmoni Péter Esterházy Harmonia caelestis
47 "Hvordan de døde lever" Will Self How ... ...
I've also read The Lovely Bones (a little too "pop" for my taste); The Autograph Man (a disappointment after reading White Teeth); and Unless and The Little Friend, which were interesting but neither of which I would consider short-list worthy.
But then, I haven't read the others, ... I am continuing to listen to On Beauty by Zadie Smith, unabridged, and am loving it. I had not cared for either White Teeth or Autograph Man that much, but this one is for some reason really resonating with me. I am very much aware of E.M. Forster nodding approvingly as On Beauty ... I am listening to On Beauty on audio, unabridged, and am loving it. I had not cared for either White Teeth or Autograph Man that much, but this one is for some reason really resonating with me. I am very much aware of E.M. Forster nodding approvingly as On Beauty unfolds. For me its a tie between White Teeth and Ignorance 2000 was a better year for me. I've read Girl with a Pearl Earring (hasn't everyone by now?), Charming Billy, White Teeth, and Amy and Isabelle. What the Body Remembers is in my TBR stacks. ... st
plus a honorary mention for anything by PG Wodehouse
Five contemporaries:
The Cement Garden
The Crow Road
White Teeth
The Remains of the Day
What A Carve Up! From the 2000 list, I've read White Teeth, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Translator. All very different ... liked them all but none were all-time faves. ... Pountney, Last Chance Texaco
Jane Rogers, Island
Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers
Zadie Smith, White Teeth - shortlist
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle - shortlist ... touchstone wont fix - this is not the right book - the right book is Blonde by Joce Carol Oates
The ha ha
Jane Eyre
White teeth
Ignorance - touchstone also wont fix - the book is ignorance by Milan Kundera
Honorable mentions
Waiting for the barbarians
The year of magical ... ... good though)
by Gustave Flaubert
03/22/08
†One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest *****
by Ken Kesey
03/26/08
White Teeth ***½
by Zadie Smith
03/27/08
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (#50) ****
by John le Carré
03/28/08 ... Romance by A.S. Byatt ***
3. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing **½
4. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton *****
5. White Teeth by Zadie Smith ***½
6. The Awakening by Kate Chopin **½
7. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark ****
8. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen *** ... White Teeth by Zadie Smith My top three:
1) White teeth
2) Love in the time of cholera
3) Jane Eyre --> 71
I, too, loved White Teeth. I had listened to it on audio. The narrator (sorry I don't have that person's name) related the story with pitch perfect accents. The result was a story that was totally hilarious!
White Teeth is a great book for anyone who is into cultural and ethnic ... I finally finished White Teeth and absolutely loved this book. I enjoyed the characters and the plot and thought her insights into her characters spot and so enjoyable. I really enjoyed this read.
I am now reading The ha-ha by Dave King and am enjoying it so far. )The touchstone is ... I finally finished White teeth which I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed. The character development and plot development was amazing. I am in awe of her writing (I'm not worthy, Im not worthy) - easily the best book I've read this year.
I am now also taking a break and reading The ha-haby Dav ... ... guess is that you're not missing anything special with On Beauty. That was one I gave up right away, even though I liked White Teeth quite a lot. ... Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar
Books by Toni Morrison
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
White Teeth, On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Property by Valerie Martin
... nna
Minaret by Leila Abulela
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrevzani
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton by Diane Wood Middlebrook
Sweetness in the Belly by Ca ... Neverwhere, Neverwhere! I forgot about Neverwhere! Well, since you already took a spot on my category 3 with White Teeth, I shall place Neverwhere in my "Books by authors of books I have read" catgory.
Thanks! ... in color? Any ideas why?
Also, I still need 6 more suggestions from my peeps in the 888 Beach Ave Club...I'm working on White Teeth now. (Thanks again SqueakyChu!)
Anyone else have a recommend? I had to take a break from White teeth. Ive been reading it for over a week and am only half way through. So, I am going to read and finish The alchemist and then finish White teeth. I am enjoying white teeth, it is just taking a long time to read. --> 13
I didn't care for Zadie Smith's last two books, but thought that White Teeth was just great. I'd say go ahead and read it. ... the 1001 has to offer on the subject.
I've tried various tagmashes and for "1001 books, Islam, women" I come up with White Teeth by Zadie Smith . Anyone have any comments on this book?
Do any of Salman Rushdie's books give any insight into this topic?
I've also looked into ... Im still reading White teeth and still reading Jane Eyre Happy February, wow January went by fast.
I am still reading White Teeth and am also reading Jane Eyre I am now reading White teeth and am enjoying it so far. I am now reading White teeth and am enjoying her writing style. But then, I am only a few pages in. I am now reading White teeth and am enjoying her writing style. But then, I am only a few pages in. ... appeal to anyone who doesn't like magical realism
Atonement -- loved, loved, loved it. Did I mention that I loved it?
White Teeth -- took me forever to get through it, and I didn't really get it....it sort of rambled for me
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy -- reading now, I'm about 100 ... ... and Bradley method natural child birth advocate so it was an interesting take on the perils of midwivery.
I put White Teeth on my list, so thanks for the suggestion!
... with you about The Autograph Man. I put it down and back up again several times before I was able to finish. I have had White Teeth in my mind for a while so, you are the "suggester" of the first book in that category! White Teeth it is!
I have been reading A.M. Homes lately with This ... ... with the exception of Augusten Burroughs and Zadie Smith. I really didn't like Smith's The Autograph Man but loved White Teeth. Have you read that? What rebeccanyc said.
I thought White Teeth, on the other hand, was a wonderful book.
And the one in the middle, The Autograph Man was utter, utter crap - Lady Z getting ahead of herself, so to speak. I did like On Beauty, so I tried another one of her books White Teeth and quit about half through. Just too boring. ... published in 1994 and I don't believe any updated editions have been issued. Zadie Smith didn't publish her first novel, White Teeth, until 2000, so there's no way she could be included. Louise Erdrich novel, Tracks is listed in this category (one up from the bottom).
The omission of ... ... for:
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Absolam, Absolam!
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Price and Prejudice
White Teeth
the Ender Books (in order)
The Hours (especially in conjunction with Mrs. Dalloway)
A Christmas Memory (A short story)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Their ... White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas--It'd be a lie if I didn't include any romance novels ... about The Ministry of Special Cases but I sure did when I tried to read On Beauty by Zadie Smith (although I loved White Teeth).
I think that The Ministry of Special Cases was reviewed harshly by professional reviewers because of its humor. 46.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Great book, I am not going to reach the goal, but I am going to try to get as close as possible.... ... i have no idea, so i'm going to submit a guess just in the hope of getting another clue or some authors/genres eliminated: White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
Booksy, some help here, silvousplait. 26. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - a real pleasure, I wouldn't have purchased because I did not really enjoy On Beauty all that much but since it was a b'day gift I felt obliged and I'm really happy I did - it's a much better all around story. Just finished
14. White Teeth by Zadie Smith and I'm happy to say I liked it a lot better than
15. On Beauty which I am also including as a recently read along with
16. The Human Stain by Philip Roth, because I read them both this August.
White teeth was really excellent - lots of ... White Teeth - Zadie Smith
  ![](http ...</a></p><div class="quotehead" style="margin-top: 10px;"><a href=) vpfluke in Book talk : Suggestions for London Book? (Nov 11, 2007, 5:15pm) ... (6,628 copies)
High fidelity by Nick Hornby (4,682 copies)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (4,572 copies)
White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (3,591 copies)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (3,421 copies)
The long dark tea-time of the soul byDouglas Adams (3,294 ... White Teeth--I can't recommend it enough. It takes place in a North London borough I think.
I also second Brick Lane. I recently gave up on 2 books, one right after the other.
one was White Teeth
and the other was The Elementary Particles. Both of these were suggestions from people that I know, so I felt somewhat obligated. I am so over the feeling of "having" to finish a book. It's really not worth it.
T ... ... making a film in the UK and an English businessman.
I second the recommendations of The Namesake, Brick Lane, and White Teeth.
Other suggestions:
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam. Beautifully written, haunting novel about a community of Pakistanis living in an ... Hi, I've just joined this group and am looking forward to becoming mired in controversies!
I actually really enjoyed White teeth but can see what others mean as I did find it to be a bit cliched in parts.
The historian was very very good until the end which I thought was completely OTT ... Just finished the last book in Ted Dekker's The Circle Trilogy, White. I just finished a few non 1001 books, but now I'm starting White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I did love On Beauty especially the ending - so many times the endings disappoint. I moved on to White Teeth and I just didn't love it as much.
October has been slow. After White Teeth I read Bridges over Madison County because someone had loaned it to me quite some time ago and I need to ... ...
Anything by Zadie Smith or Monica Ali will have cross-cultural themes...I particularly recommend Brick Lane and White Teeth. On Beauty was the Zadie Smith Pulitzer book. I enjoyed it enough that I am now reading her White Teeth. Two families that the dads are rivals, but the moms become friends, and the children...well you will just have to read it to see how their relationships with eachother are, and the ... Just finished On Beauty by Zadie Smith and I liked it well enough that I am reading White Teeth.
I have several more Pulizers lined up to read. Johnny Truant, House of Leaves
Irie, White Teeth
Iris Chase and her sister Laura (I still can't decide whose side I'm on), The Blind Assassin "It's none of your business, is what it is," replied Alsana in English.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith ... just happen to be among my favs.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Poison Study ... This may be a slightly separate issue, but I would recommend White Teeth by Zadie Smith as an interesting portrayal of a multicultural city and how the different communities do - or don't - get along. #119 Loved White Teeth, hated Never Let Me Go. I just got these--
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Experience by Martin Amis
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ... The Blue Room by George Simenon
The Red Cat Cookbook by Jimmy Bradley
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris I actually went out and met Zadie Smith at a book signing. I had really enjoyed White Teeth and I had The Autograph Man on my TBR list. I heard great things about it and I started it with great ferver I loved the writing style, but the story just went nowhere! I got just past the halfway ... I quit in the middle of On Beauty too. I loved Smith's debut novel White Teeth but have been less than happy with her two subsequent novels. ... finish which had me enthralled. I like Lionel Shriver's style so will be looking for more of her books to read.
White Teeth was excellent. The characters were beautifully written and the storyline was quite complex. Its a story about friendship and how difference can be uniting. I ... I just bought white teeth at the library sale yesterday. Would also like to know about it. ... pages! Maybe I should revisit some childhood classics or something to bulk up my numbers, haha.
Also, how did you like White Teeth? I bought it because I know it's supposed to be amazing, but I haven't heard any personal reviews of it. ... read so far this year. I will try for 100 books this year. So far I'm on track.
1. Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
2. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
3. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
5. Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas
6. The No. 1 ... ... I am so happy to have found fellow book nerds :).
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Glass Castle:A Memoir
Unending Blues
White Teeth
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Jacqueline Carey wrote the Kushiel series.
Zadie Smith is pretty. I loved White Teeth. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Hand That Rocks the Ladle by Tamar Myers
I Feel Bad About My Neck: and other thoughts on being a woman by Nora Ephron
Legs Benedict by Mary Daheim
Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster
Midnight's Children, White Teeth ... Smith (May): A literary novel: character-driven and thoroughly entertaining. Already a Zadie Smith fan (based on her White Teeth), I didn’t know what to expect with this one, as I had read a pan of it on LibraryThing, and the essay-like title made me wonder. In any case, I now feel it ... I quite enjoyed White Teeth. Chacun a son gout. I'm in three different localities (and times in fact!) Russia - The Master and Margarita, England - White Teeth and France - La Princesse de Cleves (in English). ... other sections would, if I was interested, also be the places I would begin if I wanted to follow up on Invisible Man or White Teeth. This is not segregation, it is just another form of genre categorisation (and a pinch of good business sense; I bought lots more......).
All this talk of ... ... Say by the Delaney Sisters hundred year old single sisters, a dentist and a teacher. Was dramatized
novels again:
White Teeth
and The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Another play:
A Raisin in the Sun by Laraine Hansberry
Other Novels:
I've Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and I' ... ... by Dan Brown would definitely have to be up there. Badly written, poor predictable plot and downright silly. Oh, and White Teeth by Zadie Smith - another one of these vastly over-rated, en vogue books that will never stand the test of time. ... was bored by the story and disliked the characters.
I am really disappointed by Zadie Smith. I found her debut novel, White Teeth, extremely funny and engaging, but was very disappointed by her following two novels. It's as if she were writing now just to be a literary heavy and not ... ... Feet by Shirley Hughes
A castle of bone by Penelope Farmer
Fingerprints by Colin Beavan
Goggle-eyes by Anne Fine
White teeth by Zadie Smith
Voices in my ear by Doris Stokes
A plum in your mouth by Andrew Taylor
Mother tongue by Bill Bryson
Head, shoulders, knees and toes
... ...
Blue: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Purple: The Color Purple
Pink: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
White: White Teeth
Black: Black Diamond
Brown: Mr Brown can Moo, can you?
Grey: The Grey King
Silver: Silver on the Tree
Gold: Poseidon's Gold
Copper: Venus in Cop ... Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty examines black mothers of bi-racial daughters.
Recommend both highly.
Not sure this is high literature, but it's so compelling and human, it doesn't really matter.
Diane Rehm interviewed Smith when "On Beauty" came out in 2005. Listen here: ... ... go as far as saying I liked the book nor that another one by Z.S will be welcomed with open arms but it was better than White teeth and it does deserve a second reading. (What am I saying?)
I also finished The Book Thief yesterday and can see why it is such a success. The pages fairly ... ...
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lead me to believe this novel might not quite as "glorious" as all the rave reviews in the blurb. I have read White Teeth previously, but it made no lasting impression on me. Maybe I should cut to the chase and select a Salman Rushdie work instead? ... that I am) -- I can't do this two books at once thing that some of you seem to do.
lizzier -- felt the same way about White Teeth -- not in hurry, but haven't ruled out On Beauty . . she is so tangential -- and I am realizing alot of her schtick is stolen from Salman Rushdie ... fanclub until there's a little more evidence of the editiorial red pen. Now I come to think about it, I felt the same about White teeth.
Maybe I'll side step into something other. I read White Teeth this week. I enjoyed much of it especially the character of Samad and his angst. But I remain a bit confused on some of her points -- what exactly does she think about the immigrant experience?, mulit-racial background? Is the secret to happiness letting go of your past or ... Zadie Smith´s "White Teeth"
The first two-thirds of the book aren´t too bad. Smith turns the self-consciousness of her (presumably) white readers back on itself, which is a neat trick, and she´s funny and erudite throughout. Then the book begins to drift. The reunion of the novel´s ... ... this book. I found that I had no sympathy for the characters, nor did I particularly care what happened to them. I have White Teeth on my TBR list, so I haven't given up hope yet.
Wanted by Kim Wozencraft - I usually like any thriller/mystery especially if they include prisons/jails. ... --> 53
For some reason, White Teeth came alive for me. I found the characters very funny and engaging. I recommended this book highly to others. I was intrigued by the fact that the author abd the protagonist were biracial. I wanted to see how this fact played out in the book.
The ... ... I've heard many people talk about how they hate it, but no one really says why. Have you read/liked others by her such as White Teeth? Did you feel it just didn't live up to all the hype? Asia (Japan) - The Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
Europe (United Kingdom) - White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Er...I can't do this.
Upon reviewing my *favorite* books, I've run into a problem. I see that most of them are from various countries in Asia (e.g. Israel, Japan, India), not ... ... onality
2002 Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2001 Sid Smith
Something Like a House
2000 Zadie Smith
White Teeth
1999 Timothy Mo
Renegade or Halo2
1998 Beryl Bainbridge
Master Georgie
1997 Andrew Miller
Ingenious Pain 1914
1996 Graham Swift ... ... onality
2002 Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2001 Sid Smith
Something Like a House
2000 Zadie Smith
White Teeth
1999 Timothy Mo
Renegade or Halo2
1998 Beryl Bainbridge
Master Georgie
1997 Andrew Miller
Ingenious Pain 1914
1996 Graham Swift ... ... wielders due to the nature of the planet, for part of it
Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality or Xanth
T. H. White's The Once and Future King
Sheri S. Tepper's King's Blood Four etc.
Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising et. al.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld ... Small Island works - odd that it wasn't working before! Great book, albeit a bit flawed. Brick Lane and White Teeth are interesting if you enjoy that, if a bit different. The Buddha of Suburbia is a London novel too, despite the suburban slant. ... I started On Beauty by Zadie Smith today and then read this message board - to continue or not to continue? (I read White Teeth but was not entirely happy with it.) ... any more. I gave up entirely about half-way through. I've been really disappointed in Zadie Smith whose first novel, White Teeth, I found just great. I didn't like her next novel (blocking out the name of it), although I forced my way through its entirety.
I think I'll skip her novels ... Next week:
http://www.inprint-inc.org/
A reading by: Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty and White Teeth.
... unfaithful, I'd go with Atonement, What a carve up!, Cloud atlas, The line of beauty Everything is Illuminated, White Teeth, La classe de neige (any francophiles around?), The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and I'm leaving way too much out of the list (not to mention the ...
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