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My current read is We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. I find I can only read smallish amounts at a time, because it lowers my spirits. That's not to say I'm not admiring it and it's very thought provoking, but the life of the mother and son seem relentlessly awful. Knowing what will ...
A combination of letters and diaries - The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips.
Letters - We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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There's one very much like that I can think of, except both children were biological: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
... a book AND chocolate? Wow, where do I sign up for THAT!? LOL
I like Elizabeth Berg very much.
#68.....msf59......We Need To Talk About Kevin is intense. Be prepared. I think you'll like it. Lionel Shriver is a very unique author.
... of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The PostBirthday World by Lionel Shriver This got good buzz too but I also have We Need To talk About Kevin sitting on a pile. Shame shame!
... picture that something very strange is going on.
This reminded me of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, and Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin , and there is a similar technique at work here. Bit by bit, the story unfolds, and the events that we know must be coming seem to inch towards ...
We Need to Talk About Kevin . There was an Uprising at the Hotel Pastis when he threw Green Eggs and Ham at Rebecca.
... It was interesting to see the POV of someone who was an unwitting accessory to the crime.
I didn't enjoy it as much as We Need to Talk About Kevin or Vernon God Little, but it was a very solid effort.
What did you think?
My top 5 books that i usually recommend are:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Im also 3/4 of the way through Water for Elepha ...
... Park by Timothy Taylor
They were both, coincidentally Canada Reads books.
On the other hand, I almost abandoned We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver but I'm glad I persisted. It got much better at the end.
11. A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
12. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lioniel Shriver
13. The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simons
14. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
15. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
16. Darkness Take My Hand by Dennis ...
There's We Need to Talk About Kevin - which also has that "frequently banned" distinction to go with it as well. Although it's a crossbow and not a gun.
You can also check out -
Project X by Jim Shepard
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
if ...
#74
We Need to Talk About Kevin was difficult to get into at first, in fact I would have given up if I wasn't reading it for book club, but once I got into the story it was pretty compelling. I caught on to some of the ending fairly early in the story but the end still held some twists for me.
... your thread. What a great list of books you've read this year so far. How did you like The Hour I First Believed and We Need to Talk About Kevin ? I found them more realistic than some other books on school shootings I've read.
For me, We Need to Talk About Kevin was one of the most compelling books I've read in recent years. Like you, wookiebender, I don't want, or can't, talk about it. I loved the last three of the other five books you mentioned. I'll have to look out for The Great Fire and Bel Canto.
I have ...
Yes, Sally, it's a very readable lot of books, isn't it? We Need to Talk About Kevin wasn't an easy read (emotionally; several years on and I still don't want to talk about it), but it was magnificent, I couldn't put it down even when I knew it was going to end horribly. And so many others were ...
... short list/winners I've read I really liked:
Fugitive Pieces
Hotel World
Property
The Colour
Small Island
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Old Filth
Evening is the Whole Day
The Wilderness
Of those that I've read that I wouldn't particularly recommend:
The Inheritance ...
Out of the winners, I've read On Beauty, We Need to Talk About Kevin , and Bel Canto. Bel Canto was my favourite, but that's not to say Kevin wasn't one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I just don't think I'll go back to re-read it (not without a lot of therapy first), ...
... r).
I think I've only read 3 actual Orange Prize winners and of those 3 my favorites were Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Not having read many of the winners I wouldn't know which was the Orange of Oranges but those 2 were really something!
Don ...
For Orange month I would highly recommend We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
Re: Little Women I love that book and have read it at least 4 times over the years. I think of it like the TV programme 7th Heaven. While there is no way I did or could ever have grown up in a family ...
Book #51
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
My second book on school shootings this year, I think it's time to read something a little lighter.
... in the last third of the book. Not bad - but not as good as other Orange Prize winners I've read - like Bel Canto and We Need to Talk About Kevin .
I'm currently about halfway through Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris.
... too sure about it until the last third of the book when it really took off. It wasn't bad. Not up to the standards of We Need to Talk About Kevin or Bel Canto but, still, o.k. I gave it 4 stars.
I recently made a list, to take with me to the bookstore, of the Orange winners, ...
... World, Ali Smith
4. The Blind Assassin, M Atwood
5. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
6. The Accidental, A Smith
7. We Need To Talk About Kevin , Lionel Shriver
8. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, Marina Lewycka
9. Oryx and Crake, M Atwood
10. The Colour, Rose Tremain
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... work.
Now I'm about halfway into A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver. Not as easy a read as her earlier work We Need to Talk About Kevin , but very good. It's about three adult children trying to settle the estate of their recently deceased parents. Good bits of humor interspersed. ...
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Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Dissolution by C.J Sansom
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
... won the Orange prize or were nominated. I loved Bel Canto by Ann Patchett which won in (oops, I don't know the year) and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver which won in 2005. The one I'm reading now - it hasn't really grabbed me yet. I think that it will. I'm only on page 30. I ...
#152 & #155.....I like Lionel Shriver too. I read We Need To Talk About Kevin and it blew me away.
I have A Perfectly Good Family waiting in my TBR pile. Looking forward to it.
... Legend by Richard Matheson
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.
... Brown, Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile, Open House by Elizabeth Berg, The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, The Secret History by Donna Tartt . . . . . . and so many more! I really couldn't help myself, here. This is one of my ...
No? Game Control was that bad? I was looking forward to reading it because I liked We Need to Talk about Kevin . Perhaps I should try a different Shriver instead?
#14 ~ I love Tracy Kidder so will check that one out!
We Need to Talk About Kevin ... I agree it is good. But I wanted to mention that it's in my top 5 most disturbing books of all times. I agree it's good, the scenes of the child being obnoxious and dangerous made my skin crawl; the ...
... need to thank LT for introducing me to new books and authors. Among them:
Half a Yellow Sun
The Book Thief
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Short History of Nearly Everything and then all of Bill Bryson's books.
World War Z
Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
I'm ...
... Pip by Lloyd Jones
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M. Glenn Taylor - an ARC
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo - an ARC
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Ji ...
... of sharing books. I haven't shared this one because I thought it might disturb others as much as it did me. I did share We Need to Talk About Kevin , by way of comparison.
... Shriver
Pages read-517
Running total-1,316
An excellent read. I will be looking for Shriver's other book We Need To Talk About Kevin Look for my review.
... Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X Pham
14. One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
15. Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
16. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
17. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
18. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
19. The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Liosa
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19 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
20 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
21 We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
22 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
23 A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
11.) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 500 pages
I just couldn't finish it- I gave it up after 200 pages
12.) The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver 432 pages
Sort of a slow moving thriller story- if that makes any sense. It tells the story of an escaped cult ...
I finished We Need to Talk About Kevin tonight. I immediately demanded a hug from my hubby. I need something very light and fluffy after that. Maybe one of our group reads.
I'm trying to read We Need to Talk About Kevin . I'm about 25 pages in and am bored. Does it get any better? Will I continue to read boring conversations by a boring, whiny, narcissist?
I'm trying to read We Need to Talk About Kevin and am about 25 pages in. Someone tell me it gets less boring? So far it's a real yawner.
... –Anna Quindlen
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Women of a certain age – Lillian B. Rubin
We need to talk about Kevin –Lionel Shriver
The Age of Innocence –Edith Wharton
The Time of the Uprooted – Elie Wiesel
Apex hides the ...
Jolie
I agree with you, some books are just not hyped enough, and are well worth the read.
I recently read We Need to Talk About Kevin , based on Lters recommendations, and it stands as one of the most thought-provoking novels I have ever read. I have Ms Shriver's Birthday World on my ...
... this time:
Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
There are so many more but I'll just start with these 5 for now.
I had a friend ...
I'm about three quarters of the way through Lionel Shiver's 'We need to talk about Kevin ' - my reading group's book for the month. I started off really disliking it. I found it a big effort to read more than a few pages, and each of those seemed boring. Then I had a bad night and read ...
Finished my last Orange January book and really didn't like it: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver ( review )
Thanks to everyone for participating in Orange January! We will be running another Orange July this year!
6) We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver ( review )
Sorry all, I just trealised that I have been calling Shriver's book by the wrong title! It's We Need To Talk About Kevin .
No wonder I couldn't make the title turn blue. That's computer jargon for 'forgive me, I know nothing about computers, and my kid is out just now'.
... left, at least 30, so get on with it! One question: Who's Richard??.......... just kidding :)
I need to bump up my copy of Let's Talk About Kevin , in my tbr pile, this book is getting some serious buzz!
... It is worth skipping over those bits, as the modern part of the story is really good.
For Orange January I have read We Need to Talk About Kevin which was excellent, very thought provoking, I can't recommend it highly enough.
Fugitive Pieces Excellent writing, but a bit too disturbing ...
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1. Books published in 2009
2. Books short listed for Booker Prize
3. Books short listed for the Orange Prize
a. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver completed 14th January 2009
b. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels completed 10th January 2009
c. Digging to America - Ann ...
... find anything that motivated me to spend money.
I went on to the big Barny Noble's a few blocks away and found:
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver: It has been talked about so avidly and widely in these groups that I became convinced that I need to read it.
A Tree Gr ...
... books. I'll probably finish Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella either tonight or tomorrow, I'm also trying to get through We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver, I'm about 150 pages in and it's just slow going. The characters are not relatable for me. But I'm still going. . .
I hope ...
2) We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
I didn't think this book was as good as it should have been. I've posted my thoughts here;
Has anybody else read it? It would be great to ...
... I am reading Hannah's Dream by Diane Hammond (very good), What We All Long For (excellent) by Dionne Brand, and We Need to Talk about Kevin (excellent, much better than I thought this subject could be) by Lionel Shriver.
Reviews will be posted later in the week.
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requested it, will put it up with We Need to Talk About Kevin when it arrives. The Edna O'Brien says its been sent so hopefully it will come soon. Has been a bit of time though, so hope it hasn't got lost!!
Mooches went out today:
Their Wildest Dreams Peter Abrahams
End of Story Peter Abrahams
We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
A Light In the Window Jan Karon
> Happy Birthday, Ellevee! Hope you are loving Case Histories! Excellent book!
My 1st Bookmooch of the new year:
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. A lot of buzz on this book lately ,it sparked my interest!
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Orange Prize/Shortlist (Wish I owned more of these, but to be fair I have read a lot of them.)
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner (Lots of short fiction, including "The Bear", a reread.)
Light in August (a reread)
Absalom, Ab ...
I, too, had a hard time choosing another book after reading We Need to Talk About Kevin . It was such an intense, disturbing, excellent book that left a lasting impression. I had a hard time unraveling myself from the story to focus on another. But I recommend it to others all of the time.
... lately.....hmmmm.....dark reads = ??
One of you mentioned that you had a hard time chosing another book after you read We Need To Talk About Kevin ....I guess I'm having the same problem.
I hope this current choice will fit the bill. Not sure why I'm drawn to the dark side lately....may ...
I have looked at Kevin quite a few times. I have kept away from it, due to it being so disturbing. When porchy and teelgee and now kiwi agree that it is very disturbing I will continue to avoid it. I am not up to that right now. I read Reliable Wife which I loved! It was so much more than I ...
#3 Porchsitter - I now what you mean! I read We need to talk about Kevin over a year ago but I still remember how I felt after finishing it. It's like being on a roller coaster.
This week I am reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I am going to go back and take notes because the ...
Just finished We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver....WOW what a disturbing story. It was extremely well written and totally captivated me to the very last page.
Still deciding on what to dive into next.....
...
Lord of Misrule (Morganville Vampires, Book 5) By: Rachel Caine ***1/8/09***
Need Wondrous Strange By: Lesley Livingston ***1/10/09***
Bones of Faerie ...
I've heard so much about We Need to Talk About Kevin on these threads, that I had to Bookmooch it and it's on the way.
>92 JolieLouise Totally agree with you about We Need to Talk About Kevin . It's hard to call it a favorite--I don't think I'll ever reread it. But it left such an impression, I didn't think I could leave it off my list of top 5 books. It was definitely the most memorable of the year for me.
... for a follow up so I'll keep my eyes out for any new novels by Lesley Livingston.
Jan 11th, 2009
Read another YA, Need by Carrie Jones. Hmmm, I thought it started out really well, loved the build up and the characters and the use of "phobias". However, I did not like the end in ...
... of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka ( review )
6) We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (review )
7) The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (streamsong in Girlybooks : YOUR BEST GIRLYBOOKS OF 2008 (Jan 1, 2009, 11:08am)
Book I'm most haunted by : We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Best previously unread classic Persuasion by Jane Austen
Most memorable woman character written by a man A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
--runnerup--Veronika Decides to Die by ...
I'm totally absorbed in We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Wow! I didn't want to turn out the light last night in bed, I cannot put this down. Deep, dark and disturbing, fascinating, with excellent writing. I highly recommend! I am about 3/4's through it.
>Streamsong - We Need to Talk About Kevin - what an intense book! I couldn't read another book after that one for a few days and I usually always have a book going. I tell people about this book often.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson which technically I'm not quite done with.
Wow-- I could have listed another 5 ...
I'm finally getting into We Need To Talk About Kevin and I'm finding it quite good. It's written from the point of view of the mother of a teenager who has been tried and convicted of murdering several classmates and a teacher at his high school, and is now in prison. Eva, the mom, is writing ...
... good also. Just when you start to drift off, bam!....he hits you with another twist or turn.
Now I will get back into We Need To Talk About Kevin , which I had laid aside a few days ago.
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland. Still a worthy book, but I didn't like it. Probably has themes in common with We need to talk about Kevin and The Fifth Child.
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2) Thorn queen by Richelle Mead
3) Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
4) How to ditch your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier
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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 ...
I'll affirm We Need To Talk About Kevin ... both Kevin and Mom, incredibly disturbing humans. Took a while to shake this one. Pretty well written though.
Also, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis ... also gets my vote for one of the worst novels of my adult life (that I actually finished). Sa ...
... ripperology.
The Stranger Beside Me - true crime, serial killers, Ted Bundy.
War Game - war, WWI, picture book.
We Need to Talk about Kevin - school killings.
We need to talk about Kevin ?
... recently re-read A Wrinkle in Time and I thought The Lovely Bones was a brilliant innovation, though sad. Have you read We Need to Talk About Kevin ?
... recomend it, though it's not the chirpiest read and the ending I thought was a bit of a let down but I liked it better that We Need to Talk About Kevin .
... I felt that the premise is a shocking and very interesting and emotional one, and I really enjoyed it. If you have read We Need To Talk About Kevin and liked it then you'll probably like this (its lighter than that though) and if you haven't read that, and you like Nineteen Minutes, then ...
... rhead.
I enjoyed Cathy's Book but I thought the ending was weird. Will probably read Cathy's Key, though.
Reading Need by Carrie Jones now. It's sort of slow-going at first but it's definitely picking up. The blurb on the back says Stephenie Meyer and Melissa Marr fans ...
... pregnancy is different and the fifth child does not fit in to the family as easily as it might. This story has shades of We need to talk about Kevin , but it is much condensed and very readable. A great read!
... to pieces, but I just found it dreary in the extreme in places with far too much discussion over the nature of evil (gimme We Need to Talk About Kevin for a dissection on Evil any day of the week). But it did get me interested in reading The Wizard of Oz which I'd never read before! Quite a ...
"Don't you ever say that. Don't you ever, ever say that. Not once, not ever, not one more time!"
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
"Or what?"
"For what it's worth, yes."
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
"Why?"
I'm only 1/4 through We Need to Talk About Kevin and I can see why people have described it as disturbing. The mother really doesn't like her baby, and it appears to be mutual. But I am enjoying it; it's written a series of letters from Kevin's mother to her estranged husband (who is Kevin's ...
... Moodie and Catharine Parr - very interesting women. Good to hear it a good book arcona.
LynnB, what did you think of We Need to Talk About Kevin ?
I've been meaning to read A Complicated Kindness for ages. Another one that's good to hear good feedback about.
See? I take one book ...
While having a look at my book collection have encountered some others I've finished this year...
22 We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Had to start it twice, the first time found it too bleak, the second team I managed to get into it. Very well written but disturbing and I'm not ...
I'm reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, which has been named by several LTers as one of the most disturbing books they've read. I really enjoyed Ms. Shriver's The Post-Birthday World, so I thought I'd try this one, too.
... March
My Sisters Keeper
Stardust
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park (anyone still looking for Jane?)
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Blood Sucking Fiends
The Audacity of Hope (I am reading this one, but should be done within the week)
... Hat by Oliver Sacks
37. Pretty Things by Sarra Manning
38. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chobosky
39. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
40. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
41. Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
42. Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Cur ...
Last night I finished We Need to Talk About Kevin and I have started The Lace Reader, which I am enjoying so far.
I am about half-way through We Need to Talk About Kevin and I am finding it very powerful and disturbing. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is thinking about having kids or who is pregnant!
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Griffin & Sabine by Mark Bantock
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
I went to the library and borrowed Pretties by Scott Westerfeld and We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Then I went to a second-hand store and picked up Steinbeck's East Of Eden, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, and Evening by Susan Minot. I also received my first ER book, ...
Hard to pick from some real winners, but I'll try:
Sorry by Gail Jones
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The one I'll finish today (hopefully) will probably make this list, maybe as a tie: The Tenderness of Wolve ...
... July is nearly over!) Ah, then there are those Virago Green Months too! Orange, Green....what's a girl to do!!
I began We need to talk about Kevin last month but put it down. The writing is brilliant and seductive, the story wrenching to say the least. All in good time, perhaps I'll try ...
... fingersmith, the great fire, short history of tractors in ukraine, the idea of perfection, case histories and we need to talk about kevin
so many great books and so very little time!!!! i may do an orange year :)
... fact a good basic summary of the beginnings of astromony in general and the telescope in particular.
114. (150) We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver (467pp)
After seeing this mentioned in so many other threads I thought I should give this a try. I really enjoyed it. So ...
Library books: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Really depressingly, gut-wrenchingly emotional. Very good.
59. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Wow! This book sure carried a punch.
... some books come in and others I picked up from the store:
Barnes & Noble:
The Samarkand Solution by Gary Gygax
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Borders - Order
Lucifer's Shadow by David Hewson
House Infernal by Edward Lee
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain ...
... of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
My name was Judas by C.K. Stead
... end of july) are:
digging to america
the idea of perfection
the inheritance of loss
small island
unless
we need to talk about kevin
have heard great things about all of these so i hope they live up to my expectations!!
...
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Small World by David Lodge
A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
... I stopped by B&N - block apart, since I hadn't been there in so long.
As I was wandering the aisles I saw facing out We Need to Talk About Kevin . I remembered how people talked about it in the thread, and that it was very compelling, So I picked it up. I test read a bit in the store ...
I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Very well written but it gave me a stomachache. I'm emotionally drained.
Will read something lighter now - A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka.
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54. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
I have much processing to do with this book. A very difficult emotional read, very well written. (4/5)
I'm in New York and really Need to Talk About Kevin , my mass murderer son, so I'm writing his disturbing history.
64. We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
This book has left me quite shaken. I definitely look at little kids differently - searching for the warning signs of psychopathy, that innocence game doesn't fool me anymore.
I joke, but this is a really disturbing and provocative read. Non ...
... for the recommendation, i'll add it to my long, long list of things I want to read! Also, I started, but never finished Let's Talk About Kevin last year - more of a timing thing than that I wasn't enjoying it - will clearly have to give it another go!
I read We Need to Talk About Kevin about a month ago. I think it's the most haunting book I've ever read. And I find it amazingly wonderful that after reading it, we all find the need to "talk about Kevin" and Eva.
I don't know if I'll ever have the emotional stamina to reread this book.
But ...
... several large plot points in an attempt to not spoil it--everything I described is fairly early on).
So, this is about We Need to Talk About Kevin
Why would anyone want to smack Kevin? He's scary! Seriously, he was obviously wrong and did terrible things. What made me want to smack ...
I just finished We Need To Talk About Kevin as well. It was, I agree, really unsettling. As far as the mother, I found myself disliking her from the first page, even before anything was said about Kevin, because I felt like the tone the author had her (Eva) writing in was just irritatingly full ...
Hi sydamy and englishrose! Yes, rereads count! So glad you both may join us!
I have We Need to Talk About Kevin on my Orange July TBR list. I have heard many mixed reviews about the mother. Sounds like one of those books that is good but unsettling.
As I have a few Orange books in my tbr pile is it OK if I join in with your Orange July?
Finished We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. As I was reading this I could not decide whether or not I liked Eva. I could empathise with her on certain aspects of motherhood, but then she ...
Finished We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. As I was reading this I could not decide whether or not I liked Eva. I could empathise with her on certain aspects of motherhood, but then she would confess to something which made me dislike her. I think her husband should have been ...
48. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. An excellent if disturbing book.
Reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
Enjoying it so far.
#112 is We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
This was an exceedingly creepy book, written as a series of letters from a woman whose son commits a school shooting to her husband. I'd read in reviews that a lot of people dislike the mother, and I have to agree with them. It's ...
#131 We Need to Talk About Kevin is excellent.
I am about to start readingWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
These is My Words by Nancy Turner
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Shut up, he explained by John Metcalf
... others that sound really interesting. So count me in! I ordered a bunch from the library, including Half of a Yellow Sun, We Need to Talk About Kevin , Oryx and Crake, and A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. I don't know which one I'll read first, but I kind of like knowing ...
I read We need to Talk About Kevin the end of May. It's definitely one of the top books I've read this year--but haunting, oh so haunting. I will be very interested to hear both your opinions (and everyone else's!)
Welcome kambrogi! I am also reading Half of a Yellow Sun and We Need To Talk about Kevin for Orange July. I just finished Property a few weeks ago and loved it. Best of luck with your Orange reads and keep us posted on your progress!
... I find them all and can finish my two current books by July) I will read:
The Road Home
Half of a Yellow Sun
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Property
The Idea of Perfection
When I Lived in Modern Times
Can't wait!
... I'm not sure how to plunge in. I think I'll post what I've read to catch up and then respond with updates.
1. 1-1-08: We need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver c. 2003 (fiction)
2. 1-12-08: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer c. 2005 (fiction)
3. 1-14-08 ...
... month of July. Have 11 picked out so far. Stellar books. Can't wait! My list:
# The Girls by Lori Lansens
# We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
# The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
# The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
# The Namesake by J ...
We used to do a number of things to keep our discussions lively.
1. Pick something bound to get everyone talking - We Need To Talk About Kevin had us going for a lot longer than our hour and a half time slot. Carol Sheilds Unless divided us into loved or hated but gave us a good but ...
... A trip through one little girl's family tree, the notable and the not-so-notable. Ultimately very uplifting, I thought.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a powerful book. After one reads it, one really feels they need to talk about the book with someone but I know I found it difficult to do ...
... was also very well done, as long as you don't mind unsympathetic protagonists. And speaking of unsympathetic protagonists, We Need to Talk about Kevin was memorable and creepy. The only other book on that list I've read is The Great Stink--it stunk.
... Meloy - Liars & Saints - shortlist
Joyce Carol Oates - The Falls
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin - winner
Tricia Wastvedt - The River
I finished 5 in May (including one audiobook).
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver I found this absolutely haunting. I finished it about three days ago and have not stopped thinking about it.
2. Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong As a newcomer to ...
>46 alleycat--I just stayed up late finishing Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin . Have you read that one? It's by far the most haunting book I have read this year. I'll be interested in hearing what you say about The PostBirthday World since I'm wondering if I want to read more of her ...
25. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
One of the most compelling, haunting books I have ever read. Is Kevin the proverbial 'bad seed' or did his self-involved mother and unseeing father make him that way? This book is far beyond a 'novelized current event' of popular fiction. It ...
Books 31-40:
31. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Fiction 3*/5
32. Death of a Thousand Cuts by Barbara D'Amato Mystery 3*/5
33. Worlds That Weren't by Harry Turtledove SF 3*/5
34. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Fiction 3*/5
35. The Sinner by ...
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
This is the Eversholt Readers' Group book for this month. The meeting will be on June 26th, venue to be announced.
... 10 new books to my inventory including some highly wishlisted ones. Here's a sample.
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
I don't know how to do the cool links, but my BM user name ...
... The Post-Birthday World? It's still on my TBR pile and I have to admit I'm putting it off a bit having concluded that We Need to Talk About Kevin was a work of genius (in fact, I might even sneak that one onto the island in my knickers) and then being somewhat disappointed by Double Fault ...
We Need to Talk About Kevin Serial killings, Roman a clef, Family relationships, Suspense
By the time I read this book I thought I was all horrored out. It had been a long time since I read something that really kept me glued to the pages from start to finish as my blood ran colder and ...
... .
And the winners for the most disturbing book are (roughly in order of number of times mentioned, with many 'ties'):
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
American Psycho, by Bret Ellis
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lord of the Fli ...
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver has a very intense vocabulary.
... J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (A-)
42. Sara Zarr- Story of a Girl (C)
43. Lionel Shriver- We Need To Talk About Kevin (A)
44. Jennifer O'Connell- Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume (B)
... one of these threads?
Let's see, the first book I read this year was Way Station by Clifford Simak.
Then I read We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.
Right now I'm in the middle of Roadshow: Landscape with Drums by Neil Peart and One Fl ...
It's We Need To Talk About Kevin ! Hurrah. One that I'm not taking a bit of a stab in the dark at. (For any grammarians out there...I can see absolutely no reason why a prepostition is not a good word to end a sentence on ;) ) I read that one a couple of weeks ago. As soon as you mentioned letters ...
>3 just as a JCO followup, did you read Rape a Love Story? It, like We Need to Talk about Kevin is a horrific, disturbing tale but really made me think about my ideas of justice. Sometimes I think she uses horror to shake us up first so we are in a place to really think about the things she ...
infosleuth, that is fantastic!
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Let the Wind Speak
Carry Me Down
Forget Kathmandu
It's not about the Bike
Everything is Illuminated
Things Fall Apart
Hmm, that lot were all on the first page of my library! So on that evidence it's about 7% :-)
... a bookaholic. Today I bought:
Half of a Yellow Sun which I've heard about nonstop since joining LT a year ago.
We Need to Talk About Kevin - ditto
Small Island - only for about the last six months.
My life has become unmanageable.
Wonder if the editors would've included We Need to Talk About Kevin , if the book were being put together now?
... the Fitzgerald translation
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Claire Morrell
Anna Karenina in the new translation
We Need to Talk about Kevin
and Pillars of the Earth
The last two especially were LT recommendations. So it's all because of you guys really. Nothing to do with my ...
We need to talk about Kevin is my first Orange prize book and I was very impressed. It was just wrenching at times, but I couldn't put it down. I give very, very few books a 5 but this one deserves it.
We need to talk about Kevin was a really good book. A mother, whose son, just before his 16th birthday kills several of his schoolmates, in a coldly premeditated way. Was he like he was because she was a poor mother, or was he born evil. Is she guilty?
The book is told in a series of letters to ...
Yep, received mine also. Going to start it as soon as I finish We need to talk about Kevin , which I am halfway through
I finished Dead Men Do Tell Tales last night and will post a review before bedtime tonight. 8-) Edit -- the review's up. I liked this book!
Erkie2007 - Welcome! Please read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - it's one of my all-time favorites, and a whole new world away from the movie. I'm ...
My top fiction:
Ysabel
The Garden Angel
Before You Know Kindness
The Great Gatsby
We Need to Talk About Kevin
One Mississippi
Bridge of Sighs
Top nonfiction:
She Got Up Off the Couch
I'll Always Have Paris
Better
Coal to Cream
My list is a little long, but ...
... In no particular order...
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Black Girl, White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Competition was stiff for the ...
... The story is so gripping and the foreshadowing so powerful that I had to put the book down!
>33 bettyjo
As for We Need to Talk About Kevin , suffice it to say that school adminstrators have read the book. Imagine then, the dialog the school personnel might have with K's mother ...
#32 lindsacl....also thought We Need to Talk About Kevin was a compelling read...should be read by all school administrators.
>31: bettyjo, I will be interested to hear what you think of Septembers of Shiraz; it's on my TBR pile.
I finished We Need to Talk about Kevin today. What a compelling book ... this one will haunt me for quite a while I think.
I need something lighter now, and may be able to finish one ...
1.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
2.) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
3.) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
4.) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
5.) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I've been reading a lot this month; I just started book #7: We Need to Talk About Kevin . Not exactly light-hearted holiday fare, but I've been wanting to read it for some time, and received it from a Secret Santa.
... the great recommendations. Here goes (in no particular order):
Fiction:
1. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
3. Montana, 1948 by Larry Watson
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
5. ...
...
Fiction
1.) The Book Thief
2.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3.) Jane Eyre
4.) The Shadow of the Wind
5.) We Need to Talk About Kevin
Non-Ficiton
1.) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
2.) A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
3.) All Over but the Shoutin ...
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Lucky A memoir
The Road
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Come Back: A mother's and daughter's journey through hell and back
Any one of the dozens of true crime/mass murderer profiles I've read
>76 lindsacl
Do you know last year I was buying 3-4-2 paperbacks as Xmas presents and allowed myself We need to talk about Kevin as a treat- which I still haven't read !
so many books, so little time ...
A treasure trove arrived today!
From a Secret Santa, We Need to Talk about Kevin , which I heard about here on LT and am very much looking forward to reading.
From a thoughtful fellow LT member, two Viragos: Jenny Wren, and Devoted Ladies.
And from Paperbackswap, another Virago, The ...
... an opportunity to "visit" Peru as part of Reading Globally.
71. We Need to Talk About Kevin - review , wow, compelling and sad.
72. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - bookaholicgirl in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 1 December 2007 (Nov 30, 2007, 5:36pm)
I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (what is it with these touchstones today - it gives me the author in the title touchstone but screams red at me when I type in the author) which I absolutely loved while at the same time hating the main characters. This is one of ...
60. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - I absolutely loved this book while at the same day intensely hating most of the characters. Thanks to those on here who recommended it.
>92 and 95
I read an interview with the author (of We need to talk about kevin ) and she talked about her goal with Eva was not for her to be liked. She is a woman in pain who is simply trying to be honest about her thoughts.
I don't think we're suppose to like her, but at the same time I felt ...
#92 bookaholic... I felt the same way about Eva in We need to talk about Kevin she seems to have such a huge ego.. Like in speaking in hindsight she knows that *she* was right all along... It's been a few months since I've read it so my memory is already not as good and I'm probably not ...
I am reading We Need to Talk About Kevin and am really enjoying it. I am not very far into it, about 80 or 90 pages maybe, but I have to say that wow, as of right now I kind of hate the main character - like the book don't think I would like her if I met her in person (if she were real, of ...
I would agree with We Need to Talk About Kevin for fiction.
Non-fiction- Sins of the Father by Eileen Franklin
A little girl sees her father kill and rape her best friend at age 10, she later remembers this as an adult.
Any book written about the Lisa Steinberg case in New York.
Finished Flipped (still no touchstones) in about a day. Started We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver last night but have only read about a chapter. I have been busy all day with turkey day prep - I hope to read a chapter tonight, maybe one or two tomorrow morning and then read all ...
I've gotten so behind on my LT threads. I do love catching up though. I finished We need to talk about kevin , which I really loved. It's an incredibly tough subject, but Lionel Shriver makes the characters sympathetic. It was really good. I'm sad to be done with it.
I also finished East of E ...
1. Rape a Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
3. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
Disturbing yes, but all three also powerful and thought-provoking. The Handmaids Tale is a watershed book for me.
oh, yeah, anything about ...
... for Chocolate and am looking forward to starting Neverwhere, which I just received from PBS.
I'm also still reading We need to talk about Kevin , which immediately captivated me. It's one of those books you feel yourself drifting off to think about during the day when you aren't reading ...
... to finish The Boy next door which was my fluff book and Xenocide. After a million recommendations on LT I'm reading We need to talk about Kevin , which is great so far. Also still enjoying East of Eden at a leisurely pace.
Let me know name suggestions!
> 20: mrstreme
I loved Empir ...
... I recently met someone else who had had the same reaction to it.
In more recent reading, I tend to agree about We Need to Talk About Kevin - I found the mother particularly disturbing.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. It's a recent read, relevant given events in various schools, and I'm a long-time educator wondering about kids who may have had me or others on the receiving end of "Kevinesque" behavior.
... get in at least one more book, and hopefully 2. So far though, I am having trouble picking. It was a high quality month. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver was fantastic, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming ...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Lost Illusions by Honor de Balzac
Right now I'm on Suite Francaise which I already know will wind up near the top of my 2007 ...
... Yacoubian Building, The Book of Lost Things, Out Stealing Horses, The Memory Keepers Daughter, The Book Thief, We Need to Talk about Kevin .
67. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Disturbing. Sad. Thought-provoking. I need to think more about this one.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
We Need to Talk about Kevin , Lionel Shriver
The Memory Keepers Daughter, Kim Edwards
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K Dick
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dumas
I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin .
What a powerful book! I had to stop twice and just let the story rest for a few hours.
I've begun The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen. It opens with a birthday party, but as the title suggests, this memoir of a Vietnamese immigrant is not going ...
... order:
1) The Kite Runner
2) The Red Tent
3) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4) For One More Day
5) We Need to Talk About Kevin
I'll be finishing We Need to Talk About Kevin . It was a bit slow to pull me in but became quite compelling. Then, Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen, a memoir of a child growing up in Vietnam. These reads are interspersed ...
...
Endurance
Time Traveler's Wife
Overall, it's been a rewarding summer. I'm also reading Mayflower, Team ofRivals, We Need to Talk About Kevin
and listening to Constant Princess
Most all of the books I've read this summer were recommended by LThingers. So thank you.
We need to talk about Kevin and Nineteen Minutes
Both deal with highschool shootings. The first from the p.o.v of the mother of the murderer and the second from the p.o.v of the mother of a victim.
I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. It's not really a teen novel, although it's about a teenager that kills 8 of his classmates. It was a compelling book, but takes a huge commitment to get through it. I'm in the middle of Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald. ...
... books have been:
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
When the Emperor Was D ...
Just finished The Secret Garden. It was really great - I can't believe I waited so long to read it
I am now reading we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver which seems really good so far. Very easy to read and hard to put down.
... libraries with The Halfling's Gem are:
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Until I find you by John Irving
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Black swan green by David Mitchell
I borrowed a few from my mum -
we need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
the memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards
hawkes harbour by SE Hinton
and I bought a couple of Philip K Dick's too
a scanner darkly and do androids dream of electric sheep
I very much agree with you about We Need to Talk about Kevin . The main characters were not at all likeable and the question of nature versus nurture was well addressed. Eva's reflections relating to her feelings about raising her children highlighted the vastly different approaches to mothering ...
I have just finished reading We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Later today I will start On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. If I finish that before the week is up I will start Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
... I started several books and got lost a bit not knowing what exactly I was reading. I stopped that and picked:
44. We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
A story told in the first person via letters written by Eva to her estranged husband Franklin. She writes about their ...
127: I've almost finished we need to talk about Kevin I have six letters to go and she still hasn't got to the main event. It's an amazing story isn't it? Yesterday I was reading the bit about the bleach (cryptic so there are no spoilers) and I was in a cafe before work. I think I was grimacing ...
Just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin . Wow. Just....wow.
Now I'm on to The Alienist by Caleb Carr.
Just finished The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I absolutely LOVED it.
Now I'm on to We Need to Talk About Kevin and Darkness Creeping. The former is so deep, I needed something light and fun in between letters.
... having read a chapter or 2 and not really into any of them. So I've exerted some discipline and have chosen to keep reading We need to talk about Kevin and have put Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Atonement and The Winter Rose back on the bookshelf.
... in the subway tunnels in NYC. Bought after enjoying the documentary “Dark Days” which has a similar subject.
69. We Need to Talk about Kevin . Disturbing! Written in the form of letters from Kevin’s mother to his father after the kid goes on a high school killing spree. Even more ...
#11 ladybookworm: We Need to Talk About Kevin This is a book you will never forget!!
I'm reading Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively - good writing and an interesting main character.
... starting to enjoy it.
After this, I have quite a choice!
It'll either be The Alienist, The Fall of Hyperion, We Need to Talk About Kevin , The Red Tent or The Gormenghast Trilogy.
How's that for diversity? *lol*
Any suggestions about what my next pick should be?
... up to the popular acclaim the book and author has received. I'm looking forward to reading his new book now.
I started We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver. I'm finding it nice to read it one letter at a time and let it sink in and mull it over rather than sitting down for a ...
I think my favourites would have to be The Road and We need to talk about Kevin . Two very powerful books that will stay with me for a while. Other really good ones this year were Orpheus Lost, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Eucalyptus and Middlesex. Each of them quite different ...
... ting.
Two books that I had on hold at the library came in, so I'm going with those now.
Koko by Peter Straub and We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (A LT suggestion).
... disappointing Early Reviewers book Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited and am now reading We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver, an LT-inspired read.
re: We Need to Talk About Kevin . I found this book very powerful; it's difficult to say that "I loved the book" because the tragic nature of the story; in fact, in places it is brutal and difficult to read. It is perhaps not for everyone. And after you read it you will indeed find that you will ...
Also really liked We Need to Talk about Kevin ....this group almost has me reading it again.
had already planned to add We Need to Talk About Kevin to the TBR pile, but the gush from this board has confirmed it for me.
keeping with the Lionel Shriver theme, i had been ripping into The Post-Birthday World until i suddenly found it overwhelmingly depressing, by page 170 or so. i ...
... of my childhood I still own the books and read them time to time.
#4 emaestra, #12 judylou and #13 Jebbie74 I bought We need to talk about Kevin last month. I'm looking forward to reading it now!
Last week I read Harry potter and the deathly hallows in 12 hours. I then spent the rest ...
... Hard Time, Timothy Egan's National Book award winner about the Dust Bowl. I've really really loved it.
I'm adding We Need to Talk about Kevin to my wishlist too. Not that I need to add anything more to my TBR pile. My dad is coming today with the 20-odd books I mooched from bookmooch. ...
>4, 12, 13, 18: OK, that's it, I've caved to LT pressure and added We need to talk about Kevin to my virtual TBR pile.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Soft Voices Whispering by Adrienne Dines
The Whispering Years by Bob Harris
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
Make a Great Wedding Speech by Philip Calvert
... Dahlia this week and as much as I love the characters it seemed to take me forever to get through.
#4 and #12 - I loved We Need To Talk About Kevin and have often suggested it to other readers.
#9 - Water for Elephants has to have been my favourite book I read in 2006
I also just ...
... have Middlesex waiting on the bedside table.
#4 emaestra - also a mother (of teenage boys) and a teacher, I thought We Need to Talk about Kevin was the singularly most powerful book I have ever read.
I just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin . Very powerful. As a mother and a teacher, it just left me dumbfounded.
Next up is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I've never read this author before, but the style looks promising.
... fast for another 5 weeks or so and then slow down a lot!
So far, since Saturday, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, There's No Need To Shout (positive behaviour management; apparently it's less stressful than screaming every 5 minutes.. gotta be worth a try!), Midnight for Charlie Bone, ...
... Minutes by Jodi Picoult on the Speed Read rack. I couldn't resist, because I want to know how it compares to We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - which was excellent.
Also got my first Mooch book in the mail - Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy - I'll save that ...
Ok. I'm going to try to adhere to proper grammar. : )
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.
We Need To Talk About Kevin .
One Frog Can Make a Difference.
Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy!
The Eagle has Landed.
Did I pass?
To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield
Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
To Look and Pass by Taylor Caldwell
Non-possessive pronouns
Adam and Eve and Pinch ME by Ruth Rendell
WE Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Back When WE were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Now May YOU Weep by Deborah Crombie
The Girls THEY Left Behind by Lilian Harry
Came home to a package yesterday--several of my book club reads for the coming year. (We go September to August.)
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Year of Wonders
Nine Parts of Desire
The Girls Who Went Away
Bulfinch's Mythology a happy addition to my reference shelf just because...
...
From the sale bin at Barnes & Noble, I got The New York Public Library Literature Companion for $2. SCORE!! I also got We Need to Talk About Kevin from the library, based on recommendations on LT.
... and I became quite drawn into the story.
I'm happy that I read it; but I wouldn't rate it as highly as her previous book We need to talk about Kevin .
I'm currently struggling through The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver which is really disappointing. I found We need to talk about Kevin to be a very powerful and moving book, and hoped this one would be too. Next up is The Road on order from the library.
... Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
38. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
39. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
40. We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
41. The Book of Names by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori
42. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
43. Diggi ...
... Me Down by M.J. Hyland (1)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1)
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende (1)
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2)
I could easily add two or three more . . .
... three books pay for two) special on selected books at Borders tonight and bought
The Alchemist, The Kite Runner and We need to talk about Kevin . The first two are books that I feel like everyone else has read and I living under a rock haven't yet. I haven't heard much about I need to ...
... off:
This Book Will Change Your Life - A.M. Homes
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel - Jane Smiley
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
Moo - Jane Smiley
Sain ...
... in Groundnut stew. She is Australian but that's as far as it goes.
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain MYFAVOURITE
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Dreams of Speaking by Gail ...
... Love, Nicole Kraus
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Property, Valerie Martin
We Need to Talk about Kevin , Lionel Shriver
Rape, a Love Story, Joyce Carol Oates
Several of these, of course, are award-winners but of the lesser known:
The ...
... of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' Collection) by George Saunders
Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark T ...
No need to say you are sorry, groo my sweet.
How did you know my name is windy britches?
... wish the bookshops' "removable" labels lived up to their name. When I removed a "3 for 2" sticker from the front cover of We Need to Talk about Kevin it brought away the underlying print. Still I suppose that adds 'character'.
# 103 SqueakyChu - I hated We Need to Talk About Kevin and wouldn't have finished it at all except that it was for book group and I kept hoping it would get better. I felt that it completely failed to deliver on any level. It was definitely one of those books that split the group with half the ...
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In our family, we disagreed about We Need to Talk about Kevin . I found it boring and could not finish it. Maybe I'll try it again at a later date. My daughter, on the other hand, listed it among one of her favorite books.
>66 I know exactly what you mean about We Need to Talk about Kevin and I have had a reader's copy of her new novel for months but just haven't picked it up and the tepid pre-publication reviews didn't help...
... of the past few years.
I'm currently reading The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. Her last book, We Need to Talk About Kevin , was one that, despite its flaws, I wanted to push into everyone's hands so I had someone else to talk about it with. This one I just want to ...
My cup runneth over. From bookmooch:
The Colour by Rose Tremain
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
and from my friend who has been giving me a book a month:
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
(She heard me raving about NYRB offerings.)
... Giver.
I have a couple more that are next in my to be read stack that are not YA - A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to talk about Kevin .
A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to Talk about Kevin are the two books I'm currently reading. An Abundance of Katherines will be the next book.
... Westward expansion of the U.S. and what we did to the Native Americans. That's one of my marks of a good book.
And We Need to Talk About Kevin is a book that will stay with you long after you finish it. You'll want to talk about it with everyone you know.
... I have three to begin and I'm not sure which to start first - An Abundance of Katherines, One Thousand White Women and We Need to Talk About Kevin .
(Touchstones are not working for Leibowitz, Katherines, and White Women.)
I got three for £1.10 at my library!
We need to talk about Kevin , The fashion in shrouds and Once in a house on fire. I've read the first two but like the look of the third. With luck like this, it's off to the Oxfam bookshop tomorrow. :D
gaskella: I have never been so affected by a book as I was with We Need to Talk About Kevin . It's amazing. Good luck.
... by A S Byatt this morning - two literary romance novellas set in 19th C, one excellent, one hard going. Now I'm starting We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
... and A Vegan Taste of the Middle East.
My dad's book was from Waterstones, on offer so I also "treated" myself to We Need To Talk About Kevin and On Beauty ;)
I'm still reading The Wasp Factory at the moment.
... in what you read?
I admit I'm hard-pressed at the moment to think of a novel which presents this topic, although Eva in We Need to Talk about Kevin was a "reluctant" mother.
Also, Rita in Ex Utero by Laurie Foos is ambivalent about having children when she somehow loses her uterus at ...
... reviewer but...), so I thought I'd throw this out here for anyone who also might find it interesting. I read his review on We Need to Talk About Kevin and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and found them to be intelligent, interesting and enlightening.
http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com
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... of it.
Those are my top two which echo even now, decades after they were first read. Others which come to mind...
We Need to Talk about Kevin , read this year, a mind-blowing book whose effect I have yet to be able to adequately articulate...(it might be because something blew up in my ...
I read We Need to Talk about Kevin and could not put it down. When I had finished it I had to sit for about fifteen minutes to recover. It wasn't the shooting that caused this-I think it was the power of the writing in general.
I immediately loaned it to a friend who had the same reaction. My ...
I have started, and abandoned we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver this week, and am now reading the Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin and thoroughly enjoying myself.
... White Earth by Andrew McGahan
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
The Accidental by Ali Smith
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Best nonfiction read: Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best audio: The History of Love by Nicole Kraus
Best poetry: ...
... Even if it's a stinker, let others discover that for themselves.
Do you know, if anyone had told me the ending of We need to talk about Kevin before I got to it, I would have scratched their eyes out (and I'm a pacifist). The ending knocked me sideways: I really didn't see it coming. Th ...
I've just finished We Need to Talk about Kevin , which was rather heavy going. I'm moving on to Raisins and Almonds, one of Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries; I'm not actually all that fond of Greenwood, but I was looking for something relatively light and easy after Shriver's book ...
While, I've read We Need to Talk About Kevin and Rape: A Love Story, I've not read them in a group. They are both horrific, powerful and thought-provoking books (some just won't considered anything that might be described as "horrific"). One cannot read them without wanting to talk to others ...
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I still feel that women are often underepresented and their serious fiction sometimes still devalued. Would something like We Need to Talk About Kevin be seriously considered for one of the other literary prizes... with its themes of motherhood, nature vs. nuture; its hard questions, it's ...
... to me (and haunt me to this day) were of a different ilk - Lara in Dr. Zhivago, Offred in Handmaid's Tale, Eva in We Need to Talk about Kevin ...
... as much as I am looking for honest representations. One of the most mind-blowing books I've read in the last few years, We Need to Talk About Kevin , has one of the most brutally honest and complex representations of a woman, a mother, that I've read. So difficult to read emotionally but ...
Looking at the winners for the past six years - On Beauty, We Need To Talk About Kevin , Small Island, Property and Bel Canto - I would say that all are accessible. None are what I would describe as 'difficult'.
Excellence: all I can offer is my own opinion that they were all very well ...
... fabulous place to find excellent and often very original fiction written by women.
I would highly recommend the We Need to Talk about Kevin , if one has the stomach for it. It is absolutely riveting, horrifying, and very moving. I was somewhat traumatized after reading it and was ...
I love the Orange Prize and I have loved all the winning books that I've read. Two favourites are Bel Canto and We Need to Talk About Kevin and for heaven's sake if you haven't read the second one YOU MUST.
I loved We Need to Talk About Kevin ..thought I would also like Vernon Little God but just could not read it.
... has the book title all screwed up and it's coming up as a PJ O'Roarke book. Bah.
Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver which I read from the library when it first came out - it is stunning.
Here's what I bought in the last month (July):
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser
Mr. Norris ...
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