Year in Review - Books

Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010

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Kathy Whitmore 10:37 AM 1/7/10

I think the best book I read (actually listened to) was The Help by Kathryn Stockett. And I think that the audiobook version let me get a lot more from the story than reading it. Four readers took on all of the characters and made them come alive, each with their own style. I hope this one makes everyone’s list!

Craig Rimlinger 1:31 PM 1/7/10

Two of my favorite books were Last Salute and The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University. Completely different tones but both great in their own way.

Diane Wilkoff 1:37 PM 1/7/10

I really like “One Voice” by Naomi Feigenbaum, a local resident. She writes about her own experience going through recovery from Anorexia. It is a very personal book without the detraction of numbers--weight, calories or statistics.

It includes lessons she learned in recovery that can be applied to many illnesses and situations.

Marie-Rose Andriadi 1:41 PM 1/7/10

An amaizing non-fiction boook that combines my interest for architecture and history: The Age of Comfort y Joan Dejean, Bloomsbury, 2009.
About the French 18-th century origins of our notion of private life, comfort and the couch as we know it.
(216) 320 9090

Marcia Rohweder 5:25 PM 1/7/10

Loved Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness: short ssories.  Alice Munro, a Canadian author, is one of my favorite authors and
her short stories are always superb.  She captures the essence of
rather ordinary, if not quirky people in flux with great attention
to life’s happenings; many of them life-changing.