Here are some books I have read in the last 2 years and enjoyed:
Gathering Lies by Meg O'brien
Now of Never by Elizabeth Adler
A Painted House by John Grisham
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
White Mountain by Dinah McCall
And then you Die by Iris Johansen
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Rebeccas Tale by Sally Beauman
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
Dark Waters by Sharon Sala
Bird Song by Sebastion Faulks
The Song Catcher by Sharon McCrumbs
A Dance Through Time by Lynn Kurland
Christine by Stephen King
Here are some I read, but would not recommend:
Don't Say a Word by Andrew Klavan
Superstition by David Ambrose
House of Woman by Lynn Freed
Ghost Killer by Scott Chandler
I've had A Painted House sitting on my bookshelf for way over a year...guess I should give it a shot.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw Superstition on your Not Recommended list, I thought I'd already read it, but I was thinking of Superstitious by R.L. Stine...one of his few adult books....also not all that great.
A Painted House was very good.. but you have to have patience with it. It had a lot of drawn out parts, but the overall story was very very good :)
ReplyDeleteSuperstition was actually an Occult book... it had the Ouji board on the cover which is a bad sign for anyone who is superstiuos at all. When I was reading this book I had a very bad experience, probably one of the worst of my life. I had the book with me this day and the guy I was dating at the time ended up being arrested for getting drunk and attacking me with an axe!
From that point on I really truly believe that the ouji board and all of its superstition should be avoided. Guess it may of been a little silly of me to think that way, but that day still haunts me and most likely forever will.
And anyway the book itself was not good at all.
WOW....Yeah, I'd say that's enough to truly scare you away from stuff like that....an axe...that's serious. I guess that did it for that relationship.
ReplyDeleteI also read House of Women and wouldn't recommend it, I got it on sale at Barne's and Noble online and I didn't hate it but I couldn't see recommending it to anyone saying "I know you'll like this".
ReplyDeleteNicole - also in MA (Waltham)