Help is on the Way!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Help is on the Way!

Here is some help for the challenge. Use these hints to help you find a book that works for you in each of the task categories...

5.1: Look to my Amazon Wishlist in the column on the right for ideas
5.2: Shanghai Girls (our book club selection for the month of September), or Best Novels that Take Place in China

10.1: The book club book selection for October (to be announced), or Best Gothic Novels of All Time
10.2: Jews in Literature

15.1: Books with "Road" in the title, Books with "Avenue" in the title
15.2: The book club selection for November (to be announced), or try this mixed list or this non-fiction list of books about war

20.1: American Indian book ideas, Native American fiction, or look here for some extra ideas
20.2: You're on your own for this one, but try googling your hometown with "author" or "local writers" next to it.

Hope that helps!

xo,
The Coconut Librarian

Sep 17, 2009 6:00:00 AM | The Book Challenge

3 Comments

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm having trouble with the 5.2 task--Chinese or Vietnamese culture books. I recently read Lisa See and thought the book was ok, but am not so interested in her that I want to dive in to another one right away. I also checked out the link above and (shockingly) have read a majority of the top ten on that list. Any lower than that and I don't trust 'em :) (btw- I read Wild Swans in college for an Asian studies class and it was amazing! highly recommended for those who haven't picked something yet)

Any other CL readers have suggestions? Trying to get creative with it. Too bad Dan Brown's new book doesn't have a Chinese character in it...that's on the priority to read list. I assume the fact that I just watched the movie Rescue Dawn won't suffice?

Also, for the last task that I helped created, I noticed that going to my local library's web page and or local newspapers web page and searching those sites for local authors brought up a slew of books to choose from.

Posted by: jaydek | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 11:02 PM

jaydek,
The Things They Carried (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133518.The_Things_They_Carried) is supposed to be very good. It about a vietnam soldier. Although it's been around for awhile, it is making it's way around reading circles again now. I have it on my to-read list. I imagine it will be intense, but worth it.

Posted by: Coconut Library | Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:07 AM

oh yea, my mom loves that one. i knew it was a war book but didn't realize it was vietnamese. i'll have to check it out

Posted by: jaydek | Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 07:01 PM

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