Leslie's comments (member since Feb 20, 2009)

Leslie's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

This is great. I've already made a long list of books to look for when I visit a local used book store this weekend. Thanks for all of the advise!

I agree about Mary Roach.
I've only read Stiff:The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, but I thought it was great and very funny.

I also suggest anything by Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air, Into The Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven). He has a writing style that reads very much like a novel and very interesting.

If you're interested in learning more about medicine or diseases, Richard Preston wrote The Hot Zone (about the Ebola Virus), as well as Demon in the Freezer (about smallpox and anthrax), both of which I enjoyed, but could be a bit disturbing to someone else. The books were very interesting, and I've read The Hot Zone multiple times, but diseases are disgusting and parts of these books are a bit graphic (just a warning!)

Hi all. I was recently on a trip with a group of people, one of whom had decided to read only female authors for 6 months because she had realized that all of her favorite authors were male. She figured this was because she tended to read more books by male authors than female authors (not that women don't write as well as men do). As it turned out, the rest of our group noticed we also tended to mostly read male authors and EVERY book we had brought on the 2 month trip was written by a man.

I have since decided I want to read more female authors, and so I'm looking for some suggestions. Please let me know your favorite female author or any book that you love that was written by a women.