Meghan’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2009)

Meghan’s comments from the Challenge: 50 Books group.

Book #13 is "Magician: Master" by Ray Feist. An all-time favourite.
Book #14 is "Anything Considered" by Peter Mayle. I liked the story but the characters annoyed the crap out of me.

Book #12 (which was really #9 but I loathed it so much I've blocked it from my memory) "Wolf at the Table" by Augusten Burroughs.

Book #11 is "A Dog's Life" by Peter Mayle. Nice, light, entertaining read.

Book #10 is "Fearless Fourteen" by Janet Evanovich. It's good, not as good as some of the others but I still laughed out loud. It seems like Plum-lite, less Ranger, less Grandma Mazur, less romance, less action...

Book #7 is "Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur" by Halima Bashir. The most moving memoir I've ever read. It goes on sale 9/9/08. Pick up a copy.

Book #8 is "My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq" by Ariel Sabar. Good, solid family biography more than memoir.

Book #9 is "The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine" by Somaly Mam. She's a wonderful person doing admirable work. Her memoir isn't one of them. It would be a great story if it were better told.

Book #5 is "Magician: Apprentice" by Ray Feist. Normally, I wouldn't count a book that I re-read but as I haven't read this since it was first released in 1982, I think it qualifies.

Book #6 is "French Lessons: Adventures with a Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew" by Peter Mayle. I've come to Mayle only recently and I'm enjoying his non-fiction enough to add them to my person library. Next up from him will be "A Good Year" so I shall see if I enjoy his fiction as well.

I agree that Peter Jackson did a great job with LOTR. I refused to see them for years for fear that they would ruin the books for me. I now own the extended editions of all 3 films and love them.

In the "teen genre" Holes (Louis Sachar)is a good film that remains true to the book, while Hoot (Carl Hiaasen) is ghastly. It's a great book but the film is just flat. (Hiaasen books tend to not translate well to film anyway, Striptease (the film) has to be one of the worst films ever made and the book isn't bad - not Hiaasen's best- but not bad.

The Princess Bride is another family film that has translated well from the book, though if you haven't read the book, you really should.

# 4 is "The Silver Needle Murder" by Laura Childs.

I've finally finished "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" by Christopher Moore. That's #3.

Last night I read book #2, "The Lost Duke of Wyndham" by Julia Quinn.

I finished book #1 "Foul Play" by Tori Carrington.

Well, that's a book completed per week, which will hopefully give me the push that I need to work through my Mt. TBR before I'm buried under a bookslide. I'll hopefully finish the first today.