Last week we talked about keeping a wishlist. Why not pull out that list and show us some of the books you’ve been eyeing off?
Last week I commented on my wishlist being a private for-my-eyes only shopping list. I would be burning in book lust if I have to wait for people to give me the books I want. Regardless of the towering TBR pile, I buy along the way and stock up on craved titles. Here is a glimpse of my eye candies at the moment:
The Help, Kathyrn Stockett
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
The Weight of Silence, Heather Gudenkauf
Say You’re One of Them, Uwem Akpan
The Angel’s Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Lost Letter, Neil Mulligan
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.), Thrity Umrigar
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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Love The Help, loved The School of Essential Ingredients.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie was pretty good..and i read The Bell Jar was I was a teenager and thought it was good, but then, I was a teenage girl at the time…lol
I have to look up The Weight Of Silence. I love the title.
I would also like your first and third. I gave away the 5th for BBAW, because I don’t tend to read short stories. I would also like the nonfiction book, “Plants of the Lewis & Clark Expedition” and well, I have a whole list somewhere – not where I thought when I went to the library sale this weekend, totally listless, so to speak! It was very frustrating!
I haven’t heard of any of these. http://web.me.com/bluestocking_bb/Life_Less_Brooke_Would_Be_Ordinary/Blog/Entries/2009/10/4_One_day_left_of_the_20’s.html
OOps. Matt please delete that first link. I’m visiting way too many blogs tonight. Here is the right link. Monday Morning Update 14
Yeah, my TBR pile isn’t getting any smaller either. 🙂 Like I said in one my recent posts, someone has to keep those bookstores in business! 🙂 Nice list!
Lezlie
I just bought Say You’re One of Them. I’m steeling myself to read it since I know it will be one of those books that affects me deeply.
I’m the same way with my wishlist; I use it more as a shopping list for myself to keep me focused when I’m shopping.
Excellent list, especially the last book!
I want to read The Help and The Forgotten Garden!
I enjoyed The School of Essential Ingredients and I can’t wait to hear what you’ll think of this book when you get to it!
I look forward to when you get and read the Zafon novel.
Good luck!
caite:
I am deeply shamed that I haven’t read The Bell Jar. 😦 It overwhelmed me at the time it was on the optional reading list in high school.
rhapsodyinbooks:
Not a huge fan of short stories either, but I’m very interested in the author. 🙂
Bluestocking:
I have known only one author—Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who published The Shadow of the Wind. All the others are new to me. I tend to be more careful with purchases when it comes to new authors.
Lezlie:
I’m proud of sustaining the indies. 🙂
Kathleen:
I heard it’s very good read, and that I am usually not a reader of short stories, I decided to go for it! 🙂
Amanda A.:
The last one, which is a classics, I have never read. I am hoping I’ll correct that very soon. As for the wishlist, many readers will feel the same as I do because they are not patient to wait to be given the books they want. 🙂
Melody:
The Help has been all over everyone’s radar. The School of Essential Ingredients is a recommendation from you! 🙂
workingwords100:
I’m waiting for the trade paperback. 🙂
I know what you mean by waiting for people to give you books…that never happens to me either even though my friends and family know I lvoe books. Maybe they’re afraid that whatever they give me would be a book I already have. Or that I already have too many books (never!).
I have “Say You’re One of Them” in my TBR and am waiting for “the Angel’s Game” to come out in trade paperback, or if I find it at a really good price.
I’m curious about “The Bell Jar” now after the recent talk about it!
yes yes yes on the plath. it is well worth it. as for the sweetness at the bottom of the pie – i’ve had that on my list for a while as well! one day, i may just go buy it…
I read and reviewed The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton not too long ago and I can highly recommend it! I really enjoyed her first book but I think that this one is even better!
Such a great list! I LOVED: The Help, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Bell Jar and The Space Between Us.
(You need to add The Weight of Heaven; Umrigar to that list. I loved it as much as The Space Between Us. She is a great author).
Oh Matt! Everytime I drop by I find another classic book I never read, like The Bell Jar
And here I was thinking I was decently well read before!
Oh well. Here’s my musing
Not as ambitoius as yours. My thoughts tended to be more recent.
I haven’t read any of these but I have seen the covers floating around in the booky blogoshpehre. If you want to wander down my road I’m home.
Valerie:
I’m cheap so I have to wait until the trade paperback for The Angel’s Game to release! Ha!
My friends used to say there must be a book that I haven’t read around the house. That was so long ago before I maintained a TBR pile! Now I just can’t go on with a book or two lined up waiting to be read. 🙂
lena:
The Bell Jar got all the YAYS!!! I need to squeeze that in the list, like soon, like now! 🙂
Dot:
I still have to read The House at Riverton! I’m so behind! *sigh* But at least I know both books are good! 🙂
diane:
Oh yes you bet. Umrigar is on my new author watch list! 🙂
jennygirl:
I’m surprised many of us haven’t read it. Should I make that a read-along? 🙂
Kaye:
Except for The Bell Jar, these books are fairly new. I tend to maintain a list of new books that I might be interested in buying. 🙂
These four are on my wishlist as well:
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
The Weight of Silence, Heather Gudenkauf
Say You’re One of Them, Uwem Akpan
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
A couple other covets are:
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I’m looking for Blindness. I would love to read it. My only current wishlist member.