Recommendations

Thanks to everyone who commented and/or sent me recommendations via email. Five people told me that I needed to read Three Cups of Tea so that is my first read from the list.

Other recommendations include:

Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth
John Grogan's Marley and Me
Anything by Jodi Piccoult
Sarah Addison Allen's Garden Spells
Comfort Food and Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Marisa de los Santos' Love Walked In
John Shors' Beneath a Marble Sky
Lee Smith's The Last Girls
Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City
Stephen King's The Mist
Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series
Gilda Radner's It's Always Something
Richard Russo's Straight Man
Jane Smiley's Moo
Augusten Burroughs' Possible Side Effects
Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
Elie Wiesel's Night
Phillipa Gregory's Boleyn Books
Alan Brennert's Moloka'i
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
Jennifer Finney Boylan's She's Not There

In addition I received recommendations for book sharing and/or review sites. Sydney recommends GoodReads. Ani hooked me up with Shelfari, and Sarah introduced me to Bookins. Thank you all.

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In non-book related news, Julia is finally walking just two days short of her thirteenth month-day. I captured video of her new skills this morning, but Dropshots is being funky. Video of that milestone will be up soon (hopefully).

Craig was elated that she started walking prior to his departure for Albany, NY this afternoon. He'll be gone for four and a half days to meet with colleagues about their National Science Foundation Grant. Needless to say I'm going to miss him terribly. He is due to arrive home just in time to celebrate our wedding anniversary (good move, Craig, missing the anniversary would make for a very unhappy wife).