Hi Heat,
OK, I'm a librarian and a book reviewer for a magazine, so this is a topic I can sink my teeth into!
Right now I'm re-reading all the books in Stephen King's Dark Tower series in preperation for the release of the latest book in November. I finished "The Gunslinger" and I'm getting ready to start "The Drawing of the Three", which is my favorite book in the series.
The best book I've reviewed lately is "After" by Francine Prose. It's about "school safety" measures gone horribly wrong following a school shooting- all rights are taken away and the school becomes a dictatorship. It's an interesting exploration of weighing safety vs. personal freedom. It will be released in June, I think.
My favorite books ever are:
Fiction: "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Bag of Bones" by Stephen King
Nonfiction : "Mankind: Have A Nice Day- A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks" by Mick Foley (an American wrestler)
and of course....
"To Hell and Back" by Meat Loaf
(Actually the Mankind book is very similar in tone to the Meat Loaf book, though it's about wrestling rather than rock and roll.) Both have a concussion count and very engaging narrators.
Sherrie
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