Plot summary (from the publisher): Audrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry [...]
Plot summary (from the publisher): Mr. Darcy’s Diary presents the story of the unlikely courtship of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Darcy’s point of view. This graceful imagining and sequel to Price and Prejudice explains Darcy’s moodiness and the difficulties of his reluctant relationship as he struggles to avoid falling in love with Miss [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): There’s a revolution taking place in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Ramat, which forces Prince Ali Yusuf to flee the country. Before leaving, he gives his best friend/pilot Bob Rawlinson for safekeeping a small bag containing nearly a million dollars in precious stones to smuggle out of the country. Since [...]
Summary (from the publisher): Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance [...]
Summary: In this memoir, author Gail Caldwell talks of her deep friendship with Caroline Knapp, her struggle with alcoholism, and her love of dogs. An introvert at heart, Gail had a hard time making close friends, though she did have a number of acquaintances. She preferred the company of dogs because she could get companionship [...]
I found this list over at a blog called Still Learning, and thought it looked like fun to go through. I’m not going to tag anyone, but here are the instructions if you’d like to play along. (I’ve read 66, btw.) Instructions: • Copy this list. • Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. [...]
Plot summary (from the publisher): It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist’s dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, [...]