I need good book recommendations and i will give them back to you!

There is a kindle edition. hm…

Forgot to report back, I did get Les Miserables, read a huge chunk on a trip to Florida but am having a hard time finding time to read more than a little bit here & there since I got back. The translation I got is unabridged but very readable & I’m starting to figure out where it’s OK to skip big chunks of background and history that’s only marginally related to the story.

I normally adore him in anything & my husband really liked him in this, but I didn’t see the emotions I needed to see from the character. Good movie, though.

Thank You for a good recommendation GD. I find it interesting that the story is about a cat named…..Bob(by)? 😉

The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews

And, if you don’t mind the *language*, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. My book group just read that and everyone in the group, except for one, liked it. That kind of surprised me because it is quite…. different.

This is an excellent book about how wildlife is encroaching on suburban communities. It has a long chapter about feral cats and people’s attitudes toward them.

http://www.jimsterba.com/

I have to post this since the author is a friend of mine and this is his first published novel. The book is so cross genre that I think many people will read it. (I am about half way through it and though it is very rich in detail it doesn’t get bogged down in it.)

This is my friends new book, available at all major booksellers. The Six-Gun Tarot, by R.S. Belcher.

Most reviews describe it as a sort of genre mash-up of Western, Steam Punk and Lovecraftian horror. And I would add a bit of mystery thrown in there.

Some reviews:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793094-the-six-gun-tarot

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-2932-5

http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-six-gun-tarot/

Overview:

Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker’s wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone’s business, may know more about the town’s true origins than he’s letting on. A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn…and so will all of Creation. R.S. Belcher’s The Six-Gun Tarot is “an astonishing blend of first-rate steampunk fantasy and Western adventure.” (Library Journal, Starred Review)

I am so looking for these books…six gun looks right up my alley. thanks!

I would offer the Deborah Crombie mystery series. It’s about a British detective and his sidekit/love interest. For a non-brit (me and the author), I felt it had a great way of introducing England/London that made me want to go there.

Just realized I wrote TF earlier when I meant TM (oops). I think I’ll definitely have to check out the Deborah Crombie series.

BTW, a friend tells me the film, Cloud Atlas, is fantastic. I do want to read the book.