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Falling Leaves --- by Adeline Yen Mah
an excellent book, true story of her life in china, absolutely moving and captivating cinderalla story
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“Going Postal”
Its funny. 
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A Feast For Crows - George R. R. Martin
Book 4 of the Song of Ice and Fire saga and one of the best books I have ever read. :)
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
This book deserves all the praise it gets and then some more.
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brothas and sistahs...i am looking for horror/thriller fiction reads.........please recommend....
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The Historian ... I'm halfway through the book and it is extremely good. The story drastically picks up after the first 100 pages, which are a bit slow, but it is well worth it. It is a good thriller and adventure ... quite a bit scary too at times! It's about Dracula and vampires and a good part of it takes place in Turkey.
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thankx mehnaz! i saw the book on nytimes bestseller list....but read a bad review just a few posts ago...but ill check it out...
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
An excellent account of the military campaigns in North Africa from 1942 to 1943 that begins with Operation TORCH (the Allied invasion of Morocco and Algeria) and ends with the defeat of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps.
I'm still only about about 20% through the book but it is utterly gripping, right from the first page of the prologue. It's no surprise that the author won a Pullitzer Prize for this book.
He provides an amazing picture of the campaign, right from the high level strategies through to the stories of the men who fought it: who they got along with, who they hated, what they felt, what they hoped and all too often how they died.
This book is definately deserving of a place amongst my collection of books on military campaigns through the 20th century.
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The Undomestic Goddess … another light hearted fun story by Sophie Kinsella. I could actually relate to the main character’s trials and tribulations in the kitchen. :halo:
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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.
Its surprisingly good. The book cover says its the modern fantasy classic. I think it just might be.
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Oh boy. You are liking 'The Golden Compass?'
Hehe. Whaddya reckon about his swipes at organised religion? Though perhaps they don't become so overt till the following books? Can't be bothered to recall.
Re-reading 'Maia' by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. Another of those literary gems that have become lost in the plethora of crap that gets published every year. Pity, because the book's probably better than 95% of the fantasy out there.
Warning: Not for kiddies, prudes or squeamish personalities.
Maia, sold into slavery by her mother for sleeping with her step-father, experiences the trials, tribulations and horrors of being a hapless 16 year old bedslave in a city as cruel as the desert that surrounds it - capital of the Beklan empire and the dwelling place of lofty kings, crafty courtiers and human monsters.
Watch her as she combats the adverse elements and rises through the ranks, armed only with the fierce but tempered determination that was the cause of her present perdicament and her most precious weapon: her body.
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No. X, I checked out a couple of the books you recommended and I was like :o
Sabriel was such a weird book. I can’t remember the others I read off your list offhand, but well yeah, so far I like the Golden Compass.
However, I’ll be honest with you, I have read maybe a few chapters. She’s only just run away from the party and is roaming around in the city. I have had way too much work at the job and at home lately. 
But hopefully by winter break I’ll finish it.
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PCG,
LOL. Sabriel was published as young-adult fantasy. I liked it well enough but, yeah, fair enough. Tastes certainly differ.
In any case, I'll certainly be interested in reading your views about Golden Compass once you finish it. :)
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I don't know if somebody has already mentioned this book, but I just finished reading The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston and it is good!
If you're a virus freak and that's the biology kind virus, not the computer ones, than you should read this book. It's about the breakout of Ebola in a monkey facility outside Wahington in 1989. Non-Fiction.
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Its getting to be real nice. Love the polar bear character - Iorek.
The only thing that took me a while to get comfy with was the whole daemon issue. I guess daemons are like a human’s subconscious. It got cheesy when the daemon tried to pull more than 10 feet away or so, and Lyra started crying because she was emotionally hurt. 
That’s the childish flavor of it, I suppose.
Yes, I do notice how its an attack on Christianity. I don’t know about the entire organized religion scheme, but yes, its definitely an attack on Christianity. The whole parallel universes idea and how the aurora is a veil between worlds - pretty cool stuff.
Its got a lot of elements in it - haha, and I guess its also an attack on working mothers - Mrs. Coulter being the typical neglectful CEO-lifestyle mom.
Its well-written. That’s the best part. I never picked this novel up before…I’d always skip over it, because I have issues with talking animals. I can’t imagine it very well, and they are annoying to conjure up in my mind. But he’s done a good job of making Iorek realistic.
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Okay, I get some parts of it. I still don't get the point of this Dust and why the Church is so scared of it. There are two more books - The Golden Compass is the first book of the trilogy.
It definitely is a book meant for children, though. I can't relate to the main character. I'm sorry, I don't have a fuzzy teady-bear type animal that means the world to me.
He did write it well though. I don't know if I want to bother with the other two books.
You know, I don't think there is anything wrong with fantasy books these days anymore. I think I might just have outgrown my obsession for them. I can't find one book that can actually get me hooked anymore.
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The Priest Fainted by Catherine T. Davidson
I bought the hard cover book for 99c at the local book fair. Other than the great price, the reason I bought it was because it talked about ‘Imam Baildi’ and browsing through it seemed like a story from the Middle East about an Imam. It turns out it is about a Jewish woman, a second generation Greek immigrant, who reluctantly goes back to Greece with her parents to find her roots or life. Even thought the flow of writing is well managed, I found it hard to follow and swallow the rather crude feminist metaphorical mentions. As I read it through it seemed like a Desi story about a girl alienated from her mother’s school of thought and views on life. And though it is called a Novel, I am not sure what part is fictional and what part actually did happen as it seems too real life to be fictional. Anyway, I would recommend this book to any girl who thinks there is a big generation gap between herself and her mother or who have pseudo feminist inclinations. My copy of the book is going to the box for the next garage sale!
How her story is related to an Imam? I will leave that for the curious ones to find out for themselves.
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"who have pseudo feminist inclinations"
lol, care to name names?
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‘the promise’ by danielle steel it so lovely 
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I am surprised no one has mentioned “Sister of my heart” by Chitra Divakaruni or perhaps i missed the post. I would highly recommend this novel. It was so hooked on it that I could not put it down till I finished the last page. Its beautifully written in lyrical style with amazing plot. I absolutely loved it :k:
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I think I will order The Veil and the Male Elite by Fatima Mernissi. Anyone read it here?