Hi,

I liked all the Grisham legal type books. His others are okay - but definetly not as good as his first.

Must be difficult for an author to switch genres and develop a new batch of loyal fans.

Jan.

Hi Ophelia, I would definetly be interested in hearing about your American assimilation. Close friends of ours originally came from England, and we spent many happy hours exclaiming over the differences in our countries. Just how different our homes were was suprising - they didn't have top cupboard...

Hi evendeathmaydie, I am curious - did you hesitate to join Booktalk when you saw all the athiest, humanism, and freethought forums? Are you strong enough in your faith to 'hang' with people who are generally not believers? Do you welcome friendly debate about your religion? Or is it a topic you wou...

Hi annaisabella, Still waiting for the rest. I am interested in hearing about how your family accepted your boyfriend. I am a white woman, married to a Native Indian. My family also had a very difficult time accepting my relationship. So, in order to be accepted, I decided to do what they all told m...

I read a moving book many years ago (unfortunately now out of print) written by Nelson Mandela's jailer on Robben Island: Goodbye Bafana, by James Gregory. It is very interesting to see the point of view of the jailer, who is an Afrikaner (with an Anglo name). I just looked this up, because the boo...

Hi Abigail, Welcome to Booktalk! I am glad that you joined, I'm interested in hearing the opinions of someone your age. The funny thing is, I have a 16 year-old daughter, who would also love to never set foot in a school again. So we have been trying to steer her to a career that doesn't require a l...

annaisabella wrote:I don't know if there's such a genre called philosophical fiction, but if there is i vote for that.

Can you offer up some titles/authors that fit this genre?

Thanks, Jan.

I am always reading at least one fiction and one non-fiction at any given time. Sometimes I try to have them correlate, but sometimes not. It is only in the past few years that I have started reading more than one book at at time. Now I also read a fiction, a non-fiction, and often a book of short ...

I am reading Crow Lake by Mary Lawson The main character was immediately likeable and real . I had cried by the end of the second chapter. I love books that can invoke so much emotion, no matter what that emotion may be. The story, narrated by 26-year-old Kate Morrison, is set in the eponymous Crow ...

Hi, I was trying to have a nap and couldn't stop thinking about this thread and the Moral Quandries thread which has a bit of a side discussion on harvesting organs from bodies without consent. The two kind of go hand-in-hand. Do we own our thoughts, even after we've put them on paper? Do we own our...