April 2012
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New Liner Titanic Strikes An Iceberg
New Liner Titanic Strikes An Iceberg …: History tells us that in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the … http://t.co/cA2MuGXo — PagesPast (@TTPagesPast)
Reading suggestions via postcards ...
Over the past two years, I have been participating in a postcard exchange program via the website, postcrossing.com. The program is really cool, you sign up and in few days you receive a postcard from someone somewhere in the world. Then you request an address and send a postcard. So far in two years, I have received 84 postcards and sent 84 postcards.
As part of the program, I have asked people sending me postcards to tell me either who their favorite author is or what book they are currently reading. I have received several replies to my question. I thought it would be fun to share with you the list of authors and/or books and what country the suggestion came from.
United States
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins*
Fab by Howard Sounes
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Monkey Wars by Deborah Blum
Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum
A Share In Death by Deborah Crombie
The books of Clive and Dirk Cussler
The Pillars of Earth by Ken Follet
World Without End by Ken Follet
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Doctor Who books*
The books of Alice Munro and Paul Fussell
The books of Dr. Daniel Amen
The books of Dean Koontz, Ellen Hopkins and Nicholas Sparks
Germany
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon*
The Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes
The books of Arto Paasilinna
The books of Ross Thomas
The books of Mary Higgins Clark
The books of Walter Moers
Finland
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien*
Sold by Zana Muhsen
Feather in the Storm, a Childhood Lost in Chaos by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
The books of Jari Tervo and Sofi Oksanen
The Netherlands
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery*
The books of Anna Gavalda, Susan Tamaro and Simone de Beauvoir
The books of Marianne Fredriksson, Marcelo Figueras and Brigid Pasulka
Ukraine
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde*
The works of Taras Shevchenko
China
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The books of Cai Jun
Great Britain
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Howard’s End by E.M. Foster
Switzerland
Irish Born by Nora Roberts
Estonia
The Ladies’ Paradise by Emilie Zola
Lithuania
The books of Alexander Pushkin
Turkey
The books of Orhan Panuk
Russia
The works of Anton Chekhov
Belarus
The books of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Sergey Lukyanenko
Poland
The books of Nicholas Sparks
*books that I have read
