Comments on: I wish I represented…

By: Tyhitia

Tyhitia — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:49:26 +0000

I wish I’d written My Soul To Keep by Tananarive Due. Not because it made tons of money, but because it should have.

By: Donna Hole

Donna Hole — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:54:08 +0000

Jodi Picoult: My Sisters Keeper. Why didn’t I think of that. Or Kim Edward’s, The Memory Keepers Daughter. Both of these had absolutely beautiful characters and voice. The ethical delimas were appropriate to todays politics and morality; but did not have an author answer. I love the drama of moral connundrums, but don’t like to be told a difinitive answer.

To produce a novel of such poignancy and emotion, to create characters of such depth and reality; yes that would be my dream as a successful writer.

…….dhole

By: Sheila Hurst

Sheila Hurst — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:52:43 +0000

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN by Niall Williams because it’s so beautifully written. The sentences are poems. I remember marveling at them as I read them, and many caused a smile.

ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren also because of the lyrical writing and his descriptions of people, with all their conflicting motivations and desires.

By: JGStewart

JGStewart — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:31:29 +0000

THE COLD SIX THOUSAND by James Ellory

The Prydain Chronicles, by Lloyd Alexander

~JGS

By: Julie Nilson

Julie Nilson — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:24:58 +0000

Can I tell you how glad I am to find someone else who didn’t love ATONEMENT? A big part of my problem with it is that I hate, with a fiery passion, books that wait until the end and then in the last few pages, say, “Well, none of that really happened at all.” It reminds me of that infamous season of Dallas where it was all just a bad dream and Bobby Ewing was just in the shower. Argh.

By: Yat Yee Chong

Yat Yee Chong — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:09:08 +0000

I’d love to replace my name on Michael Cunningham’s, Alice McDermott’s, and Laurie Halse Anderson’s books. And The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall.

(And now I take note of the books mentioned here that I haven’t read. Oh, and speaking of book recommendations, Jim: when will you do another post where you make suggestions based on your readers’ recently-read books?)

By: Victoria Laurie

Victoria Laurie — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:55:58 +0000

Alan Bradley’s “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”, or any of the Flavia de Luce novels. Actually, I just wish I were even half as smart and talented as Alan Bradley. The depth, breadth, and width of his knowledge and talent are astonishing!

By: Kim Batchelor

Kim Batchelor — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:39:59 +0000

I would have loved to have written One Hundred Years of Solitude but the fact that I’m from Texas (which deserves its own version of “magical realism”) and not Latin American as is Garcia Marquez might have affected its success.

By: Dave Sosnowski

Dave Sosnowski — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:32:27 +0000

In non-fiction, two: Stop-Time and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In fiction, also two: The World According to Garp and Sophie’s Choice.

By: kat owens

kat owens — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:24:52 +0000

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff because of its compelling and surprising plot. The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta, because the family was just oozing with problems but also love.