June 14, 2006
Reading About Depression
If you or anyone you know is suffering from depression, here are some books I've found to be helpful and have passed along to friends and family in an effort to help them TRY to understand how this illness works...
• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
• Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression by Nell Casey
• Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness by David A. Karp
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
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June 04, 2006
Period Pieces
This is a list of novels that are, for lack of better term, period pieces - Victoriana and such. Boys - don't discount them for that reason. But they are, by and large, stories of propriety and nuance.
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ♥
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ♥♥
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Nana by Emile Zola ♥
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ♥♥
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ♥
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters ♥
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ♥♥
- Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund ♥♥
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrellby Susanna Clarke
- Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ♥
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ♥♥
♥ = indicates a slight sentimentality warning.
♥♥ = indicates a strong sentimentality warning. Yeah. I know.
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Childrens' Books Worth Your Time (non-picture books)
- the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- any childrens' books by Roald Dahl (he also wrote for adults - with titles like Switch Bitch)
- the Merlin stories by T.A. Barron
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- all of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Borrowers series and Bed Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
- the Mary Poppins books by P.L. Travers
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- anything by Cornelia Funke (Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Inkspell, Dragon Rider)
- the Wrinkle in Time/Time Quartet series by Madeleine L'Engle
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler
- the Pippi Longstocking books by Astrid Lindgren
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books by Betty MacDonald
That's the first list. More to come as I am inspired!
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Greetings and Salutations!
I've been struggling with the look of the page. I'm not 100% satisfied, but it's basically a matter of finding my CSS errors at this point.
Without further ado, welcome to the new researchgirl book blog. You'll notice that I'm "repurposing" some content from the old book page but it will now be categorized and organized and, most importantly, frequently updated. It's an easier platform.
If you have any comments or suggestions on how to make this page better, please don't hesitate to contact me via email: eva (at) researchgirl.com.
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