The first is called Shantaram from Gregory David Roberts. I was hooked by page 4! A young Australian man enters Bombay with a false passport, having just escaped from a 20 year jail sentence. He befriends a local, Prabaker, who shows him the real India. There is Karla, a beautiful woman who can't love in return, whom adds the tension to the love story. He is named "Linbaba" by the locals and ends up in the slum, helping others with his small knowledge of medicine. The thing about this book, is that you know he is writing from real experiences. It is somewhat biographical, but more than that, you feel, smell, taste India in all its spendor, danger and reality of living with so many neighbors. I'm not quite half way through, but I can't put it down.
The second is The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger.
This guy time travels (without control over when and where he goes) and meets his future wife when she is 6 years old. From the book cover…
“When Henry meets Clare, he is twenty-eight and she is twenty. He is a hip librarian; she is a beautiful art student. Henry has never met Clare before; Clare has known Henry since she was six…”
Intrigued yet?
The last one is 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. It is a riveting minute-to-minute account of exactly what happened inside the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. If nothing else, it shows shining examples true ordinary folks being extraordinary heroes, and the incompetence of the Police & Firemen in communications (although we will always honor their bravery).
I have bought all these book at the Quality Paperback Book Club for much less than Amazon. If you would like to sign up, let me know, as they will send me a few books for the referral.
Happy reading.
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