Suzie's Books

Suzie's Books

Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard (American Lives)

Fan Shen

Bison Books, 2006

excellent read

+ Deserves major literary awards
+ A Brilliant Memoir
+ These chinese are wacky!!!
+ Savor It

Gossip Girl #1: A Novel (Gossip Girl Series)

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Poppy, 2002

A good book, but not the best.

+ This is Manhattan, 2008: New York was never so scandalous

It's not the best book, but I did find it pretty good. S is back from boarding school. Her hair is longer, paler. Her blue eyes have that deep mysteriousness of kept secrets...If we aren't careful, S is going to win our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, eat the last olive, spill ...

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Sophie Kinsella

Dell, 2004

An Epiphany For Becky Bloomwood!

+ Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
+ Fantastic!
+ Great book!
+ Great Book!!

Big Trouble

Dave Barry

Berkley, 2001

Can't Stop Laughing!!!!!

+ Hysterical!
+ Completely Brilliant
+ Laughed Out Loud Many Times

Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics)

Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

You only need one word to describe this book: fun!

+ A Wonderful Classic That Is Still Great - By Jingo!
+ Among the most classic of classics...
+ great family book
+ Fun for all ages

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman

Picador, 2007

It's too true the world is flat.

+ Your Guide to Capitalism in the 21st Century
+ Not the easiest read, but an eye-opener
+ Read it or weep!
+ one of the best for human philosophy, value system we live.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 1)

Ann Brashares

Dell Books for Young Readers, 2005

I want some magical pants!!

+ Sisterhood
+ Very much a girl book
+ Jam-Packed With Action and Romance

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Scribner, 2006

The Glass Castle

+ Adults as Children and Children as Adults
+ BRILLIANT!
+ food for thoughts on food
+ Such shocking behavior, it's almost unbelievable

Simplified Chinese Version of "MEMIORS OF A GEISHA"
Arthur Golden

shanghai yi wen chu ban she, 2006

An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; ...

Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

William Golding

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

A brutal, horrifying masterpiece

+ An Old Book Revisited

I had to read this book while I was in high school and thought it was just OK. I just reread it on my own and now that I'm an adult, it touched me more deeply. The bullying and cruelty these boys exhibit, the casual schadenfreude that escalates into violence, had a greater impact on me this time ...

A Million Little Pieces

James Frey

Anchor, 2005

incredible

+ Glad it is back on Amazon for sale.
+ Whose the target audience?

True or not, this is one of the most amazing books that I have ever read.

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Back Bay Books, 2001

Right on time

+ The place where the youth novel was born
+ Will stick with you

What was reported of the book by the seller was true and was delivered on time.

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Scribner, 2007

This is More Than Five (5) Stars [24][26][36]

+ a whole different book.
+ gone ....
+ Best American Epic Ever Written