Literary notes - Susan's house

Karen said, "

I was writing down book titles that several people were talking about, and some of you asked for the titles. These are books read by one or more WWE and are recommended by them. Slightly annotatee list follows. Corrections or additions are welcome.

By the way, it was really great to see all of you who were there.

Karen

Book Thief--Markus Zusak WWII, girl in foster care steals books to cope with life, good characters in book

Good Masters & Sweet Ladies: Voices from a Medieval Village--Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd

Hound of Rowan; book one of the Tapestry--Henry H. Neff --Harry Potterish series; well-written

Three Cups of Teas: OneMan's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time--Greg Mortenson non-fiction about project to establish schools (especially for girls) to counteract poverty, terrorism, etc.--started when male nurse didn't make it on K-2 climb and was nurtured for weeks by local family

Tenth Gift--Jane Johnson--novel about embroidery patterns connecting two women across time--modern England and Barbary pirates (I think English girl was captured by piratesand taken to Morocco???)

1491:New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus--Charles C. Mann--lots of fascinating information about high level of culture and population densities, advanced state of society before Europeans arrived--several people had read this one

Pontoon; a novel of Lake Wobegon--Garrison Keillor funny"