Stuck for something to read?

Stuck for something to read? Need some help working out which book on the bookstore shelves might be the one for you? Here are a few ideas that have caught my eye as I’ve trawled through cyberspace or have found in book reviews I have read recently.

Have you read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert?
Then you might want to immerse yourself in her life again and read the continuation of her story in Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage. I have to confess that I have yet to read Eat, Pray, Love but it is on my to-read list after I found an interesting discussion of both books on the site of one of my favourite bloggers, Mia Freedman. You can read Mia’s post on Committed here, and one on Eat, Pray, Love here.

Where Have You Been? by Wendy James
I first read about this in the Bookseller + Publisher Magazine Summer 2009/10 edition and the synopsis dragged me in. Like all good thrillers, the novel revolves around unanswered questions. Karen waved goodbye to her sister one night and her sister never came back. Then after marriage and children, the long lost sister reappears.  Where has she been? What has she been doing? Is she really who she says she is? Hopefully the author will keep me guessing until the very end. For more story about this book you might want to read this review of the book on the Readings Bookstore website.

Day After Night by Anita Diamant
The new book from the author of The Red Tent, Day After Night follows the story of four Jewish women who have survived in Nazi Europe during World War II, only to be interned in a Palestinian transit camp for “illegal immigrants”. Based on a true story about an escape by 200 prisoners from a camp named Atlit, the book review I read enticed me to find out more and I discovered this video of Anita talking about her book on the website of the book’s publisher, Simon and Schuster.