New Booktalk Booklist - Books in Pairs

Books in Pairs

In April 2007, booktalker Vicki W. presented a popular booktalk at both Bethany and Gere branches on "paired books". No, not books about au pairs, but rather books that work well when read together -- books that compliment each other or provide two diverse looks at the same topic or event.

You can see Vicki's full Book Talk Booklist at: Books in Pairs, including links into the library catalog to check on the status of each title.

In the meantime, here's a list of her titles, paired up of course!

Books in Pairs

Are You Looking for an Epic?
Independent People by Halldor Laxness (and)
The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

Life Under the Ayatollah
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (and)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
additional suggestion -- the movie Ten, directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Getting Up in Arms About the Environment
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (and)
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
additional suggestion -- the movie The Real Dirt on Farmer Brown, directed by Taggart Siegel

What Were They Thinking???
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox (and)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Tragic Talent
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (and)
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
additional suggestion -- Savage Beauty: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

How It All Happened
The 9/11 Commission Report by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (and)
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sis Jacobsen and Ernie Colon

Small Town Special
Population 485 by Michael Perry (and)
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw
and
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi (and)
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen

The Normal, Extraordinary Life
A Girl Named Zippy (and)
She Got Up Off the Couch and Other Heroic Acts From Mooreland, Indiana, both by Haven Kimmel

Surviving Your Childhood
The Liars Club (and)
Cherry both by Mary Karr

Do You Love the #1 Ladies Detective Agency?
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexanders McCall-Smith (featuring Isabel Dalhousie) (and)
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall-Smith (featuring Professsor VanIgelfeld)

The Mind From the Inside Out
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin (and)
In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot

Cultural Misunderstanding
Kingsfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden (and)
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra