Reading with Style discussion

Read a book another RwS member has rated 5 stars. See help thread for hints and tips about finding these books.

Looking for a specific book? Click on the RwS bookshelf link. On the top left next the group icon, enter the title in the search box. On the search results page, click the “view group reviews” link.

Perhaps I can suggest if members can recommend their latest 5 star reads here?

Tien wrote: "Perhaps I can suggest if members can recommend their latest 5 star reads here?"

Everyone is more than welcome to recommend books in this thread!

I find that I'm quite stingy with my 5 stars so colour me surprise (or not) to find that I've rated Candice Fox's books all 5 stars (ahem, all books she wrote by herself... not ones co-authored with certain big name) so I'd recommend her 2 series:

Crimson Lake
Archer & Bennett

Crime & rather dark.

2 others I'd recommend:
Astray by Emma Donoghue (short stories, historical)
City of Lies (Poison Wars #1) by Sam Hawke (fantasy)

I have a 5-star reads shelf. Some old, some new.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I have a 5-star reads shelf. Some old, some new."

I do, too: I sorted it recently read first
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

It’s good to know that people can sort another’s shelves by the column headings, the same way you can your own shelves. It’s only the group bookshelves that don’t have the additional sorting options.

Thanks, Elizabeth - that is helpful, --- I already have 3 from your shelf I want to read:)

Karen Michele wrote: "Thanks, Elizabeth - that is helpful, --- I already have 3 from your shelf I want to read:)"

Yes, and the settings options work, too, if you want to add a column.
Thanks, I hope you like them as much as I did.

Tien wrote: "I've rated Candice Fox's books all 5 stars...I'd recommend her 2 series:

Crimson Lake
Archer & Bennett"

Thanks, Tien. When I checked on the links, I remembered that I had read her first book in Crimson Lake and really enjoyed it. So, I will continue the series for this task. Looking forward to getting back to the Crimson Lake area.

Two five-star reads I read very recently were:

The Difference by Marina Endicott

Greenwood by Michael Christie

Both are Canadian and both so wonderfully epic and grand. Greenwood makes a nice companion to Richard Powers' The Overstory too.

I'm a fairly generous rater (in case you hadn't noticed!), so there is a lot of choice on my shelves. They are across many genres as well (including NF).

I also have a 5 star shelf. I’m pretty generous too. My rule of thumb is if I would recommend it to a friend or if I would read it again, if I had time or course!
Currently there are 650 books on my list.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

My 5-star ones since joining this group; four fiction and four NF, not sorted:

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life by Harold S. Kushner

Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle with Alcoholism by George S. McGovern

The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder

A History of Loneliness by John Boyne

Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle

What will we need to post to claim this task? Do we need to link to the member's profile, for example, or will it be enough to post the book?

(Just to know if I need to save any of the information I'm finding when researching)

Rosemary wrote: "What will we need to post to claim this task? Do we need to link to the member's profile, for example, or will it be enough to post the book?

(Just to know if I need to save any of the information..."

The name of the member will be enough.

Is it acceptable to use non-active members?

Coralie wrote: "Is it acceptable to use non-active members?"

Very much so. Members are members. We honestly don't know whether they do the challenge on their own, or they just look to us for good books or ???

i have a 5-star shelf, which i am happy to share:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

to include a some in this thread (maybe some (in fiction, mostly) that are not quite as well known?):

fiction:
• Hunting and Gathering, by anna gavalda
• The Girls, by lori lansens
• In the Skin of a Lion, by michael ondaatje
• In the Orchard, the Swallows, by peter hobbs
• Indian Horse, by richard wagamese
• Sweetness in the Belly, by camilla gibb
• Grace, by natashia deón
• Unless, by carol shields

nonfiction:
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by atul gawande
• The Empathy Exams, by leslie jamison
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by elizabeth kolbert
• The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909, by pierre berton
• Belonging: Home Away from Home, by isabel huggan
• The Truth About Luck, by iain reid

classics:
• Middlemarch, by george eliot
• A Tale of Two Cities, by charles dickens
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by zora neale hurston
• East of Eden, by john steinbeck