Sarah Haskins' Book Club

Besides shooting Infomania at Current.com, writing and pitching a screenplay, contributing to the Post and Tribune, Sarah Haskins still manages to find time to curl up with a good read. Here Sarah indulges me by recommending books for quite the assortment of characters.

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Sarah's recs for....

The recent college grad....

The Magus, John Fowles
"A great cautionary tale about that first job you'll have out of school!"

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The unemployed recent college grad...

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
"You can read books about the larger world, but if you're feeling self-involved and self-pitying, cause you're unemployed and you just got out of school, I'd go with something that evokes nostalgia."

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And for an unemployed trapeze artist...."Is this someone you know?"

Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
"Maybe the trapeze artist doesn't want to read about the circus!"

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My own mother....

Wild Swans, Jung Chang
"Yeah you are not harvesting rice during the Cultural Revolution."

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Bristol Palin....

The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Ann Packer
"Bristol Palin needs a book about a young woman whose expectations are preventing her from realizing her potential. It's not all Middlemarch-y, let's face it, Bristol is not going to read Middlemarch."

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And for Suri Cruise....

Eloise, Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight.
"What do you do for the girl who has everything?"

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