What is on your reading list for this summer?
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In the nonfiction category, I finally received my copy of Adams by David McCullough after some unpleasant battles with the shipper. This book has received stellar reviews from online sources I trust as well as from friends. I look forward to reading it on my upcoming vacation.
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The Year of Jubilo by Howard Bahr
The Missing World by Margot Livesey
The Far Field by Evie Medved
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian.
I know I'll enjoy every word!!!
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Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Vendetta Defense by Lisa Scottoline
World of Pies by Karen Stolz
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This summer I'll be reading Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler
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I'm going to try to read some of those books I "should have read." I've got quite a range. It goes from Charlotte's Web and the Secret Garden to Sense and Sensibility and a few other Jane Austin if I can get to them (urged on by my 81 year old mother who has read EVERYTHING). I also just got a Willa Cather collection, a copy of Brave New World and since the original manuscript has sold for 2.2 million dollars, I thought I'd read On The Road. Think I can handle such a combination or will my head explode?!? Anyway, that's what I'm planning. We'll see how I do!
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The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman - Joan Anderson
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Ahab's Wife: The Stargazer - Naslund
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
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Well, seeing as how I will be in the trenches of 8th grade summer school, I get to read Scorpions, Call of the Wild, and Nothing but the Truth; I am also planning to tackle The Catcher in the Rye again (for some reason I hated it the first time I read it, but there is so much "angst" in my life right now I thought I would give it another go). You could recently see me carrying around The Art of War, which I referred to from time to time like a bible. I am taking the advice of someone and reading The Partner, and I will probably dust off Dali by Dali and try to get into that as well. Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen should about round it out. Thanks.
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
No. 4,5, and 6 of the "Left Behind" Series
The rest of summer is a free fall with reading....can't wait!
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I am waiting for the new Janet Evanovich book. Just two more weeks.
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Kershaw's Hitler, Nemesis 1936-45
Carroll's Constantine's Knife
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I am definitely going to read Cane River and Ice Child.
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Jayne Anne Krentz and Jude Deveraux newest releases
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I'll probably make the time to read Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher". Although I'm partial to women fiction writers, I always seem to truly enjoy his work.
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Roddy Doyle, Ha ha ha by Paddy Clarke
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deene
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Jump for Life by Ruth Althbeker Cyprys
Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Who's Irish? by Jen Gish
Gun in the House by Nadine Gordimer
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
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I am reading (I hope)
POPE JOAN
THE BLUE NOWHERE
SALVATION ON SAND HILL
and the latest by Nora Roberts and Ms. Berg
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My summer reading list will contain anything about Italy. I have read "The Sixteen Pleasures" already. I will be reading "Italian Neighbors" by Tim Parks, and "The Hills of Tuscany" by Ferenc Mate. I'm looking forward to it all!
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A Painted House
The Book of God
Joshua
The Mitford stories
May 25, 2001 --- What is on your reading list for this summer?
See what's on ours!
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My book club reading list -
The Blind Assassins by Margaret Atwood
The Drowning People by Richard Mason
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
My personal reading list -
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
In Harm's Way (Indianapolis) by Doug Stanton
Little Altars Everywhere & The Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
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I'm in between college classes so I want to read strictly for fun:
Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher;
Way Forward is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker;
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver;
Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan;
We are the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates; and
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
Now, if I only didn't have to work for a living. . .
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At the top of my reading list for summer is the new translation of Anna Karenina.
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First, and I have to confess I already read it, but "Close to Shore' is an unbelievably great beach read. But, also, I am hoping that Harlen Coben will come out with another book. Unfortunately, only because I don't think he is ready to publish another one yet, I just read Stephen Hunter's "Hot Springs" and I hope he comes out with another Swaggert book. Also, I'm breathlessly waiting for another Nelson DeMille.
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It's not summer yet but I am reading The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark. I am also going to try to get through Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy! I loved the movie w/Harrison Ford and my Dr. said the book was so much better, so it is on the list.
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Any gay or lesbian, transgender books, any books by Dorothy Allison, Pat Califia-Rice, Toni Morrison, Laurie King, Katherine Forrest, Lelea Newman, Leslie Feinberg, Sally Gearhart, Abigail Padgett, Anais Nin, Susie Bright, Elizabeth Lynn, Sheri Tepper, Jewel Gomez, how is that for some?
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Stephen Ambrose's "Band of Brothers" in anticipation of the mini-series on HBO; "For Whom the Bell Tolls" [I had to read it in high school now I WANT to read it]; Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six"; Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" [now this should be on high school reading list] and Nelson Demille's "Word of Honor." If I get to read two or three of these books then I'll feel like I've accomplished something.
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1st to Die, On Her Own Ground, Dracula
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Stolen Lives
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I want to continue Sue Grafton's series. I am only up to L.
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Hands down, the book that is a must read at the beach this summer written by the best writer of beach fiction: Hollywood Wives: the New Generation, by JACKIE COLLINS!
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The Swedish series with Martin Beck, written by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall (not sure of sp.). I read all the books years ago. Unfortunately, I don't own them - they were all loaned to me. Not even sure if they're still in print, but if they are, I recommend them highly. They are mysteries/police procedurals, all featuring the same characters.
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On my reading list is every Jeffery Deaver book I can locate. Just discovered him and love him.
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"The Worst Day of My Life, So Far," a novel by M. A. Harper
"Killing Time", by Caleb Carr
"Paris to the Moon" by Adam Gopnik
"Walking the Bible..a Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses" by Bruce Feiler
"Season of Death" by Christopher Lane
"Abduction" by Robin Cook
"River's End" by Nora Roberts
New books by Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and "Jane Eyre"
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Oprah book club and a few odds and ends of my choosing. I enjoy true crime as I was once a police officer, I enjoy books about Ireland, fiction or not. I read just about everything.
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On the Street Where You Live - Mary Higgins Clark
The American Dream - Dan Rather
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On my summer reading list I have:
Paper Daughter; A Memoir by M. Elaine Mar
Something to Declare by Julian Alvarez
Imagining Characters by A.S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre
Still Life by A.S. Byatt
East of the Mountain by David Guterson
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Nashlund
The Reader by Bernard Schlink
The Discovery of the Grail by Andrew Sinclair
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Eleanor Roosevelt Volume II The Defining Years, by Blanche Wiesen Cook
I think I have enough to keep me out of trouble this summer!
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Two on my list for this summer will be the new Janet Evanovich novel and also I heard the new Grafton novel will be coming out. Those top my list!
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I don't think my reading habits are that different during the summer than the rest of the year, but I do put some thought into deciding what book to take on vacation. Usually I choose a paperback that's been collecting dust on my shelf, perhaps something I read years ago that's due for a fresh look. The rationale for taking a paperback is first, that it's lightweight for toting around, and second, if I lose it, there's no fine from the library. For this year, I'm thinking about buying a new translation of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" or a new version of "Charterhouse of Parma." I also have a paperback of Hawaiian ghost stories that I picked up on a trip to the islands last year, and that might be a good choice for occasions when I don't have a large block of time to read.
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Every summer I reread everything LM Montgomery ever wrote (Anne of Green Gables, et al). Sometimes I read them in the order in which they were published, which I think is best, but sometimes I just reread at random. I don't always finish them all because sometimes a scene in one reminds me of another book and I go and read that one (LMM repeats plots quite a bit). I find this a very comforting activity, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something when I read a whole book while aimlessly lying in the sun!
This summer I'm also planning on reading any Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters' books I haven't yet. I started reading her when I was 10 and am hopelessly addicted to EP Amelia Peabody series. Since The Lord of the Silent just came out and I finished it in one day, I'm going to listen to the whole series on tape to fill the void until next year. I think I'll reread some of the other Peters' books that I've read before, too.
Oh, and I have plans for Georges Duby's books about medieval life in France....
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Summer reading list:
Seven Up, Janet Evanovich
Pigs in Heaven and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
The Constant Gardener, John LeCarre
A Primate's Memoir, Robert M Sapolsky
Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke
P is for Peril, Sue Grafton
The Fourth Hand, John Irving
Thief of Time, Sourcery, The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
Falcon at the Portal, Elizabeth Peters
Tropical Depression, Laurence Shames
Mystic River, Dennis LeHane
The Song Catcher, Sharyn McCrumb (she's on tour, singing Bluegrass with an accompanist
Parallel Lies, Ridley Pearson
Anything new by Carl Hiaasen, Robert B. Parker
