Summer reading anyone?
#184605 - 06/08/05 09:07 AM
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For those of you who are avid readers or just readers in general, what's on your reading list for this summer? Or what are you reading now, or what have you just finished?
I just finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (which was nominated for the booker last year I think). It was really good - 6 different stories all nested into each other and overlapping each other, and all about how time is really fluid and cyclical and random. ("What wouldn't I give for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffible? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds."). Really well written too.
On my summer reading list is (gasp) Salman Rusdhie's Satanic Verses - yes, I know not very light summer reading! See, I tend to collect these piles of books during the school year when I have no time to read anything for fun and say to myself, ok I'll read this in the summer when I have more time. And since this book is a huge paperweight (or doorstop!) of a book, it's going to take a little time. I'm not sure if that one will be next though.
There are others on my list too but I'll post those a little later. For now, what are you guys reading/planning to read? Any recommendations?
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These are not novels but books my Christian authors that I have wanted to read but not had time too. Thank goodness for pool time!
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My goal is to have all of these read by the end of the summer, but since I haven't even started ONE yet, I suppose that's a pretty lofty goal. But I *do* read really fast once I get started, and none of these are terribly long or involved, so I guess you never know.
Anyway, here's the stack of "unreads" on my bookshelf...
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
A Telling of Stars - Caitlin Sweet
Riding with the Queen - Jennie Shortridge
7 Tattoos - Peter Trachtenberg
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
I Heard the Owl Call my Name - Margaret Craven
Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z (heh)
The 1st 2 Harry Potter books
As you can see, I'm all about lightweights for summer reading. 
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I really enjoyed Like Water for Chocolate and the House on Mango Street. Naughty Fairy Tales definitely sounds like something I'll have to check out! 
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I'm reading "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown right now.
Next on my list are:
Breathe, Eyes, Memory
Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister
The Secret Life of Bees
Where the Red Fern Grows
And anything else that comes up that I might like to read.
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I just finished reading Continental Op a collection of connected detective stories by Dashiell Hammett (author of The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon).
My pile of unread books for summer reading include:
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club)
Bell, Book, and Candle (I placed a hold on this at the library and I'm hoping it's the book the movie's based on.)
The Golden Compass(children's book) by Philip Pullman
El Capitan Calzoncillos (  Captain Underpants in Spanish)
I'd also like to reread some short story collections by my current favorite authors Aimee Bender and Haruki Murakami (if you like magical realism check them out!).
Palomar, a graphic novel collection by Gilbert Hernandez, is another book I'd like to read again. Beautiful character development, amazing plots, touches of magical realism, and rich illustrations blew me away on my first reading.
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I'm afraid that I have too much academic reading to do this summer, so I probably won't be getting to much fiction. However, I did hear a panel discuss 'summer books' on a CBC radio show this morning. They said that they would put up the titles and authors on the website sometime today:
http://www.cbc.ca/soundslikecanada/
- Vincent
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I'm reading Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford. I love his novels.
I may re-read the Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub, too.
Heh. One thick novel at a time.
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Anything by Harukai Murakami would be my recommendation - especially the Wind Up Bird Chronicles.
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