Summertime, What I'll be reading.

[MrBates2]

Karen Thompson Walker, 'The Age of Miracles' or Martin Amis,'Lionel Asbo: State of England.

Make some recommendations!

 

[koalabear]

Tan Lines.

 

[KRCummings]

I don't get the whole "summer reading" thing. I read all year. If anything I read less in the summer because I'm doing other stuff. Should be winter reading. I bet if someone did a study they'd find more reading done in the winter due to people being indoors more. Or maybe not. Maybe there's like an actual reason they publish big books in the summer and I'm totally full of shit. Whatever.

 

[Adre]

Karen Thompson Walker, 'The Age of Miracles' or Martin Amis,'Lionel Asbo: State of England.

Make some recommendations!

They both sound interesting and I'll get to them. Right now I have Paul Theroux and John Irving on my menu. Richard Ford has a new one as well.

 

[Beco]

I don't get the whole "summer reading" thing. I read all year. If anything I read less in the summer because I'm doing other stuff. Should be winter reading. I bet if someone did a study they'd find more reading done in the winter due to people being indoors more. Or maybe not. Maybe there's like an actual reason they publish big books in the summer and I'm totally full of shit. Whatever.

Its called "beach season", people like to read on the beach, sitting in a lounge chair...same reasons they do blockbuster summer movies. People are on vacation, have free time, etc.

 

[Angeline]

They both sound interesting and I'll get to them. Right now I have Paul Theroux and John Irving on my menu. Richard Ford has a new one as well.

I have the new John Irving novel on my Nook but haven't started it yet as I'm currently reading Game Change (the book about the 2008 presidential election) and Shantaram, a book about India. Is the new Theroux good? I'm a big fan of his writing.

 

[LoveNLaughter]

"Let's Pretend This Never Happened" - Jenny Lawson
Fucking hysterical.
Perfect summer read.

 

[Image]

I have the new John Irving novel on my Nook but haven't started it yet as I'm currently reading Game Change (the book about the 2008 presidential election) and Shantaram, a book about India. Is the new Theroux good? I'm a big fan of his writing.

John Irving is my top two favorite author. I can't wait to read the new one. Oh, and Shantaram is excellent! How far along are you with it?

Yeah, I've gotta agree though about the summertime reading. I have far less time to devote to it then in winter. Never could read laying in the sun either. For one, tanning was serious business when I did it. And for two, it was miserable in the glaring sun and a sandy, oily mess. Besides, it was hard to hold a margarita in one hand and balance a book in the other...

 

[AnIndecisiveSub]

may i suggest...

Karen Thompson Walker, 'The Age of Miracles' or Martin Amis,'Lionel Asbo: State of England.

Make some recommendations!

being and nothingness
-jean-paul sartre

 

[Sean]

being and nothingness
-jean-paul sartre

No you may not.

 

[pointless]

No you may not.

i don't understand why they'd even want to. that fucker is boring. sartre is only bearable in bits and pieces.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I just got laid off and I'm about to tackle this big stack of books:

Melvyn Dubofsky Labor In America: A History

Francis Spufford Red Plenty

James Livingston Origins of the Federal Reserve System

John Sepich Notes On Blood Meridian

Thomas Frank Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle And The Unlikely Comeback Of The Right

James Wolcott Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down And Semi-Dirty In Seventies New York

William Hope Hodgson The Night Land and House On The Borderland

Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses Of Monticello

ed David Gaspar More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery In The Americas

 

[Image]

I just got laid off and I'm about to tackle this big stack of books:

Melvyn Dubofsky Labor In America: A History

Francis Spufford Red Plenty

James Livingston Origins of the Federal Reserve System

John Sepich Notes On Blood Meridian

Thomas Frank Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle And The Unlikely Comeback Of The Right

James Wolcott Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down And Semi-Dirty In Seventies New York

William Hope Hodgson The Night Land and House On The Borderland

Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses Of Monticello

ed David Gaspar More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery In The Americas

Yikes! So much for light and casual summer reading

 

[Angeline]

John Irving is my top two favorite author. I can't wait to read the new one. Oh, and Shantaram is excellent! How far along are you with it?

Yeah, I've gotta agree though about the summertime reading. I have far less time to devote to it then in winter. Never could read laying in the sun either. For one, tanning was serious business when I did it. And for two, it was miserable in the glaring sun and a sandy, oily mess. Besides, it was hard to hold a margarita in one hand and balance a book in the other...

I am loving Shantaram! I'm about 300 pages in right now--at the part where Lin takes in Tariq, Khadar Khan's nephew. I had recently read Irving's A Son of the Circus as well as a few books by Rohinton Mistry, so I was really into reading novels set in India. I found out about Shantaram on the Goodreads site, which is a terrific place to find new stuff to read.

I adore John Irving's writing, too. He's one of my favorite authors as well.

 

[Sean]

i don't understand why they'd even want to. that fucker is boring. sartre is only bearable in bits and pieces.

I went through a stack of Sartre and Nietzsche during my "dressing all in black being a pretentious arsehole" phase.

 

[Sean]

I just got laid off and I'm about to tackle this big stack of books:

Melvyn Dubofsky Labor In America: A History

Francis Spufford Red Plenty

James Livingston Origins of the Federal Reserve System

John Sepich Notes On Blood Meridian

Thomas Frank Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle And The Unlikely Comeback Of The Right

James Wolcott Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down And Semi-Dirty In Seventies New York

William Hope Hodgson The Night Land and House On The Borderland

Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses Of Monticello

ed David Gaspar More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery In The Americas

Still angling for that job at Disney, huh?

 

[butters]

finished pratchett's Nation not long ago - highly recommend it, and have jane harris' The Observations, neil gaimen's Neverwhere, jonathan tropper's Bush Falls and lian hearn's The Harsh Cry of the Heron which i started and didn't get past the first few pages as a few other aquisitions grabbed my attention.

 

[Sean]

I've started reworking my way through Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time in preparation for buying the final one.

 

[Adre]

I have the new John Irving novel on my Nook but haven't started it yet as I'm currently reading Game Change (the book about the 2008 presidential election) and Shantaram, a book about India. Is the new Theroux good? I'm a big fan of his writing.

It's a little slow so far. I'm about 70 pages in, so maybe things will pick up. I just watched Game Change on HBO yesterday; Woody Harrelson stole the movie in my opinion. I'll try to remember to update you on the Theroux book.

 

[Angeline]

It's a little slow so far. I'm about 70 pages in, so maybe things will pick up. I just watched Game Change on HBO yesterday; Woody Harrelson stole the movie in my opinion. I'll try to remember to update you on the Theroux book.

Thanks. I don't have HBO but the book Game Change was excellent and, I think, focused a lot more on both parties' primaries as well as the general election campaign. I've heard too that Harrelson nailed the Schmidt role.

 

[Batch]

Dabbling in Dickens, as much as I can get a hold of, as of late.

 

[Image]

I am loving Shantaram! I'm about 300 pages in right now--at the part where Lin takes in Tariq, Khadar Khan's nephew. I had recently read Irving's A Son of the Circus as well as a few books by Rohinton Mistry, so I was really into reading novels set in India. I found out about Shantaram on the Goodreads site, which is a terrific place to find new stuff to read.

I adore John Irving's writing, too. He's one of my favorite authors as well.

Ahhh... Khadar Khan *sigh* A mentor, a father, a saviour, a killer.

And Irving, he makes me wet...

 

[KRCummings]

John Sepich Notes On Blood Meridian

I liked Blood Meridian a lot and have heard of but never seen this book. However I can't say I'd want to read it. Books about books always seem pretentious and condescending to me even when they may not be.

 

[KRCummings]

I went through a stack of Sartre and Nietzsche during my "dressing all in black being a pretentious arsehole" phase.

Reading those in public is advertising that you're an asshole. All black is just an option.

 

[1sickbastard]

I'm looking forward to Jim Butcher's "Ghost Story" comming out in paperback.