Summer Reading

[Lord DragonsWing]

There has been some great books out this summer. Personally I enjoyed the Secret Life of Bees. What was your favorite read? Not that summer is over now or winter in other parts of the world.
But what did you enjoy reading this last season?

 

[ferociouskittycat]

I loved reading all the smut on here.

Especially the 'Let's talk about sex, baby...' thread.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I got some romance novels through the mail. I was really impressed with 'Summer by the Sea.' Romance novels are going good places. this one had italian recepes in it

I've also had Tara Road laying around for the longest time, and finally read it. I plowed right through, but I still didn't want it to end. Definately a good read.

 

[shereads]

6 political books. I don't enjoy those, but I read them anyway. For the same reason other people eat a raw-foods diet, or sleep on nails.



Also,

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Da Vinci Code

Under the Banner of Heaven

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Oh, The Things That I Know (I miss the Al Franken Decade, so I had the Al Franken summer.)

In Sunlight, In A Beautiful Garden



My re-reads of old favorites this summer were:

Remains of the Day

The Unconsoled

Out of Africa

The Laslo Letters


I highly recommend, for pure entertainment/distraction that also happens to be beautifully written:

The Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper, and The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Tell me about Secret Life of Bees. I have another friend who's recommended that, but she's also given me two books I haven't started yet.


Edited to add: Every few months I re-read the opening chapter of Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." How I love those front-desk lizards.

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

Hopefully someday, my own little book will make somebody's summer reading list

ps. I have one more post to go before I can have an Avatar!

 

[shereads]

Hopefully someday, my own little book will make somebody's summer reading list

ps. I have one more post to go before I can have an Avatar!

Why are you someone else now? To hide your identity?

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

No silly, I'm working on a separate project of a different sort than my other stuff. It's all nicely arranged in a seperate little package.



Sweet is still around. But I make her work on my romance novel, so she has less time for the good stuff. She does it anyway, she's working on a new story as we speak. (that is when she's not procrastinating on the AH)

 

[shereads]

No silly, I'm working on a separate project of a different sort than my other stuff. It's all nicely arranged in a seperate little package.



Sweet is still around. But I make her work on my romance novel, so she has less time for the good stuff. She does it anyway, she's working on a new story as we speak. (that is when she's not procrastinating on the AH)

So I could multi-task if I had two identities?

 

[Match Made In Heaven]

So I could multi-task if I had two identities?

More likely you'd get half the usual amount of stuff done.


And your house would go to hell.

 

[minsue]

Sorry to interrupt the threadjack...

Hmmm....I'm trying to remember what books I've read this summer. I've made 2 expensive bookstore treks so far over the past 2 months so they're all blending together.

Recent reads:

Good Grief - Lolly Winston

Dry - Augusten Burroughs

Balance of Power - Richard North Patterson (Sher, if you haven't read him, you should. I would give anything to have this guy be a Dem speechwriter )

Fahrenheit 451 (almost done with it so I'll count it) - Ray Bradbury

These were all within the past month along with some re-reads of some other Patterson gems & a couple of Tami Hoag's (my favorite waste-the-day-reading-trashy-novels writer). I'm drawing a blank trying to remember the others. Which is too bad because I know I absolutely loved 3 or 4 this summer by authors I hadn't read before & I've already forgotten them. Bad reader! Bad! Bad!

 

[Guest]

I do not read by the season, merely all the time. Today I am nearly finished with an excellent biography of Patricia Highsmith, Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson. It seems to me that Highsmith managed to live a full writing life while being insane (i.e., manic, alcoholic, misanthropic, misogynistic despite being a dyke). Next I will reread her books.

Perdita