Question of the Day

What's the best book you've read this summer? 

Or, if that question doesn't work for you: what's the best book you'd like to read this summer?

Comments

[Amy P.]

Straight Man, Richard Russo.

Laugh out loud funny!

[N]

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, of all things (not that I've managed to get through a whole lot this summer). It's a children's/pre-teen type book, and I'd already read the second in the series (there are three), but I find the stories so imaginative and fun that I just can't put them down.

And I've always been a sucker for Peter Pan stories.

[Debra]

Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality by Brad Warner. It's a really fantastic "not usual" book on Zen and meditation and many other things but a very unusual man.

[Connie]

The best book I read this summer is The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I absolutely loved it because it was a memoir, and I couldn't put it down. It's a rags (and I do mean rags) to riches story. I think I read it in like 4 days.
Connie

[eliaday]

I am proud to say that I just finished Jhumpa Lahiri's book of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. I love that the stories take place all over Boston, and are about family and love and loss.

[Laura]

"Islands, The Universe, Home" by Gretel Ehrlich

[Amy]

I'm currently reading Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman, M.D. I suspect it may not be found thrilling by all but I am devouring it line by line. My favorite "ultra light" reading is Sex Lives of Cannibals by M. Troost.

[Kristin]

I haven't previously been a mystery reader, but I read Tana French's first book (In the Woods) earlier this summer, and then just finished her 2nd, newly-published book (The Likeness).

They're both great reads!

[crispy]

"Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer" by David Watts.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5237522

[elswhere]

I read a terrific new kids' novel last month called Shooting the Moon, by Frances O'Roark Dowell. Nothing flashy, but it's really stayed with me in a quiet way.

My favorite picture book read recently was Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary, by Beverly Donofrio. The illustrations are just exquisite.

[Jackie]

Seeking Sara Summers by Susan Gabriel. I couldn't put it down - it's about a woman married for 25 years, kids, etc. falls in love with her best friend. I won't ruin the ending. Excellent writing - lots of inner dynamics and outer action. I got it at www.susangabriel.com

[Courtney]

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