Question of the Day: Your Summer Reading

Have you read any good books this summer?

Comments

[valerie]

Most of my reading has been for my classes, and I'm sure you aren't interested in that! The two books I read for fun this summer were "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson, and Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five." Both were very good.

[Warren]

Lush Life by Richard Powers; Wuthering Heights (strangest book ever written?); March Violets by Philip Kerr. I need another "icy" mystery--any ideas?

[Robin Reagler]

Have you read Jar City? It's Icelandic. Very icy!

[Cynthia]

After taking some time off from reading (been doing Netflix lately), I just started A Taco Testimony, by Denise Chavez.

[Robin Reagler]

What a great title! Suddenly I think I am hungry.

[oneofhismoms]

Cakie has been really into two books: Stellaluna by Janell Cannon and What Happens on Wednesdays by Emily Jenkins. So I've read both of them a bunch of times.

I personally was so smitten by Elizbeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge that I've gone on to read her two other books, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle. I'm also listening, in our many weekend travels, to Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, which I love. This has been a big summer for reading. Now let's see if I've done these html italics correctly. If not, just pretend all the titles are italicized.

[Lisa]

I have jump on the Jhumpa Lahiri bandwagon here. I loved Unaccustomed Earth, but thought that her collection of short stories, The Interpreter of the Maladies, was even better. Really the best thing that I've read in quite a while.

[Robin Reagler]

Thanks, Lisa!

[domi]

My June-July reads were El Orden Alfabético (The Alphabetical Order) by Juan José Millas; Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse; The Emigrant's Hand and Ella, Maldita Alma (She, Damn Soul) both by our family's favorite author, Manuel Rivas.
Right now I'm in the middle of A Row of Trees in Yasunari Kawabata's First Snow on Fuji... the story is less than 20 pages long, but with an 8 month old is impossible to read more than 10 pages in one sit.

[stidmama]

I finally have some time to start catching up on your blog: the coolest book I read so far this summer is one for young adolescents, called "One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies" by Sonya Sones.

Interesting, fast-paced, and (most importantly for my purposes) with high interest but a fairly low reading level. This would be a great choice for a middle-schooler who is dealing with identity/maturing or loss but whose reading skills aren't quite up to grade level. And it was fun for me to read, too.

Reading for myself? LOL (gasp, choke, wheeze....) maybe in a few years!

[Nana]

Two awesome books that knocked my socks off:
Blood Done Sign My Name (Timothy Tyson) and
A Thousand Suns by Khaled Hosseini (sp?) . . .
both seem like a must-read, but then,
maybe not YOUR interest!

[Robin Reagler]

Thanks, Nana, very much!

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