Summer Reading
I think I’d like to focus on reading again this summer. It’s something I enjoy, and is much more interesting than TV and the Internet these days.
So, stealing an idea from Mac, give me your ideas for a summer reading list! Comment with your top few books (3-5 titles is ideal) and then I’ll post the start of my list next week, and trundle off to the library to get started.
One more word: I’ll be editing comments just to indicate if I’ve already read something that’s been recommended.
May 21st, 2004 at 2:25 pm
I stand behind the same three I recommended to Mac:
1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (edit: read it, amazing!)
3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
May 21st, 2004 at 3:25 pm
Here are my picks:
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Go Tell it On the Mountain - James Baldwin
Naked - David Sedaris
May 21st, 2004 at 5:03 pm
the time traveller’s wife by audrey niffenegger
the alchemist by paolo coelho
the law of similars by chris bohjalian
girl with a pearl earring by tracy chevalier
May 21st, 2004 at 9:44 pm
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.
May 22nd, 2004 at 12:35 am
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving
- Another Roadside Attraction and/or Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
May 22nd, 2004 at 3:33 pm
Last summer some bloggers and I did a summer reading challenge, and each time we read a book we posted about it on our blogs which then pinged the home page of the reading club. There’s a whole list of books and reviews on that site: http://www.zulyzu.com/bc/