Posted on 06/17/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith
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Today's topic: what's on your summer reading list? Whether you are going on vacation, sitting on the beach or just hanging out on your front porch, there's usually a good novel nearby. Any particular plans or will it be a more serendipitous approach?
Just finished "Stalingrad," by Anthony Beevor. Outstanding piece of work. It really drives home the inhumanity on both sides, where the rules of civilized warfare were suspended. Currently working my way through Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia." Plus ca change. I got "Chatter" for Father's Day and will be tackling that soon. Hoping for a late Father's Day gift of "My Pet Goat."
Just Googled Kathy Reichs and I'm ashamed to say that I've don't recal hearing of her. From looking at her website I'd say she is very versatile. I'll have to delve into some of her work too! Then again, I've met novelist Ann Rule and I've never read any of her books either. Michael Medved too 8>(
"Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs.
Don't let your kids pick it up and start reading but it's a very interesting book.
OOHhhhh
Sounds good!
Thank you.
I loved that one too. My favorite part was finding out that Steinbeck had once travelled through my hometown!
I've read a lot of his novels over the last year, he was truly great. Where's your hometown? I wonder if I got to that part in the book yet.
"Objection!" by Nancy Grace
am waiting for "Silent Witness" by Mark Fuhrman
Preacher's Son" (forgot the author, its about a case similar to Laci & Scott Peterson)
Windsor, Ontario ;)
Cool. I haven't read that part yet, but when I do, I'll be thinking about you.:)
Question: Have you read any of Dee Henderson's books, or Hannah Alexander? These are really my first try at Christian fiction. I don't want just romance.
I also enjoyed Collen Colbe Rock Harbor Series. I like books with search and rescue dogs.
Believe me it is anything but dry! It is most readable and you'll have a deeper appreciation for all things Austen after reading it. :)
Yep,Travels with Charlie is a classic.Read it in Eighth Grade and it put the travel bug in me forever.
Right now finishing up Neal Walsch,Friendship With God.Not exactly traditional but VERY thought provoking.
Mike Nelson's Death Rat! : A Novel by Michael J. NelsonThe same Michael J. Nelson from MST3K. A short synopsis from Amazon:
What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four hundred times more copies than his own? Well, he would write Death Rat, of course, the thrilling tale of a man who battles prejudice, his inner demons, and a cunning six-foot-long rat.I've heard he's a good comedy writer and I think it will be a great lite read.And what if he was told by publishers that, at sixty years of age, though his book was a thrilling read, he just didn’t look the part of a virile writer of gripping adventure books featuring cunning six-foot-long rats? Well, he would cook up a scheme so outrageous, it would incur the wrath of Gus Bromstad, the beloved author of the homespun Dogwood Downs series of books. And it would stir up the bizarre religious fervor of King Leo, the libidinous funk superstar whose CD “LoveDeathTomorrowJelly” was one of the biggest sellers of the decade. And it would throw him into a strange symbiotic relationship with the entire town of Holey, Minnesota, population 38.
Such is the fate of one Pontius Feeb, the hapless author of Death Rat... and perhaps the fate of all who attempt to write gripping novels featuring cunning six-foot-long rats.
Whooohooo for the link :-)
I keep changing my mind, they both have their finer points...mmmm, Ranger Babe or Morelli Cupcake.....yep, both are fine. Thanks for the tip about the new release, I have been busy and forgot when the new one comes out.
Deaver, I will look up his books. Thanks.
On that note...
Reading Lolita in Tehran - sucks
The Mapmakers Wife - sucks except for the last 50 pages
Around Ireland with a Fridge - If you've ever traveled through Ireland, this is a must-read. Having hitch-hiked around Ireland in my 20s, I was ROFLMAO reading this and my husband, who has never been overseas, kept asking what was funny, but I couldn't explain it to him. I said, "You just had to be there."
I am half way through that (Henry VIII). I love that series and have been picking my way through it for years now. When I bought them, I thought I would read one a year. With all my other reading, it takes about two to get through a volume. They are wonderful though. There is truly nothing new under the sun!
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