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FR Book Club: What's on your Summer Reading List?
June 17, 2005

Posted on 06/17/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith

The Free Republic Book Club is an informal gathering of readers and lovers of all genre of books, which meets on an irregular basis (whenever I remember to post and have a copy of the ping list available.)

If you would like to be on this ping list, please send me mail and I'll include you. If you wish to be removed, please send mail. If you already sent me mail wishing to be removed and you were pinged anyway, oops, my apologies, please request again (sorry about that).

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?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: book; bookclub; bookreview; books; read; reading; readinglist
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To: Tanniker Smith

I'd like to be on your list, please!


41 posted on 06/17/2005 11:00:34 AM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: 68skylark

I never "got" Battle Cry of Freedom. I found it tedious, lacking in theme or analysis, and weighed down in irrelevant detail. Instead, I heartily recommend the 8-volume series by Allan Nevins, "The Ordeal of the Union/War of the Union."


42 posted on 06/17/2005 11:00:41 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Ha! You don't know me, do you?
43 posted on 06/17/2005 11:01:06 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Watch on the Rhine (The Posleen War)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (43rd in line at the library - might just give up and buy it...).
A Mankind Witch

Maybe The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay if I get a chance.


44 posted on 06/17/2005 11:01:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: shotokan

I love these books! Have you read any of Dr. Henry Lee's?


45 posted on 06/17/2005 11:01:45 AM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: tioga

Oh, yes! All of them. We love the grandmother!

I can't wait to read the new one!

Do not MISS Metro Girl.


46 posted on 06/17/2005 11:02:20 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Tanniker Smith
Currently reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
47 posted on 06/17/2005 11:03:00 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Tanniker Smith
"Silent Witness : The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death" by Mark Fuhrman.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060853379/qid=1119031134/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-4235465-7687133

To all the Michael Schiavo supporters out there, you couldn't even pay me to care what you think about it.
48 posted on 06/17/2005 11:03:15 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Pray for us all.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
I just finished reading We Thought You'd Be Prettier and Autobiography of a Fat Bride, both by Laurie Natoro. She seems like she is probably a lib, but for the most part keeps her politics out of her books. Anyway, I was laughing so hard in parts I was crying.

Now back to reading 1776 and, of course, waiting eagerly for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

49 posted on 06/17/2005 11:03:50 AM PDT by retrokitten (www.takebackthememorial.org)
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To: Tanniker Smith

and of course the new book on Hillary....


50 posted on 06/17/2005 11:04:04 AM PDT by peacebaby (The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. Harriet Beecher Stowe.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

It's for the Contemporary American Society class I'm in. This class has been very interesting, to say the least.

51 posted on 06/17/2005 11:04:28 AM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA) Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
One book that I forgot to mention: I have to get a hold of a copy of Atlanta Nights by Travis Tea.

It has to be ... experienced ... to be believed.

TS

52 posted on 06/17/2005 11:04:43 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

1776. I just started reading it.


53 posted on 06/17/2005 11:04:57 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper ("I don't know what happenned, but I know it's wrong.")
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To: LS
I'm not familiar with Battle Cry of Freedom -- I've been focused on the first two levels of the reading list. Your recommendation sounds good (though lengthy). For Civil War reading, I can recommend the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant -- that's a wonderful book.
54 posted on 06/17/2005 11:05:23 AM PDT by 68skylark
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To: Tanniker Smith

Books I want to read:

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis

Has anyone read the new book about Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens?

I recently read Lightning Out of Lebanon by Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman and Tower of Babble by Dore Gold. Both were very interesting.


55 posted on 06/17/2005 11:05:35 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Tanniker Smith
George Washington: The Founding Father, by Paul Johnson.

Johnson was a guest on Dennis Prager this week, offering a great snapshot of Washington's life in a slimmer book.

56 posted on 06/17/2005 11:05:39 AM PDT by Minnesocold
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To: stainlessbanner

I am going to get Animal Farm eventually. That sounds pretty entertaining


57 posted on 06/17/2005 11:06:16 AM PDT by Lemondropkid31 (If we do not pray for our leaders, we cannot expect them to do what is right.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
I Am Charolette Simmons by Tom Wolfe.

Damned If I Know

58 posted on 06/17/2005 11:06:46 AM PDT by sharktrager (My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Please add me to your ping list - thanks!


59 posted on 06/17/2005 11:06:58 AM PDT by everyvotecounts
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To: Lemondropkid31

1984 is a good book, but I don't think it's his best. I personally like his earlier novels, although they certainly don't have the bite that 1984 has. His essays and letters are really worth reading too.


60 posted on 06/17/2005 11:07:33 AM PDT by twigs
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