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Lucia Corak
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Username: luciacorak

Post Number: 39
Registered: 05-2008
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone out there had read any interesting books recently that they would recomend for summer reading?

I just finnished Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen which I found to be a beautiful and thoroughly engaging read, and am currently in the middle of Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos which I would also highly recomend.

Cheers!
LC

(Message edited by Luciacorak on June 25, 2008)
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." ~T. S. Eliot
Rania S. Watts
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Username: cementcoveredcherries

Post Number: 760
Registered: 04-2008
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 10:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Dear Lucia,
What kind of books do you like reading? Based on what you like, I could definitely recommend something for you. But, for now I will leave you with two of my favourites; "A Prayer for Owen Meany" By: John Irving & "Fall on your Knees" By: Ann-Marie Macdonald. Both really good reads!
Cheers,

(Message edited by Cementcoveredcherries on June 25, 2008)
Rania S. Watts
"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean" ~ Walt Whitman
Cement Covered Cherries
Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 4144
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I am currently reading:

What Happened by Scott McClellan

Willful Blindness - A Memoir of the Jihad
by Andrew C. McCarthy

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

Change Your thoughts - Change Your Life
by Wayne Dyer

I also read lots of thrillers - entirely for entertainment, not for insight or perspective. My latest author of interest is Lee Child.

I just received the latest edition of The American Poetry Review

Fred
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I'm running out of places to store the bodies.
Mariah Wilson
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Username: mariahwilson43

Post Number: 723
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 5:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I am currently reading:

The Good Guy by Dean R. Koontz (my favorite author of ALL time)

Hiding From the Light by Barbara Erskine

I just finished:

The entire Anne of Green Gables series (my childhood favorite...good for a nice venture back in time now and then)

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

I also suggest:

The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind (12 books in total)

Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Anything by Dean Koontz but especailly-By The Light of the Moon-False Memory-From the Corner of His Eye-Odd Thomas-Forever Odd-Brother Odd-Watchers-Twilight Eyes-The Husband-
You are invited to view my new blog at
http://www.fragmentsoffractals.blogspot.com
~M~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 30503
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 8:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I am currently reading, rereading, or have just read:

Novels/Collections/Non-fiction:

"Whistling in the Dark" by Lesley Kagen
"The Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier
"The Wishbones" by Tom Perrotta
"Breathing Lessons" by Anne Tyler
"The Family Tree" by Carole Cadwalladr
"Sicilian Summer" by Brian Johnston
"Pilgrims" by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"On Persephone's Island" by Mary Taylor Simeti
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe
"Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey
"The Distinguished Guest" by Sue Miller
"A Theory of Relativity" by Jacquelyn Mitchard
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
"Dream When You're Feeling Blue" by Elizabeth Berg
"The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters" by Elisabeth Robinson
"Waiting to Surface" by Emily Listfield

On the poetry side:

"Amplitude" by Tess Gallagher
"Saying the World" by Peter Pereira
"God Particles" by Thomas Lux
"In the Next Galaxy" by Ruth Stone
"Strike Sparks" by Sharon Olds
"Facts About the Moon" by Dorianne Laux
"Sailing Alone Around the Room" by Billy Collins
"Given Sugar, Given Salt" by Jane Hirshfield
"Teahouse of the Almighty" by Patricia Smith
"The Book of Light" by Lucille Clifton
Various chapbooks by Oregon poets

For pure fun and entertainment, I read a lot of chick-lit authors. My favorites are Emily Giffin, Jane Green, Marian Keyes, Carole Matthews, Anna Maxted, Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Weisberger, and Lolly Winston. Any of these ladies make great light summer reading if you want a woman's perspective on life.

Love,
M

P.S. Yes, I really do read this much. It's a nasty addiction -- like breathing.

Brianna
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Username: shkethtmnymkrhorsey

Post Number: 218
Registered: 12-2007
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 9:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Twilight- By Stephenie Meyer. There's a post on it a few threads down on it with what it's about posted, if you want you could check that out....

It's a series, the first book is Twilight, the second, New Moon, the third, Eclipse and the fourth, Breaking Dawn is coming out August 2.

Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver.

They're teen novels though since I'm only 13, but they're reallllyy cool fiction books. You might like them, especially Twilight it's my favorite of all time.

Bri
...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars --points of light and reason....And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything." -Edward Cullen -Twilight

"5 bucks she throws up." "I don't think so, she runs with vampires." -Jared & Embry -Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.-Bella -Twilight

W.F. Roby
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Username: wfroby

Post Number: 318
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 11:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I'm doing a "thang" this summer. Trying to hit the high points of the Bible (could start a riot answering exactly WHAT I figure are those high points). Kinda boring I know.
Ros Badcoe (Rosemary)
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Username: endolith

Post Number: 392
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 12:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Nick Lane: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
or, same author, Oxygen: the molecule that made the world.

Both very highly recommended, for non-scientists as well as scientists. Very readable.

Listening to Beowulf, trans by Seamus Heaney. Also very good so far.
Laura Ring
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Username: laura

Post Number: 1097
Registered: 05-2007
Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 7:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I recently read "A Fraction of the Whole" by Steve Toltz and "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami. Both were fabulous. I highly recommend them. As for poetry, I just read Sarah Manguso's book "Siste Viator" and absolutely loved it.
Cheers!
Laura
Anna Brown
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Username: tissuetoyou

Post Number: 97
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 10:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

W.F. Roby, trying to do the same thing. Not exactly for entertainment, but just a think I know I need to do.

As you will see below, I love A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. Those things will last you all summer, I bet. They're huge. Only four are out so far, and it took me a whole two weeks to read each of them. They're totally worth it, though, and as of now, they're my favs.

Have a good summer!
Anna
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Every Imp could be a bastard, but not every bastard need be short.
George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
Ann Metlay
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Username: wordsrworthy

Post Number: 4434
Registered: 08-2007
Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 2:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

For complete escape there's Jodie Picoult. She gets her characters into very interesting predicaments.
I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have--as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world. (Sharon Olds)
David C.
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Username: david_shay_mish

Post Number: 442
Registered: 07-2007
Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 3:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hey WF, I've been doing the same thing myself, on and off - mostly off - for a few years now. I'm trying to be even-handed about it, so I'm part way though Isaiah at the moment and I'm just about to start Luke.

My rough rule of thumb so far is, anything with too much smiting, forget it.
W.F. Roby
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Username: wfroby

Post Number: 321
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 3:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

David -- Some of the smitings are, by far, my favorite passages!

There's a point where some kids get mauled by bears sent by God for just such a purpose.
sue kay
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Username: suekay

Post Number: 824
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 4:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

OK here is my bedside stack.

1. The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
2. Eastward to Tartary by Robert Kaplan
3. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
4. The Collected Short Stories of Flannery O'Conner by.....
5.The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
6. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
7. American Fascists by Chris Hedges
8. Nobody's a Fascist by Nonie Theabov.

The "New Yorker" summer fiction issue.
The last six months of "Poetry"
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
The Poetry of St John of the Cross.
The last month's issues of "The Economist"
The last month's Issues of "People"
Two issues of "In touch"

And for those who like the Tony Hillerman, which I do, I would recommend Bankok 8, and Bangkok Haunts, by John Burdett. If you like Jim Chee you will like Sonchai Jitpleecheep. It's mystery with an exotic flavour.

regards

Sue
Lucia Corak
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Username: luciacorak

Post Number: 41
Registered: 05-2008
Posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 2:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Wow, I've gone away for a week and this whole thread has exploded into a literary wedding cake! I'm absolutly amazed by how much some of you folks read (yes M, I'm looking at you!), but that's okay because I'm not much different.

Rania, I originally meant this as a place where people could trade ideas and titles, not specifically for me. But since you asked, I'm a huge fiction person but I've recently started getting into auto-biographies. For instance, right now I'm reading Benazir Bhutto's second (and last) book which is fascinating, as expected.

Happy reading!
LC
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." ~T. S. Eliot