Summer Reading-What are you reading?

[NudistGuy47]

With the summer beach season in full swing, I was wondering what others are reading? There is a welath of books available and I am looking for more titles to round out my reading.

Currently I am Reading Maureen Dowd's Bush World. I just finished Reading Lolita in Tehran.

What are others reading?

[rascal56]

Reading Clive Cussler. My fave.

[jon71]

When I finish Terry Pratchett's "Bromeliad Trilogy" I will read the latest Harry Potter book. It was preordered for me as a Father's day gift.

[Jennifer1]

Im reading 1984, need to write an essay on it as part of my higher english course work when I got back to school after the holidays.

[barbararuth]

Girls, I recommend the Janet Evanovich series of books. I have read 7 of her 11 books and number 12 will be out sometime this summer. Her books are fun, fast reading and leaves you feeling great. Also, try Stormy Weather by Carl Hiassen.

I am also now into books on tape or CD. With limited time to actually read, I am able to get books on tape or CD from the library for a 3 week period of time. I listen in the car going to and from work (that's an hour of "reading") doing errands or relaxing. This is a great way to accomplish what you need to do anyway and get in your reading. My library has hundreds of books in their media section including a whole host of self help books including health and fitness, financial information, positive thinking, and the list goes on and on.

[barbararuth]

Oh, yes..one more. I recommend "Posterity - Letters of Great Americans to their Children", by Dorie McCullough Lawson. This book is absolutely fascinating. It gives you some incredible insight into the personal feelings, hearts and minds of people whose names are familiar.

[Sir Oink]

Sounds like ya'll get more choices than I do. I am taking a law course for my work and it is brutally boring (nothing against law/lawyers, not my cup of tea).

[Daveinct]

I'm re-reading Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues." Recently finished another reading of David "Honeyboy" Edwards' "The World Don't Owe Me Nothing." From growing up in a sharecroppeing family in early 1900's Mississippi, hopping trains all over the south, eventually moving north with the great migration to his current world reknown as a musician, he paints vivid pictures of his life and life in general. The book is in his own words, transcribed from interviews conducted over a five year period. He's a living piece of both American musical history and 20th century American history (21st century as well, as he continues to perform at 90 years old). I've read it at least 7 or 8 times now, and will no doubt read it many more times.

Dave

[melissastarr]

Right now I'm working through a John Saul novel. Tomorrow, of course, I have to buy a copy or two of the new Harry Potter book. Anyone else planning on buying it?

Melissa

[Jochanaan]

Another Stephen Donaldson fan, Kat? I haven't checked out that latest one yet; I was disappointed in The Gap Cycle. But I loved the first two Covenant trilogies.

I'm rereading Eon by Greg Bear.

[harveym]

Another Greg Bear fan? Have you read SOngs of Earth and Power? It originally was published as two books - The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage.

[nudereb]

"The Thirty-Seventh North Carolina Troops-Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia" by Michael C. Hardy.

The book brings my ancestors experiences 140 years ago to life. Mr Hardy has done a fine job!

[NudeAl]

I have been enjoying some good books this summer. It is one of those pastimes that I associate with my youth and summer. Thus far I have read, Why Courage Matters, by John McCain; Flags of our Fathers, by James Bradley; On Killing, by Lt Col David Grossman. I think is time to lighten up a bit so I'm looking for a good bit of fiction preferablely something along the lines of a historical piece taking place durring WWII. Maybe something by W.E.B. Griffin? Any suggestions?

P.S I must mention a book I read earlier this year, Voices From the Front, by Frank Schaefer. It is a collection of letters from the men and women fighting the current war. Some of them are their last letters home. It gives you an interesting insight into how the brave men and women that are currently in this war veiw things.

[Ren]

Well, I'm on a kick about health, stress, and society, so I've read "Don't Eat This Book" by Morgan Spurlock, "The Great American Detox Diet" by Alex Jamieson, "The Stress Free Habit," a book by Thich Nhat Hanh (currently), "Fast Food Nation" which is on hold right now, a book about the Slow Food Movement, and I have Harry Potter 6 waiting to be cracked.

[MicBrianH]

'A Nation Of Immigrants'- John F. Kennedy