Michele's comments (member since May 11, 2008)

Michele's comments from the UC San Diego Libraries Summer Reading! group.

I'm with Colleen here- I'd like to learn a little too this year. I'm looking more for nonfiction, social-commentary type books. On my list right now are "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan and "Waste and Want" by Susan Strasser. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

Colleen, I think these books would be too long for this contest but Edward Rutherfurd and James Michener write some amazing epic historical novels. Rutherfurd's "Sarum" is especially good! "Born on a Blue Day" by Daniel Tammet is a great (and much much shorter) book about life as an autistic savant with synesthesia. What other subjects are you interested in?

I think Bill Bryson is a fun read with some substance. He does a lot of travel writing like "Notes From a Big Country" which I read for this contest last year. He also wrote "A Short History of Nearly Everything" which is both entertaining and informative.

agreed- I'm seeing a lot more of them this time around. I too enjoy graphic novels and I believe they have literary value but I'd hate to see this limited to who can read the most graphic novels.