2013-08 - Summer Reads - What will you read in August?

[Tien]

Some lucky people are enjoying their summer holidays! The rest of us will have to live vicariously through some Summer Reads

Thanks, JuliaC, for the pick :D

[Tien]

Limiting myself to the first 10 pages of shelf, what I've already marked to read, and actually owned physical copy, I've 4 choices:

1. Reconstructing Amelia (POTS picked!)
2. Life After Life (really need to get onto this)
3. What Alice Forgot
4. The Shining Girls

Will be moving house in August so not a good idea to borrow books from the library and my August reading schedule is already overflowing but I'm confident I'd, at least read #1 :)

[D.G.]

Not sure what I'll read...most likely or .

I'll be traveling a lot so I won't be able to read as much as I usually do. :)

[Julia]

I'm off to look for an avitar (and a book from the shelf!!)

[Julia]

I already have so I'm going to get a jump start on the now; but I'm als going to order & from the library.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Tien wrote: "Limiting myself to the first 10 pages of shelf, what I've already marked to read, and actually owned physical copy, I've 4 choices:

1. Reconstructing Amelia (POTS picked!)
2. Life After Life (real..."

Life After Life is the most thought provoking, and probably best, book I've read in a long time. Certainly the best of 2013 so far.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

So many good books on this list. The following fit challenges, so hopefully I will get one in:

Divergent
A Game of Thrones
The Shining Girls
The Last Song

[LynnB]

Lots of books to choose from. I'm not sure what all I'll read, but I'm going to start with The Light Between Oceans.

[Tien]

LynnB wrote: "Lots of books to choose from. I'm not sure what all I'll read, but I'm going to started with The Light Between Oceans."

ooh, great book. It really drew me and one of those books where you're sympathising with everyone despite their actions. Not a light read though easy (language wise).

[Lauren]

I will probably read or . These are the only two unread books that I have from this shelf - I guess I'm not that big on summer reads.

[Sarah]

The Lord of the Rings is on this shelf too, which is good... if I don't finish it this month it will still count next month!

[Niamh]

Still going on the July shelf A Game of Thrones one but hope to have that finished soon.
Then for this month, I will slog away at the library book Fifty Shades of Grey. I'm just glad I didn't buy that one. lol.
And one that I have been meaning to read for a while, never having seen the movie... The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants which I'm guessing I will have read long before I ever get to finish the EL James book.

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I'm going to read The Light Between Oceans too. It's one I already have on my Kindle.

[Krait]

Been too long since I've read Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, so my 30 year old paperback copy is getting dug up :-)

[Susan]

I'm definitely not ready for August. Somehow, 1500 pages in a single book seems to take a lot longer than 5 different books of 300 pages each, so I'm still working on A Suitable Boy. I'm looking forward to getting back to normal-sized books again.

I'll definitely read Legend -- just loaned it to my visiting niece, and she really liked it. And it's on my POTs list.

And I've been trying to get to Shatter Me for several months, so that should be a near-definite.

I'm not sure beyond that, since I'll have 2 other POTS books to read as well, and I haven't even looked at Tien's new game yet.

[Susan]

Lyn M (readinghearts) wrote: "So many good books on this list. The following fit challenges, so hopefully I will get one in:

Divergent"

Divergent is great, Lyn

[D.G.]

Lauren wrote: "I will probably read or . These are the only two unread books that I have from this shelf - I guess ..."

I'm surprised you didn't find more books! I thought there were all sorts of genres in that shelf.

[Lauren]

D.G. wrote: "Lauren wrote: "I will probably read or . These are the only two unread books that I have from this sh..."

So many of the books on the first few pages are YA and I don't read much in that genre. I've also read many of the ones that aren't YA like Dan Brown's Langdon books, P&P and some of the other classics.

[Tien]

Susan wrote: "I'm definitely not ready for August. Somehow, 1500 pages in a single book seems to take a lot longer than 5 different books of 300 pages each, so I'm still working on A Suitable Boy. I'm looking fo..."

LOL- I'm glad I've finished! My August reading list is chock-a-block and I'm still fighting with my sinuses :(

[Bea]

I will read The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Julia]

I have the following books ordered from the library

and

I know I won't be able to read all of these, but at least I'll have a variety to chose from if something doesn't hold my interest.