What Are You Reading This Summer?

[ModCloth]

We're looking for summer reading suggestions! Recommend away!

[Jenny]

I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. At first I was hesitant due to the fact that it's being made into a movie and didn't know if it would fit into my usual style of reads! But I’ve been surprisingly surprised, I love it! It’s honest, funny, and insightful!

[Torie]

I just finished "The Help" and it was an excellent read. I recommend that on your must-read list. Currently I'm reading "The Jungle".

[Catamorandi]

I just finished Cassidy by Lori Wick and am starting The Shadow of the Wind.

[Megan]

Jenny wrote: "I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. At first I was hesitant due to the fact that it's being made into a movie and didn't know if it would fit into my usual style of reads! But I’ve b..."

Ohhh...I can't wait to read it - just received it for my birthday!

[Megan]

I'm currently reading Gone With The Wind - I had started this book a long time ago and I am determined to finish it!

[McKenzie]

As of right now i am reading Sarah's Key. It is really good, I can barely put it down.

[Fiona]

I'm reading "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar"...I haven't read philosophy books since college, many, many years ago. This book is like "philosophy lite", since it is filled with jokes, but there is no doubt at all that the authors really know their subject!

[Ashley]

Right now I'm reading "Impulse" by Ellen Hopkins and "Fallen" by Lauren Kate

[Alana]

I just read "The Betrayal" by Helen Dunmore. It was amazing.

[Kathryn]

I recently went on a car trip ad read "Witch-Hunt", "Haunting Christmas Stories"(i know its out of season), & "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". While I was there I read "The Midight Library: End Game" & on the way back and right now I'm reading "Stars In Her Eyes" I am loving all of these books mainly because I just love to read and I called Borders today to put a Sony Touch EReader in hold for me which I'm going to buy tomorrow so I can have my books with me everywhere I go. (YAY!)

[Kathryn]

Kathryn wrote: "I recently went on a car trip ad read "Witch-Hunt", "Haunting Christmas Stories"(i know its out of season), & "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". While I was there I read "The Midight Library: End Game"..."

And I don't know who any of these are by and I'm not at my house so I can't look. thanks and sorry

[Catamorandi]

I just finished The Shadow of the Wind and am now reading The Thirteenth Tale.

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Megan wrote: "I'm currently reading Gone With The Wind - I had started this book a long time ago and I am determined to finish it!"


That is on my list of never have but one day MUST reads! My grandmother has always been in love with it.

[Alyssa Comeau]

I just finished The Bag Lady Papers, which I won from one of your contests. =]
It was alright, but I probably wouldn't recommend it.

I'm currently reading The Scarlett Letter and Grimm's Fairy Tales, and I want to start The Republic.
Also Mockingjay, the third book in the Hunger Games series, comes out in a few days and I can't wait to read it!

[Katharine]

Lyd wrote: "My friend is lending me her copy of the complete Sherlock Holmes...it's this beautiful leather-bound from barnes and noble and every page is an adventure!"

Oh, I have that edition! It's so wonderful!

[Katharine]

Catamorandi wrote: "I just finished The Shadow of the Wind and am now reading The Thirteenth Tale."

Love the Thirteenth Tale. I read it in a book club years ago and ended up getting it on Paper Back Swap.

[Katharine]

Hm...does everyone here know about PaperBackSwap.com? I have cycled many books through there. It's terrific.

Anyway, this summer I'm reading the Millennium trilogy. My Mom gave me the first book (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) for my birthday. She mostly bought it for me as a symbol of Swedish Pride.

I have to say, it's pretty good. The first was excellent, the second was good (it felt like a second book, rather than a story that can stand alone). One of my buddies just finished the third and said it wraps together very well.

The best thing about it is Lisbeth Salander, though. Fascinating female character.

[Meredith]

I've read many a good (and not so good) book this summer. Some of my favorites have been:

"The Help," "The Book Thief," and "Looking for Alaska." I'm currently reading, "Little Women." I'm glad that I waited to read this book as an adult. I don't think I would have appreciated Jo's spunk and the progressiveness of this novel in my childhood.

[Monica]

I've read "The Brief Life of Oscar Wao" "The Dirty Girls Social Club" "Bram Stoker's Dracula" "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" "The Tipping Point" and "A Good and Happy Child"
They were all totally different books but very very good :)

[ModCloth]

I wanted to see what everyone was talking about, so I finally picked up The Hunger Games - very interesting read! Quite entertaining, and gives you lots to think about! - Sarah

[Ti]

mmm my summer reading list has been full since the beginning and I haven't finished all of the books I had picked. First I read "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer (wanted to see what she did with a theme that wasn't teenage vampires), the books 4, 5 and 6 of the Sookie Stackhouse series (those are fast-fun-entertaining-sexy readings), the Rhinestone Sisterhood that I totally loved and devoured, "Eldest" the second book by Christopher Paolini about dragons (not so good or entertaining as Eragon, I'm still reading it), by Kazuo Ishiguro I'm reading "The remains of the day" and my sister gave me "Never let me go" (still pending). In spanish I'm reading "El Asedio" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte...
Also pending "Remarkable Creatures" by Tracy Chevalier, "Kafka on the shore" by Murakami and the new Anne Rice book which name I can't remember right now.

[Jamie]

I am reading around seven books because I keep picking up ones without finishing the ones before. Summer is a little distracting!

[Jennifer]

I'm looking forward to The Hunger Games. I'm also in the midst of the Millennium trilogy, just over halfway through The Girl Who Played with Fire, and I agree with Katharine, Lisbeth Salander is one of the most interesting characters ever created.
I am also appeasing my inner child and FINALLY reading Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence. As soon as I finish this Millennium book, I'll be ready to start Greenwitch, the third book in the sequence. It's obviously not a new, sensational series, but it stands the test of time well, and should appeal to anyone who enjoys YA fantasy and the King Arthur legends/Celtic history.
Also, I bought a book at the airport last week called The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas. Totally judged it by its cover, but the description sounded very intriguing, so I'm hoping it lives up. Has anyone read it? Or any of her other books? They all sounded rather intriguing, that one just struck me the most as a place to start, but if I like it I plan to read her others.

[Jessica]

I read A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin, Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel, Money by Martin Amis, Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead (I picked it up because it looked ridiculous but it turned out to be quite humorous), Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta (ohmigod read this book!), The Doctor is Sick by Anthony Burgess, The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia, Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk (another great by him. He seems to just crank out genius), Bite Me by Christopher Moore (hilarious as usual), and The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. My list might be a tad bit strange. I like a wide variety of books. I read pretty much anything that falls into my lap. Sometimes, I'll have read everything I own so I'll go dig through my parent's books and just randomly select something (I read several of my dad's war books. He's in the army so he has tons of them.) or I go to a book store, close my eyes, stick out my arm and walk around until something hits my hand. Then I pick it up and decide whether I'm going to read it (usually I do). That's why the list is so all over the place. I forgot Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I didn't like it at first, but by the end I was quite impressed with it.

[Jamie]

A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff



Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger



An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

[ModCloth]

Lyd wrote: "My friend is lending me her copy of the complete Sherlock Holmes...it's this beautiful leather-bound from barnes and noble and every page is an adventure!"

I know a couple of people reading Sherlock this summer because of the new BBC adaptation. It's so cool when classic stories get an enthusiasm bump! -Martha

[ModCloth]

Jamie wrote: "A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff



Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger

Thanks for this recommendation! It looks just quirky enough to make a perfect goodbye to summer read. -Martha

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

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[Jamie]

You're welcome. Soulless is book #1 and and the new one out is Blameless #3.

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

I'm reading a lot of Historical Fiction this summer. It's a mood I've been in lately. :)