Summer 2007 Reading List

And I went to 2 bookstores to find Farenheit 451; no one had it. They acted as if they'd never heard of it. I remember it being pretty basic.

Wow! I remember my son burning that book after he finished it. Poetic, no? :roll:

Will just finished Catcher in the Rye and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Gatsby is a great choice- especially since Louisville has a place in it.

I have "The Secret" and "A Year In The World" on my reading list, and a few nonsensical books "Savannah's Garden" and "A Salty Piece Of Land"

Make sure you also read "Tales from Magaritaville" before you do Salty Piece of Land. It has the true start of the book in it.

mangy - I call this book when you are done. looks like my kind of reading.

paula recommended Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz a while back. I am not a koontz reader, but I gave it a try (cause paula's recommendations are always right on) and really liked it. very good story.

Bless Your Heart, Tramp and other Southern Endearments - given to me by a dear wench, is on my reading list for this summer. looks like a great beach book!

Did you laught out loud at some of the parts in Life Expectancy? (it could have been that I was just feeling kind of punchy anyway). I thought it was pretty outrageous from the first few pages until the very end (and not a long book). I rarely read mysteries/thrillers. Not a deep book at all but a funn book.

Will just finished Catcher in the Rye and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Gatsby is a great choice- especially since Louisville has a place in it.

I am reading "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. It is very good and takes place in Lexington, Kentucky.

Bless Your Heart, Tramp and other Southern Endearments - given to me by a dear wench, is on my reading list for this summer. looks like a great beach book!

I will be bringing to the beach with me:

We're Just Like You, Only Prettier; Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark

Same Author as Bless Your Heart, Tramp and other Southern Endearments.

I will leave it with you Tootsie, to pass on to all the "other Tramps". ;-)

Let me just share the Table of Contents with you. It is long, but read all of them, FUNNY!!!!!

Part 1. The Southern Family, and no we don't marry our cousins-unless, of course, they got cable.

1. Stop Watching Your Plasma TV and Start Selling Your Plasma!
How to Become Honest-to-Jesus White Trash

2. Baby Born Won't Poop
How a Constipated Doll Baby Sabotaged the Hap-Hap-Happiest Time of the Year

3. There's a Hair in My Bacon Grease
Why the Greatest Generation is Rinsing Out Ziploc Bags and Eating Ptomaine Turkey

4. Mama and Them, Precious and Dahlin'
Why the Sapranos Could Never Survive Down South.

5. Here Comes the Bride
Let's Just Get "Em Hitched Somtime Before We See the Head

6. Where Were You When the Stringbean Passed?
A Real Southerner Would Know the Answer to That Question

Part 2: Kids; Jusst Because They Don't Have Gills Doesn't Mean They're Human.

1. Chuck E. Cheese's
Where a Kid Can Be a Kid While Mommie Gets Hammered on Watered-
Down Bud Light

2. "And What Did You Have for Breakfast Dear?"
Tell the Preschool Nazis You Had Waffles and Eggs, 'Stead of Juicy Fruit
and a Coke, Okay?

3. "Sorry I Can't Make It to the Recital"
I'm Planning to Poke Myself in the Eye with a Sharp Stick that night

4. "Your Kid's Fever Is So High, the Others Are Standing Around Her with
Marshmallows on Sticks"
How My Day at the Spa Went Up Sheeit Creek

5. Preschool Already?
Why We'd Rather Stay Home, Chew Gum, and Not Share a Little Longer

6. "Psst- Wanna Buy Some Really Ugly Gift Wrap?"
Training Tykes to Be Telemarketers for Fun and Profit.

7. How to Be a Hands-On Parent Using Field Trips, Dead Butterflies, and
Beefaroni

Part 3: Couples Therapy, Southern Style; Lord, Please Don't Let Me Kill Him Till The House Is Paid For

1. "Papa, Don't Preach"
You'r Late for Church, Got Mary Kay on Half Your Face, and He's Honking in the Carport.

2. "Never Saw 'Em Before in My Life"
What to Say at the Wedding Reception When Hubby's Dressed Your Kid in Batman Sweats and Tweety Bird Swim Socks

3. Study Says Men Listen with Half Their Brains
They Use the other Half for Caulk

4. Big Screen, Big Tallywacker
Shoot, Everybody Knows That

5. Sick of Seeing Men at Those "Couples" Baby Showers?
Tell 'Em About the Time You Lost Your Mucus Plug in the Winn-Dixie

Part 4: The Southern Woman

1. Scientists Discover Fat Virus!
How I Went from Diet, Exercise, and Giving a Sheeit to Gnawing 99 cent Turky Legs at the Stop-n-go

2. I Drum "Em on My Desk and and They Click Like a Poolde on Pergo
The Dirty Little Secret of Manicure Addiction and Other American Beauty Rituals

3. Mother's Day Memories
Make Mine Macaroni

4. "What We Havin' For Dinner Tonight, Sugar Booger?"
And Other Wildly Important Uses for the Cell Phone

5. Real Simple Magazine: Meet Manwich, the Working Girl's Best Friend
How to Feng-Shui Your Way To Divorce Court

6. Screw the Wisdom of Menopause

7. Birthday Greetings from the Insurance Ghouls
Just Count the Rings Around My Stomach and Mail Me a Kate Spade Purse

Part 5: The Gravy on the Grits; Boobalicous Speaks Out

1. Stamp out Gossip?
My Best Friend's Mama's Sister's Hairdresser's Cousin Won't Like This A Bit

2. SUVs Eat the Ozone?
Hey, We All Gotta Eat Something and I Got Twenty-Seven Cup Holders

3. Feeling Squirrely
Why Clone Cats When There's Perfectly Good Russell Crowe Lying Around?

4. And Now a Word from the Cockpit...
"Harrummpha Lumpha Sheeee!"

5. This Just In from the Workplace
Everything Still Sucks

6. TV or Not TV
Oh, It's Never a Quesstion in My House

7. Cirrus, Schimirrus...They're All Just Puffy to Me

8. I am Boobalicious, Hear Me Roar
How Computer Hackers Ruined My Rep

9. Silly Lawsuits Could Clog a Toto
Or, How My Trash Cart Nearly Killed Me

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner, oneof my favorite books)

Please provide a report when you are finished with this. I loved the Kite Runner!

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Life Expectancy by Dean Koonz - I read this book last summer and thought it was hysterical. A good mystery and a fun read -- I laughed out loud a few times.

The Tender Bar (recommended on SoWal.com in the past)

I really enjoyed both of these! J.R. Moehringer needs to write another book. Hasn't it been a while since the Tender bar?

I am almost done with "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult. Beautiful writing but a heartbreaking topic.

Thanks for all of the suggestions!

Just don't get caught with a dog-eared copy of Catcher in the Rye. ;-)

I have twelve dog-eared copies. I wonder what that means.

Just what are they reading in school these days?

the internet

I will be bringing to the beach with me:

We're Just Like You, Only Prettier; Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark

Same Author as Bless Your Heart, Tramp and other Southern Endearments.

I will leave it with you Tootsie, to pass on to all the "other Tramps". ;-)

Let me just share the Table of Contents with you. It is long, but read all of them, FUNNY!!!!!

Part 1. The Southern Family, and no we don't marry our cousins-unless, of course, they got cable.

1. Stop Watching Your Plasma TV and Start Selling Your Plasma!
How to Become Honest-to-Jesus White Trash

2. Baby Born Won't Poop
How a Constipated Doll Baby Sabotaged the Hap-Hap-Happiest Time of the Year

3. There's a Hair in My Bacon Grease
Why the Greatest Generation is Rinsing Out Ziploc Bags and Eating Ptomaine Turkey

4. Mama and Them, Precious and Dahlin'
Why the Sapranos Could Never Survive Down South.

5. Here Comes the Bride
Let's Just Get "Em Hitched Somtime Before We See the Head

6. Where Were You When the Stringbean Passed?
A Real Southerner Would Know the Answer to That Question

Part 2: Kids; Jusst Because They Don't Have Gills Doesn't Mean They're Human.

1. Chuck E. Cheese's
Where a Kid Can Be a Kid While Mommie Gets Hammered on Watered-
Down Bud Light

2. "And What Did You Have for Breakfast Dear?"
Tell the Preschool Nazis You Had Waffles and Eggs, 'Stead of Juicy Fruit
and a Coke, Okay?

3. "Sorry I Can't Make It to the Recital"
I'm Planning to Poke Myself in the Eye with a Sharp Stick that night

4. "Your Kid's Fever Is So High, the Others Are Standing Around Her with
Marshmallows on Sticks"
How My Day at the Spa Went Up Sheeit Creek

5. Preschool Already?
Why We'd Rather Stay Home, Chew Gum, and Not Share a Little Longer

6. "Psst- Wanna Buy Some Really Ugly Gift Wrap?"
Training Tykes to Be Telemarketers for Fun and Profit.

7. How to Be a Hands-On Parent Using Field Trips, Dead Butterflies, and
Beefaroni

Part 3: Couples Therapy, Southern Style; Lord, Please Don't Let Me Kill Him Till The House Is Paid For

1. "Papa, Don't Preach"
You'r Late for Church, Got Mary Kay on Half Your Face, and He's Honking in the Carport.

2. "Never Saw 'Em Before in My Life"
What to Say at the Wedding Reception When Hubby's Dressed Your Kid in Batman Sweats and Tweety Bird Swim Socks

3. Study Says Men Listen with Half Their Brains
They Use the other Half for Caulk

4. Big Screen, Big Tallywacker
Shoot, Everybody Knows That

5. Sick of Seeing Men at Those "Couples" Baby Showers?
Tell 'Em About the Time You Lost Your Mucus Plug in the Winn-Dixie

Part 4: The Southern Woman

1. Scientists Discover Fat Virus!
How I Went from Diet, Exercise, and Giving a Sheeit to Gnawing 99 cent Turky Legs at the Stop-n-go

2. I Drum "Em on My Desk and and They Click Like a Poolde on Pergo
The Dirty Little Secret of Manicure Addiction and Other American Beauty Rituals

3. Mother's Day Memories
Make Mine Macaroni

4. "What We Havin' For Dinner Tonight, Sugar Booger?"
And Other Wildly Important Uses for the Cell Phone

5. Real Simple Magazine: Meet Manwich, the Working Girl's Best Friend
How to Feng-Shui Your Way To Divorce Court

6. Screw the Wisdom of Menopause

7. Birthday Greetings from the Insurance Ghouls
Just Count the Rings Around My Stomach and Mail Me a Kate Spade Purse

Part 5: The Gravy on the Grits; Boobalicous Speaks Out

1. Stamp out Gossip?
My Best Friend's Mama's Sister's Hairdresser's Cousin Won't Like This A Bit

2. SUVs Eat the Ozone?
Hey, We All Gotta Eat Something and I Got Twenty-Seven Cup Holders

3. Feeling Squirrely
Why Clone Cats When There's Perfectly Good Russell Crowe Lying Around?

4. And Now a Word from the Cockpit...
"Harrummpha Lumpha Sheeee!"

5. This Just In from the Workplace
Everything Still Sucks

6. TV or Not TV
Oh, It's Never a Quesstion in My House

7. Cirrus, Schimirrus...They're All Just Puffy to Me

8. I am Boobalicious, Hear Me Roar
How Computer Hackers Ruined My Rep

9. Silly Lawsuits Could Clog a Toto
Or, How My Trash Cart Nearly Killed Me

oh lordy! these books may contain some seriously good topics for lounge thread/material...

I'm about 1/3 of the way through this one! I love it! (although, I'm not absolutely crazy about Julia..... I'd like to see someone like Jenna Fischer in this part.)

OH...I agree about Julia...but I am glad the movie is being made...who knows Julia may do a decent job.... I hope she does not ruin the message.

Make sure you also read "Tales from Magaritaville" before you do Salty Piece of Land. It has the true start of the book in it.

Thanks bbb!

LORDY KDW, you are ambitious!

Ghost story and romance books are my favorite reading. I have quite a collection, more ghost story than romance.

Celia Rivenbark is one of the funniest writers/columnists ever. Her newest book is Stop Dressing Your Six-Year Old Like a Skank. Great Southern humor.

I am determined to read all of the Anne Rivers Siddons books this summer that I have missed. I just finished The Memory Keeper's Daughter and enjoyed it. Also for just all out light reading, the Shopoholic books by Sophie Kinsella are good.

I need a really good Photoshop book and a really good Flash book so I can improve my skills. My artistic skills stink.

I need a really good Photoshop book and a really good Flash book so I can improve my skills. My artistic skills stink.

How about a dictionary?

How about a dictionary?

Okay, Ms. Natzi Nazi. I deserved that. In my defense, when I PUI, I have trouble spelling my own name.

CNN has been playing clips from a spelling bee today, where the "favorite" was eliminated. Which brings me to my point- we should have a SoWal Spelling Bee at the next gathering of more than 15 or so SoWallers. It would probably be spell to the death.

CNN has been playing clips from a spelling bee today, where the "favorite" was eliminated. Which brings me to my point- we should have a SoWal Spelling Bee at the next gathering of more than 15 or so SoWallers. It would probably be spell to the death.

It's on ABC right now!

Zacate? What the heck is that?

those spelling bee kids freak me out - they shouldn't know how to spell some of that stuff !

those spelling bee kids freak me out - they shouldn't know how to spell some of that stuff !

those spelling bee kids freak me out - they shouldn't know how to spell some of that stuff !

they have me so freaked out i hit submit reply twice

Darlene!! I want that book!!!!

Audie-they freak me out too! It's on the tv by the computer. I am turning them off!

I will be bringing to the beach with me:

We're Just Like You, Only Prettier; Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark

Same Author as Bless Your Heart, Tramp and other Southern Endearments.

I have been looking at these two, also. I read her most recent book, Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank, and there were a few times I had to catch my breath from laughing so hard.

I'm rereading the first 6 Harry Potter Books. I had forgotten just how good the first three were...starting 4 tomorrow.
I've got a stack of Sweet Potato Queen books, never been opened I gotta get to. And Chuck Palanuik (sp?) has a new one coming out. Loved Fight Club, Invisible Monsters(favorite) and Choke.