Summer 2008 reading list

[Ocean Lover]

Twilight Saga series

Has anyone read or heard of the Twilight series? I think there are 3 books with a 4th coming out soon. They are geared to young adults. My sister asked me if Sam was reading them.

 

[NoHall]

Has anyone read or heard of the Twilight series? I think there are 3 books with a 4th coming out soon. They are geared to young adults. My sister asked me if Sam was reading them.

I have been told repeatedly to read them. Haven't gotten around to it.

Am almost finished with Swine Not? (the Jimmy Buffett book.) I'm a little disappointed. It's almost like a dragged out children's book. I really like children's books, but not when I'm expecting one of Jimmy's wild pirate stories.

I also just finished attempting to read 3 music history/theory textbooks for the @#$%! test I took yesterday. I don't recommend any of them. Bleh. I'd rather watch paint dry.

 

[Beach Runner]

Today I'm going to start reading Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert.

 

[SGB]

Has anyone read or heard of the Twilight series? I think there are 3 books with a 4th coming out soon. They are geared to young adults. My sister asked me if Sam was reading them.

Our book club just read the first book and many people went on to read the others. I haven't read it yet, but everyone that did, really loved the book.

 

[Ocean Lover]

I have been told repeatedly to read them. Haven't gotten around to it.

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Our book club just read the first book and many people went on to read the others. I haven't read it yet, but everyone that did, really loved the book.

My sis said she'd bring it to me this week. She read it but we didn't really have time to talk about it. Delaney (2 yr old) was pretty demanding today and sis was tired.

 

[klauricella]

JDarg started this last year, and, with all due respect, I figured it was time to renew it. (I would have just added to her thread, but it was titled "Summer 2007 reading list.")

What are y'all reading? What do you like?

I just finished Water for Elephants, which was handed off to me by a friend. Loved it--great fictional story based on the history of American circus, set in 1931.

One of the teachers at my school also passed me Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. I like the way he described it to me, which gave nothing of the plot away: It's a book about dealing with loss, told from the perspective of several members of a family. The primary narrator is a young boy named Oskar.

It was part of the boys' curriculum, so it was PG or maybe PG-13. At any rate, I love reading books for grown-ups and children's literature, but the best is when I find a book that's clean enough for a child but intelligent enough for an adult. It also has some wonderful photography incorporated into the story.

I've just started Swine Not?, which is Jimmy Buffet's newest. It looks very promising.

Spill it--what do y'all have going?

Loved, Loved, Loved Water for Elephants. What a great story!!

 

[Carol G]

I just finished a book that was SO great, as soon as I read the last sentences, I flipped right back to the beginning and started it again.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend - By Christopher Moore

This is the funniest book I've EVER read. I was reading in a waiting room, and was asked to keep my voice down because I was laughing SO hard. It's about the lost years of Christ, told through the eyes of his best friend, Biff.

Moore doesn't "ridicule" Jesus, so it's not offensive AT ALL. He's a very clever author, and this book led to me racing to Borders so I could buy everything else he's written. Best move I ever made. You can't go wrong with Moore.

I LOVE that book... I knew you were cool, but whoa, had no idea you were that cool! ;-)

 

[Poodleone]

I just finished a book that was SO great, as soon as I read the last sentences, I flipped right back to the beginning and started it again.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend - By Christopher Moore

This is the funniest book I've EVER read. I was reading in a waiting room, and was asked to keep my voice down because I was laughing SO hard. It's about the lost years of Christ, told through the eyes of his best friend, Biff.

Moore doesn't "ridicule" Jesus, so it's not offensive AT ALL. He's a very clever author, and this book led to me racing to Borders so I could buy everything else he's written. Best move I ever made. You can't go wrong with Moore.

My husband does not read books but really laughed out loud at this one. It can also give you food for thought if read with an open mind.

 

[bluemtnrunner]

I just finished the last two Randy Wayne White books. Fishing guide turned detective/suspense writer. All based around Boca Grande and Cabbage Key, FL where I grew up. Also read Tim Dorsey for fun (though he is a bit twisted)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close AND A Thousand Splended Suns made me both incredibly sad and very motivated to start writting again.

I just started A Conspiracy of Paper. I don't know if we are going to make it though, it isn't hitting me just right.

I want to wade through some David McCullough this summer, finish the Chronicles of Narnia (my kids have read them all) and write one short novel and get my already written children's story sent out.