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One of the great joys of summer is being able to read outdoors (yes, I know that some of you in California or Florida can do this year round … good for you). I already have a huge stack of books I’d like to read, so I ask this question at my own detriment: What’s on your summer reading list?
I’ve just started Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. Next up, I’ll be reading The Lost Girls: Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconventional Detour Around the World and The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch. I’m especially excited about these two books, because I’ve followed the authors’ blogs, so I almost feel like I know them personally. What about you?
Open Thread: What’s On Your Reading List?
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Love summer reading lists! I'm thinking Alice Munro's latest book, which I think is called "Too Much Happiness." She is a goddess. Enjoy your summer. Boston is a little slice of heaven this time of year.
Over Memorial Day weekend, I started reading "Sunnyside" by Glen David Gold (about Charlie Chaplin and America during WWI). That may not seem like good summer reading fare, but the it's very funny and feels a lot like a movie (in fact Gold structured the book in sections the way movie shows were done in the early days of film: a short film, a newsreel, another short, and the feature).
My friend, Zukiswa Wanner, launched her third novel – Men of the South – on the 1 June. I'm starting to read the book this coming weekend.
Just finished Sarah Waters' gothic novel The Little Stranger and am now reading an anthology of Appalachian women writers called Listen Here, edited by Sandra Ballard and Patricia Hudson that I picked upwhile visiting Asheville NC a couple of weeks ago. Am also reading Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum which is a non-ficition account of the spiritualist movement during the 19th century. Have to admit….summertime sees me doing way more reading than writing much to the detriment of my poor neglected blog but sunshine, beers, and books are just too much to resist.
I recently read The Lost Girls to review it for my travel blog and I absolutely loved it. It was so genuine and legit, and I felt completely like I could relate. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
All three "The Girl With…." books.
Think I'll be picking up another Jodi Picoult. I bought three yesterday.
Nothing like the allure of good books. Thanks to suggestions from this comment thread, I've got more titles written down to grab next time I'm at the book store.
Here are my suggestions. Recently I had the opportunity to participate in Writers Read, talking about five books I'm currently reading. What a pleasure to recommend wonderful books by fellow authors. Take a look
http://whatarewritersreading.blogspot.com/2010/05/laura-grace-weldon.html
Susan, I just bought a copy of "Page by Page" by Heather Sellers. I've also started "On A Someday" a novel by North Dakota author Roxanne Henke, whom I know personally. I'm also working my way through a book about the newest canonized saints (39 Saints You Should Know) by Brian O'Neel (who I will be interviewing later this month on radio), and recently finished up two powerful books by Dr. Miriam Grossman, a physician and Orthodox Jew who reveals harmful deceptions within today's sex-education ideology. Wow, you can really learn a lot about a person through their reading list, huh?
I just noted on Facebook that I have about five titles going on in any given span. This isn't the way I used to be. I was a one-book-at-a-time person. But I have so many interests and life is too short to settle down with just one book. I seem to have one for every mood and location. 
My summer reading list consists of:
1) The Mill on the Floss (currently halfway through)
2) Picking Cotton
I'm very excited about reading both. Since school has let out, I finally have time to relax and start reading for fun again.
~TRA
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Hi Susan–As you know I already posted a very similar list on my blog. I have too many to mention, but I'm happy to report that I'm making some major progress! I also have "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner on my list. I finished "The Help" last weekend and thought it was great. Currently reading "My Fair Lazy" by Jen Lancaster. She is hilarious. Happy reading!
I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of Laura Fraser's new book, All Over the Map, which is a follow up to her memoir, An Italian Affair. I ordered it from Amazon this week, so maybe I'll be lucky and it'll come today and I will have it for the weekend!
PS. It's an O Mag summer reading pick!
Just finished reading "The Book of Jhereg" by Steven Burst. It was great. And i think I'm going to reread the Dealing With Dragons series by Patricia C. Wrede (it's classic and so fun!)
"honest living" sent by my best friend. This book relaxes me a lot