We are gearing up for Summer 2008 Reading! This year “Timeless Reads” will be featured–you know, books that you can read again and again. Not “classic” in the usual way, but a book that can pull you back because it was so good the first time. What is your timeless book?
Summer 2008 Adult Summer Reading begins June 15!
To Kill A Mockingbird
Any Dick Francis Book
Any Harry Potter Book
The Secret Garden
Gitanjali
The Bhagavad Gita
Emma/Pride & Prejudice/Sense & Sensibility
Sherlock Holmes
Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances
that’s all for now!
cheers, arundhati
my personal reads
(*not entered in contest)
July
possibly 19-Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, CD read by Ian Carmichael (5th disc is bad, hope to get another copy so I can finish it. Recommended by Connie Willis in To Say Nothing of the Dog, a great time travel book)
18-Bid Time Return, Richard Matheson (time travel inside the Hotel Coronado in San Diego, 1971 to 1896)
*Big Blonde, Mrs. Post, and Horsie, Dorothy Parker, CD read by Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski (Good to knit to)
17 – Riding Shotgun, Rita Mae Brown (a competent novel. You will like it if you like horses, or if you are interested in 1600s Virginia.)
16-The Eyre Affair, Jason Fforde (I wouldn’t have found this unless I had been looking for a time travel book, and I’m glad I did. Very wild, but at the end he ties up ends that I didn’t even realize were loose.)
* the Taste of Sweet: Our complicated love affair with our favorite treats, Jennifer Chen (I love a good book about food. It’s short, but she covers nutritional, marketing, and demographic research, as well as Alice Waters’ project at King Middle School, and chefs and restaurants)
15-Man’s Fate, Andre Malraux (This was on a list of good books I got in high school, and I always meant to read it. It’s about the situation in Shanghai in 1927 during the Communist Revolution)
14-To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (The effect of a mother of 8 on her husband and a younger woman friend, over 10 years)
13-The Singing Sands, Josephine Tey (I like her better than Agatha Christie because I get tired of the country house set)
June
* The Samurai’s Daughter, Sujata Massey–a good series
12-The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey (3d or 4th time)
11-Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf ( One day in the life of some Londoners in the 1920s)
10-Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (fantastic)
9-A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson (as funny as claimed)
8-A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers ( I think his sister was one of the lwyers I worked with at one time)
7-Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
*Where Did I leave My Glasses: The What, When and Why of Normal Memory Loss, Martha Weinman Lear (Yes, you will find , most likely, that what’s going on with you is part of normal aging)
6-On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ian Fleming
5-Free for All, Don Borchert–because I think it may become a classic
4- Time and Again, Jack Finney
3 Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
2-Green Darkness, Anya Seton
1 Far Pavilions, M.M.Kaye