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>Paging Julie Brown
>We've put together a summer reading list for your pleasure; please note that it fulfills no requirements and promises nothing but a good time.
Bruce Brooks kicked off my summer reading with a gift of the latest Prey book (Invisible Prey) by John Sandford. Give me Sandford's Lucas Davenport in the summer and Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti in the winter and I'm a happy man. Otherwise this summer, I'm planning to continue my binge on Turkey and the Turks and am currently enjoying Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul and Hugh Pope's Sons of the Conquerors. But that's indoor reading, and for the beach--if I get there--I like 'em big and stupid. Any suggestions?
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thommy
>As soon as I heard about Armistead Maupin's new Tales of the City installment, Michael Tolliver Lives, I put the first six volumes in my beach tote, so I'd be all caught up.Though, with your Julie Brown reference, perhaps you're really looking for recommendations like Chris Klein, or Keanu Reeves...
Posted : Jun 13, 2007 02:45
Roger Sutton
>I think of Dickens as winter reading, but Snobs is a great recommendation, and E, I'm sorry I forgot to bring your copy back.Posted : Jun 13, 2007 02:19
Rinda M. Byers
>Hmmm....sorry all, I'm out in left field or is it right field with adult nonfiction right now but can't resist recommending it as "steamy" enough...especially the pig stuff with DeSoto..not for the faint of heart exactly...."1941" by Charles C Mann...ACTUALLY..it's pretty breezy reading for a history book.
Posted : Jun 13, 2007 06:34
Anonymous
>maybe it's time to go back and reread Josephine Tey?Posted : Jun 12, 2007 07:32
Elizabeth
>I'm trying to get a copy of Jane Gardham's OLD FILTH. Both George Nicholson and Regina Hayes passionately recommended it to me. And I've already given this to Roger, but one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in a long time is Snobs by Julian Fellowes, the screenwriter for Gosford Park.It's not summer for me unless I reread The Long Secret (already read it in early May) and Pride and Prejudice. It was hard to stave off the reading of P+P when I was laid up with food poisoning, but Mansfield Park and Persuasion did the trick.
Unlike Roger, I've always used summer vacation as the time I can read lengthier books (when I'm working, manuscripts are beckoning). I read two of my all-time favorites, Middlemarch and Bleak House, at Fire Island. This summer I'm going for Daniel Deronda. Roger, how about finishing up David Copperfield?
Posted : Jun 12, 2007 07:25