Summer reading?

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Summer reading?

Posted: 5/28/04 at 10:56am

So what are you all reading? At the moment I am reading two books. The first is "Kate Remembered" by A. Scott Berg. A glimpse into the life of Katherine Hepburn. The chapter about Michael Jackson coming to dinner is worth the price of the book alone!
The second is "Mountain Summers" This is about a group of women who hiked the White Mountains of New Hampshire during the years 1878-1886. It is told through the letters that were sent back and forth. Having done many of the hikes thay write about I feel like I am a tenderfoot. I have the luxury of rugged boots and nylon pants. These women were in the long Victorian Era skirts! and just getting to the trails were an adventure.
So posters what are you reading this summer?
B

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#2

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 10:59am

LOVE & DEATH

Because Courtney killed Kurt

and I believe it

#3

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:05am

It's too early to know for me but one of the Spring books I am fininshing up his Gary Indiana's "Do Everything in the Dark." Indiana's recent "Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story" was sheer unadulterated genius.

And, Ruffian, you might enjoy his essay in this week's Voice if you haven't seen it:

Paranoid Nation: On the Culture of Conspiracism.


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#4

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:07am

Augusten Burroughs, DRY

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#5

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:08am

The Truth Is Out There

#6

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:15am

I just picked up Empire Falls as I kept hearing good things about it.

#7

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:22am

Zola, I love Augusten Burroughs! His first book, "Sellevision" is hilarious! "Dry" is on my list for this summer, too.

I just started "the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. Great book so far.

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:25am

Curious incident...is that the one from the point of view of the autistic boy? It sounds fascinating.

#9

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:25am

I've been catching up on Philip K. Dick's novels.

#10

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:25am

I'm one of those wacky super fast readers that reads at least a book a day, right now I'm re-reading the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series of mysteries by Ann Perry.
& as a side note, I've worked at children & young adult bookstores off & on for 10 years, so if you need a suggestion for up to age 17, I'd be happy to help! Just PM me & I'll answer you ASAP. :)

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:31am

Singer, yes, "incident" is about an autistic boy trying to find out who killed his neighbor's dog. Very well written.

#12

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 11:41am

Just finished The Hotel New Hampshire and am about to start Ian McEwan's Enduring Love. Also sitting on my shelf are The Birth Of Venus, Dry, The Star Of The Sea, The Color and an Isherwood book. The theatre I work in is going dark this week until December so I have a very lazy summer ahead......

And Curious Incident is a really really great book.

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#13

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 12:17pm

I have printed out all 60 pages of the "Welcome Eddie Varley" thread and will be reading it this weekend in Rehoboth while guzzling Mojito's and oogling the boi's!

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a handsome and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW--WHAT A RIDE!!!!""

#14

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 12:38pm

I'm reading "Respect for Acting" by Uta Hagen and "On Directing" by Harold Clurman. (Gosh, I'm such a theatre geek) I also plan to reread the Harry Potter books and "The Posionwood Bible".

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 12:49pm

Poisonwood Bible is utterly amazing. If you like it, you should check out one of Barbara Kingsolver's other books, Prodigal Summer, which is a work of rare and special beauty.

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:16pm

Dry and Poisonwood Bible are great fun.
Has anyone read The Secret History by Donna Tartt? Read it this spring and it's a total page-turner.

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:16pm

I haven't had time to read lately (what a shame!)...but I always recommend my favorite book of all time to anyone needing suggestions - A Prayer for Owen Meany. If you have one ounce of spirituality in you, you'll love this book. (its a bit of a good mystery also!)

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#18

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 3:55pm

I just got finished reading "Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare. For school, I have to read "Holes" and "Clan of the Cave Bear" over the summer.

Sparknotes, anyone?

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#19

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:02pm

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, which made me miss my train stop today.

#20

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:06pm

Right now I'm reading Charlotte Bronte's Villette and then I'm going to read Jane and Her Gentlemen (about Jane Austen)

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#21

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:08pm

Have you read The Professor and Emma (a fragment)? They're two Bronte novels about the same affair told from both sides of the affair. Terribly fun.

#22

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:15pm

Emma was a fun read. Sadly I haven't re-read that one in some time.
B

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"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

#23

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:45pm

BorstalBoy, The Secret History is one of my all time favourite books. If ou loved it, I would NOT recommend her second novel, The Little Friend, which is a hideous bore.

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#24

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:54pm

Since I loved Wicked (the book) so much, I got Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (also by Gregory Maguire), and I'm gonna start that soon.

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Posted: 5/28/04 at 4:57pm

I was thinking of picking that up...tell me how it is, Governor? I have a friend who was reading it but I think she abandoned it half way.

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