Summer reading!!- Page 2

[ardenfanXD]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 3:38am

Oh gosh! Thanks DMsquared2!! I'll write them down as well!!!

[Taryn]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 12:30pm

The first thing that comes to mind with books to make you cry is The Time-Traveler's Wife. Beautiful book about love and separation.

Am I the only one who REALLY doesn't like Brave New World? I love 1984 and Lord of the Flies, but Brave New World makes me want to do something painful to myself.

[nmartin]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 12:50pm

If you've never read Capote's The Grass Harp, you need to read it. It's just wonderful.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:07pm

This thread is making me so anxious to start on my summer reading.

[heathurrr]

Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:16pm

'A Home at the End of the World' by Michael Cunningham.

http://www.michaelcunninghamwriter.com/books/home_at_the_end/

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 12:02pm

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult. Bawled my eyes out.

Also anything by Pat Conroy.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 12:26pm

I second Three Junes, which--to me--is the perfect summer novel. (I re-read it every year) A moving and life-affirming story, beautifully written by Glass. Her follow-up novel, The Whole World Over, is also worth reading.

[sally1112]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 2:50pm

Ok, as I read all the responses the two I really wanted to recommed to you have already been suggested so let me double recommend,
Kite Runner and
The Perks of Being a Wallflower,
and let me really disagree with The Road.
There was actually a thread on The Road last year, I hated that book and found it a huge waste of time.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:13pm

I didn't really like the Road either. It was the most depressing thing I ever read.

I agree with the Kite Runner too though.

[ardenfanXD]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:29pm

Thank you everyone!!! I read The Time Traveler's Wife last month, and absolutely LOVED it. I bought Lord of the Flies last night, after an hour of hard decision over at Barnes and Noble. I have the rest of your suggestions written down for when I am done with this one.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:38pm

I have the Time Traveler's Wife on my bookshelf. I've tried a couple of times to read it and I just can't seem to get into it. I guess I should give it another shot.

[xoangel2789xo]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 7:30pm

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I don't think it will make you cry, but I feel like it has a great message. Basically about following one's dreams and centers on this shepherd boy from Spain.

[dalefully]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:26am

God, I have a summer reading list the size of Texas. Currently, I'm half way through Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Nights, and after that, I have...
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Girl on the Fridge (and other Stories by Etgar Keret
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, PhD
Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory by Mickey Rapkin
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild by Deborah Siegel
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons

So yeah, that should keep me busy.

[LadyRosecoe]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:32am

I just completed Fahrenheit 451 yesterday and although I wasn't too great a fan of it, it totally screams summer reading to me.

[PhebusApollo]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:11am

I third (maybe fourth?) the recommendation for The Kite Runner. Stunning novel. You won't regret reading it.

[ardenfanXD]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:01pm

haha good thing I love to read! I'm honestly marking all these books down! Thank you all once again!!!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:05pm

I want to echo the praise for "Perks of Being a Wallflower."

I also highly reccomend "Flowers for Algernon" if you haven't read it. We did in 7th Grade, and I was the only one who cried (aside from my teacher). Beautiful moving story.

[californiasnow]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 4:19pm

Am I a dork for thinking that it would be awesome to have a BWW book club?

One book that I read before I started college was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. It's an interesting book to read at different parts of your life.

Right now, I'm reading the latest novel in the Stephanie Plum series. Perfect light summer reading

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 5:15pm

A BWW Book Club?

I'd be there.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 7:37pm

I'm up for a BWW Book Club.

[ardenfanXD]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 12:31am

A BWW book club sounds just AWESOME!!!! Count me in!

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 1:35am

The Virgin Suicides I thought was extremely well written. Some people I know thought it was depressing but I thought it was beautiful, and one of the most accurate portrayals of teen life I've read in a book. It's a good movie too!

[WiCkEd BaCcHaE]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 10:10pm

I'm up for a book club too!

In other news, 'Bel Canto' by Ann Patchett is gorgeous. I've read almost everything by Patchett and this one might be my favorite.

[xoangel2789xo]

Posted: 6/23/08 at 10:18pm

I like the idea of a book club.

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 6/24/08 at 12:55am

I second The Cider House Rules and My Sister's Keeper.

I also recommend The Tenth Circle and The Other Boleyn Girl. They may not make you cry (well TTC is sad), but they're both good.

And if you wanna go the theatre route, Without You, Anthony Rapp's autobiography, is so, so, so good and it WILL make you cry.