What have you been reading this summer?- Page 2
What have you been reading this summer?
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#25re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:01pmArchie and Veronica
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#26re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:05pmif you haven't yet, try some Irving essays. I forget what the collection is called. The one collection that has an essay on Dickens also includes one on truth as a source for fiction, which should be a must-read for all actors and acting students/teachers.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#27re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:51pmI'm still reading "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. I don't recommend it.
#28re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:52pmi've said it before, and i'll say it again: A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY is my favorite adult novel. brilliant.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#29re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:53pmIm just finishing up "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. GREAT book!
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Funny Face
Broadway Star Joined: 7/6/06
#30re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:55pm
My Sister's Kepper is soooo good!
Finished Wuhtering Heights a week ago, and I'm now reading Anna Karenina.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#31re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:01pm
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton (a favorite I love to revisit every few years)
My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan
...I just picked up My Sister's Keeper
And have a few set aside for vacation in August.
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#32re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:15pmI'm afeared I shall have to wait for MY LUCKY STAR to come out in paperback...I gave up hardbound books after too many moves. Somehow, I don't feel so wasteful giving away paperback books after I've finished them, but the Keenan ones I usually keep anyway. But I'm looking forward to it.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#33re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:17pm
Previously read The Motive by John Lescroart & now reading Before The Parade Passes By - Gower Champion bio
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#34re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:17pmDouble post Sorry
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#35re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:20pmoh, I bet that Champion bio is good. Marge should write her life story too. I want to get the new Norman Jewison autobiography as well.
#36re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:21pmaspiringactress, what was suppose to be the most exciting scene in the book was streched out like 15 pages. I totally lost interest, even though it was the most interesting thig to happen in the entire story. I'd say more,but I don't want to spoil anything for Funny Face.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#37re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:22pmSo far it is quite good
#38re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:39pm
I'm weird and I like re-reading books, so right now I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude again.
Once I'm done with that I'm going to start Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream.
#39re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:41pm
To the poster who said 1984 is long and boring - oy, if THAT'S long and boring, you're in for a world of hurt when you get around to Moby Dick or My Antonia! "1984" is easily one of my favorite books.
This summer so far I've read
GhostWritten by David Mitchell (good, though VERY strange)
The Woman in White (long, slow in parts, but not bad)
And I'm almost done with "King Dork" by Frank Portman -- my sig. below comes from it. It's very entertaining - kind of an anti-Catcher in the Rye.
Next up I think will be the book I need to read for our summer reading program: City of Ember - then back to my own choices. I think possibly I'll go with A Confederacy of Dunces - it's been sitting on my shelf forever and I haven't gotten around to it.
circusliz
Broadway Star Joined: 11/19/05
#40re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:43pm
Just finished:
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholom Aleichem
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
and a bunch of others that I've now lost track of.
Right now I'm reading Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein and Giants in the Earth by Ole E. Rølvaag.
#41re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 3:02pm
Jane Eyre -- I LOVED that book which surprised me so much considering that I went in expecting to hate it as much as I hated Pride and Prejudice - I know, two different authors, but they were always linked in my mind for some reason.
I'm always so happy to see one of my students giving Jane Eyre a shot!
#42re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 4:04pm
Finally finished Harry Potter.
Now devouring 'Marley and Me' - finishig it in about 2 days. Brilliant. Heartbraking. Unforgettable.
Shay Jericho
Understudy Joined: 9/8/05
#44re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 5:09pmEarlier in the year, I had piced up "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. I really enjoyed it, so in subsequent trips to the book store, picked up two others of her novels, "Vanishing Acts" and "The Pact". Both were excellent, but both had a character who spent a majority of the time in jail. When I went to look for a new book, it had one requirement....no one serves jail time! The result is that I went to the library and picked up this novel called "A Bride Most Begruding". Turns out to be a "Christian Romance" novel......completely light and fluffy and mindless, and yet I'm totally into it! LOL
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#45re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 5:24pm
has the guy who wrote VOX and THE FERMATA come out with a new book?!?!? I think he's great, just can't recall his name right now...Nicholson?!?!?!?
VOX got a lot of attention, but FERMATA is my favorite. I think he also wrote a book that takes place completely on one pass of an escalator. Fascinating mind.
#46re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 8:04pm
I just finished When Christ and his Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman. It was really good, but took a long time to read, four weeks for a 600 page book is unusually long for me.
I'm now rereading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I needed something lighter before I move on to something I haven't already read.
picturetaker9211
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/06
#47re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 9:24pm
I've been reading Megan McCafferty's series. I also read one of the most amazing books of my life, Tuesdays with Morrie. I cried at the end, it was that good.
I'm currently reading Adam Rapp's book Under the Wolf, Under the Dog.
-Gilda Radner
#48re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 10:35pm
Right now I'm reading Great Expectations.
After that, Life of Pi, A Seperate Peace, A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories, and The Counte of Monte Cristo.
I have a really busy summer reading list.
#49re: What have you been reading this summer?
Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:51pm
After about a year, I finally finished Jane Eyre last week. This summer, I read Summer by Edith Wharton, and just finished Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez. I also recently started reading The Da Vinci Code. I'm hoping to read Wuthering Heights or something next.
wonderfulwizard11, you're not the only one with a busy summer reading list...
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
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