Books you read this summer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Girl on the Train
Mean Streak
Black-Eyed Susans

Mean Streak by Sandra Brown? I'm on a real roll with her stuff lately---not my usual genre at all, but enjoying them!

[Anonymous]

Elena Ferranti: My Brilliant Friend, and am halfway through Story of a New Name. Highly recommend, 5 stars. Also really enjoyed the first Knausgaard Book, but haven't yet had the motivation to read the second.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Wizard of Earthsea trilogy

I seriously love those books.

[Anonymous]

Yes Please
The Martian (had to get it in before the movie comes out)
The Reason I Jump
This is Where I leave you (I know it's old)

Apparently I need to read Girl on the Train. Everyone else has read it...

[Anonymous]

Girl on a train
Liars inc
Remember me this way
Everything I never told you
Luckiest girl alive
The good girl
The kind worth killing
Before I go to sleep

All of these are suspense type books recommended if you like gone girl. Most are just fun reads that go fast and you don't have to think too much about.

[Anonymous]

i am malala
a much younger man
wave
the year of magical thinking
girl, interrupted
the woman i wanted to be

[MikeL]

MikeL wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girl on the Train

Really, really good!

Goodness, did I ever screw this up!
I didn't like "Girl on the Train" much.
Loved "All The Light You Cannot See"!

[Anonymous]

MikeL wrote:

MikeL wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girl on the Train

Really, really good!

Goodness, did I ever screw this up!
I didn't like "Girl on the Train" much.
Loved "All The Light You Cannot See"!

I agree - All the Light is an amazing book. Girl on the Train - eh. Not bad, not great. My top three for the past year would be All the Light, Station 11 and The Martian. But I read all of those in the Winter/Early Spring.

[Anonymous]

Some of my favorites from this summer:

Independent People by Halldor Laxness
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
Between You & Me by Mary Norris
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, audio book read by Anne Twomey, 9h59m
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

[Anonymous]

Tell the Wolves I'm Home (loved this!)
The Lies My Teacher Told Me (fascinating look at US history)
The Handmaid's Tale, Margret Atwood
Oryx and Crake, Atwood

[Anonymous]

PP, keep going with the Oryx and Crake trilogy! So good!

[Anonymous]

Kate Alcott The Dressmaker
Dos Passos The 42nd Parallel

[Anonymous]

I've always got multiples going, either in hard print or on electronic media:

Ted Cruz - "A Time For Truth"

Glenn Beck - "It is about Islam"

Gigi Anders - "Little Pink Raincoat"

Jaques Steinberg - "The Gatekeepers"

Tucker Max - " Sloppy Seconds"


I finished:

Jen Lancaster - "I Regret Nothing"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've always got multiples going, either in hard print or on electronic media:

Ted Cruz - "A Time For Truth"

Glenn Beck - "It is about Islam"

Gigi Anders - "Little Pink Raincoat"

Jaques Steinberg - "The Gatekeepers"

Tucker Max - " Sloppy Seconds"


I finished:

Jen Lancaster - "I Regret Nothing"

Really? A book about Islam by Glenn Beck?

[Anonymous]

Dearie - bio about Julia Child

Bedford Boys - story of Bedford, Va soldiers in WWII.