What books have you been reading this summer?

[book_worm]

Mine:
Gilligan and Me by Bob Denver
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Pauline Kael
King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis by Shawn Levy
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearn Goodwin
I Love the Illusion: The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead by Charles Tranberg
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden

[Left Is Write]

1. Mostly true crime and several Alfred Hitchcock anthologies.

Trying to decide whether the next book will be In Cold Blood or The Blooding; reading Alfred Hitchcock in the meantime.

[book_worm]

2. I vote for In Cold Blood

It really is a masterpiece.

[Left Is Write]

3. Thanks.

I'm going to read them both, regardless, but I have to start somewhere! :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. In Cold Blood is amazing.

Surprisingly, the movie is excellent as well, and features a young Robert Blake, ironically, as one of the killers.

[stuntcat]

4. PLAGUE :headbang:

In spring I read two history books about the plague.. Black Death.. the pestilence :headbang:

Then I read Camus's The Plague. And now I started 'Of Human Bondage' by Maugham.

I read slow and anyway I have to read pages over again, but the Maugham book is easy so far.

[book_worm]

5. I have a biography of Maugham, but have not yet read 'Of Human Bondage' but will have to

[RetroLounge]

6. Hmmm, lets see. This summer:

We were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carole Oates
The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve
Where or When - Anita Shreve
A Bigamist's Daughter - Alice McDermott
Time Traveler's Wife (2nd time) - Audrey Niffenegger
Wherever You Go There You Are - Jon Kabat-Zin
The Invitation - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Hard Laughter - Anne Lamott
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosely
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Say When - Elizabeth Berg

and I just started

Utterly Monkey - Nick Laird

RL

[RFKHumphreyObama]

7. Not summer here but nevertheless

Rudy: The People's Governor -by Betty Wilson. A biography of Minnesota Gov Rudy Perpich which has greatly increased my knowledge of and respect for him
Wake Up Call by Kristen Breitweiser
Kevin Rudd: The Biography by Robert Macklin
Silent Partner: By Dina Matos McGreevey

[B Calm]

8. Fannie Flagg: STANDING IN THE RAINBOW

James Patterson: HONEYMOON
Louis L'Amour: LANDO

[BarenakedLady]

9. I've read

The Time Traveller's Wife
Harry Potter (new one)
Memoirs Of A Geisha
One Small Boat
...going to start Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister today

It's a smaller list than usual

[BOSSHOG]

10. Currently Reading a Biography of Admiral Nimitz

Have read:

- Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burkes fictional treatment of New Orlenas after Katrina
- Shadow Divers - Looking for a sunken U-Boat off coast of Jersey
- Patriotic Fire by Winston Groom (Author of Forest Gump) about General Jackson and the Pirate Jean Paul Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans
- In God's Name - about the "murder" of Pope John Paul the FIRST

[WI_DEM]

12. Just got done reading "The Nixon-Frost Interviews" by Jim Reston

very good story of the behind the scenes of those 1977 interviews.

[Arkham House]

13. Hary Turtledove's final alternate WWII novel...

...in which the evil Jake Featherston's Nazi-like Confederacy finally gets its comeuppance...a remarkable series of books...

[XemaSab]

14. Let's see....

Harry Potter 1-7.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Flashman and the Redskins.

Sense and Sensibility.

This is a very short list. :hide:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

15. Three I'm working on right now

The Grays by Whitley Strieber - space aliens on earth
Beaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett - religion
Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by Joseph MacGillivray - about, well, what it says.