Ten on Tuesday
06/29/2010
This week's Ten on Tuesday topic is . . . Books on Our Summer Reading List. This one . . . is easy for me. Because I always have a reading list going! I like to read contemporary fiction best of all, but I mix things up by throwing classics in every third book or so, and every once in a while (like two or three times a year) I force myself to read a nonfiction book. It's a mix that works for me!
My Summer 2010 Reading List looks like this:
1 -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (finished recently; loved it)
2 -- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (finished recently; fascinating)
3 -- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (currently reading; sometimes tedious but engaging)
4 -- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (next up; looking forward to it)
5 -- Major Pettigrew by Helen Simonson
6 -- The Likeness by Tana French
7 -- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
8 -- Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9 -- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
10 -- The Portable Dorothy Parker
For a little treat. . . I'll probably throw in a mystery or two as well. I like reading mysteries by Louise Penny (I think there's one more in her series that I haven't read yet), and there's a new series by Deborah Crombie that I plan to check out eventually.
I also read/peruse several gardening books during the summer. There's always one open somewhere nearby.
Happy Reading!
I'm working on Island of the Blue Dolphins! by scott O dell.....
Posted by: thea | 06/29/2010 at 08:55 AM
Cutting for Stone is a very good book, but it needed better editing. Some of the details get in way of the story. It's well worth the read!
Tana French has a new book coming in July. It will be on my list this summer. So many books!....
Posted by: margene | 06/29/2010 at 10:24 AM
Wow - very interesting list! You make me want to up my game!
Posted by: Patty | 06/29/2010 at 02:14 PM
Stopped by from Carole's - love to see what everyone is reading - and get ideas for what I want to read next...
Posted by: Sara | 06/29/2010 at 04:07 PM
Now here's a random fact for you - Howard Zinn was my neighbor! Well, 2 streets over anyway. I had no idea until he died and some friends told me.
If you're looking for another quirky classic - try Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One.
Posted by: Carol | 06/29/2010 at 06:13 PM
Books -- one of my favorite topics. I have read or listened to #1, 2, 3, 6,a nd 8; read a different Major Pettigrew book (endearing!) and tried to read the Howard Zinn History (too depressing). I just requested Cutting for Stone; it will be waiting for me at the library when we get home.
Posted by: kmkat | 07/03/2010 at 11:02 PM