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Summer reading

May 29th, 2003 by Liz
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I finished reading the second in the Artemis Fowl series the other night. The third book is on it’s way to me now. Any suggestions for other summer reading books?

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  • 1 gieves May 29, 2003 at 3:17 am Gravatar

    So… what kind of books do you like? Give me some genre hints, and I can give you some recommendations :)

  • 2 exilejedi May 29, 2003 at 3:49 am Gravatar

    Slashdot is running a thread on suggested summer reading.

    Also, [info]reasie seems to have liked Grunts.

  • 3 aquamindy May 29, 2003 at 4:23 am Gravatar

    I read a lot of different types so I’m pretty much all over the board. Sorry, that doesn’t help much.

  • 4 gieves May 29, 2003 at 5:23 am Gravatar

    A few thoughts off the top of my head:

    Romance/Women’s fiction

    Jennifer Crusie

    Tell Me Lies

    Crazy for You

    Welcome to Temptation

    …in fact, anything by her is good.

    Marion Keyes

    Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

    Watermelon

    Last Chance Saloon

    Sushi for Beginners

    …etc.

    Patricia Gaffney

    Circle of Three

    The Saving Graces

    …she also wrote lots of romance novels, which I like
    Historical/romantic/philosophical/adventure/epistolary novel

    Steven Brust & Emma Bull

    Freedom and Necessity - dense, but very good. My current favorite book, since I’m in the middle of it.
    Sci-fi/Fantasty

    Lois McMaster Bujold - character-driven works

    Miles Vorkosigan series (12 books?)

    Curse of Chalion

    David Weber - space-opera things

    Honor Harrington series (10 books?)

    Dahak series (3 books - 1 hardback)
    Non-fiction

    David Quammen

    Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions - surprisingly fun read

  • 5 reasie May 29, 2003 at 6:21 am Gravatar

    Might I humbly recommend Maureen McHugh’s Necropolis? A light, romantic, complex near-future story taking place in Morrocco. Maureen’s prose is so beautiful. She makes the fantastic very ordinary, very real life, and yet achingly beautiful.

    Also, a funny and light fantasy/sf story is S. Andrew Swann’s Dragons of The Cuyahoga - elves with machine guns! Dragons with lawyers! All set here in good old Cleveland!

    Of course, Grunts was good too, but she’s not a hamster. :P (And I’m not sure how into elf-eating jokes you’d be… if you like books with sex, violence and intestines splattering walls, yeah, go for it!)

  • 6 exilejedi May 29, 2003 at 8:14 am Gravatar

    Those all sound good to me. I’ve just finished Feynman’s Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman! and Ebert’s The Great Movies, so I have to find something else to read too. Sure, now I get to read the Artemis Fowl stuff, but I will surely need to line something up for next week once those are done. :-)

  • 7 ayb2 May 30, 2003 at 9:56 am Gravatar

    Fast Food Nation is out on paperback, and very disturbing indeed… For those of you who like to know how chicken nuggets are really made :)

    Also in non-fiction: “The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other stories.” by a New York neurologist who writes about stories like Jimmy “the Mariner” who, like Memento, could remember nothing new past 1960-something. And the man who thought the leg in bed with him was not his and kept trying to throw the leg out of bed and surprising himself on the floor.

    Diane Duane is still going with her “So you Want to be a Wizard” series, although Nina’s mom died two books ago and it has gotten very sad and depressing…

    I also like the happy little animals by Brian Jacques for a fun summer read. I’m trying to get around to reading Sophie Kinsella novels this summer. If I read them, I will give you a review (she writes the “shopaholic” novels)