Take That, Nemesis Book!

I did it! After years and years of checking it out and returning it unread, I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude. I just had to build and maintain momentum.

Why so difficult? As I read and loved the first thirty pages and GGM's style, I wondered why I never seemed to be able to get past them in other years. Maybe it's because I'm so plot-oriented. While this book has distinct through-lines (or cycles), it's not about any single character's overarching goal. Another thing: I might not have survived the reading were it not for the family tree in the front.

I'm excited to discuss the OHYS in more depth if anyone else reads it.

I also finished The Hunger Games and Mortal Engines, both of which fed my double love of post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction and young adult literature. I can't wait to track down the rest of both series with my hyper-attuned senses, metallic exoskeleton, glowing green eyes, and once-human brain. (Stalker reference!)

But first, to book club books. Home, then Sound and Fury.

Meg's book list

I have a gigantic ongoing reading list, but here are a few I've picked for the next few weeks/months:

1)  The Chronicles of Narnia -- Kaitlin, I'm so excited you said that, because I've been wanting to reread them for a while.
2)  The Lacuna (Barbara Kingsolver) -- I love Barbara Kingsolver SO much, and I haven't read this one yet.  Thus, it is on my list.
3)  The Sound and the Fury -- Since some of the rest of you have already mentioned this one, I'll go with it too.  I like the group reading/discussion idea.
4)  Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen) -- This is just a random one that people have been telling me I should read.  And summer is a great time to read books for fun.  :)
5)  The Brothers K (David James Duncan) -- again, one that has been highly recommended and has been on my list for a while.

so that's a start.  :)  I hope you are all having a wonderful beginning to your summer!
Meg

So far...

I've started reading The Chronicles of Narnia, because (blame my parents) I've never read them! It's great summer reading because it doesn't take long to read. I've read The Magician's Nephew and I'm working on The Lion, Witch, Wardrobe now. yay!

-Kaitlin

Kirsten's Summer Reading List

*Marilynne Robinson's Home. My analog book club is reading it next month. Her Housekeeping makes my top ten list.

*I'm looking for good kid's books that I missed the first time around or that have surfaced in the intervening years. Any recommendations? The Hungry City Chronicles and The Hunger Games series are already on my list.

*I'll steal The Sound and the Fury and One Hundred Years of Solitude (not in Spanish) from your lists. If I've read S&F, I've forgotten it. OHYS has been on my summer read list for years. I can't be left behind by my erstwhile students.

*The George RR Martin books. What's all the hoopla about?

Now--to the interlibrary loans!

Thanks for the invitation!

You inspire me to get to work on my own summer reading list.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to have your own sign-in, you can use the ID and password Heather provided, then go to Settings, select "permissions", and invite yourself (via your preferred email address) to be a blog writer.

(I think this works. I haven't tried it yet. Test post to follow.)

Kirsten

Kaitlin's Summer Reading List

The Sound and The Fury, Faulkner
Harry Potter (maybe)
Reedeming Love, Francine Rivers (re-read)
Mill Creek, Omar Eby
anything by Jean Rhys

I feel like there were a lot more I had in mind...I've been out of school for like three days now and I haven't started reading anything yet! Also, we need to get Kirsten and Danielle and Kevin in on this blog.

-Kaitlin

Heather's Summer reading list

Well it's not very complete, but this is what I have so far:
1. My Christmas break project was to reread/read all the Redwall books, but I didn't finish, so I need to finish those
2. LotR
3. The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (one of my roommates recommended it.  Possibly a group read?)
4. Books I ordered for Kevin's class but we didn't read: Jonathan Swift and Candide
5. There's loads of books that I own but have never read.  should go through all of those...
6. Also whatever the library has
7. Japanese language and travel books
8.  100 years of solitude (maybe in Spanish)

That's it for now.  We'll see what else emerges

-Heather