Summer reading, anyone?

[so_lily_briscoe]

I, in my Donnean daze, am going to go ahead and lay claim to my right to post here, undergrad or no undergrad. Anything to procrastinate

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[lostreality]

This summer i intend to read ray bradbury's collection of short stories and life before man by margaret atwood. that's the next week or so...after that i'm making my annual summer trip to the bookstore to pick out many works of fiction, none of them intellectual in the least bit. My plan this summer is to read absolutely nothing related to my field unless it is required for my summer research job. Summer is the only time I have the time/mental energy to read for fun! And i'm too burnt out from my first two years of grad school to consider any sociology/demography books "fun" right now.

[tigg]

I adore Bradbury and try to reread Martian Chronicles annually. Atwood also is pretty fabulous, although I haven't read or heard of that one...

[lostreality]

it was the only book of her's in he bookstore that i hadn't read yet. I think it's possible that I have all her books that are still in print now...I just heard her speak about a month ago in my school- she's AWESOME.

[tigg]

That would be so cool to hear her speak. I've only read Blind Assassin and Alias Grace - I know I need to get to Handmaid's Tale one of these days, too. Assassin was amazing.

[hkmercredi]

I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything right now and really enjoying it.

Basically it's trying to explain the science of the world in layman's terms (and pretty funny). I'm not in the sciences at all, so it's nice to read about something unrelated to my discipline that's interesting and sometimes challenging, but comprehensible.

[quietjaneeyre]

My train and subway list for the summer...
1) The Scarlet Pimpernel - I've been meaning to read this for two summers now
2) A Fistful of Charms, Kim Harrison - witches, vampires, and elves, oh my.
3) The Red and the Black - Stendhal
4) The Dark Queen: A Novel - Susan Carroll
5) Foop! - Chris Genoa
Recs:
1) At Knit's End (fits perfectly in small bags)
2) The Ties That Bound - Barbara Hanawalt
3) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

[feelmymoment]

I LOVE Jane Eyre. I've probably read it a good 10 times.

[baseballchica03]

Foop is on my list as well! I just discovered it this evening. :)

[ladyserephina]

2) A Fistful of Charms, Kim Harrison - witches, vampires, and elves, oh my.

YAY!

That's one on my list.

I don't read anything remotely "intellectual" in my free time. I spend enough time in the lab frying my brain.

The books I'm still looking forward to this summer are A Fistful of Charms, Kushiel's Scion (Jacqueline Carey), and Charlaine Harris's new Sookie book.

The ones that I've finished already and recommend heartily are Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher and Broken by Kelley Armstrong.

[kapitankraut]

I'm in the middle of Martin Meredith's "The State of Africa" at the moment, and absolutely loving it. I've only ever had the most fleeting of understanding of what actually went on in Africa in between independence and now, and this finally answers my questions.
My next aim is to really get stuck into Orhan Pamuk's "My Name Is Red" and find the remaining two volumes of Naguib Mahfouz' "Cairo Trilogy".

[either_or]

please don't laugh, but i think i might read the harry potter series.

[so_lily_briscoe]

Anyone who laughs at you for that is a rogue and a knave deserving of public flogging. I'm due for a re-read myself.

[la_faerie]

Oh, definitely do it! They're perfect for summer reading. And, they are not children's books.

[either_or]

great! i've got friends who are absolutely in love with them, so i've become extremely intrigued! (and they have nothing to do with my field/research or school in general, unless you count that magic school they attend...)