MY SUMMER TO READ LIST (an attempt, at best):

[alizarin_nyc]

Following on the trend started by ariadnes_string and the challenge of oneself suggested by mistresscurvyMY SUMMER TO READ LIST (an attempt, at best

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[carta]

Wool by Hugh Howey. SOOOOO GOOD. Something's happened, we don't know what, but people are living in a huge grain silo and if you go outside - you die. It's layered and gripping, and wonderful.

[alizarin_nyc]

Ooh! Interesting! I'll check it out.

[carta]

you will not regret it! And it's got an awesome creation story, too - Howey worked for B&N, they wouldn't sell his book, he self published, and BOOM. Bestseller. Which you can now buy at B&N, hahaha.

[chelseagirl]

I am tempted to create a more focused to read list, but I suspect I will continue to flail as always. For whatever reason, the books aren't fitting on the shelves here as efficiently as they did in the old place, and I feel the need to do a lot of reading-and-weeding. But am teaching/freelancing/scholarship-committing too much to focus on anything except . . .

Focus: i have it.. wait, what?

[alizarin_nyc]

I'm all about the flail. And the fail. But this is, as I said, an ATTEMPT. To lower the to-read stack to a manageable height.

You will definitely have to "fit" into your new place over time... our apartments are like skins.

Re: Focus: i have it.. wait, what?

[chelseagirl]

That's a good way of thinking about it. I'm just all kinds of happy-giddy about it, but I think M is feeling that lack of fit, at the moment. The problem is that we really need to buy some things for the bathroom, another bookshelf, a chest of drawers, to make the new place come together -- but money's always tight in the summers. Alas.

I did get inspired to make a physical to-read pile on my dresser, anyway. ;-) Not too tall, but all books I would like to get to -- including two review copies I actually *need* to get to soon . . .

[poisontaster]

I recommend Dark Places and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. They're both standalone books and Flynn writes some of the most interesting,compelling female protagonists and relationships that I've ever seen. I think you'd especially like Sharp Objects.

Alison Hewitt is Trapped, by Madeleine Roux. I didn't like the second book nearly as much, but this is a great zombie apocalypse story as blogged by a post-grad, book-store working fangirl.

[alizarin_nyc]

Ha ha, you are all ADDING to my list. Bad friends, bad. I have heard of the Gillian Flynn books and wasn't sure what they were ABOUT. Are they fiction? YA?

I loves me some zombie apocalypse, if well-done. Again - a YA story, or? for Alison Hewitt is Trapped. That sounds particularly clever!!!

[poisontaster]

They're all adult lit (fiction). Sharp Objects is about a messed up journalist, Camille, who goes back to her home town (and her equally messed up family) to investigate the murder of a young girl. It's more about her and her family than the murder, though

[ariadnes_string]

Yay books!

My mother, who is reading a lot post-hip surgery (though she always reads a lot), has been trying to get me to read the Patrick Melrose novels, which she loves. Also The Flame Throwers, by Rachel Kushner--which looks like a good New York City novel!

[alizarin_nyc]

I think the Patrick Melrose novels are going to be great. I just have to find the time and brain to crack it.

Too much to read, not enough brain! :P

[lyrstzha]

Oh, I love World War Z - which is why I haven't been able to go and see the movie. It sounds like all the things I love most about the book didn't make it to the screen.

[alizarin_nyc]

Yeah, I have no interest in the movie. I'll probably see it later on cable or something. I'm not sure how they could MAKE a movie strictly based on the book, so.