Summer Reading.

[Albert]

I've read lots of his books but this past year I read two of John Irving's more recent ones and thought that both were wonderful. "Last Night in Twisted River" and "Until I find You" were both so well written that I wished for more pages as I neared the end. I'd highly recommend both.

 

Anyone else have some summer reading suggestions?

[Mrs. Caddis]

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.

[Dave McReynolds]

I have mixed feelings about recommending The Wawona Hotel by Matthew McKay. I kind of had a love/hate relationship with the book as I read it. McKay is a psychologist, and some of the passages in the book read too much like the questions I can imagine a psychologist would ask you on the couch followed by a pause and a raised eyebrow. Because of that and maybe just a lack of literary polish, I can't say that McKay is a brilliant author, although the book moves right along and is entertaining.

 

But what he does have is an original idea, which he develops to the extent that I was sometimes uncomfortable, imagining myself as having some of the same thoughts as the protagonist for which the protagonist is being rejected. It made me think about the relationship between our inside world of thought and our outside world of action in a new way.

[Mike05]

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.

 

+1!

 

Just finished it; delightful read.

 

Oldie but goodie: "The Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Well written, fun read.

[Bob Palin]

I've read the following this year all of which I enjoyed:

 

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - story of Soviet pre-KGB officer and how he comes to see the truth of what he is doing (internal security not spying)

 

I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti, suspense story about a kid in a small Italian village.

 

The Crossroads also by Ammanati, another kid story this time in an industrial Italian area, quite violent and nasty.

 

The Coroner by M.R.Hall - British book about a coroner (no!) who starts a new posting and discovers things were not being done right before. Might not be available in the US, I got it from Amazon UK

 

All would be rated 'R' if they were films for violence, graphic descriptions etc. but the writing is good in all of them.

 

 

[Jerry Johnston]

Maybe you've already read it but how about Tracks In The Sand by our own Kent Lundgren. I liked it better than Racing in the Rain.

Also I recommend Nights of Terror by Steve Frazee and Nights of Ice by Spike Walker - both about fishing in Alaska.

For Science fiction....The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein.

For history...Forever Flying by Bob Hoover.

And if you're into Westerns I've read so many I take a list of 8 or so pages when picking a new one just so I don't purchase the same book again.

[Pilgrim]

Maybe you've already read it but how about Tracks In The Sand by our own Kent Lundgren. I liked it better than Racing in the Rain.

Also I recommend Nights of Terror by Steve Frazee and Nights of Ice by Spike Walker - both about fishing in Alaska.

For Science fiction....The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein.

For history...Forever Flying by Bob Hoover.

And if you're into Westerns I've read so many I take a list of 8 or so pages when picking a new one just so I don't purchase the same book again.

 

I'm glad you liked it, Jerry. Thanks.

 

Kent