Summer Reading

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My suggestions and those of friends…

On the Borders bargain table I picked up Cokie Roberts latest book Ladies of Liberty, but I only care about the Dolley Madison chapter.

My friend Martin recommends Trust Agents as he says “really good if that’s your kind of thing”, hum don’t know but will check it out.

First Lady Rosalynn Carter has a new book, “Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis.” This is her second book about mental health, and no doubt this is something we all should understand better.

Barbara Kingsolver, notable author of great murder mysteries is taking on the environment and the industrial food pipeline in several books. Check them out here.

Ed, ever the pest, suggests War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, yes I am linking to the Cliffsnotes! Ed and his many personalities leaves cranky comments in 3…2…1…

Looking for less intense socially significant beach reading…well you can’t do better than this series by Stieg Larsson.

The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Or you could go old school with the The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

In addition to the Cokie Roberts book and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, what else is on my nightstand?

Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin, third in a series about a 12 th century doctor solving crimes for Henry II.. enjoyed the first two… expect to enjoy this one as well.

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 by William Dalrymple. I picked them up at BahriSons in the Khan market in Delhi, along with Kim by

Rudyard Kipling, it seemed appropriate somehow. I know, I know.. Kim is horribly un-pc.

Actually this whole post was just an excuse to use the picture above. I figure that after being called a socialist and a communist for over a year-the least I could do was pimp Mao’s “Little Red Book”.

Please note, with one exception, I’ve not linked to the big internet booksellers-please try to purchase at a local independent book seller. The exception, The Little Red Book… of course, cause what’s not poetic about buying that from Amazon!


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8 responses to “Summer Reading”

  1. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Not a book recommendation, but I still nearly wept when I saw Max S. mention it.

    http://tinyurl.com/35dy8fr

    Deep in the recesses of the debris fields of the home-place are perhaps nearly a dozen of these. Of differing vintages. Some of them not quite going back to IBM punchcards too. But yes, almost WW11 era relics to torture the innocent. Unfailingly effective. JMP

  2. Rubyduby Avatar
    Rubyduby

    Ok, I’ll recommend my old standbys – anything by Laurie Notaro. Her first was The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club. It takes me back to my youth.

    Ride the Wind – a fictionalized account of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanches. If you’re not crying and bitching about stupid white people by the end then there is something wrong with you.

    And anything that David McCullough has put on paper.

  3. Rubyduby Avatar
    Rubyduby

    Ok, I’ll recommend my old standbys – anything by Laurie Notaro. Her first was The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club. It takes me back to my youth.

    Ride the Wind – a fictionalized account of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanches. If you’re not crying and bitching about stupid white people by the end then there is something wrong with you.

    And anything that David McCullough has put on paper.

  4. Rubyduby Avatar
    Rubyduby

    Ok, I’ll recommend my old standbys – anything by Laurie Notaro. Her first was The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club. It takes me back to my youth.

    Ride the Wind – a fictionalized account of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanches. If you’re not crying and bitching about stupid white people by the end then there is something wrong with you.

    And anything that David McCullough has put on paper.

  5. TimC Avatar
    TimC

    Girl With the Dragon Tatoo is also a good movie! playing at Midtown Plaza now.

  6. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Iranian author Roxana

    Shirazi’s ‘The Last

    Living Slut’ chronicles

    her hot sexcapades

    with rock stars

    Rush & Molloy

    Sunday, May 23rd 2010, 9:47 AM

    Roxana Shirazi engaged in some risky sex

    while hanging with rock’s raunchiest hair

    bands. But the unrepentant groupie is

    courting bigger danger with her memoir,

    “The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred

    Backstage.”

    http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/05/23/2010-05-23_iranian_author_roxana_shirazis_bio_the_last_living_slut_dishes_on_her_sexcapades.html

    Yeah, nobody expects the Inquisition either!

    http://www.nydailynews.com/fdcp?1274752284395

    JMP

  7. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Along the same vein: ‘The last Wali of Swat’:

    http://www.amazon.com/Last-Wali-Swat-Asian-Portraits/dp/9748299708

    And of course still very much in the news:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6350519.ece

    JMP

  8. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    I was just saying it really is the perfect summer read. Love, drama, excitement, etc. To give a real recommendation I’d need to be pointed in some direction.

    Although when it comes to fiction I may not be particularly useful.

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