bertine ([personal profile] bertine) wrote2008-07-03 04:00 pm

Summer Reading

What is your current favorite book that you would recommend for me to read since there are no good tv shows on now?

[identity profile] chelejean.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I loved it so much I've read it twice already.

[identity profile] mesawyou.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
This is a great book.

[identity profile] stegosaur.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I Was Told There'd Be Cake is pretty fun

[identity profile] schmaudrey.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ditto that! It's funny, short essays, so you can really start reading anywhere and you won't be lost after you put it down.

[identity profile] ex-ciannait.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sheri S Tepper's "Singer from the Sea" has me in its grasp at the moment. I adore this book.

[identity profile] ludomancer.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a few years old, but 'Stumbling on Happiness' is awesome if you like psychology at all.

[identity profile] avecvu.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas. I keep reading it and rereading it.

[identity profile] posthaste.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
i like anything true crime, biography or autobiography. also in the past few months i've been rereading my childhood favorites by judy blume and roald dahl.

we should start a book club.

[identity profile] avecvu.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, visit [livejournal.com profile] my_book_nook for recommendations/reviews.
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[identity profile] misanthropoet.livejournal.com 2008-07-06 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I second the Kingsolver nomination. Her prose is so lovely.

[identity profile] schmaudrey.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if you have Netflix, but I've recently discovered "Flight of the Conchords" [an HBO television series]. Not a book, I know, but it's the best thing to happen to me since Cadbury Creme Eggs.

[identity profile] saladbar.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
You can peruse my shelf at http://www.shelfari.com/chispa

[identity profile] jessikate.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
I recently read Julie and Julia by Julie Powell and Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs. Loved them both.

your choice of Chuck

[identity profile] akorahil.livejournal.com 2008-07-05 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Choke- A story of a poor deluded boy who has a bad relationship with his mother.

Survivor - The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Both I just read recently and both are awesome..but then again, it is palahniuk, so I repeat myself....

[identity profile] emkachan.livejournal.com 2008-07-05 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Something from the Oven by Laura Shapiro. It's the history of food in post-war America. She explains why housewives never took to frozen formal dinners and canned cheese. You'd love it.