Once again it's Tuesday and that means another round of Top Ten Tuesday, brought to the information superhighway by the good people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is:
- Top Ten Books on Your Summer TBR Pile -
This list seems heavy on the non-fiction side. Feel free to suggest any fiction books you'd think I'd enjoy.
1. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt: So, a monk discovers a lost and forgotten ancient poem which, the author seems to suggest, changes EVERYTHING to become the world we now live in.
2. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami: The fact that it is almost 1000 pages long has kept me from starting it.
3. The Devlin Diary - Christie Phillips: When did I start reading this novel, a sequel to ? Um....sometime last year? It actually was interesting, but one day I put it down because of something and then never picked it up again.
4. The Sonnets and Narrative Poems - William Shakespeare
5. Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare: I saw the play at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater preformed earlier this year and would love to read the play as well.
6. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law - Nancy D. Polikoff: A highly recommended tome that I just feel like I need to read with a highlighter and take notes with...
7. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin - Masha Gessen: Who doesn't have a book about the leader of Russia on their TBR list?
8. Maine - Courtney J. Sullivan: Look at this cover. Does it not say "summer"?
9. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting - Pamela Druckerman: I actually saw this author interviewed as part of a panel on Mother's Day. The book sounds like it could be fun. Plus, doesn't everyone just associate July with Révolution française and the Storming of the Bastille? ... Oh, that's just me... What about Canada Day? ... Oh, that's just me, too....
10. Something something something that doesn't have "50 Shades of Grey" in the title.... Seriously, how many times have I see that book this summer at the pool is just staggering. Which means that I may, sadly, actually have to read it like I did with Twilight: or It's Perfectly Ok to Want to Date the Strange 100+ Year Old Who Sneaks Into Your Room When You're Asleep and Watches You While He Instinctively Wants to Drain Your Blood For Use in a Literal Bloody Mary.
So, what's on your to read list for the summer?
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Yay! Another blog entry by OTO. I don't have a summer reading list (yet) but a friend of long acquaintance is reading Mary, Queen of Scots (at least I think that's the title--it is a biography of the tragic queen)and that has my interest. The bad thing is the book is over 900 pages long. Yikes! It is by Margaret George and I wasn't too thrilled with her biography of Henry VIII (another long read) -- still, it is about British royalty (although there was no Great Britain at the time, so I guess it is about Scottish Royalty) and the present Queen is a descendant of Mary, so maybe I will get it. Has anyone read it?
Okay, I had to post again because that "1 comments" really bugs me, if you know what I mean, OTO.
Heard Mr. Moviefone on WLS radio this morning and he liked both Brave and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. He also liked That's My Boy so his taste in movies may be questionable. But hey, maybe I will break my 8 year drought and see AL,VH at the multiplex. Woo hoo, kill dem vampires and save the Union!
I have a feeling OTO is going to be posting soon -- can't wait!
OTO,
I thought you and your readers would enjoy this link to The Daily Beast. Have fun, my literate friend.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/19/8-great-books-about-books-phantoms-on-the-bookshelves-more.html
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