So, anyone read any good books recently?

[MochaDuck]

So I haven't finished lord of the rings yet, but I started s summer reading list.
Here's a few:
Double take by melody Carlson
My Amish boyfriend by melody Carlson
Lord of the rings Two Towers by J R R Tolkien
Lord if the rings the king returns by J R R Tolkien
The hobbit by J R R Tolkien
The photograph by Beverly Lewis
The seekers by Wanda brusetter
The healing jar by Wanda brusetter
Deadly intentions by Lisa Harris

And more and counting!


What are your summer lists?

 

[Tannerpauldean]

That's a good looking list!

I just finished Game of Thrones yesterday and was not impressed. I don't think I'll read the rest of the series. Here's my list for the summer:

The Great Gatsby (started this morning)
Catch 22
Moby Dick (been slowly reading for a while)
To Kill a Mockingbird (again...maybe)
Ulysses
Anna Kareninia
Lolita

 

[LeggyLeghorn]

Fitz

That's a good looking list!

I just finished Game of Thrones yesterday and was not impressed. I don't think I'll read the rest of the series. Here's my list for the summer:

The Great Gatsby (started this morning)
Catch 22
Moby Dick (been slowly reading for a while)
To Kill a Mockingbird (again...maybe)
Ulysses
Anna Kareninia
Lolita

Fitzgerald is one of my favourite writers. Beautiful and the Damn is brilliant. my liver hurt when I had finished the book.

 

[LeggyLeghorn]

I just finished, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. semi-autobiographical. very good read.

 

[Tannerpauldean]

Fitz



Fitzgerald is one of my favourite writers. Beautiful and the Damn is brilliant. my liver hurt when I had finished the book.

I was assigned the GG back in high school and couldn't finish it. Honestly I don't care for Fitzgerald's style. It's a bit too rambling for me, but that was the way many authors wrote back then. I look at Ernest Hemmingway and his works were the same way, yet for some reason I didn't mind The Sun Also Rises.

 

[LeggyLeghorn]

I was assigned the GG back in high school and couldn't finish it. Honestly I don't care for Fitzgerald's style. It's a bit too rambling for me, but that was the way many authors wrote back then. I look at Ernest Hemmingway and his works were the same way, yet for some reason I didn't mind The Sun Also Rises.

I like both writers. It is their style of prose that I enjoy most. Fitzgerald's language often brings in struggles of the wealthy and lower class poor. Hemingway brings in common everyday language, making it real. Both I find write in a style that is so emotionally charged. They both were said to have modernised writing in their time. The sun also rises is one of my top ten books! Hemingway wrote with so much passion.
Have you ever read any of Steinbeck?

 

[MochaDuck]

I was assigned the GG back in high school and couldn't finish it. Honestly I don't care for Fitzgerald's style. It's a bit too rambling for me, but that was the way many authors wrote back then. I look at Ernest Hemmingway and his works were the same way, yet for some reason I didn't mind The Sun Also Rises.

I also don't like Fitzgerald's writing style. I read GG too, and the writing style confuses me so much that I didn't even know what was going on, and had to look up video spark notes

 

[Taj_MaChicken]

I just finished Night, by Elie Weisel ( I have the other books of his trilogy ) and The Broken Girls. Currently reading Naked, Robison Crusoe, and The Secret Life of Bees.

I read 3 books at a time...

 

[LeggyLeghorn]

I just finished Night, by Elie Weisel ( I have the other books of his trilogy ) and The Broken Girls. Currently reading Naked, Robison Crusoe, and The Secret Life of Bees.

I read 3 books at a time...

i wish i could

 

[Taj_MaChicken]

i wish i could

If you choose books of completely different subject matter (i.e. one memoir, one mystery, and one science fiction) it's easy to read multiple books and not get the story lines mixed up.