summer reading
It seems that everyone is posting their summer reading lists. We had an English Dept meeting today to revise the students' summer reading list. So now I'm going to jump on the bandwagon... Its really long and there is no rhyme nor reason to it. Between a week in the mountains with the fam, sometime at the lake and 16 days in a car driving from Seattle to Atlanta, I may accomplish it. Hopefully, Kate will be in accord with some of my choices...- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
- I Am One of You Forever, Fred Chappell
- Monster, Walter Dean Myers
- Naked, David Sedaris
- The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy
- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
- Eragon, Christopher Paolini
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- Blue Shoes, Anne Lamott
- Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
- Slowness, Milan Kundera
- Ava's Man, Rick Bragg
Labels: books
posted by CP @ 9:12 PM
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4 Comments:
more posts on books!
well, I haven't heard of a lot of those books, but I'd be curious to hear (you read aloud) a Kundera. And I love Ed. of Little Tree and that's on my students' list (and hence mine).
That's a GREAT list. And I've only read one-- The Crying of Lot 49-- which actually reminds me of an early DaVinci-code type book yet more postmodern and with no resolution...but for some reason I liked it.
And ones that I haven't read but are on my wish list-- Education of Little Tree, Monster, Eragon, Blue Shows, ANYTHING by Philip Roth or Walker Percy, and Ava's Man by Rich Bragg. We read "All Over But the Shoutin'" my freshman year of college and Rick Bragg spoke at commencement.
You've inspired me to post my own list, once I figure out what it is... :)
* education of little tree is probably one of my favorite books.
oh Kate, just wait!
allison- we read "All Over" in class this year- got mixed reactions, but it was fun the part where he lived in Atlanta and they were like "that's Grady stadium" and "hey- I've been to that Krispy Kreme!"
and not sure how I've made it this far in life without reading little tree
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