In a hammock, on the beach, or just sprawled out on a couch. What’s on your list?
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In a hammock, on the beach, or just sprawled out on a couch. What’s on your list?
White teeth, by Zadie Smith
a book called magic lessons. sequel to magic or madness. good.
The rest of the circle opens quartet, possibly the Harry Potter series(again!), and probably some Mary Higgins Clark. I don’t actually know, I’ll just go to the library with my friend and get whatever looks good.
Does anyone have a summer reading program that the libraries do? The libraries in my city do, and it’s really cool.
I have to read The Once and Future King. Ick.
The other class gets to read The Martian Chronicles. How unfair is that?
4- So not fair! I love that book! ♥s at it!
Harry Potter Seven. I so hope he dies.
Some Ayn Rand I picked up. And re-reads of Lovecraft goodness. Some of my dad’s old sci-fi books. I’ll be good ^_^ And possibly classics. Depends on my mood, really.
i agree with sweet melpomene. i SO want to read harry potter 7. if you want to know what it will be called, here it is: harry potter and the deathly hallows. but i don’t want harry to die!
I want to read HPDH too! I really, really, really hope Ron dies. If Harry does I won’t be too upset though. If hermione dies i shall be furious. But really I hope Ron does. I HATE Ron.
Harry potter seven, maybe attempt some Dickens…
7- Yeah, Hermione is one of the few good characters. Ron is annoying, I agree.
1. HPDH!!!!!!! HP=♥
2. Gregor and the yaddah yaddah (last two books)
3. Charles de Lint (at the insisting of e~a)
4. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
5. Tamora Pierce stuff
6. ?Lovecraft?
7. I NEED to finish Ebeth’s Nano…
Recommendations, ennybuddi?
whatever comes to hand. probably some charles de lint. and some more fantasy. and sci-fi. and, well…..anything else!
I’m reading a book called Evil Genius. It’s not what you’d expect, but oh so cool
YAH!!!!!! SUMMER REAAADING!!!!
Swallowed up in a book, sitting out in these fantastic (I mean PSYCHEDELIC) new swinging chairs is where I will be spending a lot of my summer.
3- Yes they’re so COOL!
The next installment of the “Andrew Lost” series by J C Greenburg.
4- I empathize. I read The Once And Future King out of my own volition, and lets just say it took me several weeks to sum up the courage to actually read more of it. It’s a good book as a whole, but the individual parts are a bit, um, boring.
There’s about 57 books on my wishlist, so ’tis up to fate what I shall be reading when summer comes. As for what I’m waiting to come out, not much. I will read the 7th HP book, but only because I want to know what happens after having read the last 6.
I liked The Sword in the Stone. Rather a lot, actually, because T.H. White had a curious way of making it seem modern, but since his modern was so long ago, it didn’t seem modern at all.
That made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I hope Harry dies in the seventh book. He’s been so annoying from the fifth one onward.
17 – There’s always the Harry Potter thread.
14- What? My little brother reads those!
19 – So? They’re still interesting, even if they’re easy reader.
Actually, I started reading them several years ago, and waited patiently for every new installment to come, but then I realized that I kind of outgrew them so I stopped reading them for a while but just recently re-read them all and now I can’t wait for #16 to be released in July.
Yes, I am going to re-read the entire Harry Potter series in preparation for the 7th. And I am not ashamed. Every one else can complain that Harry is whiny and annoying, but I happen to like him.
I mean, Harry Potter certainly isn’t my favorite book series ever, but it holds a special place in my heart.
I’m having a Philosphical summer. I was browsing the books in the office and I’m thinking about these ones:
Writings on an Ethical Life Peter Singer
Concsiousness Explained and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, both by the same guy, I don’t remember his name though
In addition to that, I was thinking Slaughterhouse 5 in memory of the late Vonnegut,
and hopefully some more sci-fi, because you can never get enough of that. (And its positively criminal how little I have read, considering the size of my parent’s collection).
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!!!!!!
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Yes, that’s what I think. Really, what’s so great about the books? The first few weren’t bad, but now she’s getting kind of boring. I congratulate her on killing off Dumbledore, it made the series a tiny bit more exciting, as it makes you think that someone’s going to die in the next book, too. Probably, Dumbledore’s going to come back, and Harry’ll have to travel to some deathly hallows to bring him back, and maybe find the penultimate horcrux. I agree that he’s the ultimate one.
After I finish the Foundation saga (Asimov), I want to read My Sister’s Keeper (Picoult) and Everything Is Illuminated (author unknown- has anyone read this?). Oh, and HP #7, of course!
25- My Sister’s Keeper is overated, in my opinion. I’ve seen Everything Is Illuminated, but you can’t judge the book by the movie. Movie was good though.
I want to try to read the Gormenghast books sometime. I tried Titus Groane a couple years ago and didn’t get past page 1, like so many books, but I think I am sufficiently old enough to appreciate it now.
This name is in honor of the Magic Treehousse series, which can’t seem to end. The problem is that those who have read her books from day one have outgrown the series.
I just got Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Once and Future King (of my own accord), the first part of War and Peace at my mother’s insisting, The Higher Power of Lucky, Naughts and Crosses, A Confederacy of Dunces, and some other stuff.
King Matt by Januz Korzac or something like that
Henry Price Inc. by I have NO Idea
Across Five Aprils by I have NO Idea
28- I think I read one or two of those in elementary school. I thought they were boring.
28 – Yea! The series is so big by the time you finish reading them you’ve outgrown them.
The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan (currently)
On a Darkling Plain- Philip Reeve (EVENTUALLY my library will get the US version)
Harry Potter 7- Yeah, I know, obvious. But I will be in Australia when it comes out, so I will be reading before (most of) you guys get it! *dodges incoming pies*
Brave New World
Assorted Sci-Fi
Muse
29- I attempted to read War and Peace, but was thwarted by my acquisition of HP6.
29- I’m reading The Higher Power of Lucky, too! Whee! And we have A Confederacy of Dunces lying around my house. Maybe I should read it…
Absolutely anything that I can lay my hands on. But I don’t have as much time as you guys…. Four and a half weeks. Yes, I am still sore, and I will be until you are stuck in school in October and February and I am out… Yes, I know i’m being a pig but I don’t care. I must say, I am not the happiest right now, even though we have a one week break right now. blah.
I’m so sorry you have that much school. You know, in the old days kids went to school in summer and winter, so they could help at home during fall and spring.
30: Across Five Aprils is by Irene Hunt.
Hmmm… I just finished Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz. It takes place in England, thus, there are many English words. Does anyone know what “snooker” is? Just wondering.
37: I think it’s like pool. As in the game. Like billiards.
I read all the time, why should summer be any different?
Anyway, I finished IT in a week (big book) and am now reading Ken Follett’s Pillars Of The Earth.
36: Well, I’m mildly certain that in my region at least (midwest US), summer vacation started because summer was when kids had to help out on the farm.
There are a ton of books I want to read this summer, as usual:
— The Chocolate Wars
— The Watchmen
— Fiesta
— Nineteen Eighty-Four
— Farenhiet 451
— Blankets
— Thus Spoke Zarathustra
— People’s History of the United States
— Communist Manifesto
— Zorro
— Brave New World
— Looking for Alaska
— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I agree. He needs to die.
I know for a fact that there are more. And this is possibly one of the most unrealistic lists I have ever made.
A books that I just read but really want to recommend to people would be the Oran Trilogy. It’s very definitely for teens, so you people in elementary school, do NOT read this series. But for all others, dive in! Lots of majik…
41 – Many people would tell you not to read Brave New World, but I would recommend it. Warning: it is considered highly perverted. Just to let you know.
Has anyone heard of Jasper Fforde, the author of the Thursday Next series and Nursery Crime series? One more book for each is coming out this summer! They’re excellent—British ingenuity and humour at its best.
I highly reccomend Fly by Night by Francis Hardinge. I also plan on reading My sisters keeper and luckily put it on hold at the library early because it is on the highschool reading list ( I’m going in to sixth grade.) Also there are quite a few classics I am interested in ( Austen, Dickens, Bronte….)
The Hungry City Chronicles. I only have the first one, but Dad read it, and now he’s hooked and wants to buy the second one. A tip: Get a parent interested in the first book, and the entire series is yours.
46- Hmm, good idea.
44- Yep. I think the new Thursday Next one might be out already, but I’m not sure. I really want the new Nursery Crime book, though. I’ve even got my friends started on those (if you knew what my friends read, you’d be impressed) They are really fabulous. And as Der Wachtelshlag pointed out when I first mentioned them, he’s welsh. Still…
46- It worked for the No. 1 LDA series…
44- yay! Fford! I’m looking forward to reading the next one.
48- Well, of course he’s Welsh with a name like Jasper Fforde. In fact, I think it was me who pointed that out. Or reinforced it.
46- I have read all but the last one and I don’t think it’s out in America yet!! My library has it “on order” so I’ll have to wait and see… *suspense*
I have never read Jasper Fforde.
Has anyone read The Confessions of Max Tivoli? It’s really good so far.
Harry Potter#7 Definitely!
Has anyone read the Gregor the Overlander series? I just finished the last book… sob…
I also love the Perseus Jackson and The Olympians series (cousins of the muses!!!).
Books that make me cry (that you definitely have to read):
Charlotte’s Web (Yes, it may sound stupid, but I always cry)
To Kill A Mockingbird (possibly the best book ever)
And one more that I can’t think of right now…oh, it’s coming to me… I got nothing.
53- That doesn’t sound stupid at all. I cry whenever i read Charlotte’s Web too.
And if you’re new, cellogirl26, then I pie you. If not, then I don’t. Unless, of course, you want to be pied.
53- I cry when I read a lot of books. If I think of some, I’ll post them here.
51- You might like it! Try The Eyre Affair, it’s the first Thursday Next book. It’s about Thursday saving the novel Jane Eyre from a book villian in a futuristic, alternate ’80s England. Fforde’s books are quite fun.
56- Sounds good! *goes off to library site*
55-I am new-sort of. I was on under the same name a few months ago, but then quit. *pies Alice with salmon, cucumber and graphite pie*
p.s. I always like to be pied!!!
evrything possible if u want it narrower
1. HP
2. Artemis Fowl 4 & 5
3. now everything
59-ya still haven’t finished artemis fowl!!! thats whacked.
46-dem books rox me sox. read all except the last one. my library put it on order. actually, i was talking to my librarian(we’re friends) and mentioned how much i loved them. she went and put it on order for me. i feel special. yeah, well, if it comes in i’ll be the first to read it.
i want to read the foundation saga this summer. how many books is it? does it get boring?
I can’t believe that I haven’t finished The Amber Spyglass, but I’ll probably finish it on the plane to France. I don’t know what else to read.
Will jammin j please come to the random thread? I have a request for him.
This summer I plan on reading:
The Book Of The Law, Aleister Crowley
finish the damn Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson
Satan Speaks, Anton LaVey
The Devil’s Notebook, Anton Lavey
Paradise Lost, John Milton (ooh, Satan being kickass)
Something on Qabal studies
Something on Numerology
Something on Tarot cards.
O_O many delvings into the occult await me.
yo 53- i LOVE the gregor the over lander series, expecialy boots.
61- i think phillip pullman’s books have some very interesting theology in them..
i want to read EVERYTHING* this summer!
*including tons of Muse
on the top of my list….anything new from christopher paolini, tamora pierce, or gerald morris
i love anything that has to do with faries, dragons, and chivalry
I am reading the Looking Glass Wars. Anyone read it?
nope. i REALLY want to though.. is it any good?
64- Sadly, not yet.
WEll, it is quite intriguing. I so did not spell that right. Anyway, I is talking about Paraller universes and what if Alyss in Wonderland was real. (sort of) Not my favorite, there are some things that the author leaves hanging, un answered questions, that sort of thing. But is has a good plot.
67- Actually, you did spell it right.
67-sounds facinating plots are everything (thats my Language arts teacher speaking)
I read the Looking Glass Wars. It was pretty good, I thought.
This summer, I’m going to stop procrastinating, and finish Wuthering Heights.
I find it very annoying taht Muse publishes less Muses durring the summers, when we are having fun being very, very, very, bored.
71-indeed. this thread is dead.
Ummm…dead? It’s 2008 now and this thread hasn’t stopped!
I also read The Looking Glass Wars!!!