In addition to those, I'll be working on:
1) Canada, by Richard Ford. Just published and getting great reviews. The story of a young man whose life takes a turn for the worse when his parents rob a bank. (A thing like that can really screw up your adolescence.
2) The Summer of '68, by Tim Wendel. It's about baseball -- I'm a huge baseball fan (it's the original reality tv) -- but also about the turbulent events of 1968, including the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and inner city riots and Vietnam War protests. And Denny McLain won 31 games while Bob Gibson led the National League with a 1.12 ERA. (Red Sox great and should-be Hall-of-Famer Luis Tiant led the AL with an ERA of 1.60).
3) The Sacred and Profane: The Nature of Religion, by Mircea Eliade. It's the primary text in a course given at NYU called "Baseball as a Road to God". Sounded like a must-read to me.
So what about you? I hope that I'm not taking up all your summer reading time. (Moon is short, and Goldengrove should be a relatively quick read. Return of the Native is the only one you might have to grind through.)
"11/22/63" by Stephen King, because I know Mr. MacArthur is obsessed with the 60's and am trying brown-nose my way to an A in this class.
ReplyDelete“The Post-Birthday World” Lionel Shriver
ReplyDelete“Rainbow’s End” Irene Hannon
“The Bean Trees” Barbara Kingslover
“Eat Pray Love” Elizabeth Gilbert
“Memoirs of a Geisha” Arthur Golden
“Once Upon a Day” Lisa Tucker
I happen to now that two of these books have movies. What a tryhard.
DeleteI know I probably shouldn't be admitting to this... but I'm going to start that "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy by E.L. James. It has so much hype, and I want to know why! Everyone I know has read it; I feel left out. I just have to wait for my grandma to give it back...hahaha Has anyone here read it yet?
ReplyDelete-Brianna Ricciardone
Let me know how this is & if I should grab a copy! Embarassing, but I'm interested as well. (:
DeleteMe too! #i-promise-im-being-sarcastic
DeleteTori... Cassidy read the first two.. she's working on the third! She never has time to read... so the fact that she is making time to read the series means it must be good! :)
DeleteKyle, hey, I won't judge! lololol
I just finished "Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell. It's required reading for Loomis, and my brother plays hockey with the son of the dean and he gave it to me to read. I actually enjoyed it. It breaks down why certain individuals are successful, and shows that background and other circumstances that are out of your control, like birth date, birth area, economic hardship as your grow up etc, can contribute or counter your ability to be successful. Brilliant read, I'd reccomend it to anyone.
ReplyDeleteI finished "Infinite Jest" a couple weeks ago, and it's definitely one of the best books I've ever read. I don't have a good way to describe it, because it really is about almost everything. I guess I would say it is a satirical look at the human condition, and our need for entertainment. The author, David Foster Wallace, is probably the most talented author of the last 25 years, and "Infinite Jest" is his magnum opus. I would really recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind a very lengthy read.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading quite a bit this summer, but my favorite reads were The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I haven't been reading much this summer besides the required books, but I did read a graphic novel by Charles Burns titled "Black Hole." It's about teens in the 70s dealing with an STD that's plaguing their suburban town. The disease has unexpected and varied results.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great read, the characters are really believable for such a strange story. The art is also fantastic.
I've read a clive cussler book called "Trojan Oddessy" and a book called "Moloka'i" by Alan Brennert. Clive Cussler writes really complicated plot but i like how it incorperated the Oddessy that I read as a freshman. Moloka'i on the other hand was a fantastic read because it was so gut-wrentching. It is about a girl in Hawaii who has leporsy and is sent to a leper colony in the early 1900s. I couldn't put the book down once I started.
ReplyDeleteI just started a book called "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. It's a very inspirational (and, I believe, true) story about Lou Zamperini. Lou is an Olympic runner who is sent to fight in World War II, where he becomes stranded in the middle of the ocean for 27 days. It is also interesting to read about Lou's childhood; he was extremely untamable and he got into a lot of trouble with the law.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading The Dolphin People by Torsten Krol, a book about some Nazis who crash in Argentina and are forced to pretend to be dolphins in human form or they will be killed by the Aboriginals. I read Ready Player One, an incredibly nerdy novel about video games, the eighties and billions of dollars. Lastly I read ReamDe, a similarly nerdy novel but far more futuristic. I really liked them all and would recommend them.
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, yes everyone is going to kill me for not having them all finished but that's where I'm at..trying to finish them before I see the movies!! they're just so long! haha I'll get through them eventually
ReplyDeleteCharlie St. Cloud after seeing the movie a couple years ago I was intrigued and confused at the same time...it definitely made me think about death and what happens after in a new way, and it puts a very pleasant spin on that topic and that's what I loved about the book!! It's one of my favorites now!!
The Lovely Bones another one I'm reading after loving the movie, but I'm not having the same positive reaction to this one so much. I found the book is VERY slow and seems like a lot more description and pointless information than action like I was expecting. Like Charlie St. Cloud they both show diverse views of death and what happens after and that topic really interests me...not that I'm a morbid person haha but I always wonder...