04 May 2007

Summer Reading

Who remembers high school summer reading books? Anybody? (Word Nerd raises her hand. Both hands actually. She was assigned a lot of summer reading).

As Word Nerd recalls slogging through "A Brief History of Time," "Les Miserables" and "The Scarlet Letter" (plus other titles she doesn't really remember) and it was no way to spend a summer vacation. On the other hand, if Les Miz hadn't been assigned for summer reading, Word Nerd probably wouldn't have made it through all 1,488 pages of that book.

This is the time of year when magazines and the like dub their summer book picks for this summer and review the latest and greatest books coming out.

So far, Word Nerd's got one book on her summer picks list: Michael Chabon's new novel, "The Yiddish Policemen's Union." Of course, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is on the list too, but that's a given. Word Nerd's pretty sure she'll get through the last three of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books as well.

And she's thinking it's high time for a classic. Or two. Like the recently translated Jules Verne book, "The Meteor Hunt." Maybe.

Anything you are planning on reading this summer?

3 comments:

Page Smith said...

Harry Potter
Seven Years to Seven Figures (non-fiction)
White Night by Jim Butcher
Office 2007 books (non-fiction) and...
Windows Vista for the amazingly clueless (also, non-fiction).

At least, that's what's in my library bag at the moment.

Joshua Grover-David Patterson said...

I'm just hoping to get through the majority of my to-read list before my adoption goes through and I am suddenly totally lacking in reading time.

Which is currently:

Harry Potter 7
Lamb
The Sagan Diaries
And You Shall Know Our Velocity (which I've been reading, off and on, for about two years now).

And about six other books that I have borrowed from people and need to return.

Steve Kabelowsky said...

Identity Crisis a DC Comics graphic novel