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Category Archives: Summer Reading List
Summer Reading List for 2017
summer reading plan for 2017 *** have added another! and another!see below *** The Racketeer by John Grisham X June book club selection Noise of Time by Julian Barnes … Continue reading
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Reading in July and a summer reading list for 2016
Hel-l-o-o-o! from way back when . . . I took an unexpected and UNWanted vacation for six weeks—sorry, didn’t mean to drop you like a hot potato– But I’m sort of ‘back’ and must get the two of us together … Continue reading
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The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
What a wonderful book! A good friend recommended it to me in the spring and I added it to my summer reading plan. For some reason, a lot of other selections barged their way in and I didn’t decide to … Continue reading
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Tagged netsuke, Paris, Proust, Tokyo, Vienna, World War II
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Summer Reading Plan for 2015
It’s Memorial Day weekend and that puts me in the mind of summer being right around the corner. It’s been a splendid spring of color–great year for the daffodils, azaleas–but the rhododendrons were pretty hard hit by winter this year. … Continue reading
What Are You Reading?
How is your summer reading list coming along? When I check mine, I’m about halfway through–and about halfway through the summer. It would help if I wouldn’t detour and read other books that *aren’t*
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Tagged Lady Susan, Mary Karr, My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk, The Magic Mountain
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the reading post
Hi–what are you reading? How is your summer reading list going along? I am in the middle of reading a few things.
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Tagged Lady Susan, Leonardo and the Last Supper, Nora, The Magic Mountain, The Sandcastle Girls
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Summer Reading List for 2014
School days are winding down, and with that, our thoughts turn to summer reading lists! Here is my proposed list, starting with three monthly book club selections:
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Book Review: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
About a year ago I reviewed “The Magnificent Ambersons” by this same author, Booth Tarkington. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. (Just type magnificent ambersons in my search box up there on the right.) This book, Alice Adams, won … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington, class structure, Pulitzer Prize
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Book Review: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
(Click on photo to enlarge.) Read the first lines and see how a nice snobby tone is established right on page one. Newland Archer is from “good family” and is about to become engaged to May Welland, also of “good … Continue reading