Tell Me What to Read: Summer 2014 Edition
Last year, I asked for book recommendations for summer reading (in the spirit of my old series, Tell Me What to Read), and I picked three of them and read one a month throughout the summer.
It was fantastic.
Which means, of course, that I want to do it again this year. I would LOVE your recommendations.
Suggest something fun (although that doesn’t have to mean chick-lit – I’m up for fascinating non-fiction, memoirs, YA, middle grade, AND chick-lit), and I’ll pick three from the comments to read over the next three months of summer.
In review:
- Comment with the title of one fun book you think I should read. One title only, please, lest my brain explode.
- I’ll choose three from the list and announce them next week.
I’ll read one a month – June, July, and August. Feel free to read along. - I’ll write a review of each one here.
- Even if I hate the book, I will not hate you.
And . . . go!
Pretend to be as excited as I am.
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. Regency like Edenbrooke, but with better writing and characters.
I agree with Georgette Heyer if you have discovered a love of Regency Romance. She is the master! So well done and with definite humor.
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith. Brilliant Edinburgh author. This book is a light hearted easy read about the lives of the inhabitants of this address (I particularly love six year old Bertie)
Have you read The Age of Miracles? I can't say enough good things about it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/333448667
I listened to this last year and was totally absorbed!
Something Other Than God by Jennifer Fulwiler. Probably one of the most well-written memoirs I've ever read.
(Also, I have the Kindle version and it's loan-able if you'd like to borrow it.)
Memoirs of an imaginary friend.
You have sisters. How about The Pretty One by Lucinda Rosenfeld? It's really quirky.
The Things That Keep Us Here – Carla Buckley
I really liked Libriomancer, by Jim C. Hines. If I haven't recommended them to you yet, I also ADORED his Princess series: The Stepsister Scheme, The Mermaid's Madness, Red Hood's Revenge, and The Snow Queen's Shadow. His Princesses are awesome, they all take on their own stories and basically are their own heroes in them. I really liked the way the princesses are in charge of the story and do a lot of the running around and fighting. (it's fun! And it's not dystopian for once).
I just read a book called Love Letters To The Dead. It was a quick and interesting read.
Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan.
I found out about this book from your blog, but don't think you had read it: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. A very funny and interesting popular science book about sciences related to space travel (and living on Mars).
accidentally commented from my husband's account above, whoops!
I notice graphic novels weren't on the list of books you were up for… but I can't resist recommending Matt Phelan's Around the World. Awesome, and a great first graphic novel. I had my church ladies read it for book club and their reviews were solid. Graphic novels require a different kind of brainpower to read than novels though, be warned!
Around the World by Matt Phelan <–quick visual reference. 🙂
p.s. I see you've reviewed The Storm in the Barn — I liked this one better!
The Stories Julian Tells. Ann Cameron. Read it with Ella.
Urg, that was not Curtis, that was me, Alicia! Silly. Funny that I did that right after Alysa above :).
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple; For Darkness Shows the Stars, by Diana Peterfreund; Texas Gothic, by Rosemary Clement Moore; Firecracker, by David Isserson.
There are very few books that I read that you have not which makes this task rather challenging. However, it appears that you have not read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. You should remedy this. The book was just so……lovely. You should know that it is more character driven than plot driven, but those tend to be my favorites so…..
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty, I loved it!
Oh, I love Liane Moriarty.
Looking for Alaska by John Green
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Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Some Wildflower in my Heart by Jamie Langston Turner Beautifully written, wonderful story!