Tell Me What to Read: Summer 2017 Edition
It’s been too long since I did one of these!
Which might be because I got so stalled on Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, the book I was supposed to finish in. . . September . . . from the last round of Tell Me What to Read.
I finally just gave up.
So now, it’s clearly time for a new edition of Tell Me What to Read.
You know the drill – suggest something fun (although that doesn’t need to mean chick-lit – I’m up for non-fiction, memoirs, young adult, middle grade, AND chick-lit), and I’ll pick three to read in May, June, and July!
Your job: Comment with the title of a book you think I should read.
My job: Choose three from the suggestions and announce which ones I’ll be reading.
I’ll read one a month (ish) between now and the end of July (hopefully). Feel free to read along and check back every month for my reviews.
And, as always, even if I hate the book, I will not hate you.
And go!
Another vote for The Girl Who Drank The Moon – totally deserving of the Newberry, and the perfect mix of magic and complexity. Loved every bit of it!
I see this book says it is for 4th-6th gaders, but many women on here loved it. I tend to read YA books for high schoolers mostly, would I like this book? The description sounds fascinating, I guess I’m worried it will be waaaaay too fast/easy reading…?? YA lit (for high schoolers) usually is already…so just wondering!
I really liked the one-in-a-million boy by my Monica Wood. Its about a mostly absentee father whose young son dies unexpectedly and he decides to finish his boy scout project of helping an elderly lady. Along the way he becomes friends with the old lady and tries to help her break a world record, something else his kid was obsessed with.
I also loved The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson. The cover compares it to girl on the train and gone girl. I was neutral to negative on those books and loved thus one. It is a really well done mystery that isn’t predictable at all. It is loosely based on the old Hitchcock movie strangers on a train.
Golden Legacy by Leonard S. Marcus (nonfiction-the history of Little Golden Books).
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho (on audio).
Dragons at Crumbling Castle and Other Stories by Terry Pratchett (on audio).
The Murder of Napoleon by Ben Weider (nonfiction, not gory at all).
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury (essays).
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan is my favorite read so far this year. One of my other all time favorites is Pope Joan by Donna Wollfolk Cross. And one I love to reread every once in a while is There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
I just finished The Sun is Also a Star by Nichola Moon and it got a solid four stars from me on Goodreads. I also read Anne of Green Gables last week (um I somehow missed this my whole life) and loved it. Apparently I am on a YA kick 🙂 On a non-YA note, The Hating Game by Sally Thorne I loved an embarrassing amount for “chick lit” and earned 5 stars from me.
I do not know whether you enjoy historical fiction (especially Regency ones), but I recently started to broaden my horizon (no longer limiting my reading to fantasy/urban fantasy or historical romances set in the regency period). This is how I started Murder in Time by Julie McElwain. Definitely one of my best decisions this year! 🙂
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas- great YA read on current events.
Stef Soto, Taco McQueen by Jennifer Torres- a sweet coming of age story
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
I wanted to hate it…I think I’m jealous of him as a writer, and I’m not sure why. But the story was sweet, racy, gripping, and showed yet another dimension of WWII. Lately, or … is it always…the books I pick up, 1 out of 3, are about WWII, it’s weird. All the Light We Cannot See is another one, but you’ve prob read it by now…. (I’m a librarian, I read a lot!)
The Orphan Keeper by Cameron Wright. Fascinating read