Summer, fall, winter, or spring, reading is reading. I love to read. I like books that entertain, that make me laugh or cry. I like to read character driven books, books about people I can admire. If all of the characters are rotters, or stupid, or boring, if I cannot care about them, then the book is not for me.
This summer I have read several wonderful books passed along to me by my sister. I just finished Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg....loved it. Then there was The Secret Papers of Madame Olivetti by Annie Vanderbilt and The Four Corners of The Sky by Michael Malone. He wrote one of my favorite reads, Handling Sin, an epic adventure indeed. Read it. You will never again think about fortune cookies in the same way.
Old favorites:
Any novel (or cookbook) by Laurie Colwin
Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard
Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos
A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Miss Bianca books by Margery Sharp
Bottom Line: Read Something before the summer is over. Reccomend a book you love. Enjoy.
It's no coincidence that the books on your list are the books on mine, is it?
xo
Posted by: Emily | August 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM
I can claim some small influence on your reading choices.
Posted by: martha ann | August 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM