Summer Reading

Stumbled on this on Lifehacker today (though they seem to have been overwhelmed by the attention- servers are currently offline):

YourNextRead Tells You What Book You Should Read Next

from Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick

If you're looking to stock your summer reading list YourNextRead is a simple and crowd-driven tool for finding out what book you should read next based on the ones you've recently finished. Tell YourNextRead what book you just finishedand enjoyed!and it will generate a web of eight related books. You can click on any of the books to learn more about it which will, in turn, generate a new web that's based on that book. Alternatively you can use the thumbs up/down buttons to agree or disagree with the suggestions that YourNextRead gives you. Each suggestion includes Amazon rankings and ratings and a link to purchase the book on Amazon. You can use the service without logging in but signing up for a free account enables book-browsing history and wishlist functionality.
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originally posted by Seth Hill:
Stumbled on this on Lifehacker today (though they seem to have been overwhelmed by the attention- servers are currently offline):

YourNextRead Tells You What Book You Should Read Next

from Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick

If you're looking to stock your summer reading list YourNextRead is a simple and crowd-driven tool for finding out what book you should read next based on the ones you've recently finished. Tell YourNextRead what book you just finishedand enjoyed!and it will generate a web of eight related books. You can click on any of the books to learn more about it which will, in turn, generate a new web that's based on that book. Alternatively you can use the thumbs up/down buttons to agree or disagree with the suggestions that YourNextRead gives you. Each suggestion includes Amazon rankings and ratings and a link to purchase the book on Amazon. You can use the service without logging in but signing up for a free account enables book-browsing history and wishlist functionality.
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Ridic.
 
Last two:

"An Ideal Wine" by David Darlington
"Blood, Bones and Butter" by Gabrielle Hamilton

Both a good read and both very good writers.
Best, Jim
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
Last two:

"An Ideal Wine" by David Darlington
"Blood, Bones and Butter" by Gabrielle Hamilton

Both a good read and both very good writers.
Best, Jim
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blood, bones , and butter is very good read indeed.
 
I've liked Rose Tremaine's Trespass. Gail would recommend A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book. I haven't read it yet. She also liked Wolf Hall, which I also haven't gotten to yet. We both enjoyed Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, which seems destined to be a BBC romcom. And, although I reread them for something I'm writing, I was yet again ravished and blown away by Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
i am trying to get through a s byatt's "possession".
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Loved that book.
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I thought it was great too. And compulsively readable--if at times silly. Are you really having a hard time getting through it?
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i am having a hard time with the first 50 pages or so. it's just not grabbing my attention yet. i will continue to read it to the end.

can i ask what you mean by "silly"? i can't imagine mrs byatt getting silly. her writing seems so serious to me.
 
I'm working on Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.

I recently enjoyed Katherine Cole's Voodoo Vintners, about biodynamics in Oregon, mostly.

I just got a galley of Alice's new book on natural wine. Looking forward to that.
 
Where are the points? How do I allocate my reading time?

Just reread Kermit Lynch's 'Adventures on Wine Route'. Still quite fresh after all these years, although many of the characters are now gone.

Also Orhan Pamuk's 'Museum of Innocence', which I've not come to love yet.
 
Some suggestions that I've enjoyed in summers past:

'A Wild Sheep Chase' by Murakami and the follow up 'Dance, Dance, Dance' some of his others are okay too

I also liked the Larsson series, as well as Perez-Reverte (only read the Club Dumas). And Graham Greene, though I have not read that so I will.

At the risk of cliche, I am always happy rereading 'The Sun Also Rises' in the summer. Same goes for pretty much any Fitzgerald but especially Gatsby. Perhaps its the copious cocktail drinking that makes any vacation debauchery seem tame by comparison (mine anyway... these days anyway).

I recall reading 'A Year in Provence' happily on a beach somewhere, same with Bourdain's 'Kitchen Confidential'

Last summer I think I read:
'Carrion Comfort' by Dan Simmons (though probably a better autumn read, it won't require too much work)

'House of Leaves' with, perhaps the same caveat

Oh, and thanks to everyone for the suggestions, I'm putting some of these on my list.
 
Perez-Reverte lost his way a tad IMO after Club Dumas, but that and Flanders Panel were good summer fare. I thought Possession was a very good read as well and only a trifle silly. I just finished reading Pepin's The Apprentice which I thoroughly enjoyed. It made me realize how much I'd enjoy dining with him. It also put me in mind of Liebling's Paris Between Meals which I can't praise highly enough.

Mark Lipton
 
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