Remember when you went to the library when you were little (in Athens you got to run around in the broken fountains. awesome) and you got gold stars for all the books you read? I always had lots of gold stars. I bet :Stephanie: had more, though.
So, I need some summer reading suggestions from you guys and gals. Things you are planning to read, think others should read, are being forced to read, and such. Please comment away.
Bartender’s Life
Here’s what on my list so far. Will be updated if I ever get a library card
Sula, by Toni Morrison
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father’s Crown, by Maureen Waller (copying Stephanie)
The Art of Happiness, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
White Mughals, by William Dalrymple (borrowed from Diane)
possibly Blink and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (from Diane)
Chip, you might like Candyfreak by Steve Almond. It is a fun read, and it’s interesting how candy is made at smaller factories, including the Southern Goo-Goo Clusters. He has short stories that are fun too, The Evil B. B. Chow and Other Stories.
I’m doing Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_ because I’m not taking a class and I feel guilty about never having finished it.
Something you should read: how about some Penelope Fitzgerald. She’s fantastic. And short.
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
James Cobb’s Georgia Odyseey
my LiveJournal.
Plato’s Socratic Dialogues (volume 1 of the Loeb Classical Library)esp the Phaedo, Euthyphro and Apology.
Clarence Jordan’s Cotton Patch Gospel.
This is a toughie (but goodie!)
1. Straight Man by Richard Russo
2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
3. The new Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?)
4. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5. Little Children by Tom Perrotta
6. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
7. eight enormous Bar review books
Anyone have suggestions for Alex? He’s already read the published, non-lawyerly books above (and of those only liked Straight Man). I think the Rule of Four is next on his reading list as soon as it comes out in paperback…
Anyone intersted in the Lipstick Jihad? The author is speaking in ATL next Tuesday night. I would defintiely read the Life of Pi. I just thought I was the only one who hadn’t read it yet. Chip we may need to revist this subject somehow.