Comments on: Summer reading

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:25:46 +0000

My mother is a big fan of Kris Radish, too. I’ll look for the JC Oates. Haunted is a good word.

I have been reading the Geography of Bliss, and it is a delight. I’m saving The Sugar Queen for the flight home Thursday.

By: Yvonne Erwin

Yvonne Erwin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:41:04 +0000

The Sugar Queen just blew me away. I loved it and I’m saving my pennies to buy the next novel. Actually Barb, she reminds me a bit of you. No wonder I liked it so much!!

Have you read Joyce Carol Oates “Middle Age”? I read it probably last summer and it haunts me still. I know your aversion to Richard Russo but “Bridge of Sighs” was wonderful and disturbing and rich all that the same time.

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” is on my list as is Kris Radish’s “Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA”. I like Kris. She’s light but deep at the same time. Maybe good for summertime when nothing should be too deep.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:14:52 +0000

Hello Barbara. Your web site is a peaceful pool for me after a couple of hours thrashing around passionate political blogs.
I was blown away by Richard Russo’s “Bridge of Sighs”. It’s about who leaves the hometown for the wider world and who doesn’t and where youthful choices lead us late in life. Masterful writing, my eyes burned from reading it
long after a decent bedtime.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:31:39 +0000

Teri, I have wondered about Daughter of the Forest. I’ll put that on the list.

Hey, hb. Saw that your blog is gone, but I can at least see you here. Come back often.

Gabrielle, tell us about the Strout when you finish.

Peggy–isn’t Sarah Addison Allen just a delight?

Oh, and I forgot one that’s on my TBR pile: Church of the Dog by Kaya McLaren

By: Peggy

Peggy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:13 +0000

I’m reading the Sugar Queen right now and I just love, love, love it. It’s a wonderfully magical read. Unbelievable yet totally believable.

I’ve read Garden Spells and also loved that. The next to be read book is Nice to Come Home To, by Rebecca Flowers.

By: Therese Walsh

Therese Walsh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:49:07 +0000

Time Traveler’s Wife is one of my favorite books.

Garden Spells sits in wait on my bedside table; I’ll start it as soon as I finish the gripping The Stolen Child.

For great women’s fiction, how about Marsha Moyer’s The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch?

For a blend of women’s fiction and fantasy, I lovedlovedloved Juliet Marillier’s Daughter of the Forest.

Happy reading!

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:15:25 +0000

I’ve just started reading Abide With Me by Elizabeth Stout, and I think it’s one you’d enjoy. I’ve also got Miss American Pie on my wishlist–looks like the perfect summer book. Oh, and I want to read that one about the woman who entered all those contests in the 50s (I think) and supported her family on the winnings.

By: hb

hb — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:43:58 +0000

I read The Time Traveller’s Wife last summer and I loved it. It was very interesting to get the sciency-ness and the love story interwoven. Thank you for this book list, I am so on it! m