Happily, I'm about to embark on yet another reading retreat. This time it's a week in Door County, with nothing on the agenda except for biking, reading and napping. I've got a stack of books to finish up (many of them mentioned in previous posts... <sigh>), but in the rare occurence that I actually catch up on all my reading, I'm also looking for good fun summer books... got any suggestions for me?
Here's to a summer filled with long weekends, cool drinks, and plenty of quality time with a book (or two, or three)...
Cheers!
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Right now I'm reading Kerouac's "Big Sur"
do yuo know Sarah Graves' books? the main character is a woman who is restoring a house in a small town in Maine, leads in to a number of mysteries. what I like is that the characters and relationshipsare three dimensional. the most recent book about these folks is The Book of Old Houses
which I've just finished, but if you've not read the earlier ones, it might be fun, although not at all necessary, to start with some of them.
Got through Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." And I am now into Don Delillo's "Falling Man." See you on Pleasant Street.
I just decided to take the Nonfiction Five Challenge and will begin by finishing Suzi Moore McGregor's book, Living Homes: Sustainable Architecture & Design. It's really beautiful so far!
I'm also reading Suite Francaise for book club.
Tabitha - (if you come back) how do you like the Kostova?
At Cutter's bar we are up
or down, by maybe a drink or two
and the menu offers "yellow rockfish".
Odd, and together, we debate the origins
of such, possible effects of ingesting
yellow rockfish.
They are swum perhaps from California's
tawny shores, finny pride of grotto deeps
and acid-golden skies,
Or are they only habitants like us
of this surrounding place, fierce from our
glassy towers come, swarming the bar
at feeding time?
Beyond the seascape glass
the sun's last burst explodes. And are gathered now
the yellow rockfish: purposed, seeking,
gathered in this nightfall's
furious calm.
Kenneth MacLean
[posted here with permission]