Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 2:29pm
It's time for us to air out the cupboards here at The WETA Book Studio -- we must give away some books in order to make room for new ones to arrive!
If you like light romantic comedy, "Lovesick" by Alex Wellen -- the tale of a man who's got the girl but can't pop the question -- is for you. Prefer something deep with a narrative conceit? Try "The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six" by Jonathon Keats. However, if what you really want is a chilling spy story, "The Arms Maker of Berlin" by Dan Fesperman fits the bill.
Wait! You don't have to choose...if you are one of the ten lucky winners of this week's giveaway, you'll get copies of all three books. Just respond in the Comments section to the following question:
Which book or books are you planning to get to this summer?
Jewish Literary Festival Panel
Jonathon Keats, Binnie Kirshenbaum and Shana Liebman discuss the importance of literature in the Jewish community.
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Summer reading
This summer I want to get to John Green's Looking for Alaska and a book called Garden Spells.
Summer reading list.
I'm not sure if this giveaway is still going on, here goes nothing!
I'm currently reading 'The Sun Also Rises' by Hemingway. After this, I'll be on to 'Ligh tin August' by William faulkner and 'The Human Stain' By Roth. Which is a re-read because it is absolutely a splendid read!
My Summer reading lists are:
My Summer reading lists are: Lisa Gardner's Live to Tell Trilogy of Stieg Larsson, David Baldacci's Deliver us from Evil All the books of Karin Slaughter from first till now.I love love love fiction books.
Thanks!
summer reading
I can't wait to read the second and third books of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson (The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) and The Lost Symbol, among so many others!
Fiction Grab Bag
Icelandic Sagas and some Chuck Palahniuk.
Sophocles' Twelve Caesars.
Sophocles' Twelve Caesars.
Summer Books
I'm finally getting to The Help, and hope to read Cutting for Stone.
Summer books
Mysteries & Thrillers for sure! Highsmith, Moseley, Oates
Summer books
I've got a mixed bag for this summer, a little Agatha Christie, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", and in honor of our upcoming trip to France: "The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City" by David Lebovitz.
I intend to read Undaunted
I intend to read Undaunted Courage by Ambrose ... for the 3rd time!!!!
Summer Reading...
I am looking forward to reading "Secret Daughter" by Shilpi Somaya Gowda.
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giveaway
I'm reading "City of Thieves" and plan to read Janet Evanovich's latest issue.
Summer Reading
HMMMM!! I haven't really thought about it. I do have to catch up on Janet Evanovich's latest books. I'm a little behind. I have so many books to read it's actually hard to choose. These 3 books, if I'm one of the lucky one's will go to the top. Thanks for the chance. sharon54220@gmail.com
The Millennium Series and The
The Millennium Series and The Hunger Series. These books should keep me busy this summer.
Summer Reading
The Help
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest
The Energy Bus - by John Gordon
and Stones Into Schools = by Greg Mortenson
Book worm.
Besides the books listed up there, this summer I would like to read: "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert "Stolen: A Novel" by Kelley Armstrong "Bad Things Happen" by Harry Dolan and of course "Under the Dome: A Novel" by Stephen King
Summer Books
Atlas Shrugged and The Only Thing Worth Dying For
These three books!
All three books got fabulous reviews - I'm planning to win the book give-away and read all 3 of them
Summer Reading
I think Elin Hilderbrand's book covers scream summer so planning to settle in with a few of those . . . I also like to read longer more ambitious novels in summer so will read Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and my book club is doing Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so I will finally get on board with that - feel that I could be the last person in the world that has not read it yet!
Summer books
For the summer, I'm looking to relax with "Medium Raw" (Anthony Bourdain), "Backseat Saints" (Joshilyn Jackson, and "The Bedwetter" (Sarah Silverman).
Summer Reading
Stieg Larsson's 3rd book of the trilogy, Olive Kitteredge on a friend's recommendation and several lighter beach reads including Marshmallows for Breakfast, now doesn't that sound like a summer read?
I'm going to try to get
I'm going to try to get caught up on some of my favorite authors and their series - Ann B. Ross, Joan Medlicott, Curtiss Ann Matlock, and Thomas Kinkade.
It will have to be "The Help"
It will have to be "The Help" and "Eat, Pray, Love..."
Summer Reading
This summer I plan on reading some classics like Catch 22 and Sense and Sensibility.
Summer Books
I am really looking forward to reading "The Kitchen House" and "Girl in Translation". I read about the story line of both and am ready to dive in. But need to wait for them to be delivered. I am very eager to start.
Summer Reads
Steig Larson Trilogy, I am Nujood, 10 and Divorced, Twenties Girl, Vows, Vendettas, and a Little Black Dress
My Summer Reads
This summer, i hope to read The Diviner's Tale by Bradford Morrow however those three books will definitely give me some variety in my reading.
Summer Reading
Some of the books on my to-read list: The Passage Ape House The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo The Art of Racing in the Rain Mennonite in a Little Black Dress Mockingjay Who Killed Mr Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems
Summer Books
Inspiration read: "My Name is Mary Sutter" about a woman who becomes a doctor. I'm also looking forward to the next one in the series: "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". For Health: "Change Your Brain, Change Your Body". Maybe "Book Thief".
summer reading
ooh, i have so many books that i want to read this summer! right now i'm finishing up Midnight's Children, Singer's Gun, The Sheltering Sky and To Kill a Mockingbird. i also want to get to The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Angelology, Palimpsest, Into the Beautiful North, and Someone Knows My Name. i could keep going, but you get the point!
Summer reading
Wow, just reading everyone's comments has inspired me to add a few books to my "to read" list. Speaking of which, two people posted about reading Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver and I read that last summer and enjoyed it. Even though I'm not a parent, like Joanne, I'm waiting to read Mockingjay, the next installment in the Hunger Games Triology.
I plan on reading "Olive
I plan on reading "Olive Kittereidge" by Elizabeth Strout this summer.
Summer Reading
I was assigned To Kill a Mockingbird as summer reading going into 7th grade and that was just too young - I plan to reread it this summer.
Also looking forward to finding some old Patricia Wentworths that are no longer available. I own dozens of her books but some of the Boston libraries have a few from the 1920s that I will have a hard time returning!
Summer Reading List
One of my favorite things to do each summer is make a huge list of books to get through. Currently on the list are: The Passage by Justin Cronin, The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard, Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Zoet by David Mitchell when it comes out.
summer reading
Everyone has some great reads planned for this summer. I'm hoping to get through a few classic books that have been waiting on my shelf for quite some time, including Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver and The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene.
Summer books
Oh the wonderful pile of books I haven't yet devoured next to my reading/correcting papers (I teach at NOVA) chair. The top three books are: 1716 - Southern Invincibility - and The Gray Fox. I love to read books on history and music. The fourth book down the pile is one a co-worker gave me at college - On Brahms and His Circle, which she strongly recommended. Also, my sister, in New Hampshire, sent me a copy of Day Out of Days which I hope to curl up with on one of these rainy days. I fully expect to enjoy reading this summer!
Books for the summer
This summer I plan on reading Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and Sugar by Bernice McFadden.
Summer Books
Some of the books I hope to get to this summer are Lover Mine by J. R. Ward, Fever Dream by Douglas Preston, Lost Souls by Dean Koontz and House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
SUMMER BOOKS
Many different books are planned for my summer reading. I can hardly wait to read Band of Angels by Julia Gregson, Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English would be wonderful and Perfect Happiness by Santa Montefiore.
Shades of Grey
Jasper Fforde's "Shades of Grey," "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "I, Fellini," and Sherlock Holmes!
Summer Books
Our book club just finished discussing 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini & we are now starting 'One Thousand White Women' by Jim Fergus...both very interesting!
Summer Reading
I want to pickup the Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles Morris, Fooled by Randomness, and the Black Swan both by Nassim Taleb. If I can fit in another....possibly Common Purpose by Joel Kurtzman.
books for the summer
I want to read orson scott card-lost boys, Arms maker of Berlin, The Hunger Game, Patient Zero (a zombie book), and The Old Testament of the Bible. Open mind and a large appatite for books.
Eat, Pray, Love was
Eat, Pray, Love was wonderful. I couldn't put it down, especially because of the beauty of the language. This summer I will read Where Underpants Come From, by Joe Bennett, ( study of the global economy), and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, a novel by Muriel Barbery, (chosen by my book discussion club).
Summer reading
A friend just lent me "The Children's Book" by A. S. Byatt--all 675 pages of it. So that will be what I read next, but I hope it doesn't take me too much of the summer.
Which books are you planning to get this summer?
I just got Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte to re-read and enjoy for a second time after many years at the beach next week. I'm also bringing along these books based on Jane Eyre: Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler, a fictionalized account of Bronte as she composes Eyre, and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Ryhs, originally published in 1966, it focuses on Bertha, the madwoman in the attic.
Reading plans this summer...
It's summer?! Wow, you'd never know it from the weather here (west coast of Canada). Anyway, just received an ARC of "A Man in Uniform" by Kate Taylor, and awaiting (not-so-patiently) an ARC of "The Book of Human Skin" by Michelle Lovric...so those are my 2 priorities. Those these 3 giveaway novels could bump that Lovric novel down the depth chart a bit... ;-)
Summer books
I'm hoping to do some damage to my TBR shelf, but a few specific titles: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, Godric by Frederick Buechner, 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan. I'm currently reading The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, which is great so far.
Summer books
Many to choose from, including "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell", David Halberstam's "The Coldest War" , and Harry Thompson's "This Thing of Darkness." Plus the latest Alan Furst, "Spies of the Balkans." It should be a good summer.
Kindle Reader
I've been reading anything offered for free or next to free on my Kindle! My Kindle is very convenient but I do very much so miss the smell and feel of an actual book! I would love to check out the authors presented here.
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