July: Summer Readin'

Happy Canada Day!
I finished June with Three Men in a Boat - fun at first but then a bit tedious with its repetition and Office Girl - perfect for some GenX nostalgia.

On this important day I'm reading Canadian Miriam Toews's Irma Voth.

I spent Canada Day finishing Linwood Barclay's latest, The Accident -- perfect weekend-at-the-cottage fare!

I finished The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith

I'm reading A Mind of Winter from ER, but really, my mind is definitely on summer mode.

I'm reading Nicholson Baker's The Fermata.

I am about half way through The Cat's Table.

I'm reading a bunch of stuff, but mostly travel guides for my upcoming trip to New York City.

I'm quite into summer reading - lots of mysteries by John Sandford and Ian Rankin. Pleasant easy stuff.
@nickelini - have a great trip to NYC - it's one of my favourite places.

have a great trip to NYC - it's one of my favourite places.

Mine too! It's so hard to decide whether to go back to places I loved, or to explore new places. And this time the kids (age 12 &15) are coming too, so there are things I need to show them.

My kids loved NYC, and recognized so many landmarks from various movies and video games. Have a great time!

I'm reading The Girl on the Escalator, a collection of stories by Jim Nason

And now I'm reading Saturday by Ian McEwan.

I finished Dans la nuit mozambique by Laurent Gaudé and A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton. I'm hesitating on what to try next. Probably Millennium 2 by Steig Larsson since we saw Girl with a Dragon Tattoo last night and it got me back into the story line.

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay . Normally I like historical fiction, and I did learn about a sad part of France's WWII history but I didn't care for this author's writing or for the main character.

I finished The Cat's Table and enjoyed it. I also reread an Australian children's classic Storm Boy. I am now in the middle of a Farley Mowat Born Naked, and Siddhartha.

I'm reading Indian Horse, the newest novel by Richard Wagamese

Through the Glass by Shannon Moroney, which tells of this Canadian woman's experience as her husband commits brutal crimes shortly after their marriage.

Lynn: I'm looking forward to that one. I heard her interviewed on CBC and she was so interesting.

I've been reading a lot of indies due to my addiction to a certain other site that shall go unnamed; the most recent sci-fi novel, The Legend of T93, was very good. By a B.C. author, Michael Herrman.

What did you think of McEwan's?

Do you mean Saturday? It started a bit slow and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to identify with the main character. But I ended up really liking it -- the way so much can be packed into a single day. I also liked Atonement, but hated Amsterdam, so this was kind of a "tie breaker" for me.

Tried a non fiction read, but it just ended up making me feel guilty! The Cure for Everything by Timothy Caulfield. Back to fiction escapism for me!

I finished Les dix enfants que madame Ming n'a jamais eus which is part of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's exploration of world religions, but this is the 6th and it's not as good as the first ones.

At home I'm reading East of Eden, and on the bus I'm gradually working my way through 13 at Dinner. I blame my slow pace on the heat. You know it's too hot when even an Agatha Christie novel is beyond your powers of concentration :S

I just finished an odd Japanese book, Building Waves, that I will review in the next issue of www.Belletrista.com. And now I'm back to reading New York--this time with The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

I'm about to start Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Managed to knock off Plain Murder, another brilliant crime novel by C.S. Forester, and tomorrow I'll finally visit the world of Flavia de Luce with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley.

I finished reading Bossypants by Tina Fey - some part are pretty silly but I had tears of laughter falling down my cheeks which is the point, really.

I'm now starting The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton about harassment prevention at work and how to detect and deal with bullies, intimidators and other undesirables in the work place.

I'm starting Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter for a book club.

I just finished a book by one of my favourite authors Ruth Rendell, Master of the Moor. Not one of her best, in my opinion.

I just finished Shari Lapena's Happiness Economics, which won the Leacock Medal. It's quite well done, and would be particularly enjoyable if you like reading about poets/writers.

I'm poised to begin J. Jill Robinson's More in Anger. Anyone else aiming for this one?

I'm reading The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

I'm reading Where There's Smoke...: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man by William B. Davis, a Canadian actor of X-files fame. I've never seen the X-Files, but Mr. Davis is a friend of my husband's.

I'd almost given up on Belgian Amélie Nothomb, but loved Tuer le père, a great gambling story. I've finished reading Intermittence by Italian Andrea Camilleri, a juicy industrial espionage novel with shady business ethics.
Next up in French frenzy is Canadian Patrick Senécal with Le Passager.

I just finished Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty. Loved it.

I just finishedBachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast which I thoroughly loved. Just a small book and gently funny. I'm now starting Leighton Gage's Buried Strangers with Chief Inspector Mario Silva in Brazil. Seems good so far.

#35 BBBB is just the best! do you suppose it really exists?

#36 - well, it's fictional, but there are about a billion B&Bs on the Gulf Islands. My husband and I stayed at a lovely one last September on Salt Spring that was run by a gay couple that moved up from Los Angeles, and it was sort of close. I'm sure if you try out all one billion, you'll find it.

Just starting Simon Mawer's newest.
A WW2 espionage novel called an homage to the courageous women of the French Resistance.
In Canada, titled The Girl Who Fell From the Sky; Trapeze for the American market.

I recently read The Charming Quirks of Others by Alexander McCall Smith

Well Born Naked was not my favourite Mowat, Siddhartha deserves another read, and although The Sun Also Rises started a little slow I ended up quite enjoying it. I have just started Middlemarch which is VERY intimidating.

the New Republic by Lionel Shriver is keeping me giggling.

Another Alexander McCall Smith novel finished: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

I'm finishing Le garçon qui voulait dormir about the early colonisation of Israel after the war; very well done but a bit heavy going for the summer...

I'm enjoying The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

I guess summer usually means light reading, but I'm about to dive into Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times by Richard Gwyn.

@45: That one's on my list! I'm just waiting for it to come out in paperback because my copy of the first volume is in paperback and I want them to match.

Making significant progress in Zoo Station, by David Downing. Can I finish it this month? Perhaps.

Just finished an amazing novel: Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton. Really liked this one.

Before the Poison by Peter Robinson takes you to surprising unexpected places, quite disturbing.