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1)From: Sandie Liacouras
Dear Colleagues,
I am anxiously awaiting to read postings about your personal summer reading
lists. Last summer I really enjoyed reading your suggestions, and loved
"The Elm at the Edge of the Earth" by Hale, and "Booked to Die" by John
Dunning.
This summer I plan to read:
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Paula by Isabel Allende
In these Girls Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
Private Altars by Katherine Mosby
The Animals' Waltz by Cary Fagan
Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
2)The Bookmans' Wake is much better than Booked to Die, in my opinion. I also
suggest mystery writer Michael Connelly, who has written 5 or 6 books,
including The Concrete Blond, The Black Ice, and a few other titles I can't
recall right now. The series is more hard-broiled than Dunning's, but the
plots are great and the main character, Harry Bosch, is very intriguing.
3)Date: Thu, 06 Jun 96 10:28:14 EDT
From: PLLINHS@URIACC.URI.EDU
If you haven't read it yet, also read _Snow Falling on Cedars_ by
David Guterson. It's a great book--one of the best that I or
my colleagues have read in a long time. It's making the rounds
of our building now.
Other recommendations from my faculty include:
_Primary Colors_ by anonymous
_The Glass Lake_ by Maeve Binchy
_The Hundred Secret Senses_ by Amy Tan, and
_Original Sin_ by P. D. James
Have a great summer!!!
4)I have just loved Jane Smiley. Her short stories and short
novellas are gems!! For something "different" but very good,
try the Israeli author Meir Shalev's Blue Mountain. Happy
summer!
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Name: reina n
E-mail: rpn@netvision.net.il
Date: 06/06/96
Time: 19:22:45
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5)To Sandie and others planning personal reading lists:
I've just completed (couldn't wait until summer) High Tide in
Tucson: Essays on Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver. (Am not sure I got
the subtitle just right since I've already passed the book on to my library
assistant.) I thought this book was terrific and I'd love to discuss it
with anyone who wants to respond to me personally. I'll be online this
summer except for July 11-August 7.
Roseyn Devlin, Librarian
1402 Punahou St.
Maryknoll High School
Honolulu, HI 96822
rjdevlin@lava.net
6)Add "Primal Fear" and the subsequent books by William Diehl. He is not the
type of author I usually read but the bok was sooooo good and the movie was
just as well done (Surprize!)
How can you plan what to read?:-) I have so many I just have to grab what's
on the top of the pile by the desk next! :-)
Guam is 15 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time --
Living' in the future -- ain't Life grand!
T. K. Cassidy - Children's Librarian /// Guam Public Library
Resident Writer and Storyteller ///
tkc@kuentos.guam.net
Winner of the 1996 Maga'lahi Award for Excellence in the Humanities
7)>In these Girls Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
I highly recommend this one (living next door or down the road from the
Hurricanes as I do...) I couldn't put it down and was laughing most of the
time at the characterization of our towns.
I'm also getting into _The Language Instinct, how the mind creates language,
by Steven Pinker.
Also recommend _Searching for Mercy Street_, Linda Gray Sexton's story of
her relationship with her mother, poet Anne Sexton.
--
Johanna Halbeisen "We are confronted by
Rebecca M. Johnson School(K-8) insurmountable opportunties."
Springfield, Mass
jhalbei@k12.oit.umass.edu Pogo
8)Because I am in graduate courses this summer I have some required reading
however, I am in a book club and we are reading Cakes and Ale by W.
Sommerset Maugham. I really kind of liked it. And I don't like British
Lit particularily. A friend suggested a book entitled Sophie's World.
It is a fictionalized, mystery type story about the history of
philosophy. She said that it was wonderful. There are a couple on the
NY Times bestseller lsit that I would like to read but can't recall the
titles. Have you read anything by John Kennedy Toole. He wrote the
Confederacy of Dunces and Neon Bible. They are wonderful books.
Perlinda Shelton
mshelton@unm.edu
9)Hi,
I don't remember seeing the name of Miriam Grace Monfredo on
anyone's reading list. Her hero is Glynis Tryon, feminist, librarian,
and somewhat reluctant abolitionist. Start with *Seneca Falls inheritance*.
Enjoy :)
Pat
:) Pat Bartoshesky Saint Edmond's Academy (Gr.4-8, boys only)
:) <pbarto@udel.edu> 2120 Veale Rd. Wilmington DE 19810-4199
:) 302-475-5370 FAX: 302-475-2256
10)Want to feel energized and motivated? Want to look forward to
getting older? Want to continue to feel productive, useful,
positive and optimistic? Read the book New Passages by Gail
Sheehy! According to this author, those of us in our
mid-forties are entering our second adulthood and have,
essentially, a whole lifetime ahead of us - some of the best
years of our life. We can look forward to the flaming fifties
and all the way up to the age of nobility - the nineties! It's
a great read - for any time of the year!
--
Mary N. Stallings
Library Media Specialist
Poquoson High School
51 Odd Road, Poquoson, Virginia 23662
Tel: (804) 868-7123/4/5 FAX: (804) 868-4706
Email Address: mstallin@pen.k12.va.us
11)I just finished Shadow Ranch by JoAnn Mapson. Great story about a family
getting over the death of a child--but it really has a lot of humor.
Grandfather has just married an ex-stripper named Earlyn Somer--went by
the stage name of Early Summer. Mapson's other books, Hank and Chloe, and
Blue Rodeo are very good too. They all have horses as peripheral
characters if you're interested in that.
Kathleen Morrow
Stevenson-Carson School District
PO Box 850
Stevenson, WA
kmorrow@esd112.wednet.edu
12)Some summer reading recommendations from my teachers include:
_Snow Falling on Cedars_ by David Guterson (I read this--it's great!)
_Primary Colors_ by anonymous
_The Glass Lake_ by Maeve Binchy, and
_Original Sin_ by P.D. James.
I'm avidly collecting suggestions from this list FOR my teachers,
so keep them coming!!!
Patricia Long
Librarian, Lincoln Middle & High Schools
Lincoln, Rhode Island
pllinhs@uriacc.uri.edu
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13)From: Liz Dodds <LizDodds@AOL.COM>
Subject: GEN: Summer Reading
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
In conjunction with the new movie "Anne Frank Remembered", I wanted to
mention a book I've been enjoying immensely, Anne Frank Remembered by Miep
Gies, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. ISBN 0-671-54771-2. The book
tells the WWII and Anne Frank story from Miep's perspective, from the Dutch
perspective. It is well written and fascinating, even for those who feel
they already know a lot about WWII.
14)From: Judy Ermlick <ermlick@OBERON.PPS.PGH.PA.US>
Subject: Re: GEN: Summer Reading for us
X-To: PLLINHS@URIACC.URI.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
I'm reading Alice Hoffman--Practical Magic--I like it alot so far
From: Liz Dodds <LizDodds@AOL.COM>
Subject: GEN: Good book correction
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
15) Oops! The excellent book is _What will my Mother say?_ by Dympna Ugwu-Oju,
not _What would my mother say?_ as I mentioned earlier. I apologize. (A
tribal African girl comes of age in America)
LizDodds@aol.com
16) Like Sisters on the Homefront is by Rita Williams-Garcia.
MHardin3962aol.com
17)Hi to those of you lucky
enough to be on vacation!!!!
I just finished reading
"Charms for the Easy Life" by Kaye Gibbons
and
"I was Amelia Earhart" by Jane Mendelsohn
Both were wonderful!!!!
Have a wonderful summer LM_NETTER's!!!!!
Sue Wargo
William J. Johnston School
Colchester, CT
suewargo@aol.com
18)My summer reading is going to be the books by David Edding and book 7 of
the Eye of the World series by Jordan if it comes out soon.
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Carol Lindner
Media Specialist/Librarian
Beatrice Sr. High Media Center
Beatrice, NE 68310
clindner@esu6.esu6.k12.ne.us
19)From: Beverly Kay Maddox <bmaddox@MAILER.FSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: summer reading
X-To: Maureen Hardin <MHardin396@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
_Like Sisters on the Home-Front_ is a must read for anyone who encounters
young women. I almost stopped reading it after the first chapter, but
kept on and came to respect the protagonist, and, I think, learn
something about young women like her--and there are legion. I wish I
could read it with a group of fellow teachers and others who work with
girls of this age. Great book for an adolescent psych course.
20) I am in the middle of a book that was written about 10 years ago, and
made into a movie, Not Without My Daughter - riveting true story of
an American woman, married to an Iranian man. She travels with him
to Iran, soon after the overthrow of the Shah, and he refuses to
allow her to return to the US. In addition to the political issues,
the questions raised about the rights of women, women as victims,
etc. are chilling. Waiting for me is my "new" book of the summer,
The Women on the Porch by Caroline Gordon, "Written a half-century
ago, in 1943, The Women on the Porch is one of the most remarkable
novels ever written by an American woman about women. A contemporary
retelling of the tragic tale of Eurydice and Orpheus". We'll see if
it lives up to its' billing. And not to leave the impression I just
read books about women, I just finished a great adventure story I
came across hidden in the 910's of my library , Annapurna - the story
of the first successful climb of this Himalayan peak, by a French
mountaining group in 1952. It was interesting to note the
similarities and differences with the recent tragic climb up Mt.
Everest.
Happy Summer Reading!
Suzanne Reed, Librarian, Wichita Collegiate School, Wichita, KS.
21) Another good book about life in the mid-east is Princess, about the Saudi
Royal family, there is a sequel but I can't think of the name.
Sandy in Florida :-)
Preferred address-SandraG627@aol.com
22) Keep those suggestions coming. Our Book Club just finished Anne Tyler's
Ladder of Years which we all loved. I also loved Snow Falling on Cedars.
(partly because of the setting in the San Juan Islands where I spend my
summers on the beach reading).
Carol Harma, Guy Lee Elem. Springfield, OR
charma@efn.org or charma@sps.lane.edu
Sandie Liacouras
Librarian, Strath Haven High School Library Media Center
Wallingford-Swarthmore School District
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