Marc's Musings

So far this summer, most of my reading has been nonfiction. Having a yearning to read fiction, I asked my social networks what they recommended.

Thanks to @amuhs, @llake, @cloudspark, @ddpaek, @LarryHehn, @frankmckay, my Twitter request yielded these suggestions:

• South of Broad: A Novel, Pat Conroy
• The Dead Don’t Dance, Charles Martin
• books by Eric Wilson
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• That Old Cape Magic: A Novel, Richard Russo
• The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt

And on Facebook Tom Golway, Hannah Doak Clifton, Elektra Damianos Gaebelien, Denise Lafountain, Greg Daly, Michell Arnold Paine, Kate Arnold Fitzpatrick, Katelyn Jo Melanson, Richard Cebra, Amy Cyrway, Maggie Hall, Jeff Pouland, Robert Sezak, Wayne Burke, Jean Coltart, Kathleen Tozier Duprey, Joanna Tracy Martel, Bill Taylor, and Faye Nicholson recommended:

• The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
• The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• World Without End, Ken Follett
• Quo vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Hadassah, Tommy Tenney
• The Strain, Guillermo del Toro
• anything by Agatha Christie
• The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet), Stephen King
• Under the Dome, Stephen King
• As the Crow Flies, Jeffrey Archer
• The Sirens of Titan: A Novel, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Overton Window, Glenn Beck
• Everything Matters!: A Novel, Ron Currie (2 recommendations)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2 recommendations)
• Day of Reckoning, Jack Higgins
• all the Harry Potter books
• The Tommyknockers, Stephen King
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Charlie’s Web: A Mystery, LL Thrasher
• A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle

These are all (affiliate) linked to Amazon but Robert Sezak reminded me that most of these books can be purchased at used books stores like RE-BOOKS in Waterville!