Crowd-sourced Summer Reading Suggestions
July 27th, 2010 by Marc A. Pitman
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!
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August 16th, 2010 at 8:59 am
My suggestion on summer reading would be “Ask Without Fear” followed by The Bible (your choosing which edition).
Hey ! Couldn’t resist weighing in. Did I ever thank you for putting me in touch with Christopher Davenport. Don’t watch and listen every week, but when I do, I usually come away with great ideas.
Yesterday, the day of rest, had me going back to 2007 and bringing up all Issues of The Extreme Funraising Ezines, printing them out, four to a sheet of paper and putting them all in a binder. My next chore is to try to figure out a cataloging system by “title.” Any ideas, Mr. Fundraising Coach ? I never was very good at filing – one look at my office would convince anyone of that.
And looking at your archives leads me to think I may have some more printing ahead of me, or do you have a “bowtie decimal” system that I can use?
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Have a phenomenal week and keep those ezines coming.
John
August 16th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Thanks John!
No decimal system that I know of!
But I do have “Categories” for each post. Do those help? (Not sure if they show up when printed…)
I’m a huge fan of Chris Davenport’s free Movie Mondays too! And not just because I’ve been a guest!