This is a summer for literary classics for me, starting with the Forsyte Saga and Modern Comedy trilogies by James Galsworthy -- great writing, searing romance, and a fascinating look at late Victorian-Edwardian England.
I just finished Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
I had a Jane Austin spring, reading (or re-reading) Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park, and Emma. After that, I had had more than enough endless parenthetical phrases to last for some time, so the rest have to wait!
On a more contemporary note, I loved Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle.
Current:
Broken Music (Sting's autobiography)
Midnight Cowboy, James Leo Hardihy (MUCH better than the movie)
Next up:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
War and Peace (perhaps skimming over the "war" parts...)
The Hearts of Horses, Molly Glass
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Wall
Stud: Adventures in Breeding, Kevin Conley
Can you tell I'm a voracious reader? Now that my vision is so bad, I sure love my Kindle!
susanne, I just got a Kindle 3G a few days ago, and I am also re-reading many of the classics. Some I read as a kid in high school and some I never read. I just finished re-reading Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden by Steinbeck. Before that I read Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, and Emma.
I have downloaded Tess of the D'Ubervilles on my Kindle. I have not read that one. I didn't read War and Peace but it's on my list. I read Crime and Punishment in high school and will reread that as well.
I also like Koontz, love Tami Hoag, and James Patterson, but after a while those types of novels sort of all blend into each other.
I used to love Stephen King years and years ago but I think the last thing of his I read was Misery and haven't read anything else he's written since then. I got tired of him, I guess.
Has anyone read the Story of Edgar Sawtelle? It's been out a few years, but was just a wonderful, wonderful book.
Another good author for those who like those "whodunits" is Sharon McCrumb.
On my Kindle I have also downloaded a lot of H. Rider Haggard's novels. I think he wrote in the late 1800's, and was quite popular. I've started reading his "Montezuma's Daughter" and so far it's quite good. They are sort of like the "Indiana Jones" stories. Lots of adventures.
And if anyone hasn't read "River God" by Wilbur Smith, put it on your list! It was one of the most interesting, delightful, "just hated to see it end" books I've read in years. Takes place in ancient Egypt. It's hilarious, tense, full of history, and thoroughly entertaining. Pure enjoyable fiction.
