I’m a reader (if you hadn’t already guessed that). In order to be a writer, one must read. It is mandatory, in my opinion. So, I have a nice big list of what books I’d like to read this summer and I wanted to share it with you.
(I’m probably forgetting books in this list–particularly in the library section– and this is by no means complete or in stone.)
First! The stuff I need to finish:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (I’ve been working through this for a very, very long time. I’m at the point where I’ve got 100 pages left and I’m sick of it, but don’t want to waste as far as I’ve gotten. I’m finishing this via free audiobook.)
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Last book in the Mistborn Trilogy, though he does have other books set in the same world)
Want to Read (and already own):
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (don’t technically own this yet. Waiting on a gift card.)
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien (This is in poetry form!)
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey
Library List:
The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood
The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater
Redwall books (No particular ones) by Brian Jacques
And then there’s Beta-Reading. Not sure if I have permission to tell you the titles or who wrote the books. But both of the books are awesome (as are the authors).
So what’s on your reading lists for the summer?
Spiral-Bound 
Ooh, I see some great books on this list! (Going Postal, Hero of Ages, Hidden Gallery) I’m reading Shades of Milk and Honey right now, and so far I really like it. I’ve been doing the whole “Yeah, I’ll read four books!” Thing too, and it’s…yeah.
Let’s see, books on my summer reading list are: Redshirts by John Scalzi (that is if I can get past all. the. swearing.), the second Flavia de Luce book, your book. Other books I’d like to read are Steelheart, more Terry Pratchett, and maybe some of the gazillion books I’ve bought on sale but never actually read.
I know what you mean… “It’s on sale! I’d like to read this!” I have soooo many books like that on my Kindle.
Ummm…I don’t have a nice little list. There’s a few books I got for my birthday and still haven’t read. One is a writing book, two are fiction books, and I think two are other non-fiction. I can’t remember any of those names. No, wait…the fiction ones are actually from Christmas and are called “Chains” and “Forge.”
Yeah. Nothing elaborate or anything.
Sounds nice, anyway. You also get to the library more often than I do.
That’s probably true…how often do you go?
We used to go more regularly, but now it’s whenever I beg my mom to take me or get desperate enough to ride my bike the few miles there and back.
I haven’t been in over a year.
SAY WHAAAAAT?!?! HOW FAR IS THE NEAREST LIBRARY?
15 minutes by car. I don’t dare try to bike.
But…but…that’s not very far (in car terms, biking terms is rather far, indeed)…
And my youngest sister gets the worst carsick out of all eight of us.
But…but…
(Sorry, I’m still sputtering over the “haven’t been to a library in a year” thing)
We’ll be going hopefully soon. The other part of this is that only Mom or Dad can drive.
I guessed as much. Same here, but then, no one’s really old enough yet…
Me and one of my sisters both are but neither of us have licenses.
I know…
Indeed.
(I need to write up a new post and have no ideas…)
(Oh dear.)
Ummm… Well, Way of Kings and Words of Radiance were on my summer reading list, but since I already finished them… I have no clue. I guess there’s nothing specific on the list… I’ll just read whatever I find at the library.
Most boring reading list ever, I know.Nah! That’s fun.Nice! I haven’t Way of Kings yet. Own it, but haven’t gotten to it.
Hehe, I suppose so.It’s good. It took me a while to read it… partially because those thousand pages are just a teensy bit daunting, but I’m glad I did. Words of Radiance is even better. *waits impatiently for Sanderson to write book three*
Glad to hear it. I’m still working my way through the last book in the Mistborn Trilogy.
Ah. Those are good, too. I need to reread them…if only my mother hadn’t given away our copies…never to be seen again… *grumbles*
That’s what libraries are for! …Sort of.
Hehe, that’s very true… I guess I just don’t normally look for things to reread at the library, so I’ve never thought to get them from there.
Indeed. Rereading from the library… I don’t think I’ve ever checked out the same book twice with the exception of a few picture books (7 sibs) and The Three Musketeers, which I have tried to read twice and failed.
Yup. I think there are a few I’ve reread from the library, but only ones that it had been so long since I’d read them, I didn’t even remember what they were about. Hehe, I tried to read Three Musketeers once… I don’t think I even got to page two before I gave up. *headdesk*
I am a near failure at reading classics in general. I don’t like Dickens. I haven’t managed to get all the way through anything by Dumas. I didn’t finish Don Quixote. I’m still working through Les-Mis almost a year and a half. I’ve read MacBeth and that is the extent of my Shakespeare.
Though, to my credit, I have read three Jane Austen books.
Me too. I just… can’t seem to understand them. I had to read a Christmas Carol for literature a few years ago, and I don’t think I really understood…pretty much anything of the story. I haven’t read Shakespeare, yet, really, but my cousin gave me a version of Hamlet that has the original right beside the play translated to modern English…so I might be able to get through that one.
Mmmm. I haven’t read any Jane Austen yet, but I did read Jane Eyre a year or two ago, and I think I did fairly okay with the language… except when the characters started monologuing. Then I had no clue whatsoever what they were talking about.
I forgot I had been through Jane Eyre… I listened to an audiobook of it. It was a really weird story.
It was…
There was a lot that… I don’t know. I fail to see why high schoolers are made to read that (I read it by choice). Dickens, I can understand why. But Jane Eyre…
Yeah. I also read it by choice, I think…