Page Turners

I found a link to 6 page turners for summer reading on Oprah's website.       The blurb on the 6th book, Drowned by Therese Bohman, reminded me of the book that kept me up until 2:00 this morning. The Boy in the Suitcase by Danish writers,  Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis, was a really exciting thriller set in Denmark and Lithuania.  The kidnapping of a three year old boy turns his mom into a mama grizzly and she sets off from Lithuania to Denmark to track down her boy.   Her path crosses with Nina, a Danish nurse, who lives to rescue young women and children.  So dear readers that's the seventh book I would add to this summer reading list.

Summer Reading

I love this interactive site on USA Today highlighting 2008 Summer Books.

By the way, Audition, by Barbara Walters should be on the new book shelf at Waycross College Library this week.

Also, I am enjoying Middlesex. You may find the incestuous relationship between two of the characters really gross but the storyline itself is good so far and I am getting a bit of history of the Greek and Turkish relationship.

See my photo of Ephesus in Turkey taken the second week in May 2008 and also my photo of a chapel in Turkey, near to Ephesus, that is supposed to have been the house where the disciple John lived with the Virgin Mary. The last photo was taken of a souvenir store in Kusadasi, Turkey.

Books read by college campuses this summer

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman is what Meredith College read this summer. Theme for the year: Ethical leadership

The Water Planet: A River Runs Through Us by John Graves is what Texas StateUniversity read and the theme was of course, water.

Groucher College's incoming first year and transfer students read The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri. The themes were modern India and human mortality

College of the Holy Cross read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

Reading with "Diane: The Curves Magazine"

In Diane Magazine's summer 2007 issue, there is an article by Ellen Michaud in which she highlights these book titles and more; she recommends them for summer reading:

Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. This is one of five nominees in the Quill Award Romance category.

River Rising by Athol Dickson.

The Road to Home by Vanessa Del Fabbro. This book won for the South African born writer, the 2006 Christy Award for best contemporary novel.

Key Lime Pie Murder: A Hannah Swenson Mystery with recipes by Joanne Fluke. This is the writer's 9th book in the series. Click on the writer's name to see her attractive website with the fascinating name, murdershebaked.com.

Land of Mango Sunsets by Dorothea Benton Frank. Frank is a New York Times bestselling author. In the month of July she will be participating in an online discussion of this book on B&N.com.