Summer reading!?

[om_shakti]

Book Suggestions, please!

It's summer, and i'm not going to be leaving the house much. I need book suggestions! I love historical, fantasy, sci-fi (as long as it's more than war'ing, wars bore me), or just things that are cook. Books I like:

Eat, Pray, Love (memoir/travel piece)
Henry & June (Anais Nin)
Harry Potter
Twilight
The Time Traveler's Wife
Star

Comments

[alaplage]

video by meera nair. it's a book of short stories, and it's SOOOO GOOD! they all take place in india and her writing is very evocative. the stories are unique, and not too long. you can get through the whole book in about 2 1/2 hours, but it's worth rereading. and, it's the author's first book!
i'm going to start reading jhumpa lahiri's (the namesake, etc) works, and try to get through devdas.

for non-indian lit, i just finished revolutionary road and it was WONDERFUL! one of the best books i've read in a loooong time.

[om_shakti]

My library doesn't carry Video :(

Revolutionary Road looks incredibly depressing on it's wiki page-is it? :(

[lysandrea]

Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.

FARKING AMAZING. There's five-ish books in the series and I'm reading it for the SEVENTH time. Seriously, it's awesome. It involves a redheaded highlander named Jamie -- I LOVE THIS MAN. I would marry him if he weren't fictional.

Uhm, also... Memoirs of a Geisha is good, LotR, Disworld Series by Terry Pratchett (though it's lengthy)... Chronicles of Narnia is cute, OH! and Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, actually) by Robin Hobb, it's very fanatsy but it isn't make-your-brain-go-mush-meant-for-12-year-olds.

Dean Koontz, James patterson, and Dan Brown are good reads, but I have to be in the right mood for those.

If I think of anything else I'll let you know.

[pennywhistle]

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Historical fiction about a war nurse from 1945 England who steps through some standing stones in Scotland and is transported back to the 1700's. Of course there's romance, action, and even a little cool science fiction with the time travel bits.

[pennywhistle]

HA, didn't notice the person above me had just rec'd Outlander. So yeah, consider mine a seconding. You should read it ^_^

[lysandrea]

Outlander is made of AWESOME. It's my go-to book/series when I have nothing else to read. I never, ever, tire of it.

[kathputli_girl]

Have you read any of the other Anais Nin diaries? You can get ahold of both the un-abridged earlier ones or the newer abridged/condensed versions for the periods after Henry and June. 8D

[ameveland]

If you liked Eat Pray Love, A Walk With Jane Austen would be awesome. This woman has depression and goes to England and travels to all the places Jane Austen. And there she finds herself. You don't have to like Jane Austen to like the book. I finished it about a week ago and it was awesome. A Great and Terrible Beauty's great too, it's based in 1895, the girl's mom's been murdered and she's sent to a boarding school but she discovers she has visions and she discovers the reasoning behind it. Kind of magical with a London backdrop. It has two sequels as well and I enjoyed them...though the first two are my favorites.

...That's all I can think of for now, I might be able to think up some later for ya if you wish. Me=braindead at the mo'.