I'm curious - why a summer reading list? Does your life change significantly in the summer?
Mine hasn't, really, since I graduated from high school. I suppose the school year impacts us less as parents because we're homeschoolers, but even when Sam's kids lived with us and attended public school, it didn't suck up all our reading time.
As to your choices--I just put Scalzi's series on my own reading list. I adore Neal Stephenson to an embarrassing extent, but got bogged down about halfway through Quicksilver. I guess I was expecting something more like Cryptonomicon?
I read The Golden Globe, but didn't enjoy it nearly as much as Steel Beach. Dark dark dark.
For some reason, I've never read much LeGuin. I have enjoyed some of her poetry, and Katie loved her Catwings books so much that we nearly wore them out years ago. I don't think I've read anything at all by Goodkind.
I got to the second book in the Golden Compass trilogy and stopped. Again, too dark for me. Yes, I'm a wimp. Pullman is a good writer, though.
I just can't focus on audio content well enough to do fiction audiobooks. I used to listen to non-fiction in the car to make commuting more tolerable, but that mostly worked because there are so many redundant anecdotes in such books.
Sun, 07/06/2008 - 10:35am
I'm curious - why a summer reading list? Does your life change significantly in the summer?
Mine hasn't, really, since I graduated from high school. I suppose the school year impacts us less as parents because we're homeschoolers, but even when Sam's kids lived with us and attended public school, it didn't suck up all our reading time.
As to your choices--I just put Scalzi's series on my own reading list. I adore Neal Stephenson to an embarrassing extent, but got bogged down about halfway through Quicksilver. I guess I was expecting something more like Cryptonomicon?
I read The Golden Globe, but didn't enjoy it nearly as much as Steel Beach. Dark dark dark.
For some reason, I've never read much LeGuin. I have enjoyed some of her poetry, and Katie loved her Catwings books so much that we nearly wore them out years ago. I don't think I've read anything at all by Goodkind.
I got to the second book in the Golden Compass trilogy and stopped. Again, too dark for me. Yes, I'm a wimp. Pullman is a good writer, though.
I just can't focus on audio content well enough to do fiction audiobooks. I used to listen to non-fiction in the car to make commuting more tolerable, but that mostly worked because there are so many redundant anecdotes in such books.
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