Summer Reading
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I'm on holiday in Idaho and am reading like crazy. Here are a couple of things I have read this summer:
William Gibson's Spook Country. Just plowed through this. I can't highly recommend it but I do feel compelled to read what he writes as soon as it hits the shelves.
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee. A tour of high achieving Korean Americans in New York. I was both engrossed and somewhat repelled by this book. A decent summer read.
Shinju, by Laura Joh Rowland - thanks to Shawn at the Borders in Coeur D'Alene for turning me on to this detective series set 17th century Japan. I'm half way through the first one, Shinju, and am thoroughly entranced by the story and the setting.
Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown. Number one summer read.
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett. This is the third in the detective series set in Bangkok. Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the detective, believes in reincarnation. Highly, highly recommended.
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin. Love him. More detective fiction set in contemporary Scotland.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. This was the best book of the summer.
And if you want to scare yourself silly, try Scott Smith's The Ruins. It the kind of book you read in one sitting
