Category Archives: Summer Reading List

I’m moving

Posted on January 13, 2014 by booksandbuttons.com

Hello readers and friends– My site is moving, but will be the same, with a new address. Look for me at  www.booksandbuttons.com. You’ll see my usual page with a row of books at the top. And there is a new … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

Posted on July 29, 2013 by booksandbuttons.com

This afternoon, while sitting by the pool, I finished Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth.  It was one of the main pegs in my summer reading list and I’m so glad I read it. I selected it because I really, really … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

Posted on June 26, 2013 by booksandbuttons.com

About a year ago I reviewed “The Magnificent Ambersons” by this same author, Booth Tarkington.  It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919.  (Just type magnificent ambersons in my search box up there on the right.) This book, Alice Adams, won … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Posted on June 3, 2013 by booksandbuttons.com

(Click on photo to enlarge.) Read the first lines and see how a nice snobby tone is established right on page one. Newland Archer is from “good family” and is about to become engaged to May Welland, also of “good … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading List 2013–updated Aug 25th–and going to St. Louis

Posted on May 30, 2013 by booksandbuttons.com

Hot off the press!  Here is this summer’s proposed reading list.  I don’t have a real giant this year like Three Musketeers (last year).  It’s kind of a mixed list—and looking forward to all of them!  The two with stars … Continue reading →

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A List of Books for your Young Teenager

Posted on May 20, 2013 by booksandbuttons.com

I was asked recently to suggest some books for summer reading for one of my teen-aged granddaughters.   You would think that this might be an easy list to find on the internet.  But I didn’t find any I liked. Although … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading List–update in August

Posted on August 3, 2012 by booksandbuttons.com

Hooray! I finished The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas!  That was my main heavy reading book for this summer—now I can coast. I won’t say it was the best book I’ve ever read—but it was fun and had a bit … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading List 2012

Posted on June 15, 2012 by booksandbuttons.com

OK, middle of June—certainly time to plan the summer reading list—and get started! What’s on your list? I knew a long time ago that I wanted to read The Three Musketeers this summer.  And a couple of months ago my … Continue reading →

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more about summer reading list

Posted on August 14, 2011 by booksandbuttons.com

Thank you, Catherine, for your comment.  I’ll be interested to read your review of The Other Side of the Bridge. Last night I decided to get busy on my “summer reading list” since the days of August are fast a-flying … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading List 2011

Posted on August 11, 2011 by booksandbuttons.com

If there’s an X, I have read it Mary Shelley                       Frankenstein Brendan Gill                        When the Money Stopped                                                      HI,CFI (Have it, can’t find it) Charlotte Bronté         X      Jane Eyre John Cheever               X      Stories Dorothy Sayers            X     Gaudy Night George Eliot                          Daniel Deronda Dai Sijie                               Balzac … Continue reading →

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