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Title: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 29, 2017, 01:24:23 PM
Hi,

I'm hoping to find time this summer to read a few books. Here are a few I want to read

The Siren by Kiera Cass
The Crown by Kiera Cass
The Heir by Kiera Cass
The Maddie Diaries by Maddie Ziegler from Dance Moms


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: preciousstar on May 29, 2017, 01:37:35 PM
other than my required summer readings, i also want to read Fahrenheit 451 and finish the Disney Star Darlings Series as well as the manga Fruits Basket. i have odd tastes :P
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Bekuno on May 29, 2017, 02:29:06 PM
I have a small booklist..

Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Fire Bringer by David Celement-Davies
Birth of the Firebringer by Meredith Ann Pierce
Wings of Fire: Darkness of Dragons by Tui T. Sutherland
Archie Comics
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Kiwi on May 29, 2017, 03:15:29 PM
Mine is just an eternal "I'm behind" reading list. Need to finish the Wheel of Time series. Want to re-read the Harry Potter series, and the new Cursed Child. Have the 4-pack Divergent series box set to read.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: scarletjul on May 29, 2017, 03:47:52 PM
Hi,

I'm hoping to find time this summer to read a few books. Here are a few I want to read

The Siren by Kiera Cass
The Crown by Kiera Cass
The Heir by Kiera Cass
The Maddie Diaries by Maddie Ziegler from Dance Moms


Ponyfan

I read the first three of those just this year.  Think my BFF still has my copies of The Crown series.  :)  Anyhow, I would recommend the Siren.  :)

I always have a lot of reading to do.  Usually something I have to read and something I *want* to read. 

On my list of have to read:

World History Book for my CSET (I have a test in early June.)

Want to read list is too long, but:

Thirteen Reasons Why
The Outsiders (re-read)
Princess Diarist

are all recent purchases that I should really work on.  :) 
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: orangepeachmango on May 29, 2017, 04:13:12 PM
i HAD a summer reading list, but then i went on a 7 day road trip a few weeks ago and absolutely decimated it. so far i have yet to make a new list. but heres what i read!

Breaker
by Kelly Wyre
Scorpion Blues by Rachel White
Gun to my Head by Dira Lewis
Sea Lover by JK Pendragon
The Merman and the Barbarian Pirate by Kay Berrisford
A Hard Ride Home by Emory Vargas
Laurent and the Beast by KA Meriakn
Doomware by Nathan Kuzack
The Dead Will Rise First by Logan Kaine

aaand well, im right in the middle of His Majesty's Dragon (and have been for some time...) So I GUESS thats on my summer list. more like my long-term-please-finish-it-already list.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Beldarna on May 30, 2017, 12:30:19 AM
I don't have a reading list but usually read crime novells during the summer and this year I have finnished four of those books this past week.. I am trying to get through all books by Anna Jansson and Arne Dahl. Fun stuff. Currently on the last book of Stig Larssons  Millennium trilogy.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: bright rabbit 1 on May 30, 2017, 08:19:09 AM
I too don't have a reading list, but I've got collectors edition Fruits Basket manga books to read. In the books are two volumes from the single manga books.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Prince Primbrose on May 30, 2017, 08:37:15 AM
Oh boy, let's see what's on my list right now...

School of Sight by Alisha Knaff- picked it up at a local convention the other day, signed by the author 
Tithe by Holly Black
The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer (rereading)
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
East by Edith Pattou (rereading)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (rereading)

For comics: rereading and hopefully this time finishing Elfquest

And for manga... finishing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 6 and 7, catching up on part 8.

And of course, the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition manual I picked up at the con... it counts as summer reading. :P
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: dragonfly on May 30, 2017, 09:36:26 AM
I'm always reading. Nothing in particular for summer, just working from my Amazon wish list. I'm usually into historical fiction but have been branching out into fairy tale retellings, just finished Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon, not sure if I want to dive into her version of The Little Mermaid or not. I got sucked into the preview but then I read spoilers and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: little.fox on May 30, 2017, 09:59:43 AM
Not so much as a summer reading list as an eternally increasing TBR. I currently have roughly 100 books on my Goodreads "to read". *sigh*
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Ponyfan on May 31, 2017, 02:41:11 PM
Wow so many interesting books. Has anyone read Midnight Pearls a modern take on the Little Mermaid?

Ponyfan
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: northstar3184 on May 31, 2017, 05:35:55 PM
Not so much as a summer reading list as an eternally increasing TBR.

Same here.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Pheasant on June 05, 2017, 08:22:57 AM
Not so much as a summer reading list as an eternally increasing TBR.

Same here.

Ditto.

A good friend of mine recently suggested that I might enjoy the Peter and the Starcatchersseries by Dave Barry / Ridley Pearson. It's a 'prequel' series that hypothetically explains the events that led up to the story of Peter Pan. While the series itself isn't bad, I just...can't get into it. It's like reading fanfiction, lol - I prefer the original Peter Pan story. If it needed a backstory, James Barrie would have written it. ;)
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: cloud_weaver on June 07, 2017, 05:53:59 AM
A good friend of mine recently suggested that I might enjoy the Peter and the Starcatchersseries by Dave Barry / Ridley Pearson. It's a 'prequel' series that hypothetically explains the events that led up to the story of Peter Pan. While the series itself isn't bad, I just...can't get into it. It's like reading fanfiction, lol - I prefer the original Peter Pan story. If it needed a backstory, James Barrie would have written it. ;)

Peter and the starcatchers is an awesome book series.  Very fun and whimsical. ^.^

I am a fantasy/love story (non romance, non smutty) book reader.  Honestly, top of my reading list is rereading my favorite series, especially since some new books just came out.  In order of preference...

Cats Eye Chronicles - by TL Shreffler
(Kindle books, book one is free... https://www.amazon.com/Soras-Quest-Cats-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B007V5XND8 )

Throne of Glass series - by Sarah J Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses series - by Sarah J Maas (new book out!!!). Modern Fae rebelling of beauty and the beast, and hades/Persephone.  AMAZING!!!!!!!

And now under my SIL's request, the Abandon Series my Meg Cabot. Just finished book one...did not like the writer's style.  "Insta-love" is non-plausible and mega irritating.

Ponyfan - I read all of the Crown series and the Siren.  Good, but not FANTASTIC in my opinion.  The love story didn't completely swoon me.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Uninu on June 07, 2017, 07:11:34 AM
I have a really small list, I want to re-read Johanna Sinisalo's Not before sundown and Lauren Beukes' The shining girls.
I will also read Beukes' Zoo city if I can, as I have trouble concentrating on reading.

I also recently got the Ancient Magus Bride manga volumes 1-6 and I might re-read those, too.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Ponyfan on July 14, 2017, 02:47:32 PM
I finished The Siren. It was different that Kiera Cass other works but I really enjoyed the story. It reminded me a lot of the Little Mermaid fairy tale. I've also read 5 volumes of the Sailor Moon Manga and have started another book that was a recent addition to my reading list.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: SilverHorsey on July 16, 2017, 09:33:21 PM
Currently in the middle of reading these

Winter Horses by Philip Kerr
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: northstar3184 on July 16, 2017, 09:46:32 PM
I have a continuously growing TBR list.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: orangepeachmango on July 16, 2017, 10:42:32 PM
i just went to the movie theatre to see spiderman and put "the dark tower" and "valerian and the city of a thousand planets" on my reading list. i didnt know dark tower was a book and my dad was greatful enough to give me the 'really..?' look and tell me it was written by stephen king. and ah...Jupiter Ascending is back on the list as well. that one has been there for a while so i will get it done first!  :shakefist:
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Taffeta on July 19, 2017, 01:51:14 PM
Yes, I have a reading list.

*points to big pile of Japanese books and articles.*

That :Z

Reading for leisure has not happened for me for about five years now.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: poniesthatsparkle on July 20, 2017, 05:29:22 PM
I read a lot, but I've never actually made a list. I just kind of mentally decide what books I want to read in no particular order. This summer I've been trying to read the Percy Jackson books again.
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Storybelle on July 24, 2017, 11:00:22 AM
Yes. It's called 'Reading so that Storybelle doesn't drown under her TBRs'  :biggrin: It's going well though.

My faves of what I have read so far this summer and recommend to everyone

The Hate U Give by Angie Scott
Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
One of Us is Lying by Karen Mcmanus
Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant
My Lady Jane by Cynthis Hand

Books I can't wait to read
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Dazzling Heights by Katharine Mcgee
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard (I am so behind with this series...)

My goodreads TBR list says 330. May Celestia help me....  :shocked:
Title: Re: Do you have a summer reading list?
Post by: Ponyfan on August 27, 2017, 02:08:12 PM
Well I only read The Siren from my list but I did read several manga that were not on my list.


Ponyfan
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