Summer Reading Challenge
I have decided to participate in a summer reading challenge. I found the info link over at Sage’s spot on the web. Maggie at Maggie Reads has issued the challenge. The rules are simple: Spend the hot, humid months of June, July, and August reading three Southern books by Southern authors. You review them and discuss them with others who have chosen to participate.
I believe I have decided on my three authors/books:
Eudora Welty- The Optimist’s Daughter
Joshilyn Jackson- gods in Alabama
Fannie Flagg- Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven
I reserve the right to change my selections at any time during this challenge. I intend to read a Willie Morris book that Froggy wanted and hasn’t read yet, so I could choose that one.
I’m really excited about a summer of reading. It has taken a while for me to get back “into” it. Grad school reduced the pleasure I derive from educational reading, but it is slowly coming back. I have a Civilizations and Cultures text that I want to get through this summer, and will need to review the text I have chosen for my World Civ class this fall. On the side table as I type is a book titled Pompeii that I look forward to. I just finished Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter and it was wonderful. I lover her writing! (Yes, a review will be coming soon.)
While you wait, click over to Maggie’s and consider the reading challenge for yourself. Good night and kontan jou!
June 06 2007 11:55 pm | Southern Reading Challenge
June 7th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Love the list and I look forward to reading your thoughts, notes, and reviews. Thanks for spending a hot and steamy summer with me!
June 8th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I am so glad to hear that I’m not the only one who temporarily lost my love of reading after graduate school. I got my master’s in ‘99, and only last year did I begin to really want to sit down and read for pleasure again.
I did not enjoy any of Welty’s works other than Delta Wedding; you’ll have to let me know how you feel about that choice. But, I love Fannie Flagg’s novels.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I love Fannie Flagg so I knew she would have to be included. I haven’t read any of Welty’s works, nor Jackson. I’m looking forward to two “new to me” authors.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Glad you’re doing this too! And three books I haven’t read. I’ve just finished reading my first thanks to thunderstorms and a long wait at the Atlanta airport! I’ve yet to review it.
Which Willie Morris book? I’ve read several of his and really enjoyed “North Toward Home”