Wonder if we can have an official mn summer reading reccy list thread

[AlaskaNebraska]

thing rather than 20 thread about it.
you know like a top ten ?

Oh that is a good idea.

1. Any Jane Austen - for light-hearted but well written stuff that you KNOW will be good, so worth packing in case everything else is crap

an instance of the fingerpost by ian pears. It's been around for ages but a cracking read. It's a story told from 4 different perspectives and only at the end do you get the full picture. Genius. Set in Oxford in the 17th century.

Gone with the wind is also a great holiday read - actually might pack that one for a re-read this year. Scarlet is even more heartless in the original.

I have never read Gone With The Wind - adds to list.

I didn't like An Instance Of The Fingerpost.

I loved reading The Moonstone on holiday as it was such a contrast to the sunshine! I also enjoyed 'Let The Right One In' last year by the pool (Swedish vampire novel) - but the ending is silly.

I have just read Three Weeks To Say Goodbye and are now reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter. 3 weeks was good but the ending was disappointing. I am enjoying TMKD atm.

so we need a VOTING SYSTEM
please and criteria
and nominations

Old favourite (P&P)

Everyone's talking about (ie probably something that I won't like)

Always meant to read but never got around to it (Anna Kara-whatshername)

Lightweight - Liz Jensen

Non-fiction - This Thing Of Darkness

The adult version of the Famous Five: ie crap but good (like Georgette Heyer for example)

i cannto stomach chic lit or mis lit
or dead babies
although north korea book is a bit dead babies

Absolutely no chick or mis lit on my list!!!

We will start a thread forthwith in Book of the Month.

We're thinking same criteria as book club ie no misery memoirs, sleb biogs, yummy-mummy lit, books with more than 800 pages, or books with no punctuation or capital letters.

And fiction or non-fiction, yes?

Once we've got a decent amount of recommendations, we could draw up a shortlist for everyone to disagree about and try to reach some vague consensus about the top 10 (or 20).

Hopefully before the schools go back .