Season's Readings: Summer 2018

Welcome to Reading Minds, where ordinary people talk about extraordinary books! This is the first of a new kind of episode called Season’s Readings, where I talk with my husband, Mason, about everything I’ve read the past three months and give an update on my reading life. Enjoy! LET’S BE FRIENDS: Send us an email at [email protected] Here is a full list of all the titles mentioned on today’s show along with my ratings. For even more books I’ve read this summer, check out my Goodreads account: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74525142-annie-bruza (And if you’re curious about what Mason’s been reading: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/41383254-mason-bruza) JUNE Aru Shah and the End of Time- Roshani Chokshi ** The Richest Man in Babylon- George S. Clason *** Hour of the Bees- Lindsay Eager ***** Unbroken- Laura Hillenbrand ***** Letters to my Daughters- Barbara Rainey ****** The Cow Book- John Connell ** The Cormoran Strike Series- Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling): The Cuckoo’s Calling **** The Silkworm *** Career of Evil ** The Professor’s House- Willa Cather **** JULY Bachelor Nation- Amy Kaufman **** The Read-Aloud Family- Sarah Mackenzie **** The Gospel Comes with a House Key- Rosaria Butterfield ***** The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie * You Think It, I’ll Say It- Curtis Sittenfeld **** AUGUST The Ender’s Game Quartet- Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game **** Speaker for the Dead ***** Xenocide **** Children of the Mind **** The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame **** Cutting for Stone- Abraham Verghese ** The Incendiaries- R.O. Kwon ** Lord of the Flies- William Golding **** https://www.amazon.com/Lord-of-the-Flies/dp/B0000E69E3/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1536174718&sr=8-1 Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux **** Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea- Barbara Demick **** Life, the Universe, and Everything- Douglas Adams *** MENTIONED: The Newlywed Cookbook- Sarah Copeland Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Wheel of Time series- Robert Jordan Music: “Ukulele Whistle” and “Happy Ukulele” by Scott Holmes http://www.scottholmesmusic.com