Thank goodness for the first day of September since it means that my summer of fluff reading is finally over. Allow me to list for you the books I read this summer.
1. The entire Sookie Stackhouse series that is published so far. This is the series that the True Blood HBO series is based on about a woman and vampires. Classic trashy summer reading. (9 books)
2. The entire Artemis Fowl series. Really great children’s book series about a bad kid named Artemis and the havoc he wreaks on the hidden underground world of fairies. This was the best of my summer reading. (5 books)
3. The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. These were much better than I thought they would be and certainly inspired a lot of thought about religion and conspiracies which is all very interesting. (2 books)
4. The 15th book in the Stefanie Plum lady bounty hunter series. Now, I admit that I read this series whenever a new one comes out anyway. Autumn got me hooked when we were in college and it’s the only trashy reading I do. (1 book)
5. Lipstick Jungle by the woman who wrote Sex and the City. It was also a short-lived show on NBC with Brooke Shields. This book followed 4 women as they lived their lives in a year in New York. The problem was that I think you’re supposed to like all the women and I did not. (1 book)
6. Goodnight Nobody and Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner. Not bad. Girly and a little over-dramatic. Like watching a romantic drama. (2 books)
So, that’s it. I read 20 fluff books this summer and am glad to have finally finished all the books that Maren has bought me over the years. Fall of reading award winning books, here I come!
September 1, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I love the Stephanie Plum series! My mom’s entire office reads them and she convinced me to give it a try and I was surpised that they are really funny. I keep meaning to try out Artemis Fowl. I’m a little ashamed – I’ve read all of these except AF and the Sookie series.
September 1, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Wow, are you ahead of me! I read a book about a virus occuring nature, a Harry Turtledove book (Discovering Atlantis, which is actually the east coast of the U.S. separated from the rest by way of “losing” the Appalatian Mountains). Not sure of the spelling there. Also, a history of the U.S. in the War in Iraq (great reading if you hate “W” and his administration, which I did and do). I read all 3 books about Eragon, waiting for #4. I’m starting a new series about a mystical land far away, with dragons and soldiers (kind of Eragonish, without the long journeys). 20 to 6. Yikes!!