Feedback: Best book you read this summer?
Summer reading season bears much fruit
Pam Lawrence Oldenburg
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Drushelle Brennan
I’ve read several “best” books this summer. “Lottery” by Patricia Wood, “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty, “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice” by Laurie R. King, “Vanessa and Her Sister” by Priya Parmar, “In the Unlikely Event” by Judy Blume, “The Matchmaker” by Elin Hilderbrand.
Joni Clevenger
Kristin Hannah’s ‘Nightingale.’ Great summer read. Five stars. WWII novel about the ladies in the French Resistance.
Charlotte Applegate
Cutting for Stone, The Boys in the Boat, Breakfast with Buddha, The Girl on the Train, Missoula. Technically, I didn’t read them, but have listened to all on Audible during morning walks.
Rachael Simmons
Outlander Series! All 9 books and started re-reading!
Janet Lee
Dry Bones by Craig Johnson! Love his books!
Sara Golden
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Blindness by José Saramago, Lonesome Dove.
Cheryl Wagar Robison
Boys in the Boat! UW rowing team that went to the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Katherine Shields
I also enjoyed All the Light We Cannot See, currently enjoying Think Like a Freak, (always interesting to notice how much economists from University of Chicago suggest you should put aside your morality to make reasoning decisions to solve problems.) Really looking forward to The Dalai Lama’s Cat, The Power of Meow. Enjoying Jesus Calling on a daily basis.
Rachel Dixon
Not by Sight – Kate Breslin and Secrets of a Charmed Life – Susan Meissner and In Good Company – Jen Turano … my top 3 this summer! Historical Fiction.
Laurie Holdgate Cook
Wright Brothers … great read, very interesting family, and Boys in the Boat, surprising how much took place in this area!
JasonMickie Montgomery
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Jackie Kayne-Sherar
The Big Burn, about the great fire of 1910 that took out Wallace and a bunch of other small towns. The fire storm was so bad they let all the prisoners out of jail to help fight it. They didn’t have airplanes or anything like that. Crazy!
Lisa Wood Hunt
So far this year, A Man Called Ove, loved it!
David Jessel
Brand New Day, by Dave Lundgren
Alicia O’Neil
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Sharon Cornett
Finders Keepers by Stephen King.
Christine Levernier
Kristen Hanna’s Nightingale! That girl just writes better & better EVERY time! Her Winter Garden is AWESOME! (2). Jodi Piccoult’s Storyteller & (3) All the Light We Cannot See
Nikki Vals
The Bible and 100 Anos De Soledad.
AR Shaw
My top picks too were Kristin Hannah’s Nightingale, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See as well as his nonfiction Four Seasons in Rome. Eleanor by Gurley is awesome too.
Debbie Duchow Rauen
Devil in the Grove, a riveting story about the early days of the civil rights movement centered on a case in Florida, featuring Thurgood Marshall before he was the first black Supreme Court Justice.
Mary Berry
100 Years of Solitude by Marquez. Just finished The Girl on the Train for a book club. Hard to put down.
Diana Wilsey Geer
Big Sky Siren by L.A. Ramirez which is full of suspense and romance in a Big Sky Montana setting.
Pat Williams
V.S. Naipaul’s “A Bend In The River,” so far. It has inspired me to re-read Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.”
Jennifer Korin Simmons
The Bone Tree by Greg Iles
Erin Maher Ross
“The Martian,” by Andrew Weir.
Travis Naught
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Eva Silverstone
A kid’s book that was recommended on the Spokane Public Library blog – Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones. These are really UNUSUAL chickens but it’s also the story of a young girl finding footing in her new town and bringing her family together.
Sarah Blain Bain
I LOVED All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
Susan Creed
“Some Luck” and “Early Warning” by Jane Smiley, the first two books in a trilogy about an Iowa farm family from the 1920’s through the 2010’s.
Kelsi Sibley
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks. … I am currently reading Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs, it’s really good so far!
Sandra Gibson
Woman to woman by Joyce Meyer!
Patricia Bonner
Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You.
Cher Krogh Merrill
I enjoyed “Maine” by J. Courtney Sullivan while my daughter & family were visiting her in-laws in Maine.