Julia Glass and Jonathan Lethem are reading Joseph O’Neill’s novel Netherland. Or so they said in a Wall Street Journal article that also listed the summer reading of John Irving, Geraldine Brooks, Philippa Gregory, Oscar Hijuelos, Joyce Carol Oates and others www.wsj.com/article/SB121332522673370767.html.
What’s in your beach bag? If you’d like to talk about a great book or warn people away from a clinker, join the conversation at a new online book club by clicking here www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/. A review of and reading group guide to Netherland appeared on this site in separate posts on June 24 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/.
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shame shame shame on me! I am reading ONE DANGEROUS LADY by Jane S Hitchcock. Last summer I read her SOCIAL CRIMES (which came first, though it does’t matter at all.) It’s centered in NYC (a big point in its favor) but it’s (sort of) socialite/murder/chicklit. And I have this glorious stack of “real” reads to get through, many from your blog, and yet I read…this? Go figure. I’ll be back when I get through the sci-fi and CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY as mentioned many blogs ago.
signed, an indulgent shallow summer reader!
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