This Summer Read
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A holiday means time to indulge in a good book. But how to choose wisely as you pack, so that your luggage does not go into excess weight? Which books will satisfy your literary soul? Below are some suggestions:
1) The Golden Notebook (Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing / 1962)
Middle-aged Anna keeps four notebooks, chronicling stages in her life. The fifth notebook - the golden one - is her attempt to pull it all together. A novel that has left its mark on the ideas and feelings of three generations of women.
2) Life of Pi (Yann Martel / 2002)
Tipped to win the man Booker Prize’s 40th anniversary Best of the Booker award this July, this is the tale of Pi, an Indian boy, the only human survivor of a shipwreck, who spends 221 days on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, and orangutan and a Bengal tiger. The novel combines a boy’s own adventure with a meditation on faith and survival.
3) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen / 1813)
This romantic comedy continues to draw readers to this day. Heroine meets rich hero but it’s loathe first sight. She fails for a less-than-ideal choice, who causes a family crisis. The hero saves the day. This nuanced tale underscores the issues of, yes, pride and prejudice, and love’s eventual triumph.
4) An Offer You Can’t Refuse (Jill Mansell / 2008)
Jill Mansell is the best selling queen of chick lit and in her latest book, the heroine, Lola, is offered a payoff of 10,000 pounds by the snobbish mum of her boyfriend Dougine, to break up with her son. Is it true love or will money talk?
5) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley / 1818)
Forget blockbusters featuring square-jawed actors with bolts through their necks. Obsessed with creating life, a scientist called Frankenstein plunders graveyards for material to fashion a new being, which he brings to life. This creature sets out to destroy his maker. Some consider this the classic that shocked the sci-fi genre into existence.
6) Twilight (Stephenie Meyer / 2005)
Bella is the new girl in town who feels a strange attraction to a youth, who rebuffs her and then saves her life. The reason for his coldness? He is a vampire. Meyer, a cross-over young adult/adult novel sensation, has been touted as the new J.K.Rowling. Twilight, the movie, will out this December.
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