1. Soulful Old Man Sunshine – The Beach Boys
2. Take A Run At The Sun – Dinosaur Jr
3. It’s Summertime – The Flaming Lips
4. Shooting Star – The Mamas & The Papas
5. Walking In The Sun – The Zombies
6. Catch The Sun – Doves
7. Summer Song (Wishing You Were Here) – Slade
8. Almost Summer – Celebration (feat. Mike Love and Brian Wilson)
9. Everyday I Write The Book (live) – Elvis Costello
10. When I Write The Book – Nick Lowe
11. The Book I Write – Spoon
12. Wrapped Up In Books – Belle & Sebastian
13. The Lost Art Of Conversation – The Divine Comedy
14. My Back Pages – The Byrds
15. Turn The Page (live) – Bob Seger
16. Catcher In The Rye – Guns N Roses
What are YOU reading this summer?!
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I'll start. I'm hoping to get through the following books:
1. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
2. The Pixar Touch – David Price
3. Later Auden – Edward Mendelson
4. The Tick: The Complete Edlund – Ben Edlund
5. Heaven's My Destination – Thornton Wilder
6. Passion Is The Fashion: The True Story Of The Clash – Pat Gilbert
If I get through these, this summer will be a success.
Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective – Francis Watson
Text, Church and World – Francis Watson
A Broad Place – Jurgen Moltmann
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
Separate Tables – Terrance Rattigan
Family Reunion – T.S. Eliot
Just finished "Cherry" by Mary Karr. I'm working on/planning to read:
1. Flannery: a Life of Flannery O'Connor
2. Lit
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
4. Fast Food Nation
5. I am America and So Can You
6. Slaughterhouse Five
7. Black Boy
8. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
9. Fear, Love & Worship
10. The Death Of Ivan Ilych and other Stories
Currently engrossed in Guard of Honor, next…something by Mary Karr!
On the Playlist part,
I think it's a wonderful Summer assemblage.
But listen, it's impossible, when absorbing these marvellous creative playlists, not to see, still, in one's mind's eye, like the Martian Insect hovering o'er all London at the conclusion to "Five Million Years to Earth", a vision of the One Enduring and still Unequalled song of the world:
"Don't Bring Me Down", by the Animals.
Nothing and no one, except, sometimes, Karen Young or Mike Francis — I admit it — can touch "Don't Bring Me Down".
I mean, I wish that weren't the pinnacle.
(Don't we all wish that Journey weren't the pinnacle of anthemic rock 'n roll?)
But you can't alter facts. You also can't hurry love…
(which is not true, by the way).
I have been totally out of the Mockingbird loop for the last five days. Just saw this summer reading thread.
Emily, I am so delighted to hear that you are going to be reading both of the Lewis Carroll classics. Woo-hoo! I absolutely love them — can't wait to hear what you think. If you really like them, you might want to take a look at THE ANNOTATED ALICE by the late and beloved Martin Gardner.
Also pleased to see that you are a fan of Flannery O'Connor. You and MB's Michael Cooper should get together sometime — he's crazy about FOC.
I am having fun right now with a great vampire novel (THE PASSAGE). Also on my list for the summer:
* Cheever: A life
* The Knife of Never Letting Go