{"id":22712,"date":"2014-05-27T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=22712"},"modified":"2019-09-09T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:15:06","slug":"its-officially-summer-whats-on-your-recreational-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2014\/05\/its-officially-summer-whats-on-your-recreational-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Officially Summer: What\u2019s on Your Recreational Reading List?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For those of us in and around the law school, the close of the academic year is often a time to catch up on all of that recreational reading we\u2019ve been wanting to do. Maybe your recreational reading is a non-fiction book on a topic you\u2019ve been wanting to learn more about; maybe it\u2019s a classic you\u2019ve read before (or have always wanted to read); maybe it\u2019s the newest fiction you plan on reading on the beach. Whatever your choice of a for-fun read, let\u2019s start a list here.<\/p>\n

After many, many months, I finally finished Tolstoy\u2019s Anna Karenina<\/a><\/em>, a book I finished just to say that I finished it.<\/p>\n

I will recommend, however, Karen Joy Fowler\u2019s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves<\/a>.<\/em> I downloaded the full book to my Kindle quite by accident; I meant to download just the sample because I just wasn\u2019t sure about it. But within just a few days, I had finished the entire book. The writing was engaging and lively, and although it was easy to figure out the connection between Fern (the sister) and Rosemary (the narrator), the \u201cwhy\u201d of it all kept me reading until the end. (See here<\/a> for a book review.) Fowler also wrote The Jane Austen Book Club<\/a><\/em>, a book that was not nearly as interesting or as lively as We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

A few of my favorite reads from last summer include all three of Stieg Larsson\u2019s books: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets\u2019 Nest<\/a>.<\/em> (Read with care \u2013 the subject matter is graphic and can be disturbing.) And although I am not a Hemingway fan, I did enjoy The Paris Wife<\/a><\/em> by Paula McLain.<\/p>\n

This summer, I may make it through Thomas Piketty\u2019s Capital in the Twenty-first Century<\/a><\/em>; it\u2019s pretty thick, so I may end up being satisfied with reading the reviews. Also on my list are John Boyne\u2019s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas<\/a><\/em>, Donna Tartt\u2019s The Goldfinch<\/a><\/em>, and Gillian Flynn\u2019s Gone Girl<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

What are your recommendations for a summer read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of us in and around the law school, the close of the academic year is often a time to catch up on all of that recreational reading we\u2019ve been wanting to do. 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