Summer reading for 2025

I have Yuval Noah Harari's [italic]Sapiens[/italic] scheduled for this summer. Despite the glowing reviews, I'm concerned it might be bit too intellectual?

Definitely not intellectual will be Gareth Russell's [italic]Do Let's Have Another Drink[/italic], bio of the Queen Mother.

Also on the schedule, Gill Hornby's [italic]Miss Austen[/italic], featuring an older Cassandra looking back at her life, and of course Jane's. A bit leery as a reviewer described it as 'dark'.

No, the other thread is just fine and has not filled up yet.

DUPLICATE THREAD.

With Love, Mommie Dearest - The behind-the-scenes look at the making of Mommie Dearest. Very entertaining

Once I finish Nostromo and Victory, I want to see if I can get beyond Swann’s Way—which I first read as a freshman in French Literature (we actually just read Swann in Love, but I went back and read the whole volume on my own). Every time I start again (approximately once a decade), I make the mistake of feeling I have to start with volume 1 and get bogged down. Since I know about the narrator’s night dears, the madeleine, and Swann and Odette, and the sonata, I think I’ll begin with volume 2 this time.

I also read a Louise Penny while I’m reading something more weighty. The formulaic quality is soothing in its own way.

I can't find the other thread you mention. Maybe I blocked the OP.

I'm reading "Big Meg," a nice if somewhat routine pop paleontological about Megalodon. I gave up on "Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, With Eels" when it turned out to be a Bruce Chatwin style grab bag of whatever random material on eels the author could scrape together to pad out its length. Patrik Svensson's "The Book of Eels" was so much better.

"Disco Witches Of Fire Island" comes out Tuesday, May 6th.

Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness, Martha Grimes's The Red Queen (long live Richard Jury and Melrose Plant), John Lahr's Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrim of the Flesh, Stephen King's Never Flinch, and Joyce Carol Oates's Fox: A Novel.

And if I have the strength Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes . . .

I just picked up One Hundred years of Solitude. I've meant to read it for years.

R3…bless your heart

R7. I loved Under Western Eyes! Lord Jim and The Secret Agent are still my favorite Conrads, but UWE was well worth reading.