Laura Bush's picks for summer reading

[Cocoa]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/12/100219.shtml

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The books Laura has recommended on her White House Web site are:

# "Ship of Fools: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter” by Katherine Anne Porter.

# "The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

# "Beloved” by Toni Morrison

# "Music for Chameleons” by Truman Capote

# "Goodbye to a River” by John Graves


more...

[Lost-in-FL]

1. We should help her pick her next book. What ya'll think?

Suggestions?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

A drunk ne'er-do-well finally finds success as an Everyman Preacher, not affiliated with a mainline religion, but with a religious show with a female leader who is supposed to represent Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist in the 20s. Elmer betrays his friends, loves and abandons good decent women, fools megacrowds with how the Bible saved him and they will burn in Hell without taking heed of his words. At the end, his wife and followers are about to tar and feather him. But he does a Jimmy Swaggert, confesses to being a sinner, and all is forgiven.

[saltpoint]

5. I think Laura's ripe for an audio guest reading of CITIES OF THE RED

NIGHT by William Burroughs.

[Roland99]

6. Here's a couple she might find useful soon >>>>>>>>>>

The Prisoner's Wife

How to Love and Inspire Your Man After Prison

[cureautismnow]

7. All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein.

We all love happy endings. :D

[rurallib]

10. My Pet Goat?

heard one person reading it completely ignored the US being attacked.

[Lost-in-FL]

14. Maybe you meant My Pet Goat II

:shrug:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. "The Sheep Look Up" John Brunner

[spindrifter]

3. Well, her recommendations won't beat out Nancy Pearl,

author of Book Lust, who has her own Librarian action figure.

[allalone]

4. probably thinks Ship of Fools is about them nt

[LostInAnomie]

8. How does she ever find time to read?

Between popping Valiums and smiling vacantly you would think all of her time would be consumed.

[DemonFighterLives]

9. Ship of fools was a dream

:rofl: Oh wait!

[az chela]

11. Animal Farm and 1984

[Dunvegan]

12. Here's Pickle's REAL Reading List for the Loooong Hot, Hot Summer...

# "Slips of Fools: The Collected Underwear of Katherine Harris” by Jeb Bush.

# "The Brothers Krazy-as-a-MoFo” by Neil Bush

# "Be Hated” by Babs Bush

# "Music for Criminals” by Poppy Bush

# "Cry me a River” by Patrick Fitzgerald