My sumer reading list

Since my last post was about how much more reading I'm doing with my new kindle I thought I would give you a list of my summer reading:

1. The Host by Stephenie Meyer - Stephenie Meyer is the author of the very popular Twilight series and since I liked that series I thought I would read her only other book called The Host. In The Host the bodies of humans are being taken over by alien souls only because the aliens feel that they can do a better job which when you think about some people it isn't a stretch. The book is a page turner and will have you asking yourself what it really means to be "human". Totally different from the Twilight series but still very enjoyable.

2. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - Instead of reading this book with a medical dictionary in my other hand I skipped over the latin medical terminology which litter the book. But even so the novel was very entertaining. The story is about twin boys born in Ethiopia to a nun born and raised in India but sent to Africa to work as a nurse. One twin has to leave Ethiopia and finds his way to America and his father who he has never met. Great story.

3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoos by Steig Larsson - Set in Sweden; a magazine editor Mikael Blomkvist tries to solve a thirty year old mystery with the help of Lisbeth Salander who is an anti social troubled private investigator with great internet hacking skills. Another page turner and the first in a trilogy for books but each reads as a separate novel.

4. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - I know this isn't a brand new book but I finally got around to reading it. The Pillars of the Earth is about the building of a cathedral in England during the 1100's. I've studied how cathedrals were built in art history and the some of the differences between them but I never fully understood the "why" of the undertaking. This novel explores every aspect of the undertaking of building a cathedral in times when the general population had barely enough food to eat and a place to sleep. This novel also explores the nature of the political climate during this time.

5. The Forgotten Garden: A Novel by kate Morton - This novel is about a little girl who travels by herself from England to Australia and is taken in by a family. Later she learns she was adopted and then tries to find out about her past. A light but enjoyable read.