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Old 05-28-2013, 01:37 PM   #1877
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Default Summer Reading List (personal studies)

My summer reading list will comprise largely a re-reading of books authored by Salman Rushdie and Dr. Khaled Hosseini:
Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children, 1981; Shame, 1983; The Satanic Verses, 1988; The Moor's Last Sigh, 1995; The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 1999; and, Shalimar The Clown, 2005).

Dr. Khaled Hosseini (And The Mountains Echoed, 2013).

I once took several sociology study classes, at an undergraduate level, wherein the current professor of studies was an ardent admirer of Rushdie and his post-colonial views, as both Rushdie and my former professor are members of the Indian Diaspora. Reading the Rushdie collection of books will be my all-summer immersion study on the works of Salman Rushdie and to add toward notes I have kept since the time I undertook sociology courses in post-colonialism.

Reading the newest book by Hosseini will largely be my own independent and extended study on issues pertinent to Family Communication studies. When I set time aside for this reading project, it won't be for pleasure (per se), but more along the lines of critical analysis on as-near current theorems pertaining to Family Communication. My approach will be to read his newest book as if it were an upper-graduate course reader; compiling an annotated bibliography that connects previous scholarly authored works within the frame of Family Communication.

Toward the end of summer, I was just sharing with Katniss that, I was looking for recommendation, hoping to come across a book (fiction or non-fiction) that might have a dose or two of romance but not mushy romance: I am looking for something more along the lines of a good crime-like novel or mystery or, unsuspectingly, something that un-nerves the reader in a good way. I would welcome any suggestions, from our coummunity of readers, with appreciation.
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