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Arts & Culture

SU Community Members Share Their Summertime Reads

Thursday, July 21, 2016, By Kathleen Haley
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What good book are you enjoying this summer? Let us know.

We want to know what good reads University community members are delving into during the lazy days of summer—and offer a chance to win SU gear for their submission. Take a look below at some of the titles that are keeping readers busy.

(To participate, send us an email at sunews@syr.edu with “Orange Reads” in the subject line, your status with SU (student, faculty, staff or alum), why you’re enjoying the book and a photo of yourself, the book or where you’re reading this summer. Or post up to social media, using #OrangeReads. On Friday, Aug. 5, we’ll select an entry to win SU gear.)

@SyracuseU I’m reading The Accursed by SU alum @JoyceCarolOates! It’s making me even more excited to start school🍊 pic.twitter.com/ow5CJ0BChr

— Jake Smith (@seitzonsuccess) August 5, 2016

@SyracuseU this book! It’s awesome #OrangeReads pic.twitter.com/fYPZq0ghxm — Rachel Hip (@r_hipster) August 4, 2016

I just started reading “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” by @StephenKing@SyracuseU#OrangeReadspic.twitter.com/6CKJwSruhL

— Mariana Domingues (@marianadoming9) July 27, 2016

 

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“The Lady with the Borzoi,” a biography of Blanche Knopf

Suzanne E. Guiod, staff member at SU Press: Currently reading Laura Claridge’s recent contribution to publishing history: a biography of Blanche Knopf, co-founder of the great literary house. Also in the queue: Annie Proulx’s latest novel, “Barkskins,” an epic family history set against the backdrop of the North American timber industry, and Mark Kurlansky’s “Paper.” Is there a pattern here?

We now have some #OrangeReads on display, both in Bird Library and on our Pinterest board! https://t.co/QJcOcJVdyS pic.twitter.com/OBaVkWbvM9 — SU Libraries (@SyracuseULib) July 29, 2016

#ICYMI: Add these three #sustainability & business books to your @SyracuseU #orangereads. https://t.co/dcsJ9wyJ4X pic.twitter.com/ub6Z3qzLf3 — Whitman School at SU (@WhitmanatSU) August 2, 2016

 

Because learning never stops. 📚 #Anthropolgy #OrangeReads pic.twitter.com/X9H8yUqaEV — Jose Luis (@jlmrosado) July 21, 2016

Amy B. Lenczewski, staff member with the Syracuse University Early Education and Child Care Center: A book which is unforgettable is “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks. It’s full of historic reference, suspense, intrigue, great imagery and storytelling that is unparalleled! It takes you places and makes you wish you lived in another time as well as glad that you live in safer times. It explores different faiths and values. It shows you how good people struggle with what is good in trying times. Must read!  

@SyracuseU The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera — Kayla Bressi (@BaylaKressi) July 26, 2016

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First page of “Outlander” (Photo by Caitlan Truelove)

Caitlan Truelove ’17, master’s student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts: I recently decided to start reading the “Outlander” series by Diana Gabaldon, now that the Starz TV series based on said books just ended its second season. I haven’t read for fun since before college, so the very act of reading is amazing. Even though I’ve seen the first season of “Outlander” (twice now), I have fallen in love with the book it was based on.

#OrangeReads Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling 📚 pic.twitter.com/nic9uOOdZ3 — Amanda (@manderz343) July 14, 2016

Rob Enslin, staff member in the College of Arts and Sciences: I generally keep a few books in circulation. Currently, I’m more than halfway through Philip Norman’s epic, 850-page tome on Paul McCartney—a stark contrast to Brenda Shoshanna’s “Zen Miracles,” much of which I’m reading for the second time. Just wrapped up two other Beatle books (Joseph Neizgoda’s “The Lennon Prophecy” and John McMillian’s “Beatles vs. Stones”), with a slight detour through Carlo Rovelli’s “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.” On deck: Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself.”  

#orangereads every day by David Levithon — Carol Pelz (@CarolPelz) July 16, 2016

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Dane Lopes ’95, graduate of the College of Engineering and Computer Science: I’m reading: “Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek. Saw his TED talk and it inspired me to buy his book!

 

 

Janet Marsden, research associate in the College of Engineering and Computer Science: I recently finished “The Lowland” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which I enjoyed for its unique views of the immigrant experience in higher education (from Calcutta, India, to University of Rhode Island, my alma mater), and just started reading “The Difference Engine” by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Although I don’t read much science fiction, I’m a fan of Gibson’s cyberpunk.

 

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Jillian Klascius ’18, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School: I’m reading “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It’s an important book that gives me a glimpse of the struggles and dangers that a black person faces in our society.

Want a great summer read? Pick up The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown #OrangeReads — anh murphy (@anhmurphy) July 17, 2016

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