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  • sandi05
    sandi05 Member Posts: 23
    edited June 2006

    Ok what do you do with your books when you are done? I gave two boxes full to charity last time but they only pick up a couple times a year..I have about 16 paperbacks sitting here wondering what to do..before I would give them to a friend..now she isnt reading as much ..any suggestions? sandi

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  • Jaybird627
    Jaybird627 Member Posts: 2,144
    edited June 2006
    I have to say I started the new Stephanie Plum novel last night and did not want to put it down! It's as laugh-out-loud as usual. I've read them all and while some have been better than others I think this one is up there.

    As for being appropriate or not for young teenage girls, I'm not sure. There is a lot of sex and sexual content in this one but it's not graphic so perhaps Laura you could go to the library and peruse through a few of these novels to determine that for yourself? I think you'd enjoy them enen if you don't share them with your nieces!

    Janis L
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2006
    How about the hospital? My oncology clinic has a box where we leave books we've finished for those who forgot to bring a book ~~ sitting in those chairs sometimes for 6 hours can be boring if you forgot something to read.

    Or they can take them around to others who are hospitalized for lengthy stays.
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  • christineK
    christineK Member Posts: 1,265
    edited June 2006

    Reading now and enjoying- Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner. She also wrote Good in Bed, which I heard was good and In her Shoes, which ended up being a cute movie with Shirley McClaine and Cameron Diaz.

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  • silvergirl9114
    silvergirl9114 Member Posts: 381
    edited June 2006
    Diva-
    Can't remember the author's name but it's newly published and probably headed for the best seller list since it got very good reviews. I lent it to my sister, which means I'll never get it back! Try searching on the title on Barnes and Noble.
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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited June 2006
    LauraGTO-

    I officially retract my thought that the Stephanie Plum books would be good for a 14 year old!! Either #12 is MUCH mor raunchy than the first few or I have a BAD memory. Please pre-read before you give this to a 14 year old...they just had a little trip to a sex-toy shop that is WAY over the top for a kid

    I really don't think the first few were this trashy, but maybe I just FORGOT!!!

    By the way, this one is funny so far, vintage Plum Gotta love my trashy books.

    Keep smiling gals!

    Deb C.
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  • CurlyBrunette
    CurlyBrunette Member Posts: 7
    edited June 2006

    I just started THE JESUS PAPERS by Michael Baigent. He's one of the authors of HOLY BLOOD HOLY GRAIL. Yes, lots of controversey surrounds his books, thats why I like them.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2006

    Thanks! I'll check it out.

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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited June 2006
    When I got home from work last night, I had my book order waiting. YAY! 5 new books I am saving for post-op!

    EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert
    WE ARE ALL WELCOME HERE by Elizabeth Berg
    THE READING GROUP by Elizabeth Noble (hmmm...I have an "Elizabeth theme going here...)
    THE COLD MOON by Jeffery Deaver
    THE TENTH CIRCLE by Jodi Picoult

    Can't wait to read them...can't wait till my attention span will ALLOW it, LOL!
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  • susanmcm
    susanmcm Member Posts: 1,324
    edited June 2006
    Thank you all so much. What a great list of books to peruse. I love to read and my former favorite genre science fiction just is boring. I moved to Tom Clancy and John Grisham during chemo. The books you all are talking about sound much better. I want a book that makes me laugh out loud. Stephanie Plum sounds like a hoot. I have knee surgery in a couple of weeks. Time to send in an amazon order.

    Vicki, I know what you mean about attention span. When I first stared treatment, the TV guide was too much for me!

    Susan
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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited June 2006
    Is that YOU in the bubblebath, Vicki??? do you read there??
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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited June 2006
    Quote:

    Is that YOU in the bubblebath, Vicki??? do you read there??



    That IS me, in the Jacuzzi in the Luxor in Las Vegas. I got a GREAT deal on a room, and then my husband insisted we "upgrade" to a spa suite. That darn tub cost me $50 a day, so I call that picture "The Fifty Dollar Bath!" I DID do some reading there...I read EVERYWHERE and everything...billboards, cereal boxes, every job posting at work...
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  • elong51
    elong51 Member Posts: 1
    edited June 2006
    Hi ladies-I'm new to posting but couldn't resist this group regarding good books. I just finished a fantastic book, "The Shadow of the Wind," by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Kind of a mystery, kind of gothic, very entrancing.

    Jennifer L
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2006

    Glad you're posting Jennifer and hope you find much to share with us in the many different threads on the board!

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  • straykat
    straykat Member Posts: 95
    edited June 2006
    "The Bachelor Brothers" by Bill Richardson is a great series. They are indeed, bachelor brothers (50-ish twins), who run a B&B in the Pacific Northwest (Canada) who cater to bibliophiles. They are gentle, eccentric, and only by word of mouth is their B&B advertised.

    Very sweet and funny - great reads.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2006
    Well this thread got me craving for a good book. I love mysteries. I just bought "Therapy." Its a murder mystery. I love when they tell you the crime first and then show you how they figure out who done it.

    Nickii
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  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited June 2006
    If you are looking for light and funny - The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. I am 2/3 done with it.
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  • lauri
    lauri Member Posts: 267
    edited June 2006
    Wou;d have posted earlier, but I was *** on vacation *** last week (up in the mountains at family camp, which for me was 3 meals a day that required NO cooking, NO cleanup, NO thinking -- just show up when they ring the bell -- and 10+ hours a day of sleeping time)

    Elizabeth Peters - the Amelia Peabody series about a Victorian-era egyptologist and her family.
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited June 2006

    Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews, strong intelligent woman gets taken by a con man and recovers.

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  • krisssil
    krisssil Member Posts: 1
    edited June 2006

    I just finished Mayflower which was eye-opening! None of that Pilgrims and Indians sharing turkey together stuff at all. I didn't learn this in school! I read Memoirs of a Geisha. Good, but kinda sick in a voyeuristic way. The DaVinci Code was good as a mystery/whodunnit story. Don't know if I buy the whole Mary Magedelene thing though. Kite Runner was excellent! Loved it! Fall On Your Knees was really good too. I really liked 1776 and His Excellency George Washington. It's amazing we are a country after you read all that could have happened but didn't! My next book is Teasing Secrets from the Dead by Emily Craig. She's a forensic pathologist and this is her experience working in Bosnia after the ethnic cleansing. Not too uplifting, for sure, but totally fascinating as to how she figures out who people are and what happened to them.

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  • tflowers
    tflowers Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2006

    Just finished Caser's Way about Ophra's dog trainer. Need all of the help I can get. Very good.

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  • jz20022001
    jz20022001 Member Posts: 480
    edited June 2006
    My daughter is currently reading "Marley and Me". Unfortunately that dog sounds just like our puppy.

    I also like the Janet Evanovich books. They are hysterical. I like James Patterson too. I just finished, "The Lifeguard" and I read "Honeymoon" recently. I am reading "Bait" by Karen Robards. It's very good too.

    Catherine
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  • NYCarol
    NYCarol Member Posts: 347
    edited June 2006
    I'm currently reading "Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person"...a memoir in comics (the author of the book has breast cancer). It is hysterical. She manages to make the reader laugh through every stage of the disease. I try to read only a few pages a day as I want it to last! So at the same time I am reading "Me" by my lifelong hero, Katharine Hepburn, and The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks. I just received "Carolyn 101" as a gift....it is business lessons from The Apprentice's co-star with Donald Trump. I admired her on the show and I am anxious to read her story. I love Patterson's series about the women of the Murder Club and am hoping it hits paperback status this summer so I can grab it!

    I just finished 101 minutes (9/11 story of the Towers) and the Kite Runner. I HIGHLY recommend both. I found both awe inspiring in different ways.

    What a fun topic!

    Carol
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  • trk_koa
    trk_koa Member Posts: 55
    edited June 2006
    I'm in the middle of "Black Echo" by Michael Connelly but set it aside when my "Living Beyond Breast Cancer" and "After Breast Cancer" books came. I think "After..." is a better book as it is more up to date. When I looked at "Life Beyond...." on amazon, I mistook the "fully updated" on the cover to mean it had been updated recently but it is from 1998 and quite a bit of the diet and soy and such is not current. I haven't quite finished it. I'm up to the part about recurrence which I do want to read. Some of the later parts I'm not sure I want to read right now.

    Might be time to get back to Harry Bosch. Just had my last Taxol today and I'm wired on decadron. I'll be more into reading when the decadron fades in a day or two and Taxol fatigue sets in. $Right now I'm having trouble sitting still.

    Aloha!
    Nancy
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  • ArmyNavyMom
    ArmyNavyMom Member Posts: 303
    edited June 2006

    I'm reading the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. It's a very light, fun read. Sort of "Wind In the Willows" meets "Lord of the Rings." There's 10 books in the series.

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  • Jaybird627
    Jaybird627 Member Posts: 2,144
    edited June 2006
    I am now reading The Whole World Over by Julia Glass. Not a light read but very well written. If you liked Three Junes you'll like this one, too.

    Janis L
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  • lasgsd-2006May05
    lasgsd-2006May05 Member Posts: 13
    edited June 2006
    I am having alot of trouble concentrating enough to read at home. Since I'm still working full time by the time I get home I can't focus enough.

    But, when I do have a moment of true brain stability I pick up my copy of The Third Way by Chris Bach. It's a dog training book that I got at dog camp. Got to meet the author and chat with her - very enlightening!
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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited July 2006
    Bumping up. I can READ again!

    My first post-op book was only 300 pages, and took me TWO WEEKS to read. A little deep, but good. It was a "spiritual journey" memoir, called "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.

    Just finished a light novel from the UK, "The Reading Group" by Elizabeth Noble.

    Found a cool website for book recommendations...can't figure out how to post the link.
    http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

    Anyone else reading anything good?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2006
    If you want hilarious, try "We Thought You'd Be Prettier" by Laurie Nortaro. She also wrote the "Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club" She is brutally honest and writes about what most of us probably grumble about.(one particularly funny one is about people who put their airline seats back in to "her space") Jenene
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  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 2,147
    edited May 2008

    I just finished a Stephen Ambrose book.

    I loved this book except the ending. Bummer.

    I am now reading the most delectable delishous piece of magical writing.

    It is wonderful and I don't want it to end. I'll save it for my second chemo treatment this Monday (7/31).
    If you haven't read this gift of words, Ladies do yourself a favor and pick it up.

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