Just for fun...What is everyone reading??

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  • glaveg
    glaveg Member Posts: 31
    edited May 2007

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited May 2007
    Gwen,
    Janet Evanowitch writes about a single woman who becomes a clutzy bounty hunter because she needs a job.
    She gets into a lot scrapes due to her lack of knowledge, and they are so funny! She has sexual escapedes with two guys, but mostly enuendo.
    Her grandmother is a funny old lady 80 going on 39. And she works with a reformed hooker who has a lot of guts and street smarts.

    They are mostly fluff. I don't usually read this type of fluff, but they are so funny I just can't pass them up.
    I don't read bodice rippers either. And these don't qualify as that.

    They are their own type of humor book with a little mystery thrown in. The characters keep getting filled out as the series moves on to the next book.

    As mentioned above they are really fast reads, so don't pay a lot for them. If possible get them from Amazon.com or ebay or the library.

    I find myself laughing out loud and that is VERY unusual for me.
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  • Raye99
    Raye99 Member Posts: 1,350
    edited May 2007
    I am now reading "Invisible Prey" by John Sandford. Good so far. I just finished Anita Shreve's "Body Surfing" - the summer setting was wonderful, the writing style remarkable (as per usual). There was something I didn't like about it, but don't want to blow it for anyone else who may be thinking of reading the book.

    Raye
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  • djatlake
    djatlake Member Posts: 128
    edited May 2007

    I just started Body Surfing. It's a slow start. I'm hoping it picks up.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited June 2007
    Just finished Kite Runner, good book, fast read for me, not my usual fare, and not a happy place to be. He has another out that is about women, think I may skip it tho, may be more sadness than I can manage.

    Also read Patrica Cornwall's Blow Fly, not her best work, slow read, pulled it all together in about 20 pages at the end. ???? Strange, strange. Not at all like her other work with Scarpetta.
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  • djatlake
    djatlake Member Posts: 128
    edited June 2007
    Just finished Body Surfing - Anita Shreve, was a little disappointed. As I was with Sea Glass. I always feel like I'm missing something or something is missing in her work. Maybe it's because I'm such an Elizabeth Berg fan.

    Just started a young adult book Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb. It's from a female teen perspective of 1 of 2 sisters who just lost their mother and now their father is sick.
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  • djatlake
    djatlake Member Posts: 128
    edited June 2007

    I'm reading "The red devil to hell with cancer and back" by Katherine Rich because I read so many good things about it on one of these threads. Maybe this one. Just started but it's very good so far.

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  • traceylmader
    traceylmader Member Posts: 10
    edited June 2007

    I just finished The Good guy by Dean Koontz. Sometimes he can be really out there but this was a great book. I love to read and since I am new to this site I can't wait to go through this thread and find some new authors!!

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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited June 2007
    I just finished reading "The Red Devil to Hell with Cancer and Back" by Katherine Rich. I truly enjoyed it.

    I am very much interested in reading books about women and breast cancer. I have read--"Why I wore lipstick to my mastectomy"--"Cancer Schmancer". anyone have any other suggestions? thanks

    Hugs and prayers,
    Candie

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    life is a long song
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited June 2007

    Rented a CD to listen to while driving to Memphis last week (Cracker Barrel rents them for $3.49 a week) Patterson's "Step On A Crack" and it was great!

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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008

    Is that one of the Alex Cross books?

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited June 2007

    Shopaholic and baby - cute and easy to read. I have read the other 3 shopaholic books. British author.

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  • LisaSDCA
    LisaSDCA Member Posts: 2,230
    edited June 2007
    Finished Sir Winston's six volumes.
    Now am on a Calvin Trllin adventure. Finished About Alice (his beloved wife and travel companion and to whom all his other books are dedicated), Family Man, and now half-way through Feeding a Yen. Do NOT read this last one without access to munchies!
    This book continually reminds me of all the places on earth I still hope to visit.
    Trillin's books are witty, light and entertaining, but still intelligent, compassionate and well-written. Easy to put down and pick up again whenever you have 20 minutes to relax.

    Lisa
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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited June 2007
    Hi Lisa..you do some serious reading!!
    I will have to check out Trillin's books
    I am now reading a light book "The Friday Night Knitting Club"..I have to read fast as my library requests for" Body Surfing" and "Sheer Abandon" have arrived.
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  • LisaSDCA
    LisaSDCA Member Posts: 2,230
    edited June 2007
    Aw, Liz, you'll find out that Trillin's books are short one-day-and-done reads, for the most part. In this one he rhapsodizes over such culinary eccentricities as a pan bagnat ( a magical sandwich, he terms it) to sardines stuffed with chard (blette) only found in Nice. It must be nice to be a journalist and be paid to visit places like Barbados, France, Spain and Portugal and to eat such obscure delights as pimientos de Padron. There's even a chapter on the Fish Taco.

    Did you know FNKC is in production for a film?

    Lisa
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited June 2007

    It wasn't an Alex Cross book

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  • gwenn
    gwenn Member Posts: 106
    edited June 2007
    I did get Laurie Notaros new book. I like it, not as much as I like her idiot girl books but its still very good. Its called "there's a slight chance I might be going to hell". Its a light read with a fun, cute story.

    Alaska Deb - Have you read it yet? I know you too are a fan.
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  • gwenn
    gwenn Member Posts: 106
    edited June 2007

    I LOVE books on tape. By far the best Ive ever found are the Harry Potter series. The man that reads those is amazing - forget his name. We always listen to the Harry Potters on long car trips. I probably would not pick up a Harry Potter book otherwise.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited June 2007
    Oh, I LOVE the Harry Potter books. My daughter (38 y.o.) gets it first and then I get it. We reread the last one before the next one comes out.
    I just have to get into my 12 year old brain- not at all hard to do, don't cha know! and we're off to Hogwarts!
    I'll start rereading #6 next week in prep for the last (boo) #7 July 21.
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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008
    I'm still rooting for Snape to be a 'good guy'!
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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited June 2007

    I just read Deep Storm by Lincoln Child. Really enjoyed it, read it in just a couple of days.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2007

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited June 2007
    Just changing the title back....

    Gwen - I did read Laurie's new book. I also thought it was good, not as good as her other stuff, but a fun read.

    I have not read anything really great for a few weeks. I need a really good summer page-turner...

    Our whole family is harry Potter fans. I need to re-read book 6 too...

    Deb C
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    edited July 2007

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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited July 2007
    Returning to topic.

    I just finished Diana Gabaldon's "A Breath of Snow and Ashes," and about to start "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova.
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited July 2007
    DebC, I ordered the new Harry potter book and can't wait!! DH and ds are rereading 5 because of the movie and 6 to be prepared for book 7.

    For a good page turner, Catherine Coulter came out with her next book in her FBI series, "Doubel Take". Took me 4 days to read it!
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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited July 2007
    If anyone is looking for something inspirational...
    A Simple Path by Mother Teresa. It's what life should really be about.

    Hugs and prayers,
    Candie

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    life is a long song--Jethro Tull
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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited July 2007
    I just got done reading Odd Thomas and Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. The first one is really good…kind of supernatural thriller. Odd can see dead people and he helps them find justice for their murders etc. I liked the tone of the book and writing…good quirky characters. Forever Odd was not as good, but I read it because the reviews for the 3rd boo, Brother Odd are so good I wanted to keep reading the series. I am on the waiting list for the 3rd one at the library.

    I keep reading Koontz, even though some of his books are duds because when he gets it right, it is a homerun. He wrote one of my all time favorite books, Watchers, back in the 80’s I think. It is about a dog that is very bright….leave it at that.

    Anyone have some good suggestions for some summer reading? I got Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum Novel) by Janet Evanovich, even though the reviews are not great. I love her books. I’m saving that one for next week when I will have some free time, but I need some other new stuff for some summer trips.

    I’m looking for suspense, humor, mystery, thrillers, GOOD chick-lit….good beach books…no dead mothers or tragedy allowed LOL

    Deb C
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  • LisaSDCA
    LisaSDCA Member Posts: 2,230
    edited July 2007
    After Trillin's Feeding a Yen, I've read Anita Brookner's Hotel Du Lac (Booker Prize winner), first fiction in a while. Good, but not light reading. Then I chuckled my way through David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. I am now finishing Eat Pray Love - One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now this one is both inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny. And oh, does it make me wish I were not having to spend all of my Italy-trip Fund in order to financially survive these chemo and surgery times. But, books are great for living vicariously. After 4 months eating her way around Italy, then 4 months seeking enlightenment at an Ashram in India, we are now in Bali with an old, wise medicine man. Again, what a wonderful life it must be to be able to travel the world and get paid for it!

    Lisa
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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited July 2007
    Hey Lisa,

    Eat Pray Love sounds like my cup of tea I will give it a look. I loved A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson. I laughed out loud with that one.

    I love all of David Sedaris' books. Some of his material is almost tragic, but he makes it SOOOO darn funny. Have you read A Girl Named Zippy? I can’t think of the author, but it reminded me a bit of Sedaris’ stuff. I liked Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs but it was much darker….not a light read.

    Deb C
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