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

    Hmmmmm I typed that with Italics for the titles….I wonder why they don’t show up???

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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited July 2007

    Oh, I LOVED "Eat, Pray, Love." I read it last summer, while recovering from my mastectomies. I'll have to re-read it without benefit of Percocet and Valium...if I can remember who I loaned it to...

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  • SheriH
    SheriH Member Posts: 785
    edited July 2007
    I've been reading the Stephanie Plum series. I'm almost done with book 4. They are a little racey, but the stories are entertaining and they read really fast, good for the pool.

    The other series I'm reading is by Lorraine Snelling. I'm on book 6 in the Red River Series. They are interesting stories about a family who emigrated to the Dakotas in the late 1800s from Norway. They have good and bad times, but they rely on their families and their faith to pull them through.
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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited July 2007
    I just ordered "Eat, Pray, Love" from amazon. I'm looking forward to reading it.
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  • Dar1
    Dar1 Member Posts: 146
    edited July 2007

    I liked "Eat, Pray, Love" - as mentioned, funny and serious at the same time. I'm reading "Suite Francaise" written by Irene Nemirovsky. She die in Auschwitz and the book is about the occupation in France. Not funny.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2007

    I read Suite Franciase, very good!! Very interesting to know such intimate details. Also too sad.

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  • LisaSDCA
    LisaSDCA Member Posts: 2,230
    edited July 2007
    Oh, good Deb - I'll be interested to hear your impressions of Eat Pray Love.
    Now I'm well into Joyce Carol Oates' We Were the Mulvaneys and very much enjoying it. Another book of fiction within a week of the last one! Not like me at all. Must be the Summertime-and-the-livin'-is-easy influence. Either that or finishing chemo.

    Lisa
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  • Raye99
    Raye99 Member Posts: 1,350
    edited July 2007
    I just read Sight Hound by Pam Houston. What a terrific book! The story is told by many narrators. Sad/funny/thought provoking. I recommend it highly.

    Raye
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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited July 2007
    I am reading "Hanging out with Lab Coats". So far, very good reading. Inspirational,informative and shows you just how gutsy and strong a bc survivor is. And don't we know that!!!

    Candie

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    life is a long song...Jethro Tull
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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007

    I just finished all of Laurie Colwin's novels. I had never read anything of her's, saw her mentioned in another book I was reading and was hooked. Sad that she died so young. Am now finishing David Guterson's books...finished "Snow Falling on Cedars", "Our Lady of the Forest" and have his other 2 here. Also reading Lauren Willig's "Pink Carnation" series (3 books so far) for something light and historical. And have Joanne Harris' "Blackberry Wine" waiting. Too many books, too little time.

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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007

    Mitch Albom's, "One More Day"...it made me cry. Thinking about all the people I've lost, that I miss and would love to have one more day with...

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  • sschmidt
    sschmidt Member Posts: 178
    edited July 2007

    Has anyone seen a new book by Wally Lamb? I love his writing but haven't seen anything in years.

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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007
    found this on a Harper Collin's website...sometimes it's really hard waiting for a beloved author to write something else!!

    Wally Lamb is the beloved author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True. Both books were Oprah's Book Club selections and number one New York Times bestsellers. Lamb is the volunteer facilitator of a writing workshop at York correctional Institution and is currently at work on his third novel. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and their three sons.
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  • sschmidt
    sschmidt Member Posts: 178
    edited July 2007

    You are a dream. Thank you. I have googled him in the past but did not get that info. Have you read his books? I Know This Much is True was so good. She's come Undone was an amazing book for a man to write as it is about a woman/girl.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2007
    We have a huge used book store here in my small town and I love to go there and stoke up on cheap hard backs (larger print!) LOL.
    Found an old author I just loved! Helen Mc Innis-- haven't read her in many years. Great mysteries from the 30's to 60's or so. Go a 3 in one book special for a buck. And I hadn't read them! Oh, so good!
    If you enjoy spy stories and like Europe, you'll like her novels. It's also fun to step back into a different time zone with white gloves and dinner jackets (can you say "007"?)
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited July 2007

    Catherine Coulter just came out with another in her FBI series called, Double Take. I thought I would get to read it but dh snagged it first. So I am finishing up Book 5 of Harry Potter again as a refresher before we see the movie.

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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007

    Gosh, I haven't read Wally Lamb so will include him on my "list" (which grows by the day...my younger son calls me a bookaholic!!)...Helen McInnes sounds intriguing and I've never read Catherine Coulter (maybe a bit like Kathy Reichs who does things with bones?!)...seems to me like house work is going to go to the dogs this summer!!! I'm halfway through "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger which I'm loving, and I'm waiting for a friend to loan me "The Kommandant's Girl"...

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  • MargaretB
    MargaretB Member Posts: 1,305
    edited July 2007
    Beth, I love Catherine Coulter's series. Didn't know a new one was out. I'm reading Michael Connelly's Echo Park right now and throwing in occasional book from the series you told me about - with Goldie the caterer - chemo brain, can't think of the series.

    Margaret
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2007
    Does reading the Sunday paper count?

    Nicki
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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008
    Absolutely Nicki!

    I was just at Walmart and found Janet Evanovich's 13th book in the Stephanie Plum Series. I don't know if it just came out and I didn't know about it but I picked up a copy.
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  • SheriH
    SheriH Member Posts: 785
    edited July 2007

    I just started book # 5 of Stephanie Plum. I have a ways to go.

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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007

    Found a Catherine Coulter and I'm looking forward to reading that. Finished Joanne Harris' "Blackberry Wine" and liked it but not as much as some of her others. I'm 1/3 of the way through Minnette Walters' "The Shape of Snakes" (I've read quite a few of her mysteries) and just picked up "The Memory Keepers Daughter" today.

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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited July 2007

    I am reading "Dry" by Augusten Burroughs. He also wrote "Running with Scissors" which I thought was good but wacked out weird. Did anyone see the movie? I would love to know how it compares to the book.

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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007

    I haven't "seen" the movie, though I have seen it in the video store...and it looks whacked out weird from the cover!! I'll note the author because now I am intrigued to read the book...which I will probably enjoy more than if I had seen the film. I'm one of those people who always enjoys the book better than the film version.

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited July 2007
    eachday-

    “Memory Keepers daughter” was great. I loved it!

    newter-

    I read all if Augusten Burroughs' books. Good, but whacked out is a good description!! LOL

    I just finished the first 2 books in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher; “Storm Front” and “Fool Moon”. They are a bit weird…Harry Dresden, the main character is a working wizard that helps the local cops solve crimes that revolve around a “hidden” underworld and it’s creatures. I have a friend that loves the books and says they get better and better as the series goes on…the characters bet more depth and the writing gets better. They were OK…kind of entertaining and certainly original. I don’t know if I will keep reading them.

    I also just read the 3rd book in Koontz’s Odd Thomas series, “Brother Odd”. It is another strange series…I seem to have a trend going here LOL…Odd sees ghosts of dead folks that have not gone on to the next world because they have unfinished business here…usually because they were murdered. All 3 of the books have an odd spiritual feel to them. They are melancholy at the same time as they are hopeful….I like them even though this last one was really an unbelievable story line.

    My hubby and kids will be home from the book store with the last Harry Potter book in about 2 hours so we will be reading it together aloud this weekend

    Deb C
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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited July 2007
    I too usually like the book better than the movie. Half the time I do not want to see the movie at all.

    Deb, I read "Memory Keepers Daugher" about a year ago and thought is was okay. It had a lot of hype and I guess I was expecting more.

    Happy Harry Pottering.

    Newter
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  • Jorf
    Jorf Member Posts: 498
    edited July 2007
    I don't read a lot in the summer. I don't do enough sitting around. The evenings are long and I'm outside a lot in the garden or get home late and hang with the DH. So, I just finished listening to Jon Katz's A Good Dog. It was a nice story but I can't say terribly well written - it seemed like it should be chronological and it jumped around a bit too much for my taste. Plus, just related to the listening part, we all know what Jon Katz's voice sounds like and how he cadences, etc. The actor who read it was very very different.

    I loved the first section of Eat, Pray, Love but got a bit bored by the end. I actually laughed when she said something about "my younger self" and "my older self" since she's only 35 or something. I just kept thinking, "Just wait...." But her experiences were perfect for that developmental stage and it was very well written and enjoyable.

    I just finished a little book called "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris that I'd venture to say a lot of people here would really hate but, if nothing else it is thought provoking for anyone. Very funny in places. Very enlightening in others. A bit one-sided in some spots (excessive even tho I agree with his premise).

    So, back outside!
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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited August 2007

    Just finished "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. It was a very interesting and disturbing memoir of her childhood.

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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited August 2007
    AM reading ALice Hoffman's The Blue Diary, and Cormac McCarthy's BLood Meridien.

    The one I have enjoyed the most this summer was Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride. It was so good, I could not wait till quiet time in the evening to get to the next chapter!
    Moogie
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  • juanita63
    juanita63 Member Posts: 171
    edited August 2007

    I read the entire Lean Mean Thirteen today. It was soooooo good and i laughed so hard. Janet Evanovich is great!

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