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Post by doesitmatter on Jul 2, 2015 22:27:45 GMT
What’s the best book you have read recently? What’s next on your list?
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Post by doesitmatter on Jul 2, 2015 22:28:23 GMT
I am currently reading Paper Hearts by Courtney Walsh- yes the scrapper!
I loved her Sweethaven Series and just started this book, not sure if it’s going to be a series or just a stand-alone. It’s a fun light read, as were the others and I am enjoying it!
I have been doing a ton of reading and case studies for school, so enjoying light reads for fun right now ☺
I have a few on my kindle I recently bought, but I think I’ll read Three Wishes by Liane Moriety.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 2, 2015 23:30:19 GMT
I'm currently reading The Beauty Quartet by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
I usually just read fluffy romance, but this is an interesting change of pace.
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Post by meridon on Jul 3, 2015 0:28:00 GMT
I recommend Orphan Train by Christina Baker Klein. It's fiction, but based on actual orphan trains that would take children from slums in New York to be adopted by families in small towns across the midwest. I also just finished the new Judy Blume In the Unlikely Event. I was a bit disappointed and I was prepared to love it. I felt like it was a mashup of a YA novel about the main character and a memoir about the real events from Blume's life that inspired the book.
Not sure what's next, but will hit up the library this week.
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 3, 2015 1:56:20 GMT
Hm, I have been reading older books lately (Anne of a Green Gables, Bronte sisters, Salinger), but I am reading the full versions of LM Montgomery's journals and they are fascinating.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Jul 3, 2015 2:04:37 GMT
Recently read book I liked? Lethal by Sandra Brown really good book!!!!
Book I'm reading now is The Silent Wife.
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Post by alissa103 on Jul 3, 2015 2:07:14 GMT
Orphan Train was good! I'm not currently reading anything. I tend to pause my reading in the summer and watch Big Brother. I know, I know, I'm rotting my brain  |
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Post by GiantsFan on Jul 3, 2015 2:12:39 GMT
It would be easier to tell you the books I've read that I haven't liked too much. LOL! But that's a long list.
Recently I read The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams. I liked it.
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Post by totravel on Jul 3, 2015 2:25:38 GMT
I read "Minding Frankie" which was one of the last books written by Maeve Binchy's before she died in 2012. I tend to read books by her or Debbie Macomber.
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Post by doesitmatter on Jul 3, 2015 2:31:39 GMT
I recommend Orphan Train by Christina Baker Klein. It's fiction, but based on actual orphan trains that would take children from slums in New York to be adopted by families in small towns across the midwest. I also just finished the new Judy Blume I n the Unlikely Event. I was a bit disappointed and I was prepared to love it. I felt like it was a mashup of a YA novel about the main character and a memoir about the real events from Blume's life that inspired the book. Not sure what's next, but will hit up the library this week. I bought on my kindle a few days ago when on sale and so it's on my list  |
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Post by cannmom on Jul 3, 2015 2:48:02 GMT
Recently read The Luckiest Girl Alive and The Martian and really enjoyed both.
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Post by leeny on Jul 3, 2015 3:03:31 GMT
Just read Neil Patrick Harris's biography. It is in the style of the Choose your own Adventure series. Each chapter gives you a choice to go in one direction or another. I've been on a biography kick recently.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jul 3, 2015 6:06:34 GMT
Just read Neil Patrick Harris's biography. It is in the style of the Choose your own Adventure series. Each chapter gives you a choice to go in one direction or another. I've been on a biography kick recently. I loved those choose your own adventure books when I was a kid - what a fun way to do a biography! |
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jul 3, 2015 6:07:41 GMT
I'm currently reading The Monuments Men which I'm enjoying but not loving.
I have also been on a bit of a chick lit thing for the last few months so have been reading lots of Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon.
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Post by papersilly on Jul 3, 2015 17:41:16 GMT
the Body Farm series of books.
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Post by theshyone on Jul 3, 2015 17:43:01 GMT
I read the giver series as my daughter read it for her school. Good series.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jul 3, 2015 17:54:31 GMT
A favorite book is Rob Sheffield's Love is a Mix Tape.
Reading Up in the Air right now as I found it at Goodwill and I am a road warrior, so it is interesting to reflect.
Also reading Penny Marshall's biography on my iPAD when I am up in the air.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 20:01:46 GMT
Mr. Pip by LLoyd Jones
"On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations."
Not a feel good book, but an amazing read about life in on a very isolated island and the war that is being fought there.
Currently reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. The first book in the series was The Passage. It's set in the U.S. after a government experiment with "virals" goes wrong. Not a genre I normally read, but I've enjoyed the series.
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Post by meridon on Jul 3, 2015 20:53:06 GMT
Love Sophie Kinsella...think I've read everything she's written, unless she has a new one out, which is possible. I'm cheap, so I wait for books to show up at the library or borrow them from friends. My stepmom likes to read also, so she and I are swapping books back and forth pretty much every time we see each other.
Oh and Candace Bushnell has a new one out, so I need to get on the waiting list for that one at the library!
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jul 4, 2015 2:27:07 GMT
I'm reading Milk in my Coffee. It came in a box of books that was given to me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 3:27:39 GMT
I just reread "The Time Travelers Wife". So, so, so good!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 5:06:53 GMT
Atonement by Winter Austin. It's a romantic suspense involving a female sniper and a creepy serial killer. I didn't figure out who it was, so that's always fun for me.
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Post by corinne11 on Jul 4, 2015 6:43:06 GMT
I just read Stephen King's "Finders Keepers". I am a die hard fan but a lot of his recent books haven't had the greatest reviews so I no longer rush and out and buy them in hard cover like I used to so many years ago. However, now I have an Ipad so downloading them is so easy.
Really enjoyed this one, it's so comforting to read a familiar style. I love his writing -I can picture the setting and I feel like I know the characters. Apparently some of the characters are from Mr Mercedes (which I haven't read) but it is a stand alone novel nevertheless.
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Post by corinne11 on Jul 4, 2015 6:44:16 GMT
Atonement by Winter Austin. It's a romantic suspense involving a female sniper and a creepy serial killer. I didn't figure out who it was, so that's always fun for me. This sounds interesting. I'm just starting holidays so I may add it to my reading list. Thanks!
Corinne
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Post by ceciliacoleman on Jul 6, 2015 5:08:03 GMT
What is What by Dave Eggers. It's about a Sudanese refugee and member of the Lost Boys Sudan program. Loving it so far. And LOVE this thread with all these book recommendations!!!  |
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Post by oaksong on Jul 6, 2015 5:16:04 GMT
I used to be a voracious reader, but don't do much anymore. I recently read the first 2 Outlander books, because I couldn't wait to see what happened next on the tv series. Before that, I tackled Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" as part of a parent/student book club at DD's high school. I really love 19th century novels, when I have the time to focus.
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Post by disneyer on Jul 7, 2015 13:40:03 GMT
Just read a few books, The Road by Cormac McCarthy was my favorite!
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