Calling all readers!!!!! I need something good to read, preferably fiction! In accordance with the title of this post, all my books are definitely not dusty because I've read them so many times... I need something new! I just signed up for a library card today and I have several books on hold that were recommended to me, but unfortunately, I came home empty-handed. I just didn't want to pick any random book yet from a shelf and Parker was with me, which severely cuts my ability to peruse. So, help me!
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney
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For some good reviews and recommendations you can sign up at goodreads.com. Both Kristen and I are on there, so are Stacy and Dayna I believe. I read The Uglies and The Pretties, which were recommended by Kristen, they were pretty good. I just read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, also good. Any Jane Austen books are great, Pride and Prejudice being my favorite. And there is The Chronicles of Narnia series, very easy and very good to read. Sign up at Goodreads, you will find plenty of my reviews and Kristen's too. Good luck and happy reading!
Traci Hunter Abramson writes great books (I think Undercurrents is the first one in the series). I love, love, love Betsy Brannon Green ( especially Hazardous Duty and Above and Beyond, a new series she has started). The Kingdom and the Crown series by Gerald Lund in wonderful. Faith of Our Father series by Nancy Campbell Allen is great (it set during the Civil War). Hope that gives you a few more ideas. I wish you guys were closer and you could just come over and look at what I have! Hope all is going well for you! Parker is sure getting big. How do you think he will handle having a new baby in the house?
I love to read books online (books.google.com and http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html)
-- back when I was working I would read them on my lunch hour and not have to leave the office - its amazing how fast time flies reading that way.
I love "The Lady Susan" by Jane Austen, its her shortest novel and its a page turner up until the end. Right now I'm reading "A Little Princess" - I love the movie and never got around to the book.
I love "Cheaper by the Dozen" and the sequel "Bells on Their Toes" by Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, NOT AT ALL LIKE THE SILLY MOVIES THAT CAME OUT A FEW YEARS BACK but a really fun story set in the 20's-30's about family.
The Jeeves and Wooster series is extremely funny about a bachelor getting into scrapes and his butler getting him out - british stuff, and they have movies too.
Good luck! I just used up my blockbuster gift card so I will be reading more too!
Well you know me...not much of a reader, but I have a goodreads website with books that Ive read and my ratings on them...Ive invited you before, but I'll invite you again. :) I recently read the Dreamhunter and Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox, they were pretty good. The second book is way better than the first one, but you have to read the first to get the second. :) Anyway, I hope you're able to find some good books, oh and I need some suggestions on books too. I've heard a lot of good things about Angels and Demons, so maybe I'll read that one next.
The Book Thief is a good one. It starts off a little odd, but once you get reading it, you can't stop.
I go by authors:
Emily Griffin
Jennifer Weiner
Kaye Gibbons
Mitch Albom
Jodi Picoult
Jan Karon
The Hunger Games
The Girl who could fly
Recovering Charles
Wednesday Letters
I totally second the suggestion of Mitch Albom! Love his stuff! I have a few if you want to borrow! Also love Dan Brown, he has more out there than just his DaVinci books. Jane Austin a must, as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald. If you are looking for something a little deeper, and real, I have tons of autobiographies that I have loved!
Thanks for having us over yesterday, it was very fun!
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