Summer Reading
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I've been on a reading binge again. It's one of my favorite things.
Last night I finished Her Fearful Symmetry
She's the author of The Time Traveler's Wife
I remember hearing not so great reviews about her newest book but decided to give it a chance. It's a strange tale - life and death and ghosts and in-between places. It's dark. It wasn't one that I would say I really liked - I definitely felt at a certain point I was just wanting to "make it through" - but there's something about it that kept me going and wanting to know how she was going to bring it to a conclusion. Often if I'm in the middle of a book and not enjoying it I'll just set it aside for another time (or just set it aside completely). With Her Fearful Symmetry I did want to know what happened and felt satisfied when I finished it late last night (even though the ending is definitely not what I was expecting).
Another book I have been reading (started before leaving for Italy and decided to leave it home because it's hardback) is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Up next for me is most likely The Girl Who Played with Fire (the next one in the series following The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) or Little Bee which I picked up this past weekend at the coast.
What have you read lately that you love (or didn't)?
FOLLOW-UP : I see that
Project Life by Becky Higgins
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Michelle, I so agree with you too about Janet Evanovich. They are all easy, fun reads. I have read about 6 or so of her books and have enjoyed them all! Especially the Stephanie Plum series, I think she is hilarious and her family!! LOL every so often i enjoy reading something light and this always fits that time!
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loved Memoirs of Geisha, need to read it again!
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Ooh, favorite subject! Books! I'm a librarian so had to put in my two cents worth. Read all three 'Girl' books. Loved them, although the last was a little tougher to get thru. Agree with Marian - Life of Pi by Yann Martel is in my top ten favorite books. Check out Martel's new book Beatrice and Virgil - Brilliant!!! The ending blew me away and the very last chapter breaks your heart. Loved the Italy photos Ali!
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the help by kathryn stockett was awesome. i'm reading the book poisonwood bible at the moment and i love it. i also loved the nightworld book series by l.j.smith.
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I read Little Bee and loved it. I also liked WAter for Elephants and The Brooklyn Follies.
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Reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and loving it- it's a collection of back and forth letters just after the war.
I also read LA Candy and Sweet Little Lies this summer- I need a little fluff in-between :) I call these my take to the beach books.
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett, fantastic book!
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Two books I have read and loved this summer are Crazy Love and Holy Discontent. Now I'm reading Mean Girls All Grown Up. I re-read Eclipse in honor of the movie releasing (guilty pleasure reading!). I've been skimming through my most favorite trilogy by Francine Rivers: the Mark of the Lion series. It starts with An Echo in the Wind. So good! Trying to decide whether to go buy her newest one about a mother and daughter.
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I just read The Book of Negros. I think the title in the U.S. is Someone Knows My Name by Laurence Hill. I loved it. It's definitely on my list of 'books to read in a lifetime'.
Little Bee sounds like my kind of book. Just read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and couldn't put it down.
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I LOVED Water for Elephants.....I too had a hard time starting The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.....but did end up liking it.....I would say the middle of the book wast the best.. the beginning and the end I didn't love!
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I read Dragon Tattoo and The Help first, then just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire last evening. Loved it and can't wait to read the 3rd one in the series. Thanks for the tip on Little Bee.I will check it out.
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We must have the same reading list...I *just* finished "The...Dragon Tatoo", also read "Her Fearful Symmetry" & felt it could not measure up to "TTWife" which is in my top 5 books ever. I read "Little Bee", but it didn't do it for me too much. I am completely engrossed in the "Outlander" series - on book 6. If you haven't read those, you should! I ♥ "Pillars of the Earth" and "World without End", too. Must get "The Girl Who Played with Fire" next. Some of my other fave authors are Maeve Binchy (early stuff) and Anita Shreve.
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Wow! So many readers. I haven't gone through all the comments, but I've decided to throw in my two cents now. It seems I've been reading books that have books as "characters." Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game, both by Carlos Ruiz Zafon started the trend last summer. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The Forgotten Garden came next. I'm working on both The Thirteenth Tale and People of the Book right now. I have a few others waiting in the wings. Now it is a fun challenge to find other stories with books as a key feature. As a break from that, I read Shanghai Girls by Lisa See earlier this spring. I'd recommend them all. I think Zafon has another book coming out soon. I hope so, because he's awesome.
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Great posts.... I'm at the end of The Red Tent and would highly recommend it!!!! I also just finished reading The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and I can't wait to read Outliers. Nothing beats a great book, while lounging on the deck and enjoying the summer!!
P.S - Pillars of the Earth is one of my favourite books!
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