Hmmm, well, I'm reading "The Borrowers" out loud to the kids. For my own personal reading pleasure, I'm reading Dread Champion by Brandilyn Collins.

I just finished "The Third Secret" by Steve Berry.

I really enjoyed it! For those of you who like Dan Brown, this is similar.

I am reading Honeymoon With My Brother and living vicariously through their travels

Count me as another Evanovich fan. I've read the entire series except for the one that's about to come out in hardback and the one that's about to go come out in paperback.

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I think you might like those Stephanie Plum novels, they are kind of romance, mystery and suspense all wrapped up into one. Stephanie is a sassy Jersey girl that gets into some crazy situations. I have actually laughed outloud reading these books.

I love her books. I actually ALWAYS laugh outloud reading them. On the same line of books that make me laugh outloud are all of Jennifer Cruisie's books. I just reread Bet Me and I think it is really funny. Very, very light chick lit but very, very fun.

Shreve is a bit heavier but also very engaging.

Peg

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Originally posted by cobismom:
I just started some of SARK's books, they are tremendous! Very good at becoming your own woman.

Don't you find her books tremendously empowering? She is such a fragile but gifted soul. I picked up a book of hers some years back in the bookstore and could not BELIEVE that someone actually handwrote a book much less put all kinds of cool hand drawings and colors in it. I own 3 or 4 of her books now.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mountaingirl:


Lynne,
Have you read Confessions of a Shopaholic? Pretty easy read but fun! I went to the beach a few years ago and forgot a book. I remember being in the Atlantic Bookstore and had picked up The Lovely Bones and the salesperson asked if I planned on reading it while on vacation. I told her I was and she sugessted "lighter and more fun beach reading" and showed me Confessions-which was a new release they just got in. I think there are two or three in the series now but it is funny and light.
Jill

I've seen those and thought they looked fun. I may have to check them out.

Dawn

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Originally posted by mountaingirl:
Ooo, thanks. By trashy I just mean chic lit but with a brain. I'd like to smile once in a while while I'm reading. I'll check out those suggestions.

I think you might like those Stephanie Plum novels, they are kind of romance, mystery and suspense all wrapped up into one. Stephanie is a sassy Jersey girl that gets into some crazy situations. I have actually laughed outloud reading these books.

Dawn

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Lynne,
Have you read Confessions of a Shopaholic? Pretty easy read but fun! Jill[/QUOTE]

I second the recommendation. I loved these books! Very easy reading and good fun.

I just started some of SARK's books, they are tremendous! Very good at becoming your own woman.

The fiction I am reading is Angry Housewives eating bonbons. I know it's an old one, but I just was given it by a friend...maybe to ward off the starvation for chocolate lately???? I'll let you know how I like it.

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Originally posted by mountaingirl:
I'm hoping to find a fun novel to read this summer too. Most of the ones mentioned already are a bit on the deep side, which I usually love but for some reason, I'm in the mood for midlife/trashy fiction. Hm.

Lynne

Lynne,
Have you read Confessions of a Shopaholic? Pretty easy read but fun! I went to the beach a few years ago and forgot a book. I remember being in the Atlantic Bookstore and had picked up The Lovely Bones and the salesperson asked if I planned on reading it while on vacation. I told her I was and she sugessted "lighter and more fun beach reading" and showed me Confessions-which was a new release they just got in. I think there are two or three in the series now but it is funny and light.
Jill

Ooo, thanks. By trashy I just mean chic lit but with a brain. I'd like to smile once in a while while I'm reading. I'll check out those suggestions.

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Originally posted by mountaingirl:


I'm hoping to find a fun novel to read this summer too. Most of the ones mentioned already are a bit on the deep side, which I usually love but for some reason, I'm in the mood for midlife/trashy fiction. Hm.

Lynne

If you haven't read the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich, I highly recommend thos for trashy fun! I also really enjoy "The Cat Who" novels (the author's name is escaping me at the moment). They are good lighthearted fun, not trashy though.

Dawn

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I'm hoping to find a fun novel to read this summer too. Most of the ones mentioned already are a bit on the deep side, which I usually love but for some reason, I'm in the mood for midlife/trashy fiction. Hm.

Have you read any Anita Shreve? It's not what I call trashy but it is lighter and midlife is a recurring theme. I loved The Pilot's Wife and Sea Glass and I just read Where or When in a day last weekend.

Peg

I'm reading Little Shifts, by Susanna Beth Stinton. It's about making little changes that have wide ranging effects.

I recently finished Eat, Pray, Love, which was the best book I have read in a very long time. I hated having to be through with it

This summer I'm determined to finish Between a Rock and a Hard Place, the Aron Ralston story. It is very well written and I really want to understand how this guy had the courage to do what he did. That story is crying out to be a movie.

I'm hoping to find a fun novel to read this summer too. Most of the ones mentioned already are a bit on the deep side, which I usually love but for some reason, I'm in the mood for midlife/trashy fiction. Hm.

Lynne

Right now I am halfway through "Wicked" the book. If you like Harry Potter type books, this is an adult version and really intresting!

I'm reading "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben. This is the first book of his that I have read. So far it is good.

It didn't take long to suck you in and make you want to keep reading.

Dawn

Readin some of the dreck that is out as teen and 5/6th grade summer reading. I wanted to be able to reccommend books for teens etc. They are all written "for" ages groups, and it shows. Maybe I'm just too critical.

So much for that. Once Upon a Marigold was cute, but not very empowering.

I'm reading The Home Energy Diet.

It's about home energy usage and ways to reduce your energy consumption. I'm learning a lot about how the various systems of the house work (and don't work), and the things I can do to lower those darn bills.

The book is not an exciting read, but it's very informative. I notice a lot more now...like how it's so very cold in the freezer section of the supermarket, which means the freezers are cooling the store as well as the food! I'll bet that extra energy use adds up to higher grocery bills for us shoppers.

Reilly's Luck
It is about the life of a little boy starting when he is 4 years old. His mother is a prostitute & she left him with a farm family but the farmers wife get sick so he takes the boy back to his mother. She orders her hen-pecked, weak-kneeded current lover to "take the kid out into the blizzard & lose him". The man can't do it and takes the kid to a down on his luck grambler friend of his & begs him to let the kid spend the night in his hotel room while he is out gambling that night. The prostitute (who doesn't know the kid is still alive) & her lover leave town. The gambler is angry but his luck has changed & he had won a bundle so he keeps the kid & puts him thru school. The rest of the book follows them in their travels. The mother makes another appearance & causes trouble.
This is one that I like to re-read.