Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

[Peasie]

I started reading <span style="text-decoration: underline">At Home in Mitford</span> by Jan Karon. I don't know who left this book at my house but for some reason I enjoyed it I put it down half-way and just started on Malcolm Gladwell's <span style="text-decoration: underline">The Tipping Point</span>



What are you reading?

[Skelly]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

I know I am late but I have been having a crazy hectic year or 2...just starting The Help. I have a looong reading list and hope to knock off at least 3 before summer done.

[seemiyah]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Well I am reading <span style="font-weight: bold">The House of The Spirits </span>by Isabel Allende but my real summer read is going to be <span style="font-weight: bold">My Horizontal Life </span>by Chelsea Handler...the desciption is a little R rated so I will put it here

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Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes on to discuss the virtues of the one-night stand, which amount to having sex early enough so you're not months into a relationship before you discover he's into &quot;anal beads and duct tape.&quot; She discusses her quest for sex with a &quot;black man,&quot; which doesn't work out because the date she finds on ChocolateSingles.com has a penis so large, she &quot;would have had to be the size of the Lincoln Tunnel to accommodate that thing.&quot; After him, there's a &quot;little midget,&quot; but she sobers up before sleeping with him. Next come a number of would-be partners with penises too small to consider. Finally, there's a guy Handler does sleep with, only an embarrassing incident involving a &quot;giant skid mark&quot; prevents her from seeing him again. By the end, Handler considers settling down with one man, which might actually net her more sex than these mostly unconsummated one-night stands. Anyone who laughs at the mere mention of vaginas and penises may find Handler's book almost as much fun as getting drunk and waking up in some stranger's bed.
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[Gen]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

nothing. looking for something with an international setting

[Wendy]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Here is a suggestion for anyone looking for a fun read

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[kia027]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Finished, &quot;Island Beneath the Sea&quot; by Isabel Allende

a great read!

Born on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité—known as Tété—is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loa she discovers through her fellow slaves.

When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Although Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, it is he who will become dependent on the services of his teenaged slave.

Against the merciless backdrop of sugarcane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the brutal conditions of the French colony, soon to become Haiti, for the raucous, free-wheeling enterprise of New Orleans. There, Tété finally forges a new life, but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not easily severed. With an impressive richness of detail, and a narrative wit and brio second to none, Allende crafts the riveting story of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge a new identity in the cruelest of circumstances

[Tony_Royal]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Reading the 3 little pigs. Great book for analysis. I love this story. So much to learn

[Skelly]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

The Help was awesome! Now on to The Dry Grass of August.

[Seveen]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

just finished &quot;escape to falmouth&quot;

on to:

the book of night women by marlon jones
beneath a marble sky - john shors
the same earth - kei miller

[Peasie]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the book of night women by marlon jones
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Still have not been able to get into this book after the first two chapters But that was two years ago. Maybe I'll give it another whirl

[Gen]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Except for Wendy book

all a dese books sound so depressing

[Skelly]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Finish The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew. If you liked the Help you will like this one. Definitely a tear jerker...

mi need a break from mi reading fi process dis one before mi move on to the next book. Haven't decided which one is next.

[evanovitch]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Game of Thrones.....all four books ....

[Wahalla]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

Evan i just bought the first one in the series!

[evanovitch]

Re: Summer 2011 - What are you reading?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Evan i just bought the first one in the series! </div></div>

Costco has the four pack fi under 20dollas