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Hofstra26
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Summer Reads
Since the Storyboard is so dead I figured I'd post here.
Anyone have any great book recs? I want to load up my Kindle so I have plenty to read this summer while I'm sitting by the pool. Thanks so much!!! 
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Posted 6/28/21 11:00 AM  |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Here are just some of my reads that were really good:
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The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewel
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
The Marriage Lie by Kimerly Belle
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Snowbound by Blake Crouch
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Bread Alone, The Baker's Apprentice and Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert
The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel
The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
As for classics I still love to go back and read The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.
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| Posted 6/28/21 11:10 AM |
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noni882
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Summer Reads
I have recently read a few great ones.
Other people's houses Abbi Waxman
The tatooist of Auschwitz- Heather Morris
American Marriage- Tayari Jones
The Mother in law Sally Hepworth
I love anything by Adriana Trigiani, Sophie Hannah and Lisa Jewel
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| Posted 6/28/21 2:22 PM |
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CookiePuss
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Re: Summer Reads
Recent books I enjoyed:
The Book of Lost Friends
The Book of Lost Names
The Exiles
The Nature of Fragile Things
The Vanishing Half
The Baker's Secret
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| Posted 6/28/21 2:39 PM |
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by Hofstra26
Here are just some of my reads that were really good:
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The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewel
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
The Marriage Lie by Kimerly Belle
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Snowbound by Blake Crouch
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Bread Alone, The Baker's Apprentice and Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert
The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel
The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
As for classics I still love to go back and read The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.
I saw The Lovely Bones movie and struggles to get through it, let me how the book is
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| Posted 6/28/21 7:26 PM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by hmm
Posted by Hofstra26
Here are just some of my reads that were really good:
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The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
The book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewel
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
The Marriage Lie by Kimerly Belle
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Snowbound by Blake Crouch
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Bread Alone, The Baker's Apprentice and Baker's Blues by Judi Hendricks
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert
The Life Intended by Kristin Harmel
The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
As for classics I still love to go back and read The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.
I saw The Lovely Bones movie and struggles to get through it, let me how the book is
I've read all of the above already. I thought the book was excellent, the movie didn't do it justice at all. Definitely worth a read, I think you'll enjoy it more.
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| Posted 6/28/21 8:08 PM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Just finished, "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave last night. Good, fast placed read. I enjoyed it.
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| Posted 6/29/21 7:13 AM |
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Re: Summer Reads
I think you'd love Red, White. and Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston.
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| Posted 6/29/21 9:22 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Thanks for the recs! Going to add them to my Goodreads list.
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| Posted 6/29/21 9:45 AM |
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by Hofstra26
Just finished, "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave last night. Good, fast placed read. I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed this too.
I just read Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid and really liked it.
I also highly recommend two of her previous books - Daisy Jones & the Six & The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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| Posted 6/29/21 10:22 AM |
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Re: Summer Reads
This is what I have read since January, some are for my pretentious book club, others are just normal reading:
Crying in H Mart
Big Summer
The Hate U Give
My Sister, the Serial Killer
American Dirt
Cobble Hill
Magic Lessons
Night (w my son for ELA)
Normal People
I LOVED American Dirt and My Sister, the Serial Killer. Crying in H Mart is good, but rough. And I enjoyed The Hate U Give, Big Summer (easy read) and Magic Lessons.
Normal People was meh
And Night is just a beautiful book
I am currently reading Concrete Rose which is the prequel to The Hate U Give
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| Posted 6/29/21 10:39 AM |
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The quiet room
Baby teeth
Random family
Etched in sand
The great alone
The kite runner
In an instant
Warning not uplifting reads at all range from really messed up to just depressing
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| Posted 6/29/21 11:38 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by Anotherplease
The quiet room
Baby teeth
Random family
Etched in sand
The great alone
The kite runner
In an instant
Warning not uplifting reads at all range from really messed up to just depressing
I'm a little more than halfway through The Great Alone but I keep putting it down because I'm finding it a little slow and meandering. Does it pick up pace at the back end? Worth finishing?
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| Posted 6/29/21 11:50 AM |
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chilltocam
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Summer Reads
I recently read the Elin Hilderbrand “Paradise” trilogy. It’s total “fluff” reading but was entertaining enough to hold my interest
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Jacksmommy
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Re: Summer Reads
I am reading people we meet on vacation right now. I like light reads!
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| Posted 6/29/21 1:33 PM |
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I read Then She Was Gone. That was a good quick read.
I also read A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand. It was good. A little wordy and long but okay.
I read the House on Olive Street. I didn't finish it because I found it boring.
I like good quick trashy romance and suspense type of books. What would you suggest based on that?
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Anotherplease
The quiet room
Baby teeth
Random family
Etched in sand
The great alone
The kite runner
In an instant
Warning not uplifting reads at all range from really messed up to just depressing
I'm a little more than halfway through The Great Alone but I keep putting it down because I'm finding it a little slow and meandering. Does it pick up pace at the back end? Worth finishing?
That's how I felt about The Nightingale by the same author but I was so glad I stuck it out. The Great Alone is one of my top 5 books ever. I loved it!
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| Posted 6/29/21 6:41 PM |
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MrsT809
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Summer Reads
Some that I've enjoyed in the last few months
Then She was Gone
Homegoing
American Dirt
It Ends with US
Nothing to See Here
This is How it Always Is
The Vanishing Half
The Hate You Give
Run by Ann Patchett
I also just finished Out of My Mind with my 9yo which we both really enjoyed. She kept reading ahead after she went to bed and I'd have to catch up the next day so I didn't miss any of it!
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| Posted 6/29/21 6:46 PM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by MrsT809
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Anotherplease
The quiet room
Baby teeth
Random family
Etched in sand
The great alone
The kite runner
In an instant
Warning not uplifting reads at all range from really messed up to just depressing
I'm a little more than halfway through The Great Alone but I keep putting it down because I'm finding it a little slow and meandering. Does it pick up pace at the back end? Worth finishing?
That's how I felt about The Nightingale by the same author but I was so glad I stuck it out. The Great Alone is one of my top 5 books ever. I loved it!
I'm halfway through The Nightingale too.  I guess her books were just a slow burn. I'm going to have to revisit both and finish them.
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Posted by Hofstra26
The book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewel
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I absolutely love those 4 books you read. Such great reads.
I think you'd also like these 12! I really hope you read them, I don't think you'd be disappointed:
-The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
-The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
-Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
-Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
-Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
-Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
-The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
-The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
-The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
-The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
-The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
-The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
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| Posted 6/30/21 9:59 AM |
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Hofstra26
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Posted by Hofstra26
The book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewel
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I absolutely love those 4 books you read. Such great reads.
I think you'd also like these 12! I really hope you read them, I don't think you'd be disappointed:
-The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
-The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
-Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
-Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
-Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
-Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
-The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
-The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
-The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
-The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
-The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
-The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
I love those 4 books too, they are all excellent. Some of my favorites.
Thanks for the list!! I'm going to add them all to my Good Reads list, I'm looking forward to checking them out.
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| Posted 6/30/21 10:08 AM |
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charon54
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Re: Summer Reads
People We Met on Vacation by Emily Henry is a good beach/pool read.
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid is another one I'm looking forward to this summer.
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| Posted 6/30/21 2:21 PM |
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Thank you everyone for all of the great recs!!
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| Posted 6/30/21 6:05 PM |
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Jenn627
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Re: Summer Reads
Ones I've read this year that I've enjoyed, I asterisked my faves:
We Are Water**** - it's Wally Lamb, everything he writes is gold
Goodnight Beautiful - psych thriller
The Thursday Murder Club*** - super fun mystery novel
Fall of Giants - WWI historical fiction, LOVE Ken Follett
The Wife Upstairs
Mexican Gothic - horror
We Begin At The End***
The Night Circus*** - fantasy - would make a BEAUTIFUL movie
The Testaments - sequel to Handmaid's Tale - MUCH better than Handmaid's Tale, I didn't like Handmaid's Tale at all (I haven't watched the show)
The Searcher
The Woman in the Window - loved it. I heard the movie was garbage.
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Hofstra26
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Re: Summer Reads
Posted by Jenn627
Ones I've read this year that I've enjoyed, I asterisked my faves:
We Are Water**** - it's Wally Lamb, everything he writes is gold
Goodnight Beautiful - psych thriller
The Thursday Murder Club*** - super fun mystery novel
Fall of Giants - WWI historical fiction, LOVE Ken Follett
The Wife Upstairs
Mexican Gothic - horror
We Begin At The End***
The Night Circus*** - fantasy - would make a BEAUTIFUL movie
The Testaments - sequel to Handmaid's Tale - MUCH better than Handmaid's Tale, I didn't like Handmaid's Tale at all (I haven't watched the show)
The Searcher
The Woman in the Window - loved it. I heard the movie was garbage.
Awesome! Thanks so much.
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