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PennyCat
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Need a recommendation for a good book....
Let me first say that I have NOT read a book since college (granted that's only like 3 years ago) ........ but I never enjoyed reading. It's sad, I know.... especially because I'm a teacher and always encouraging my students to read! 
Can someone recommend a good book for the summer? I like books about families, relationships, romances... nothing too dramatic and nothing that takes place before 1950.
Thanks!!  Hopefully one of you ladies can turn me into a reader this summer! 
ETA: oops!!! I posted this on the wrong board!!!!!! Well, I am still open to suggestions!!
Message edited 6/1/2009 7:20:02 PM.
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
I actually have a long list on my facebook...if you want, I can friend you there and you can see..I've read a range of interesting things...
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| Posted 6/1/09 8:00 PM |
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reggie
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Def My sisters keeper by Jodi Piccoult
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| Posted 6/1/09 8:07 PM |
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randella
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Twilight is total brain candy!
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| Posted 6/1/09 8:21 PM |
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PennyCat
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Posted by TheDivaBrideandTeddyFrog
I actually have a long list on my facebook...if you want, I can friend you there and you can see..I've read a range of interesting things...
Thanks but I actually don't have facebook. Is there another way I could view the list?
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PennyCat
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Thanks for the suggestions ladies! I'm looking up info about them on the barnes and noble site!
Keep them coming! 
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| Posted 6/1/09 8:55 PM |
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Peainapod
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Posted by reggie
Def My sisters keeper by Jodi Piccoult
i just saw the movie preview for this when i saw angels & demons this weekend. holy crap..the previews were making me cry. that book must be a real tear jerker.
Now for books..
I would suggest grapes of wrath..amazing book...but its set in the 1920's i believe so its before the time period you suggest...sooo
anything by Michael Connelly i find great. he has a new book out this month. they're crime novels so im not sure if thats your speed. but he's a great story teller.
i also used to read a lot of ANN RULE. true crime writer. Stranger Beside me is about her friendship with Ted Bundy...its very interesting.
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| Posted 6/1/09 9:25 PM |
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KGools
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
The Time Travelers Wife... OMG! I just finished last night. SUCH a good book!!
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| Posted 6/2/09 8:11 AM |
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Sellazz
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Posted by CoopersMom01
The Time Travelers Wife... OMG! I just finished last night. SUCH a good book!!
You read it already???? I didn't even start it yet. I am in the middle of My Sister's Keeper.
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| Posted 6/2/09 3:39 PM |
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Re: Need a recommendation for a good book....
Posted by PennyCat
Posted by TheDivaBrideandTeddyFrog
I actually have a long list on my facebook...if you want, I can friend you there and you can see..I've read a range of interesting things...
Thanks but I actually don't have facebook. Is there another way I could view the list?
come out of the stone age and get facebook!!!!!!
if youre looking for easy summer reads i love nicholas sparks, three weeks with my brother (i could not put this book down!!!), message in a bottle, bend in the road.
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by elizabeth gilbert (such a feel good kinda book)
guilty pleasure - the devil wears prada, read it before the movie came out.. it was entertaining.
the bell jar by sylvia plath is one of my all time favorites.
i just read angels and demons for the second time, love it. but its more of an 'involved' read, not a casual beach read.
jodi picoult is good too!
i have a huge bookshelf loaded with good books. ill look when i get home.
eta: i never used to be a reader either until recently. now i looove to read!
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