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Archive through July 30, 2005

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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 6:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Now that summer is here, I am looking for some good books. Old, new, mainly light. (As I usually can't put 100% attention in my reading-have to keep an ear open for kids...) But maybe not as light as Danielle Steele. Mysteries are always fun. Please list your recommendations with a brief description. THANKS!!!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Oh there's this great series, Shopaholic something something. Let me look in another thread.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Anything starting with "The Sweet Potato Queens" --- hysterically funny, light, intelligent and definitely CHICK lit for the summer.

I also love Laurie Notaro's books for fun reading -- The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, and I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies).

My personal favorites for the summer is the Outlander series by Diana Gabladon. There is absolutely no way to classify them by genre -- lots of love, sex but also humor, fantasy (time travel is the center piece), history, you name it, these books have it. However, they are EXTREMELY dangerous -- when I start reading them (and all 5 of them are over 800 pages), everything else can go hang. Laundry doesn't get done, my child eats PB and J, I ignore my husband, and the answering machine takes my calls. Read at your own risk! LOL

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
The Shopaholic series is by Sophie Kinsella. They are very light and a lot of fun.



Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Thanks guys!!! Keep 'em coming! And feel free to recommend a few that aren't super light either.

I'm also looking for a few good mysteries for my mom.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
That's it! Thanks Mamie. Oh Sue Gafton writes great mysteries.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Yeah, my mom loves Sue Grafton. She also likes Higgins Clark. Any other suggestions like those? THANKS again!!!

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 10:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
There is a brand new Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evanovich coming out. It is called 11 On Top. There are the funniest books I have ever read. They are sort of mystery. Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter. A very inept bounty hunter.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Nelson DeMille, Robert Ludlum, Patricia Cornwell and Richard North Patterson are my favorite mystery writiers. Most of them are mystery/spy/lawyer books.

Nelson DeMille's newer books are "lighter" than his first, but I still enjoy them. His newest, Night Fall, was about the TWA flight that was shot down. Of his older books, I love Cathedral and Gold Coast.

Ludlum's books are more complicated, but his new series (The Jansen Directive, The Paris Option, et. al)are not nearly as convoluted as his earlier stuff, but I still love the three Bourne books best.

North Patterson connects mystery w/ lawyer stuff -- usually a murder -- usually very good.

Cornwell has a female detective who is also a medical examiner (I think -- been a while since I read one), but she also has new non-fiction book out about Jack the Ripper and her theory of who it was.

Stephanie Plum is great too -- like SG said, they are funny!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
One more recommendation - -Ken Follet! His "Pillars of the Earth" is an absolute classic. His newer books, JackDaws and Hornet Flight in particular, are EXCELLENT books about WWII. I haven't had a chance to get Whiteout (the newest book) yet, but it's on my summer reading list! :-)

OK -- I'll shut up now!! I just get so excited about summer reading because during the school year, I end up reading the same books over and over (1984, Crime and Punishment, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc) just to keep them "fresh" as I teach them. Summer is my FUN reading time!

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
For a light mystery try reading the Lillian Jackson Braun series. A retired news reporter winds up with two cats and the cats help him solve the mysteries.

Just finished reading Sue Grafton's "R" book. Her books are a quick read also.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Is that out now Rosie? I haven't been to the library in awhile and the last one I read was Q. I'll have to look for this one.

Scout
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01-20-2005

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Teachmichigan - I love "Pillars of the Earth" - it's my favorite Ken Follett! "Whiteout" was okay, but no where near as good (to me) as some of his others.
I like the other authors you recommended, also.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Yup, Mocha, I just read it in a paperback so it has been out a while now.

Pm me your address and I will send it to you.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Oh thanks Rosie!! Let me figure out how to do that. I actually hate the pm feature lol.


Ok done. :-)

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 1:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
LOL. I will look for your PM now. I said to PM because I no longer have the email addy that you knew about. Sorry.



Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
Pillars of Earth is a really good read. I am a very eclectic reader. Just finished Richard North Patterson's "Conviction" It is not light reading but makes a person reevaluate their belief in capitol punishment...would make a whole new thread of discussion!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
No problem Rosie.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 1:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Received and answered.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Monday, June 27, 2005 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Mocha, I looked all over for a plain, suspicious looking wrapper but couldn't find one. So, it is on its way to you in a regular U.S. Mail wrapper. lol

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
Has anyone read the Sue Henry mysteries? They are about Alaska, she has a good plot plus great discriptions of Alaska. They are easy quick entertaining reads. I believe the first one is Murder on the Iditerod(sp) Right now I am finishing "The Sleeping Lady" Learning more than I needed about Grizzlies!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, July 11, 2005 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Hi all, I don't usually venture over this way because I don't get a lot of extra time to read, but there are a few reads that I highly reccomend.

1.Ride the Wind by Lucia St Clair Robson
2.The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
3.The Texas, The Vegas, and followed by the Kentucky series by Fern Michaels (they all tie in together)
4.Montana Sky Nora Roberts



Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 8:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bluejaxrock a private message Print Post    
Supergranny, I'm reading Conviction now and am almost done. Thank you for the recommendation! I'm enjoying it very much, and hope the ending doesn't ruin that. I'm going to the library this weekend to check out more of his stuff.
Again, thanks!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Thanks to everyone's recommendations, I finally read One For The Money. Just loved it! I ended up ordering the whole series!

Saggkl
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07-17-2002

Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 10:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saggkl a private message Print Post    
Teachmichigan, I love all the authors you mentioned some of my favorites. Have you tried Jeffery Deaver, Greg Iles, Barbara Parker, David Morrell? Really liked Plum Island.