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05/18/2011 at 05:35 pm

I'm reading "Sex In The Sanctuary" by Lutishia Lovely, it a scandalous fiction book about ungodly things going on in a fictional church. 

07/26/2011 at 06:43 am

I'm on the last few pages of My Perfect Wedding by Sibel Hodge, it's just a good fun read.

Here's the synopsis:

"Helen Grey is finally getting everything she wants. She's about to have the perfect dream wedding and begin an exciting new life abroad on the sunny Mediterranean island of Cyprus. But living the dream isn't all it's cracked up to be.

After a mix-up at the airport, Helen finds herself drawn into the midst of an elaborate plot to steal an ancient statue and assassinate a local businessman. And as if that wasn't bad enough, her wedding dress is AWOL, the statue seems to be cursed, and Helen is wanted by the police.

With the big day rapidly approaching, a roller-coaster of mishaps, misunderstandings, and disasters threatens to turn the newlyweds into nearlyweds.

Can Helen prevent an assassination, save the statue, and have the perfect wedding? Or will the day to remember turn into one she'd rather forget? "

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07/26/2011 at 04:55 pm

Breaking Dawn...i know, i know....WAY behind!!!

07/26/2011 at 06:54 pm

I'm working my way through the Gaslight Mystery series by Victoria Thompson. I stumbled across the first one at a Remaindered Book outlet and fell in love! I don't know how many are in the series, but quite a few.

If you enjoy good old-fashioned Who Dunnit mysteries and historical fiction, these are great. They aren't boring or overwhelming the way some historicals can be, they are quite fast and easy to read, there is a bit of a romantic angle to them and they are fascinating look at turn-of-the-century New York!

09/18/2011 at 07:09 am

I'm reading Meg Cabot's The Boy Next Door.  Girly fun.  I'm loving it and laughing out loud more times than not.  

09/19/2011 at 03:53 pm

The hospital that I work had had a book fair last week.  I picked up a book called Fallen (by Lauren Kate) simply based on the cover art.  I tore through it and bought the next two books of the series (Torment & Passion) the next day.  

I read all three books in two and a half days.  They were fantastic!  

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09/20/2011 at 02:07 pm

Great thread!  I was just going to post my current read.

Middlesex, such a wonderfully written book and novel plot.  I am listening to the audible version, but the writing is so good I want to buy the book to savor for years to come. Here's the amazon review-

 

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.

Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:

 

Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." … I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons

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10/19/2011 at 05:14 am

I just started Water for Elephants.

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