July 8, 2010

BONUS BLOG!!

Giving Tree Book Club?

Summer Reading Suggestions From Facebook Friends!




The Beach House
by Jane Green- and it is set on Nantucket

Anything by Kristin Hannah! Especially Summer Island.

Eat Pray Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
*Jewelry tie-in Julia Roberts wears ALL ME & RO all the time in the film!

Real Girls Eat by Anthea Paul:) (great follow up to above! :))


In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.. 'cause I AM in DEFENSE OF FOOD! :)



90 Minutes in Heaven
- Don Piper

"Pillars of the Earth" (Ken Follett) or "World Without End" (Ken Follett)...two amazing reads...read them in order to get the full effect. Or "Edgar Sawtelle"...that is a wacky read but good nonetheless




‎100 Years Of Solitude
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez


The Good Book by David Plotz. Who knew the Bible was so funny?


The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck- It is so much better reading it as an adult than a high school kid.




The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Laarson and the two sequels.


The Shipping News. Proulx again and again.


A great beach read is: The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett !



The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock n' Roll
-- Mark Edmundson. It's good!



The Red Tent by Anita Dimant! Awesome book, read it in two days on the beach. Just started Julie and Julia on my porch this morning and im hooked!


"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
" by Rebecca Skloot--EXCELLENT!




The ''Shopaholic' series
by Sophie Kinsella! All the books are a breeze to read and are funny :) Also, they do inspire me to shop a little... LOL * "Yippee!"-R.S


Completely engrossed in the Twilight Saga...loving it!



favorite summer read right now is "Women Food and God" Geneen Roth- just to help me stop stress eating !! but the other books I go back to are the Harry Potter Series...or Flaming Flamingo



Emily Dickinson poetry
. As an avid gardener, she wrote about nature so beautifully and lyrically. She challenges us to look at nature through her eyes.


Give me the latest "Women's Murder Club" by Patterson and I'm happy.


Every summer, I reread a part of Atlas Shrugged Then when I am done, it will be ready to start again. Then have to read some John Sanford, suspense type books.


Tender is the Night by F.S. Fitzgerald: I read it every other year, "Hunting and Gathering" (Anna Gavalda) was a great summer read, Stieg Larsson is hard to put down, and The New Yorker is always a good bet :)




A children's book called "The Pink Motel". I want to find it and reread it again. It was so different and cool.

I love Carol Goodman books. Just finished Arcadia Falls...


Great Expectations! ! A favorite classic!

Autobiography of P.T. Barnum!

Fun and yet surprising serious book: Kathy Griffin "Official Book Club Selection."


Inspiration and mindfulness: Open Mind: Women's Daily Inspiration for Becoming Mindful by Diane Mariechild.



Inspiration/writing: Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America by Natalie Goldberg


Seriously, the best summer read is The Thorn Birds. An oldie but a goodie.

We were the McMillan's by Jonta Davis


Just finished a re-read of John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany", and re-loved it.

Anna Quindlen "Every Last One"--fabulous she is one of my favorite authors.


does US Weekly count?
*

*Absolutely! If it makes you HAPPY it counts with us!


The greatest summer read is the trashiest gossip mag that I can find. I do love reading my books but find reading People, OK, etc is so much more enjoyable on the beach:)


With Love and slightly soggy, salt stained ,sun drenched pages of JOY!
The Girls of Giving Tree-








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