Summer reading
 

I am getting ready to go relax on vacation and need some good reading material.

what's everyone reading this summer?
i just finished beach girls by luanne Rice

"The Orchid Theif" by Susan Orlean

Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy (mystery)

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (humor)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Nighttime is my Time by Mary Higgins Clark (mystery)

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (he has a new one out too I think)(love story)

Any of Jodi Picoult's books. (mystery)

What kind of books do you like?

Can't wait to see other suggestions.

I just finished Peter Mayles charming book, A Good Year . Also Ann Rivers Siddons novel Islands ..will now start The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time ..by Mark Hadden.

I really enjoyed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time...very good read.
I really enjoyed Dan Brown's books...Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.
Pope Joan is good too. I don't remember the author though. It is a novel based on a legend of a female Pope...very interesting.
What kind of books/genres do you enjoy?

Unsure of you interests but ... just finished "Fluke" by Christopher Moore.A mystery/love story, a bit of sci/fi thats absurb, funny, crazy, bizarre about whale researchers in Hawaii.This will either keep you turning pages or make you heave it into the trash.Try it.

Janet Evanovitch's 10th book is out but you have to start with #1 - adventures of a bumbling female NJ bail bondsman with two handsome men in her life and one crazy grandmother.

I loved "Curious Incident". Even more, though, I loved "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" - I read it from beginning to end during my flight from Toronto to Victoria last month. Couldn't put it down.

Also enjoyed "Curious Incident" Would highly recommend "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel.

The latest by Jodi Picoult "My Sister's Keeper" is good, but I wouldn't call it a mystery.

None of those are light, fluffy beach reads.

I read mostly popular fiction "junk":
Second Rec for Dan Brown's DVC and Angels/Demons.
I'm awaiting The Narrows (M Connolly);
Therapy (J.Kellerman); The Hidden Prey (J Sanford); Reckless Abandon (J Woods); Sam's Letters... (J Patterson); Kill the Messenger (T Hoag); Skinny Dip (C Hiaasen) from MG.

Just finished True Justice and Enemy Within both by R. K. Tannenbaum.
M

Wow..talk about choices!

I have read several Ken Follet novels this year: Jack Daws, Hornet Flight and The Hammer of Eden. Also read the newest Grisham novel but the name escapes me.

As some others, I have read Dan Brown.

Death in the Grand Canyon chronicles the ways (odd and not so) that people have died there along with significant history.

The Monkeywrench gang is the story of Southwestern eco-terrorists I believe based in truth.

OK so I'm not necessarily into romance, but hey, you asked!

I also recommend Sue Graftons books, I am waiting for R for Ricochet.

( <i> I never read Science Fiction or Fantasy, but a couple of months ago, someone left a book here, called 'Eragon'. I read it while I waited to give it back. It is about young boys and their dragons and funnily, the Yankee and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The author is one of those prodigies who wrote it when he was 15 and is now working on his sequel, at 19)</i>

I love mysteries. If you are looking for something light, I recommend M. C. Beaton's series with Hamish McBeath; the Jeanne M. Dams books set in England, not the Indiana ones; Hazel Holt's Mrs. Mallory books; Margaret Maron; Elizabeth Peters; Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael series; I can go on!

I also liked Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

Have recently finished Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell, The Manhattan Hunt Club, and The Blue Nowhere. The last two were been very hard to put down.

I'm reading &quot;Bel Canto&quot; by Ann Patchett - VERY good read. Before that, I read &quot;Mirror Mirror&quot; by Gregory Maguire, which was OK, but I didn't enjoy it as much as some of his other books.

Have ahnded around my copy of the Davinci Code. Some like it some not so much. I enjoyed it until the end which was just silly. Kinda remineded me of when I read IT and the book was great until the end and then it was so disappointing I threw it against the wall. Angels and Demons is a better choice though.

Read Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons. Easy read and enjoyable.

The Devil Wears Prada was pretty good mindless reading too.

These have both been out for awhile, but I just read them and found them both to be very good:

The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Kidd Monk)
The Lovely Bones (forgot the author)

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. Yes it's a downer but it's like listening to the blues, everything looks better.

One I enjoyed that has stuck with me is &quot;Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan&quot; by Paula Marantz Cohen.

maj: A few years ago I went to a reading/signing of Lorna Landvik; she was really entertaining. (Then she totally won me over with what she wrote with her autograph in the books I bought.)

I have really enjoyed two of Jodi Picoult's (sp?) books.
Plain Truth: about an Amish family and a dead baby found in their barn
Salem Falls: about a man wrongly accused of statutory rape

I just finished reading &quot;Complications&quot; by Atul Gawande.

I also enjoyed &quot;Cobra Event&quot; by the author of the &quot;Hot Zone.&quot; Can't remember his name!

And of course, Dan Brown's books.