OW Book Club

[KMS]

We have this movie thread going so I thought we should have a book thread as well! Has anybody read any books lately...good or bad?

[KMS]

I just read a book that a friend let me borrow and I thought it was quite good. It's called Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. This book isn't going to change your life or anything, but I stayed up many late nights wanting to know what happened next. It's not the typical kind of book that I would read, but I found myself surprised with how much I enjoyed it.

Description -

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé.
Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to discover that she has genuine feelings for the one guy she should run from. As the September wedding date nears, Rachel knows she has to make a choice. In doing so, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have to risk all to win true happiness. Something Borrowed is a phenomenal debut novel that will have you laughing, crying, and calling your best friend.

[WebLady]

Good idea, but I am not a big reader :p

I like Audio books more these days so I can multi task ;)

[Nikita706]

EXCELLENT thread idea!!!

I tend to read a lot of non-fiction and occult books, mixed in with teen occult books, so a lot of my books are kind of random.

I'm currently reading 2 books (one at work, one at home). Both are on Wicca. I'm not Wiccan in any way, shape or form (everyone LOVES to make assumptions when they catch me reading books about religion), but I enjoy studying religion. Unfortunately the two books I'm reading (Wicca by Scott Cunningham and The Goodly Spellbook by Dixie Deerman) are really rather...uninteresting. I think with all of the wedding planning and other stresses I have going on, I need something a little lighter and more fun. Not to mention, they're more about the practices of Wicca rather than the philosophy, which is more what I'm interested in.

The last book I read which I LOVED and would highly recommend is Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers by Mary Roach. Morbid, I know, but it was really funny and had my attention the entire way through. It talks a lot about the history of anatomy and the use of human cadavers throughout the years, and basically tells of the numerous different ways a cadaver that's been donated to science can be used to further aide in research. Mary Roach is hilarious and actually reminds me a lot of myself, so it made for a much more fun, light read than it otherwise could have been.

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[WebLady]

I just feel like I should say before anything starts to remember to "play nice" ... not everyone is going to like the same books, especially when religion and politic and such are involved. We don't want to see any debates or heated discussions here either ;)

[Nikita706]

Why do I always end up feeling like I've offended people even though I haven't written anything that I would think of as offensive?

[BelhurstBride]

I just read a book that a friend let me borrow and I thought it was quite good. It's called Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. This book isn't going to change your life or anything, but I stayed up many late nights wanting to know what happened next. It's not the typical kind of book that I would read, but I found myself surprised with how much I enjoyed it.

Description -

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé.
Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to discover that she has genuine feelings for the one guy she should run from. As the September wedding date nears, Rachel knows she has to make a choice. In doing so, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have to risk all to win true happiness. Something Borrowed is a phenomenal debut novel that will have you laughing, crying, and calling your best friend.

I love love love Emily Griffin! If you liked that one, I would definitely recommend reading her other ones.. Something Blue and Baby Proof. She just released a new one called Love the One You're With.. and it's hard to put it down!

I'm a huge reader so I'll definitely be sharing some other books that I love!

[FFC]

I love to read - I have about half of Nora Roberts books, and I love Julie Garwood even more - she's just harder to find!

Right now I'm reading a book called "The man of her dreams, the woman of his". It's fantastic, and I recommend it to EVERYONE, especially if you have relationship issues. I can't pick just one review for it.. but here's all about it.

http://www.joelandkathy.com/

[WebLady]

Why do I always end up feeling like I've offended people even though I haven't written anything that I would think of as offensive?No one has done anything wrong yet; no worries :grinhappy:

StarCoveter agrees: I don't think you said anything offensive at all. I think Brandi saw the word "religion" and just wanted to put a reminder out there for everyone BEFORE anything starts to get debated, which I think is a good reminder.Yep, that was pretty much it ;)

[Nikita706]

It seems like my posts are always followed up with the 'play nice' warning, lol.

[SerendipityCrafts]

I wish I had the time to read & participate ... I used to be a HUGE reader. Heck, I used to have time to shower too! LOL

[uptowngirl]

I am an AVID reader. I can't fall asleep at night without reading for a little while. Lately I have been reading my Jane Austen collection for about the millionth time since I haven't made it to the library for a while...

A great book that I finished a little while ago was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. ( I have all her books - probably my favorite author :)) It is non-fiction, about the "locovore" movement. Her family did a year long experiment of eating only locally grown food, and it documents their experience. Some parts were laugh out loud funny.

[Nekochanpurr]

Nicole, 'Stiff' sounds like it would be a neat book!!! I love watching stuff like that on history channel... When i had cable. lol

I do loves the Harry Potter books.. And Chronicals of Narnia is AMAZING!

The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfeild was SUPER good.. A bit of description.. Taken from Amazon.


Former academic Setterfield pays tribute in her debut to Brontë and du Maurier heroines: a plain girl gets wrapped up in a dark, haunted ruin of a house, which guards family secrets that are not hers and that she must discover at her peril. Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, has written an obscure biography that suggests deep understanding of siblings. She is contacted by renowned aging author Vida Winter, who finally wishes to tell her own, long-hidden, life story. Margaret travels to Yorkshire, where she interviews the dying writer, walks the remains of her estate at Angelfield and tries to verify the old woman's tale of a governess, a ghost and more than one abandoned baby. With the aid of colorful Aurelius Love, Margaret puzzles out generations of Angelfield: destructive Uncle Charlie; his elusive sister, Isabelle; their unhappy parents; Isabelle's twin daughters, Adeline and Emmeline; and the children's caretakers. Contending with ghosts and with a (mostly) scary bunch of living people, Setterfield's sensible heroine is, like Jane Eyre, full of repressed feeling—and is unprepared for both heartache and romance. And like Jane, she's a real reader and makes a terrific narrator. That's where the comparisons end, but Setterfield, who lives in Yorkshire, offers graceful storytelling that has its own pleasures. (Sept.)

[Jacobs_Girl]

cool thread :D

I am more into the relationship type books! The last one I read though was a few years ago called "Why Men Love Bit*hes" from doormat to dreamgirl by Sheri Argov I read it before I met Jacob lol

Some of the things she points out are pretty interesting. You dont realize the that your doing them until you read this book.

Do you feel like you are too nice?
Sherry Argov’s Why Men Love Bitches delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself. With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong woman is much more desirable than a "yes woman" who routinely sacrifices herself. The author provides compelling answers to the tough questions women often ask:

-Why are men so romantic in the beginning and why do they change?

-Why do men take nice girls for granted?

-Why does a man respect a woman when she stands up for herself?

Full of much-needed advice, hilarious real-life relationship scenarios, "she says/he thinks" tables, and the author’s unique "Attraction Principles," Why Men Love Bitches gives you bottom-line answers. It helps you know who you are, stand your ground, and relate to men on a whole new level. Once you’ve discovered the feisty attitude men find so magnetic, you’ll not only increase the romantic chemistry in the relationship-you’ll gain your man’s love and respect with far less effort.

[KMS]

A great book that I finished a little while ago was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. ( I have all her books - probably my favorite author :)) It is non-fiction, about the "locovore" movement. Her family did a year long experiment of eating only locally grown food, and it documents their experience. Some parts were laugh out loud funny.

I read an excerpt from that in my VegNews magazine. I aspire to be that dedicated! Thanks for the reminder. I'd love to read that book soon. It's definitely going on my "to read" list.

[KMS]

I love love love Emily Griffin! If you liked that one, I would definitely recommend reading her other ones.. Something Blue and Baby Proof. She just released a new one called Love the One You're With.. and it's hard to put it down!

I'm a huge reader so I'll definitely be sharing some other books that I love!

Well, I would be moving onto Something Blue if my friend wasn't hogging the book! Haha. She's letting me borrow that one after she finishes it. I can't wait. It will be a great summertime read!

[SerendipityCrafts]

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KMS agrees: Ohhh, was the the smell that came along with my platter?? LOL

Ha! Yeah that would be it although I thought the perfume sachets covered up that smell :) LOL

Like Sarah ... I used read every night until I fell asleep. If anyone is looking for some nice summer reading ...

My favs from a LOOOOOOOOOONG time ago :) -

Lucy Maude Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea
Margaret Lawrence's - The Stone Angel
HG Wells - The War of the Worlds
Philip Yancy - What's So Amazing About Grace?
and for mindless fun - any Danielle Steele book :)

[Scrwballsgrl]

awesome thread idea you guys!
I love to read! I especially like the classics; Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, George Elliot. I really like books that are fiction but have historical references and depictions in them. I liked Ann Rice for along time & Stephen King. lately I just go to the library(I work right next door) and just grab two books that have interesting looking titles. right now I just finished reading; The Reading Group, by Elizabeth Noble, and am in the process of reading The Touch, by Collen McCullough (author of the thorn birds{another book I've never read})
they are both pretty good reads. The Reading Group is a book about a group of women who met through a reading group and the different turns their lives take over a year and how some of them end up connected in ways they didnt know would happen. The other one, The Touch is about a girl from Scottland that gets sent to Australia to marry her cousin(1800s) and what happens to her and him throughout their years together. Not a bad read either.

[Krimangel]

The one I am reading now is:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61L-FnuWaAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Starred Review. Cupcake Brown (that's her real name) was 11 in 1976 when her mother died. Custody of Brown and her brother was given to a stranger—their birth father—who only wanted their social security checks. He then left them with an abusive foster mother who encouraged her nephew to rape Brown repeatedly. Brown got better and better at running away. A prostitute taught her to drink, smoke marijuana and charge for sex. Her next foster father traded her LSD and cocaine for oral sex. Eventually she went to live with a great-aunt in South Central L.A., where she joined a gang. Almost 16, having barely survived a shooting, she decided to quit gangbanging. Drugs were her new best friends. A boyfriend taught her to freebase, but then there was crack, which was easier. Before long she was a "trash-can junkie," taking anything and everything. It wasn't until she woke up behind a Dumpster one morning, half-dressed and more than half-dead, that she admitted she needed help. Brown conveys this all in gritty detail, and her struggle to come clean and develop her potential—she's now an attorney with a leading California firm and a motivational speaker—ends her story on a high note. Booksellers, watch out—Cupcake's gonna sell like hotcakes.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

I love how honest she is about everything, and how much she overcame. Its amazing to me.

[ChibiAiChan]

YAY! A book thread!
Right now I am reading "Born on a Blue Day" about this guy that has autism and is a savant, and is a true story. He just does not have the severe disabilities that usually go with autism so he writes about how his thought process works and how his mind works. Very interesting read!

LOve, love, love the book called "The Time Travlers Wife"

"memory Keepers Daughter"

"Love Walked In"

"Go ask Alice" I found out it was fake though... which honestly I didn't think teens wrote this way but kept thinking.. "Well, it was written in a different time..."
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp

"Those Who Save Us" Was *really* good but at first confusing because they don't use quotations when talking.... It is WW2 from a German woman's point of view and how it affected her... and her daughter. Interesting to read from a different point of view.

Go find yourself "Angel Unaware" VERY very old book, my aunt gave it to me. It is written by Dale Evans (for those who do not know, this is Roy Rogers wife). She writes it from her daughters point of view, whom has downs syndrome. She writes from the time she was born until she died (as a toddler). Very sad!!
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0800759311/103-5141232-5737426?SubscriptionId=0AM07842GGE1QVDN6KR2

"Kite Runner" was really good but kind of disturbing....

"The Poisionwood Bible" is an *awesome* book! So not what you would expect from the book...

"The Secret Life of Bees"

okay I'll stop now lol... I read, a LOT...

[SerendipityCrafts]

"Go ask Alice" I found out it was fake though... which honestly I didn't think teens wrote this way but kept thinking.. "Well, it was written in a different time..."
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp


Wow I had no idea it was fake. I read this book in my teens and loved it. LOL it was written in my time :)

[Nikita706]

A great book that I finished a little while ago was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. ( I have all her books - probably my favorite author :)) It is non-fiction, about the "locovore" movement. Her family did a year long experiment of eating only locally grown food, and it documents their experience. Some parts were laugh out loud funny.

Ooooh, I've wanted to read that book since it came out (I worked at Borders for about a year, so I have about 160 books on my 'list' that I've been drooling over, lol). I've heard nothing but good things about it.

[Nikita706]

I am more into the relationship type books! The last one I read though was a few years ago called "Why Men Love Bit*hes" from doormat to dreamgirl by Sheri Argov I read it before I met Jacob lol

Oh yeah, I read that book! It was pretty entertaining. Not a favourite of mine, but still good. I never did get around to reading 'Why Men Marry B!tches', lol.

[hughesfarmgirl]

A friend of mine got me started on the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. They are light and funny. I highly reccommend the books. Here is a website if you are interested: http://www.evanovich.com/plum_14jacket.html

Enjoy!!!

[Nikita706]

Wow I had no idea it was fake. I read this book in my teens and loved it. LOL it was written in my time :)

My sister loved that book as well. She's a drug addict now. I guess it wasn't enough to deter her...

Anyway, I've never read 'Go Ask Alice', but I get the impression it's a lot like 'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen, which is one of my favourites. It's about a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder, but it's really funny and a really quick read. The movie didn't do it justice at all.

[KMS]

'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen, which is one of my favourites. It's about a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder, but it's really funny and a really quick read. The movie didn't do it justice at all.

Of coarse I am a typical movie nut and had no idea that this was actually a book first! I'll have to read that one.

[Nikita706]

Of coarse I am a typical movie nut and had no idea that this was actually a book first! I'll have to read that one.

It's really good, and it's a quick, easy read. The main character just reminds me so much of myself when I was her age.

[SerendipityCrafts]

Anyone want a creepy read?

Try The Stranger Beside Me by Anne Rule - it's about Ted Bundy and it was on a psych college class read.

[Nikita706]

Anyone want a creepy read?

Try The Stranger Beside Me by Anne Rule - it's about Ted Bundy and it was on a psych college class read.

Oooh, I've totally read that one! It's really good. When I was in high school, my goal in life was to be a Profiler for the FBI, so I studied up as much as I could about Criminal Psychology. This book was right up my alley. It's very interesting.

[Jacklynn]

hmm I love to read and I finally get to read for fun again now that college is done and over with lol.
Some books I like/want to read:
Narnia books
The Testament by John Grisham
Mistaken Identity (a book about Whitney Cerak a girl around here who) goes to Taylor and she was in a car crash and they thought she was dead and another girl was alive, but they got them mixed up so like a month later the families learned of the mix up... a true story)

[Nekochanpurr]

Jacklynn!! You MUST read the Narnia books.. They are so awesome!! *^^* I love how they are written... And just.. Yeah. One of my fav books, can you tell? XD

[kiddienurse601]

Pretty Woman by Fern Michaels even if it IS a girly read.

[TangoWedding]

LOVE this thread idea!! I haven't gotten to go all the way through it and jot down ideas, but I will. I'm a book nut!


Right now I'm reading "Eat, Pray, Love". It's a wonderful, easy read...inspiring and funny. It makes me want to travel to India and live on dirt floors for awhile. :grinhappy:

[KMS]

LOVE this thread idea!! I haven't gotten to go all the way through it and jot down ideas, but I will. I'm a book nut!


Right now I'm reading "Eat, Pray, Love". It's a wonderful, easy read...inspiring and funny. It makes me want to travel to India and live on dirt floors for awhile. :grinhappy:

Hey, I almost got that book yesterday! What a small world. Instead I told Chad to get a book since the last two times we've gotten books they've been my vegan books. He got "A New Earth" and he's not a reader. He read like ten pages and said, "Man, I think this book is gonna change my life." So yeah, I'm reading it next! :grinhappy:

[TangoWedding]

Keely, another one you and your hubs might like is "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. I have read it three times and love it - it's my all-time favorite. Actually, every book by Daniel Quinn is great, IMO...though "Ishmael" changed my way of thinking about humanity when I first read it. You might check him out.


I haven't read "A New Earth"....I'll have to look into that! I juuuust bought another one of Tolle's books though, "The Power of Now", but haven't started it yet. It's next on my list. :grinhappy:

[KMS]

Yes, we will totally have to look into getting "Ischmael" now. We really need to get a library card for the Houston library because all of these recent book purchases are getting expensive! :grinhappy:

[Nekochanpurr]

Hehe, i'm lucky with that one... Either my sister buys them, or borrows from her co-worker.. Yay free books!

[Hope75]

Nikita,

I've read "Stiff" and it's a very interesting book.

If you like forensic type stuff a similar book is "Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab 'The Body Farm', Where the Dead do Tell Tales" By Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Very interesting Read.

I also read "The Stranger Beside Me" and quite a few other Ann Rule books- she is very good too. I love true crime and forensic type books.

Another great, very interesting book I recently read was "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop, a true story about a polygamist cult wife of FLDS leader Warren Jessop who fled the cult with her 8 children and started her life over. Very interesting read.

Right now I am reading "Fatal Sequence: the killer within" by Dr. Kevin J. Tracey, a book about sepsis and the research being done to combat it- chronicled in the story of a 1 year old girl severely burned and her battle for life. (I'm a nurse so I love all this medical drama.)

[Nikita706]

Right now I'm reading "Eat, Pray, Love". It's a wonderful, easy read...inspiring and funny. It makes me want to travel to India and live on dirt floors for awhile. :grinhappy:

I really want to read 'Eat, Pray, Love'. It's on my outrageously long list of books to read.

And Hope75, I'll definitely check out that 'Death's Acre' book. It sounds interesting. Otherwise I'm usually not much into Forensic books anymore. It's really strange, I went through this huge Forensic phase where I read nothing but true crime books. Now, I tend to avoid them. My Mom always wants to watch crime shows and court tv when I'm at her house, and it drives me nuts. I think it's been since I've had my son. I always watch these shows and think about what I would feel like if I had been the Mother of this victim, or the wife of that victim. Then I just get paranoid and depressed. I guess I just get creeped out easier now than I used to, lol.

[arlene]

I love to read, I just never have the time!! I do love reading any books by John Grisham books though. I've read them all. lol I also do love reading books along the line like Harry Potter and stuff like that. Something that can keep my attention. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm ready to go on a long airplane ride, so any suggestions on a book would be great as I can NEVER sleep on a plane.

[Nikita706]

I love to read, I just never have the time!! I do love reading any books by John Grisham books though. I've read them all. lol I also do love reading books along the line like Harry Potter and stuff like that. Something that can keep my attention. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm ready to go on a long airplane ride, so any suggestions on a book would be great as I can NEVER sleep on a plane.

If you like Harry Potter, and you haven't read it already, check out 'Series of Unfortunate Events' by Lemony Snicket. I LOVE those books, and they would be a perfect quick, light read for traveling.

[Nikita706]

I'm reading 'America' by Jon Stewart. I'm only about 40 text-book-sized-pages into it, but it is HILARIOUS!!! And I'm a total history and political nut anyway, it's the perfect book for me, lol.

:cloppy:

[Nekochanpurr]

Right now i'm reading a LOT of manga.. :D Gotta get my pile down before i start books again.. lol.

BTW: Manga=Japanese graphic Novels (big comic books).

[BelhurstBride]

I just finished reading "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne and OH MY GOSH!!! I read it in 2 days... it was one of the best books I've ever read and I would definitely recommend it.

I should warn you though, it is sad. It is a fictional book about the Holocaust and it takes on the perspective of a 9 year old boy whose father is a Nazi. He doesn't know what his father does for a living, only that he wears a uniform everyday. His father's job moves him away from his nice house in Berlin to a concentration camp, and he has no idea what is going on. He doesn't understand why the people inside the fence all wear striped pajamas and he doesn't understand why he can't go play with them.

That's all I'll say about the book... but it is sooo powerful and an easy, fast read. It really makes you think!

Has anyone read it before?

[Nekochanpurr]

I haven't read it, but i'll have to check it out!! Thanks for the advice!! :D I think my sister read something similar, i'm sure she'll be on eventually to share... I have to finish this pile of manga before i get back to books. :D

[ChibiAiChan]

The book I read was "Those who save us" from the german pov

[TangoWedding]

I just finished "Living Buddha, Living Christ" (very inspirational!). Now I'm halfway through "Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris. :grinhappy:

[KMS]

I finished reading The Wednesday Letters recently and boy did I cry! :grinhappy:

[ChibiAiChan]

I recently finished "the thousand secret senses" by Amy Tan, and I really enjoyed it! However I didn't really like "The Joyluck Club" too much =/

[Nekochanpurr]

I just finished 'Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold. Holy cow. This book is AMAZING. i was trying to read it all at work only.. But as you can see by the time i'm posting this.. Heh. I'm not at work. I couldn't put it down!! :D

[ally20o7]

Probably my #1 suggestion to everyone would be Jane Eyre. It's the only classic I ever sat down and read on my own. Basically a 1850's version of a romance novel. Very sweet.

[Scrwballsgrl]

Probably my #1 suggestion to everyone would be Jane Eyre. It's the only classic I ever sat down and read on my own. Basically a 1850's version of a romance novel. Very sweet.

this is one of my favorite of all time books! If you like this you should read Wuthering Heights its a long the same lines, a little darker, but a romance novel non the less.

hmmm, I'm trying to think of others that you might enjoy. Oh! Pride & Predjudice by Charlotte Bronte. Its also a love story and if you can get past the old style of writting (similar to Jane Eyre) it has a lot of funny dialoge in it. PS. its a little far removed from the movie so don't let that discourage you from reading it.

[rainbowtreat]

I was never big on reading. The book has to catch me right away for me to get into it.

That being said, I love Sophie Kinsella. All of her books I get into. I have read all but one. The best are the Shopaholic series. The others not in that series are also very good. Here is a link to her books.

http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/kinsella/books/



Right now I am into Amish books.

I have read these ,



A Sister's Secret, Sisters of Holmes County Series #1 (http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=892262&event=CF)
A Sister's Test, Sisters of Holmes County Series #2 (http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=892728&event=CF)
A Sister's Hope, Sisters of Holmes County Series #3 (http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=892735&event=CF)

Then I found another author of Amish books that I like and I have just finished 3 books. One that I am hoping there is another to come after it soon and 2 others that were great. I was up till almost 1 last night finishing the second one. I could not put it down.

Those 2 were by Beverly Lewis, The Postcard and The Crossroad.

I am hoping to get to the library today and get another one.

This is a list of her books.

http://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor:BEVERLY+inauthor:LEWIS&lr=&sa=N&start=10

[BelhurstBride]

I love love love to read historical fiction, and also memoirs of people who lived through important times.

I have 2 new books to share with you guys, both I've just finished recently.

The first, SOLD by Patricia McCormick (http://www.amazon.com/Sold-Patricia-Mccormick/dp/0786851716). Very powerful book and really opens your eyes to things that are happening even as we speak today.

Quoted from amazon.com:
"Grade 9 Up – As this heartbreaking story opens, 13-year-old Lakshmi lives an ordinary life in Nepal, going to school and thinking of the boy she is to marry. Then her gambling-addicted stepfather sells her into prostitution in India. Refusing to be with men, she is beaten and starved until she gives in. Written in free verse, the girls first-person narration is horrifying and difficult to read. In between, men come./They crush my bones with their weight./They split me open./Then they disappear. I hurt./I am torn and bleeding where the men have been. The spare, unadorned text matches the barrenness of Lakshmis new life. She is told that if she works off her familys debt, she can leave, but she soon discovers that this is virtually impossible. When a boy who runs errands for the girls and their clients begins to teach her to read, she feels a bit more alive, remembering what it feels like to be the number one girl in class again. When an American comes to the brothel to rescue girls, Lakshmi finally gets a sense of hope. An authors note confirms what readers fear: thousands of girls, like Lakshmi in this story, are sold into prostitution each year. Part of McCormicks research for this novel involved interviewing women in Nepal and India, and her depth of detail makes the characters believable and their misery palpable. This important book was written in their honor."

And the other book... FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER by Loung Ung (http://www.amazon.com/First-Killed-Daughter-Cambodia-Remembers/dp/0060856262/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222806015&sr=1-1). This one is actually a memoir of a young girl who lived in Cambodia at the time that the Khmer Rouge were in power. Very very good story!

Again, quoted from amazon.com:
"Written in the present tense, First They Killed My Father will put you right in the midst of the action--action you'll wish had never happened. It's a tough read, but definitely a worthwhile one, and the author's personality and strength shine through on every page. Covering the years from 1975 to 1979, the story moves from the deaths of multiple family members to the forced separation of the survivors, leading ultimately to the reuniting of much of the family, followed by marriages and immigrations. The brutality seems unending--beatings, starvation, attempted rape, mental cruelty--and yet the narrator (a young girl) never stops fighting for escape and survival. Sad and courageous, her life and the lives of her young siblings provide quite a powerful example of how war can so deeply affect children--especially a war in which they are trained to be an integral part of the armed forces. For anyone interested in Cambodia's recent history, this book shares a valuable personal view of events."

[Nekochanpurr]

They both look REALLY interesting! I was sooooo close to buying 'SOLD'...

[Jacobs_Girl]

Thought I would revive this thread.

I am more into non-fiction books, vampire, werewolf and witch book fans, sometimes I like the romance but when its not too gushy.

Anyways I just got done reading Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neil and it was a good vampire read. Not as good as Anne Rice but 4 out of 5 star read.

[Nekochanpurr]

Oh yay. I <3 this thread. I'll have to tell what books i read after work..

[ChristineLS]

I just finished Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. It wasn't bad, but the ending disappointed me. It kind of meandered around.

[futuremrsallen]

FH and I are in financial peace university so we are reading Dave Ramsey's financial peace revisited as "homework." But for fun I'm reading Nora Robert's Vision in White. Its the first of a coming quartet. I'm halfway done and can't wait for the others to be available. I just wish I had more free time!!
It's about a group of girls who run a wedding company "vows" and they're respective love lives (or lack thereof). Its an easy, feel good read which is exactly what I need right now. My brain is working hard enough on planning my wedding, lol.

[Kfancii]

FH and I are in financial peace university so we are reading Dave Ramsey's financial peace revisited as "homework." But for fun I'm reading Nora Robert's Vision in White. Its the first of a coming quartet. I'm halfway done and can't wait for the others to be available. I just wish I had more free time!!
It's about a group of girls who run a wedding company "vows" and they're respective love lives (or lack thereof). Its an easy, feel good read which is exactly what I need right now. My brain is working hard enough on planning my wedding, lol.

I just bought Vision in White too and haven't started it but it looks so good! I am a big fan of books that have more than one story! (Like the quartet)

[futuremrsallen]

I just bought Vision in White too and haven't started it but it looks so good! I am a big fan of books that have more than one story! (Like the quartet)

Me too!! Its a great read so far, you're gonna love it!