Book suggestion?

[rkandmjsmommy]

Hi

Danielle Steel, Nicholas Patterson for romance

Sandra Brown for romance/mystery

5 people you meet in Heaven, AWESOME!!!!!

I also just read, Please, Stop Laughing at Me and hope to start Odd Girl Out soon, these are about female bullying during the school years.

Have fun

 

[Daxx]

I too am a mom (DS 10, DD 7) with very little spare time to indulge my voracious appetite for reading. Here's my secret. I read in bed

I am a mom and teacher w/little spare time and my "dirty little secret" is that after I put DS8 to bed and finish my grading and planning, I run a hot, steamy bath and read in the tub! It's the only chance I have to really relax and unwind!

I've also heard that his [Bold]Angels and Demons[/Bold] is good too, but I myself haven't read it)

I have read "Angels and Demons" and enjoyed it! My reading group picked it out before The DaVinci Code came out. Matter of fact, Dan Brown wrote "Angels and Demons" as a trial run before writing "The DaVinci Code". Sort of worked out the kinks w/A&D!

Jodi Piccoult.

My book club just finished reading "My Sister's Keeper" which was excellent!!!! We also read "Plain Truth" about a murder in an Amish area. Excellent was well!

 

[dianaphi]

I too LOVED Plain Truth and My Sister's Keeper!! I LOVE Jodi Piccoult's books -- lots of suspense and drama and always a surprise at the end! Keeps me turning the pages until I'm done -- Try Salem Falls and Keeping Faith, they're wonderful.

 

[quiltymom]

This is a great thread! Keep the suggestions coming...

 

[crisi]

Carl Haiassen writes mysteries set if Florida. They are really funny and great vacation reads. (But have sex and violence and make fun of rednecks and anyone else Haiassen wants to poke at (strippers are smarter than politicians in his world) - might not be a good read if you have a thin skin or low tolerence for sex and violence)

 

[Melrosgirl]

Easy, can't put down books:

The Nanny Diaries
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Devil Wears Prada

 

[mistaroo]

I couldn't put down the book Honeymoon by James Patterson.

 

[welovedis]

Mary Higgins Clark mysteries are a good read, easy to get thru on vacation.
Mary Higgins Clark
If you are a pet-lover, I like Laurien Berenson mysteries-they revolve around dog shows and I can get thru one pretty quickly.
Laurien Berenson
My all-time favorite books are by Jan Karon--the Mitford series of books. I can read them over and over again. The first in the series is called 'A Light in the Window'.
Jan Karon Mitford Books
I also liked Thomas Kinkade's series called Cape Light.
Cape Light Series

 

[3lilprincesses]

i loved many of the books already suggested, especially The Other Boleyn Girl, Memoirs of a Geisha, the Poisonwood Bible, and My Sisters Keeper.

but my pick for easy, fun, quick reading would have to be "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" by Lorna Landvik . everyone in my book club LOVED this book! it would be a great read for an airplane/vacation!

have fun!

 

[Jen D]

For me it isn't a vacation without an Elmore Leonard book.

But I do agree if you're looking for something to get you back into reading, Harry Potter is great. And the books get more sophisticated as the series progresses.

 

[jesszac610]

Has anyone mentioned the Stephanie Plum novels written by Janet Evanoich?
Easy read, crime fiction some humor. I read 2 of them on my last trip to WDW!

 

[holden]

These books aren't "light", but they are some of my favs:

The World According to Garp by John Irving - the funniest AND saddest book I ever read.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by ?? - another funny/sad one

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - can you tell I like Irving?

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 

[bethbuchall]

I got halfway though DaVinci Code and didn't bother to finish it. I may be the only person on the planet.

What do YOU like to read - when you do read? Romances? Mysteries? Children's books (I admit a weakness for children's books, yes, Harry Potter - but Princess Diaries, Anne of Green Gables, etc.). History? Classics (I read Pride and Prejudice and To Kill a Mockingbird ever year).

(I will have to say that House of Mirth was a poor cruise choice).

You aren't the only person on the planet, but I am going to give it another try. I haven't talked to a single person that didn't love the DaVinci Code, but I just couldn't get into it.

Beth

 

[bethbuchall]

I mostly read mysteries and juvenile/young adult books (preview for ds/dd). For light mystery, I recommend Jill Churchill, Mary Higgins Clark, and Tamar Myers. In juvenile/young adult, I recommend Harry Potter, Charlie Bone (character), and anything by Sharon Creech (though some are a little sad), E.D. Baker, Eva Ibbotson, Andrew Clements, Jerry Spinelli, Jean Craighead George, or Madeline L'Engel. I just finished a young adult novel called Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee that I thought was excellent. Outside my normal genre, I also just finished Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox. It was an amazing story of a long-distance swimmer.

I love this thread! I am writing down some titles to try out...keep them coming!

Beth

 

[JudicialTyranny]

You aren't the only person on the planet, but I am going to give it another try. I haven't talked to a single person that didn't love the DaVinci Code, but I just couldn't get into it.

It was good, but I didn't think it was great. I liked Angels & Demons more than DaVinci Code (which is the book the author wrote before DaVinci and has the same main character).

I'm going to the beach next week and am planning on reading one or two of these: Watchers (Koontz), Moneyball (Lewis), Sole Survivor (Koontz), The Mote in God's Eye (Niven/Pournelle), 1776 (McCullough).

Last summer, my wife read Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and she liked it.

 

[Daxx]

Try Salem Falls and Keeping Faith, they're wonderful.

Read Salem Falls ... will hunt down a copy of Keeping Faith! Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[disneygrl16]

I agree with the Shopacholic series, very good! Also I absolutely love Pride and Prejudice and anything Jane Austen, so I always recommend her books.

 

[we3disneygo]

how about the 7 people you meet on the way to heaven? or I just got done reading Goldie Hawn's new book, it was a good read.

 

[pyrxtc]

5 people you meet before you die is an awesome book! Plus anything by Laurie Notaro..... She write some hilarious stuff!

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I second the reference to Elizabeth Peters, I love her books! They are hefty, though. I just love the richness of detail.

I also recommend Katherine Hall Page - she has a great heroine set in the Greater Boston area. If you like "food" mysteries, the books by G.A. McKevett, Joanna Carl and Joanne Fluke are also great. Laura Childs writes mysteries around tea in one of the Carolinas, so those are a pleasant Southern diversion for me.

This is a wonderful thread!