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  • Crazy8
    Daycare.com Member
    • Jun 2011
    • 2769

    #16
    DD is on the 2nd Hunger Games book now and I thought of picking them up - just haven't had much time for reading lately.

    Just downloaded The Lucky One (not a huge Sparks fan but the movie looks good so thought I'd read the book first) and The Fault in Our Stars but haven't started it yet (heard its good but sad).

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    • MyAngels
      Member
      • Aug 2010
      • 4217

      #17
      I'm in the middle of the third Hunger Games book right now. They are not what I expected, but I've really enjoyed them.

      For the most part I read psychological thriller-type fiction. I especially like Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch books, John Sandford's Prey and Virgil Flowers books and Robert Crais' Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series.

      Other authors I like are Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Jonathan Kellerman, Harlan Coben and Janet Evanovich.

      Nothing too heavy for me .

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      • AmyLeigh
        Daycare.com Member
        • Oct 2011
        • 868

        #18
        No fiction for me right now. I prefer to have the time to consume a book in one sitting, and my life is not such that I can read for 2-3 hours uninterrupted. But from the library I have a book on organic gardening and Parenting with Love and Logic. I need to be more educated on both because I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous! :confused:

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        • AfterSchoolMom
          Advanced Daycare.com Member
          • Dec 2009
          • 1973

          #19
          Originally posted by Luna
          For easy, fun reading I like anything I've read so far by Laurie Notaro...sort of Erma Bombeck-ish.
          I like her too!

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          • Sunchimes
            Daycare.com Member
            • Nov 2011
            • 1847

            #20
            Christian_Mother, have you ever heard of bookcrossing.com? We register our books on the site, label them with a unique id number and leave them in public places for other people to find. If we are lucky, the finder will go to the site and make a journal entry about where they found it and where they will leave it. It's a great way to empty your shelves and it is free and private.

            I once had a book left in Texas go to LA, then to South America, Cuba, and it was last journaled in Canada. One of my books showed up 5 years after I released it.

            We also trade books among ourselves and it's the best place ever to find recommendations for great books.

            I've made lifelong friends there, and I am convinced that I could go almost anyplace in the world and find a BookCrosser to have dinner with me, show me around, or offer me a couch for the night.

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            • Christina72684
              Daycare.com Member
              • May 2011
              • 414

              #21
              LOVE LOVE LOVE Hunger Games! I finished all 3 books in less than a month, which is amazing for me, esp with a 1 year old! I loved how I could visually picture everything in my mind as I was reading. It was like a movie was playing in my head and I never wanted it to stop!!!

              Jodi Picoult is an AMAZING author! She's written like 20 books or so and I know I've read at least 10 of them and haven't been disappointed in any of them. They're all so different, but so realistic. I highly recommend anything by her!

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              • MsMe
                Advanced Daycare.com Member
                • Mar 2011
                • 712

                #22
                Originally posted by Christina72684
                LOVE LOVE LOVE Hunger Games! I finished all 3 books in less than a month, which is amazing for me, esp with a 1 year old! I loved how I could visually picture everything in my mind as I was reading. It was like a movie was playing in my head and I never wanted it to stop!!!
                I base how 'good' a book is solely on if I can get lost in it this way. I will read for a few hours or even 15 minutes look up and realize I can't remember seeing the words on the page only the pictures I saw. I lOVE this about reading. I think people who don't like reading have never 'seen' it.

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                • youretooloud
                  Advanced Daycare.com Member
                  • Mar 2011
                  • 1955

                  #23
                  Originally posted by dEHmom
                  another awesome but short read was this book....

                  I love Tory Hayden. I also Love Mary Mckracken. I wanted to work with kids because of them. I wish I could get "Circle of Children" on my nook.

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                  • Country Kids
                    Nature Lover
                    • Mar 2011
                    • 5051

                    #24
                    Originally posted by MsMe
                    I base how 'good' a book is solely on if I can get lost in it this way. I will read for a few hours or even 15 minutes look up and realize I can't remember seeing the words on the page only the pictures I saw. I lOVE this about reading. I think people who don't like reading have never 'seen' it.
                    This is how I taught my one son to read as this is how I read. I said picture what you are reading in your mind. It also worked when he was learning to write story paragraphs for school.
                    Each day is a fresh start
                    Never look back on regrets
                    Live life to the fullest
                    We only get one shot at this!!

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                    • youretooloud
                      Advanced Daycare.com Member
                      • Mar 2011
                      • 1955

                      #25
                      I just realized that I don't like male authors. I was looking through my book collection and all of my least favorite books are by men, while my favorite authors are women.

                      (with the exception of Kevin Leman)

                      How sexist is that?

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                      • Rachel
                        Daycare.com Member
                        • Apr 2010
                        • 605

                        #26
                        Originally posted by dEHmom
                        1000 Splended Suns was a good book too. I couldn't put that one down.
                        I read that one a year or 2 ago.

                        I had a whole list on goodreads at one point, but what I've read recently:

                        The Space Between Us

                        now I'm blanking but a while ago I read THe Help, loved it.

                        OK, seriously blank. I'm in a book club we do around a book a month, but for some reason I can't remember any of the other ones we have read recently!!

                        Oh, The Island. Really good. All of those are historical fiction which is what I tend to lean towards, but I know I have read others lately, just can't remember them! I guess I'm getting old

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                        • Luna
                          Daycare.com Member
                          • Oct 2010
                          • 790

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Christina72684
                          Jodi Picoult is an AMAZING author! She's written like 20 books or so and I know I've read at least 10 of them and haven't been disappointed in any of them. They're all so different, but so realistic. I highly recommend anything by her!
                          I love Jodi Picoult too Our library has a waiting list for every single one of her books in every format. Nineteen Minutes is a great read.

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                          • My3cents
                            Daycare.com Member
                            • Jan 2012
                            • 3387

                            #28
                            Thanks for all the responses. I need to make a trip to the library

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                            • Bookworm
                              Daycare.com Member
                              • Aug 2011
                              • 883

                              #29
                              Try Laura Lippmann and Gillian Flynn.

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