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Comment by Kristin deWitt on July 25, 2010 at 1:43pm

I've been dying to go to the South of France since first reading A Year in Provence! My last boyfriend took along my copies of it and Toujours Provence and I've missed them so!

Comment by Lillian Gaffney on July 25, 2010 at 1:41pm

reading Emotional Intelligence... tried to read this so many times, think I'm actually gonna finish it this time. (non-fiction, of course)

Comment by wiffledust on July 25, 2010 at 1:36pm

welcome gini! i'll step aside , cuz i don't have a novel going. i've been doing non fiction when i can read at all lately......although i really love short stories by dubois. ...continue, folks. just wanted to welcome gini to the group!

Comment by Gini Steele on July 25, 2010 at 1:34pm

Chapters away from finishing The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver...may possibly surpass Poisonwood Bible as her best novel. Taking the Stieg Larsson trilogy to the beach week after next...

Comment by Kristin deWitt on July 25, 2010 at 1:23pm

Oh, Elle, no need to be impressed. I've read them both before. This was only the second go through of FMiR and boy! it takes forever to figure out whose story you're reading now! All the names being the same and trying to figure out the class system! I, too, adore M.M. Kaye.
Finished the Stieg Larsson and LOVED it, no surprise. Now I'm reading Peter Mayle's French Lessons. Have you read him? All about France. The non-fictions are fabulous. His caricatures of the French are affectionate and so fun!

Comment by wiffledust on July 25, 2010 at 11:53am

just jumping in here for a minute to give another salute to The Thorn Birds...everyone knows the basic story and the miniseries. but the book is such a satisfying book to read...excellent in character development and emotion. i want to read it again!!

Comment by Elle MacNeil on July 25, 2010 at 11:13am

Kristin - just read your one post - kudos to you!!! The two books you mentioned, First Man in Rome and Far Pavilions, were hard reads!!! And thick books!! And they were on your "so far this summer" list? Wow! I'm impressed. I've always liked MM Kaye and LOVED Thorn Birds but, despite my love of Roman history (4 years of Latin instilled that in me), but FMiR was a toughy for me!!

Comment by Elle MacNeil on July 25, 2010 at 11:08am

Oh, my!! I finished a book last week that was SO good. It was not something I would normally have bought - found it in the Bargain books aisle in B&N - but I'm trying to push myself to read more books that don't have to do with murder and forensics. Where the River Ends was a lucky choice!! A sad, sweet love story that made me cry (this is a phenomenon for me, I never cry when reading...well, hardly ever!); twice in the middle and I cried myself to sleep when I finished it!! And I KNEW how it was going to end, but it just wrapped itself around me and sucked me in. Lots of edge-of-your-seat moments that were totally unexpected from the description on the back cover. If you like well written love stories, then I highly recommend this one. Oh, and the thing I found to be really odd? It was written by a man (Charles Martin). No offense to the guys in here, but I just never expect men to put their emotions down in writing, ala Erich Segal.

Comment by Lillian Gaffney on July 18, 2010 at 5:20pm

Okay, I finished Eat, Pray, Love and enjoyed it. Like I said, the part about Gilbert raising money to help a women that healed so many, not only raising her own child but adopting two orphans with an eviction on her back. I loved that this woman's dream was fulfilled by someone who truly cared... and what E.G. experienced around trust, understanding, acceptance, and strategy to pull the whole thing off. I especially loved her message of the little girl visualizing the outcome...law of attraction. Looking forward to the movie.

Comment by wiffledust on July 15, 2010 at 2:11pm

FANTASTIC SUGGESTIONS!!! thanks, kristin!!!! so glad you're here! ;-))

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