Give us a one-line synopsis of the last book that you read.
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Nerd in Shining Armor by Vicki Lewis Thompson.
A nerd becomes the hero and gets the girl as a bride after being marooned on one of the Leeward islands.
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The last book I read (for my book club) was Don't Call Us Molls by Ellen Poulsen. A text book reading account of the John Dillinger era, and the women who ran with the gang.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
Eddie's life and afterlife are his search for self-worth and real meaning, as we follow him through his purgatory of Five People You Meet in Heaven.
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Read Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Brought Down the House. That Siamese "Koko" is wonderful. We should all have one....
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The Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson was an intriguing, exciting new installment in the Alex Cross mystery/suspense series.
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The book that I just finished reading was Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory. This true story of a child who suffered through MBP left me horrified that any child should have to live with this horrible disease and also more aware that this does truly happen.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
An old man dies accidentally, meeting five people on his way to heaven who have influenced his life in ways he would never have fathomed, giving new meaning to his life.
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Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos.
A private investigator follows clues in drug and gun related crimes in and around Washington D.C. while trying to maintain his integrity and objectivity.
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.
A tale of double crossing and simmering eroticism set in Victorian England, with some obvious Dickensian influence, which twists and turns most unexpectedly and kept me hooked right through to the end.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
It is about how you affect other people's lives even though you may not realize it.
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Summit Avenue by Mary Sharratt tells about a young emigrant beginning her adult life in Minneapolis/St. Paul at the beginning of World War I with wonderful insight into her experiences of love, trust and friendship.
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Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan.
DWF, unemployed book editor, mother of two; currently grieving for dead cat and former life; seeks peace, enlightenment, first lover and revenge upon two-timing husband and his current lover (former colleague). Call #7 Lakey Square.
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The Conspiracy Club by Jonathan Kellerman.
A young hospital psychiatrist deals with the murder of his girlfriend by a serial killer.
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The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.
Sugar, a late nineteenth century street prostitute, makes a transformation into the social upper-class of London by becoming Mr. Rackham's mistress and later his daughter's governess.
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I just finished reading Hayden Gabriel's Where the Light Remains. Set in Cornwall, it is two love stories in one, timed a century apart, in which the Newlyn School of Art figures prominently.
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It was a "I should have known better than to read something by this author when I had to get up early the next day" kind of book. I cannot put Harlan Coban down, and I read Gone for Good into the wee hours of the morning.
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The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver keeps you in suspense right to the end.
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Legend by Jude Deveraux.
A bride-to-be buys an antique tin that mysteriously sends her back in time to find the love she has always dreamed of.
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson contains horrible facts on farm animals, a must-read.
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is the most wonderful impetus for net surfing yourself into a master's degree in history, political science, mathematics and philosophy since my bookclub read An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, and that was better than home-baked bread!
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The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer.
Thrilling, edge-of-your-seat excitement, a must-read for those who love fast-paced action and lots of wondering how the main characters would get out of the mess they found themselves.
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer was not worth the time it took to read it!
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I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson is the comical, but heartwrenching, tale of a working mother who is like an overloaded computer whose hard drive is about to crash.
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Strong on Defense by Sanford Strong.
How to increase your chance of surviving a violent crime.
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The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: Or, How to Build a Dinosaur by Rob DeSalle and David Lindley.
An entertaining and easy-to-understand examination of the likelihood of creating dinosaurs as presented in Michael Crichton'sJurassic Park, the conclusion being, "No way!"
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Best Friends by Martha Moody.
This book was captivating, surprising, riveting, thought-provoking and one heck of a good read.
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The last book I read was The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, which stayed with me for weeks after I read the last line.
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
A Love Story that journeys through time.
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
This book takes you to the future, where those who survive in a genetically engineered word deal with what is left.
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Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz is the story of an unassuming young man who happens to able to see dead people and solve crimes of murder.
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The last book I read was The Last Days by Joel Rosenberg, which was poorly written and overburdened with action scenes, with a resultant lack of badly needed character development.
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The Last Juror by John Grisham is a fascinating, heartwarming and comical story of an acolyte weekly newspaper publisher in a small southern town and how he matured in that role.
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The Kingmaker by Brian Haig.
The tale of a shallow JAG lawyer caught up in a trial for espionage, a caper too convoluted and too trite to be believable, enjoyable or even worth the read!
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Mystic River by Dennis Lehane.
Absolutely mind-absorbing!
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Seek My Face by John Updike is a thinly disguised account of the life of Jackson Pollock, in the form of a one-day interview given by his painter-widow (Lee Krasner) to a female journalist, while also describing the modern art world in America from the time of Roosevelt to the present.
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Pompeii by Robert Harris is a fiction narrative of the two days leading up to the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii --- and what might have happened.
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Mona Lisa's Smile by Deborah Chiel is more exciting than The Da Vinci Code!
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Sue Miller's The Good Mother is about a divorced mother of a 3-year-old who makes improper choices concerning her live-in lover, and the price she pays for her bad judgment.
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Reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown may have you seriously thinking about the accuracy of The New Testament of the Bible!
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The Black Flower by Howard Bahr is a grim and riveting story of two days during the Civil War and what might have been a love story.
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I have just finished reading Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell. I thought it was a good and entertaining book (I enjoy the Kay Scarpetta series). The ending left a lot of unanswered questions, but I am sure her next book will pick up where this one left off.
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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan.
The ultimate revenge was living a happy and complete life without him.
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The literary nonfiction Final Judgment: The End of Conflict by Wayne Davidson mystically weaves the reader into the story of civilization as a protagonist with meaningful contributions to make toward the eventual triumph over Islamic terrorism. This is a gifted writer.
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January's Paradigm by J. Conrad Guest. I recently read (actually, reread):
Intriguing ... this interweaving of writer creating a writer creating an alter ego creating a story that connects the writer to the alter ego to the ideal to the beast who lives within us all --- and makes him whole again.
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Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson is the story of a teen girl growing up without a mom and with adult problems faced at too young an age.
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is a terrifying view of the future in which all that man has "aspired to" has come to pass.
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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.
This was the most emotional but beautiful and realistic love story about a man and a woman that I have ever read.
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Jude Deveraux 's The Blessing left me with a warm feeling knowing that life can be chaotic and confusing, but time, persistence and love, with help from a friend, will overcome obstacles and give new meaning to family.
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Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis is about a Wall Street Journalreporter who immersed himself in the world of tournament Scrabble to write a book about it and became as obsessed as the players he admired.
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Beach Music by Pat Conroy.
A story of family and friendships, the shortcomings of both and the art of forgiving before it's too late.
I love this book and have read it every year for the past nine years. It reminds me how important and how fragile the people in our life are, and how important family and friends are in one's life.
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I just finished Dearest Friend by Lynne Withey, a biography of Abigail Adams based on her letters, especially those to John Adams who was away from home, cumulatively, at least 9 of their first 14 years of marriage; it's a wonderful picture of a colonial/federalist woman who runs her family and her household and makes great sacrifices for her country.
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Hollywood and Catholic Women by Kathryn Schleich probes the relationship between women in the Catholic Church and women in Hollywood in 15 films that proves both entertaining and insightful.
