July 2010 Weddings
benmel31
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Weekly Book Post
I'll start it this week. What are you reading? Do you like it and would you recommend it?
Re: Weekly Book Post
I am reading Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts. I just finished The Invisible Bridge this morning (can you tell that yesterday was my last day of school?). It was an intense book set in France and Hungary during WWII and the Holocaust. I needed a fun and frothy book before starting Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which I have been waiting to read since I got my Nook a few months ago.
Chasing Fire is fun. The two main characters are very cute and flirty right now. It is just what I needed after the busy last couple weeks of work and in between two WWII books.
I'm still reading Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo. According to my Kindle I'm about 85% done with it so I'm sure by the end of the weekend I'll have finished it. It's a super good book and a quick read. Very interesting. I think I've mentioned it before, but it's written by the dad of a little boy who got very sick and needed emergency surgery and for 3 minutes during that surgery he went to heaven. Little by little the boy reveals more and more (by questions, etc. from his parents) about the experience. I'd recommend it to everyone!
I'm not sure what I'm going to read next. MIL has a couple Jodi Picoult books I want to read but I want to use my Kindle again! I'm thinking Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin, but I'm not 100% sure yet.
I'm reading Sin in the Second City, which someone mentioned last week. It's nonfiction and is about two sisters who operated a high class brothel (even though that's an oxymoron...) in Chicago in the early 1900s. It's really fascinating!
I've been spending WAY too much money on books because of our weekly posts. You ladies are always mentioning books that I just have to read, and it's so easy to hit the "buy" button on my Kindle. :-)
Just finished "Water for Elephants" -- OMG love!
Currrently reading "Stories I Only Tell My Friends," Rob Lowe's autobiography. Its alright but after Water for Elephants, nothing can compare.
I'm thinking about "The Last Testament of the Holy Bible" by James Frey. Has anyone read it? It got panned by critics, but I'm interested....
Haha, this is why I wanted a Nook. I go straight to the library to see if books are available when I see great recommendations!
I finished She, Myself, and I by Whitney Gaskell. Great, easy chick lit read. Kept me up many late nights.
Over the weekend I read Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss by Marianne Leone. It is about a mom whose son had Cerebral Palsy. The son died in 2005. She talks about her grief. She also talks about his birth and childhood and fighting for services for him, various caretakers, etc. I liked it because I work with children with special needs and it helps me to see what parents go through and their feelings It also talked about earlier communication devices and technology for children with Cerebral Palsy. Jessie's dad is actor Chris Cooper (Lonesome Dove, Bourne Identity Movies, etc.) His mom (the author) has acted and wrote screenplays.
Last night I started Skipping a Beat by Sarah Pettaken. It is ok, kind of slow but I want to see what happens so I will keep reading it. If you are looking for a great book her other book, The Opposite of Me, is really good. I read that last year. Happy Reading!!!
I finally finished The Piano Teacher. If you're interested in WWII from a different perspective, it could be a good read, but if not I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. It was interesting enough to keep me reading the whole thing, but just moved VERY slowly.
I'm not sure what I'll be reading next, but I think I'm going to my purchased pile rather than my borrowed pile since most of what I have left there is heavier reading. I need something a little more interesting than The Piano Teacher. I'm not sure if I'm going to go with The Help or The Shack, or if I'm going to go much lighter like Jennifer Weiner's Best Friends Forever. I'll keep you posted.
Not that you are asking, but I vote for The Help! It was fabulous!
I want to read "The Help" too. But the The Shack, oh that book! A life changer for me.