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Book Recs
Hopefully you ladies can help me here. I need a new book for my flight on Friday. I don't do a lot of reading normally because I can hardly find time to bathe myself these days, much less pick up a book. 
When I do read, I find myself leaning toward mindless fiction or something with a heavy plotline (i.e. human suffering ala abusive homes, Holocaust, etc). I need a book that picks up fast and catches my attention right away.
Anyone have any suggestions that I might enjoy?
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Reread the Twilight saga?
Actually, if you like "light" reading and young adult literature, I highly highly HIGHLY recommend The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It's centered around a sixteen-year-old girl protagonist, but I would not call it a "kid's book" by any means. It was actually recommended to me by two of my lit faculty members. It's the first in a series though, and only books 1 and 2 are out (the 3rd/final will be released this year, I think).
I also just read a book for my multi-cultural literature course called Dreaming in Cuban which was pretty excellent. It's a little bit meatier than your standard beach book, but it's really just about family and being removed from your home culture.
If you're not "grossed out" by explicit sexual content/language, one of my FAVORITE books for the plane was Diablo Cody's Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. (Diablo Cody wrote Juno -- same kind of quirky/dry humor). It's actually a memoir about a year in her life (before the whole Hollywood thing), but it's definitely a no-holds-barred look into the "adult industry." I found is fascinating, and it was such an easy read.
Are these the Sookie Stackhouse books? If so, I've tried. I just can't get into them after watching True Blood. It feels like I'm reading a rerun. I have a hard time being patient with books that I already know the ending to. That means I probably couldn't reread the Twilight saga. Though, I will look into those other recs, SBS. Thanks!
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Seriously! Especially lately. This trip is looooong overdue!
Haha, I have, but I figured that some other people might read the recommendations, so it was much more of a general disclaimer.
If people really want to know, one part that my friends found particularly objectionable (I found it gross, but not "offensive") is when she describes a man who would go into the booths where other men would watch performers and "pleasure themselves" and would lick up the remnants of what they'd left behind. It's disgusting, yes, but it's only one small part of the book and I know a lot of people quit reading when they got to that part, which is sad because I really think the entire book is amazing.
You should give them another try (maybe skip the first one, though) because the show and the books barely have an resemblance besides character names and the first season plot line re: her brother.
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I actually find this part intriguing. You've officially piqued my interest. Does that make me a perv or a sicko?
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My coworkers have rec'd this set of two books:
http://www.amazon.com/Something-Blue-Emily-Giffin/dp/0312323859
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I've read these books -- cute, funny, lighthearted. I liked them and I think I read the whole series in a week's vacation.
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I love the Shopacholic series by Sophie Kinsella. They're very girly and light and fun to read. All her books are very good. I start one and before I know it I'm 100 pages in
I have those and I think they are a fun light read. You will need to read "Something Borrowed" first.
I don't think so! The entire book is intriguing -- it starts out with her working at a desk job and deciding to go to amateur night at a local strip club to perform. From there, she basically catapults a career working in various "adult" locales in Minnesota. It's a really compelling story. Plus, I totally love Diablo Cody, and it's nice to read her wit.
I'm sorry I missed this conversation! I actually hated Candy Girl, and I read it way before Juno came out, back when she was no one. I thought it was super-contrived and sort of boring to read, though I suppose she does throw in a gross bone here and there (that turned out to be a pun, didn't it?). It really lowered my expectations for Juno, which I thought was OK. The music was the best part. And Michael Cera.
Anyway, Esmerelda Santiago is one of my favorite authors. She has written her biography in several short volumes. The first one I read was The Turkish Lover which picks up after high school; you don't have to go in chronological order at all. It's totally fascinating, she is an excellent writer and, when you get to flashbacks about her childhood (which are in all the books) you get a little of that human suffering because she was one of I think 12 children of a woman abandoned by her husband in Puerto Rico. It's the story of them coming to the U.S. and her growing up. It is awesome!
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Its Holocaust related and sucked me in pretty quickly. I really liked it.
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline is what I'm reading now. Its more mindless, but still intriguing. I'm not too far into it, so can't really tell you more.
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