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Can anyone recommend some good beach reading books particularily coming-of-age?

  • Posted on April 20, 2011 at 10:22 am

I just finished Elizabeth Berg’s “What we Keep” and I really liked it. I love coming-of-age fiction that follows the lives of people while they were kids or teens. Another one I loved was Martha Moody’s “Best Friends” and of course, Judy Blume’s “Summer Sisters”. I do like other genre too. I enjoyed the non-fiction novel “ComebacK” about a mother’s fight with her daughter’s drug addiction. “Mrs. Kimble” by Jennifer Haigh is another good one.
So that should give you an idea of what type of books I enjoy. I prefer to read modern novels at the beach that were written in the last 20 years or so. I don’t like books by Danielle Steele. I’m also not a big fan of mysteries (although I LOVE “The #1 Ladies Detective Agency series) or thrillers like Stephen King (although I love his movies).
If you have a suggestion or two, that would be great!!!!!
HAVE A GOOD SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like most of the books in Oprah’s “Book Club” if that helps! By the way, is she still doing the book club? I haven’t watched her in a long time.

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Pedophile with child at the beach. Would you have done something in my situation?

  • Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:23 am

I asked this in parenting section, but would like to see different responses in grade school, for parents who have children who are still in school:
Note this MIGHT sound a bit creepy so please consider yourself warned.

Last summer while at the beach there was a young couple right beside us, the beach was PACKED. I was there with my 14 year old son and 9 year old daughter, and I couldn’t help but notice this couple beside us were acting a little “TOO” affectionate/intimate with each other in public.It was almost impossible to “not” notice them. They were both on their front sides and constantly touching eachother, rubbing her fingertips through his hair and kept giving each other small kisses and it just seemed to get a little too overboard. I heard little things they were saying and discussing, it seemed obvious that they were high on drugs because it was all about intimacy, their pupils were enlarged to the point you can only see white and black, and no color, the woman looked at me a couple times and smiled. I noticed the woman putting a pill into his mouth and giving him water, and vice versa; MORE than just once. I’m certain it was ecstasy. Later the woman reached out and grabbed sunscreen from her bag and sort of nagged “let me put some on you!” so she started putting it on him while he’s laying down from his feet to his neck, and flipped him over and proceeded his front side. She took her time and it seemed a bit sexual. What REALLY got to me was when she was done and I heard the exact words from the guy “so (her name) how did you feel while rubbing down a 15 year old in sunscreen?” and immediately I started feeling sick to my stomach and stopped myself from listening to anymore.

I would see them get up from their towel holding hands going into the water slowly, and at that point It was so obvious they were completely rigged out of their minds on E smiling at everything. The woman was very attractive, tall, slim and looked 21-25, NO YOUNGER than 20. The boy did not look 15 at all, way too developed and also looked like he was abusing steroids, but when I heard “15″ I started feeling sick. They looked like they were either in a relationship or just newly dating. At that point my kids were staring at them so we left and moved to a different spot. I really felt like saying something or doing something about this but I didn’t really know, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this for a while, it really disturbed me.

If you were me in this situation, would you have done something or said something, or would you have just moved? I thought this was completely wrong in everyway, especially with a minor doing drugs like ecstasy. Thanks for reading.
I HEARD 100% he said 15. With my own ears, I bet my life on that.

I felt I wasn’t the only one who noticed them, I definitely wasn’t the only one. And they did not even notice me looking, they were WAY too out of it to notice anything around them and that too was extremely obvious.

The beach also has no life guards on duty, but I hadn’t even thought about that.
No, the woman was not a teenager. If you saw the woman you would know she was NOT a teenager. If I had doubts about her age I would have not felt sick but this got me sick to my stomach because I knew she wasn’t a teenager like the boy was.
He was 15. He was WAY too submissive with her, if you actually saw it you would think differently.

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