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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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What are you reading this summer? Do you have summer reading by choice or part of a school program?

  • Posted on September 23, 2010 at 4:32 pm

I find that during the year I read A Christmas Carol at Christmas time and The Great Gatsby in the summer. Though this is not officially the summer yet, I feel in May with the temperatures teasing me in the 70s and 80s, I feel previews to the summer already.
…My father gave me some advise …
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me. “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
…In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments.
To me, The Great Gatsby is not just a good story, it is a work of art. It was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man who struggled with alcoholism and personal tragedy and somehow managed to produce this great piece of writing that in some instances reflects his own struggles and unhappiness.
He grew up in the mid west. He served in World War Two and met the love of his life in the south while stationed there before going overseas. After the war, he went to New York to make his fortune. He wrote a book This Side of Paradise and became not only rich but famous. He married his sweetheart and they traveled among the rich and famous of the times. They moved to Europe and she had an affair. He was struggling to write a novel that would later become Gatsby but continued to write lesser pieces of writing to support his lifestyle hampered by a free spending upper class wife and alcoholism. She named her unborn child after him expecting a son. Instead she had a daughter and nicknamed her Scotty after the child’s father. She suffered a nervous breakdown and …
I can add more if there is any interest.
@ Jamie- that is a great list. Wow! I have read or own several of those books. Terrific books. I have seen the movie “Lolita” but never read the book. I think that Stanely Kubrick took some poetic license with adapting Lolita for the movie. Some of it was forced upon him by the censors. For instance, the daughter was underage in the book but is 18 in the movie. Actually Sue Lyon was 14 when she made the movie. Kubrick’s revenge. He is forced to make the character above legal age but then he casts a minor in the role of Lolita. Hahaha! I have seen Eyes Wide Shut too but that would not be on the 100 top list of literature.

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Why is it that most Bible bashers lack the most rudimentary reading comprehension skills…?

  • Posted on August 25, 2010 at 5:22 pm

… when it comes to quoting the Bible?
Are they truly ignorant of how one reads the different genre of literature. eg. The history sections and the narratives are NOT where doctrine is taught. Narrative tells us what people actually did, the good, the bad and the ugly. Doctrine is taught in the doctrine sections. For the more obtuse: A doctrine section will sound something like this, “Do this…” or “Don’t do this…” Understand this…” etc.
Bible bashers will say something foolish like. The Bible teaches daughters to sleep with their fathers, cause Lot’s daughter got their father intoxicated and had sex with him.

Making you wonder how the ever graduated grade school.

Or they will quote a law, that God had instituted for the Theocratic nation of Israel, and ask Christians why we are wearing clothing made out of two different materials or eating shellfish.

Is it that they are obtuse or are they unethical and know full well that they are misrepresenting the text?

Perhaps we can do a “yahoo answers” social experiment and observe those who reply here and see if they continue these practices, after being made aware, eh?

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