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04-14-2006, 07:28 PM
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| Good Clean Fun!!  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Plymouth, MN
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I'm looking for a good read. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!
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04-17-2006, 04:26 AM
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What sort of thing do yuou like?... GRIT: kathy Riech, Mo Hayder,Patricia Cornwell,Karin Slaughter,tess gerritson Romance:...sorry dont do that, i prefer grit!!! Spritual: Wayne Dyer, Kryon, Debbie Ford, Shanaya Roman...loads of others but have packed them away! arggh time to dig them out again! Funny: Deric Longden, Jeremy Clarkson (English humour) these are just a few off the top of my head.....will add more ....let us know what you want! I like books with 'Gritty' no nonsense romance....any suggestions?....lol.....  .
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04-17-2006, 06:41 AM
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Tom Clancy, Nelson Demille.(The Lions Game!!!) so good....Dr Wayne Dyer..excellent spitiual readings/insights, Dan Brown.. ..The Digital Fortress was good...haven't read The Da Vinci Cide yet...should be awesome, there are soooo mnay I like...can't even think of half of em right now...LOL....will get back with you...........
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04-18-2006, 01:49 PM
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girls i need grit!!!....no nonsense romance...the more morbid and dark it is the better...mmmmsays a lot about my character doesnt it....hee hee..i did say i was looking at my dark side remember...
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04-18-2006, 05:32 PM
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Are you looking for something recovery-related? Eminently readable but still recovery-related is Caroline Knapp's Drinking, A Love Story. I know, for a fact, that I would not have 18 months without having read it. Intimate, not romantic, a very real look at a very real woman's very real struggle. Oooh, I can recommend it strongly enough. Think I'll go read it again myself. |
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04-19-2006, 05:33 AM
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You could call it grit, I think. It's very honest. But Knapp (who died fairly young of lung cancer, but still in recovery) was actually a local Boston writer of a "single-girl's-life-in-the-city" column. Can something be gritty and sort of ironically funny at the same time? There's alot of humor in this book. I really, really recommend it! |
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04-19-2006, 06:42 AM
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Purrdy.....think I found a gritty book for ya....my goodness.....took son to library yesterday......he got out a book.,decided to take a peek.it was from YA(young adult) section........first page a girl naked under covers, smelling something ....dead............on and on...LOL............... It's called The Unseen part 2 by Richie Tankersley Cusick.............
__________________ Many Hugs and Hope too, Tammie "Think of all the beauty still left around you and BE HAPPY." ~Anne Frank~ "Things do not change, WE change." ~Henry David Thoreau~ |
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04-19-2006, 08:55 AM
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I just finished a book yesterday which left me balling my head off (can't decide if it was a happy or sad ending--or both?) "Black and Blue" by Anna Quindlen. It was gritty alright--and full of suspense. I couldn't put it down, but it was a bit of an emotional drain. I'm still glad I read it--I love losing myself in a good book. OH, that Caroline Knapp book Gobi mentioned is SO GOOD! Knapp also wrote another one I enjoyed a lot--"Pack of Two" . --Kind of a memoir about her getting her life back together after the end of a longterm relationship. She adopts a dog from the SPCA, is in recovery, learning to live with herself, etc. | |
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