The Lucky One

"When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. Instead, he brings it back to the base for someone to claim, but when no one does, he finds himself always carrying the photo in his pocket. Soon Thibault experiences a sudden streak of luck—winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat that kills two of his closest buddies. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph—his lucky charm.
Back home in Colorado, Thibault can’t seem to get the photo—and the woman in it—out of his mind. Believing that she somehow holds the key to his destiny, he sets out on a journey across the country to find her, never expecting the strong but vulnerable woman he encounters in Hampton, North Carolina—Elizabeth, a divorced mother with a young son—to be the girl he’s been waiting his whole life to meet. Caught off guard by the attraction he feels, Thibault keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate and all-consuming love affair, the secret he is keeping will soon threaten to tear them apart—destroying not only their love, but also their lives.
Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, The Lucky One is Nicholas Sparks at his best—an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love."

For August.

50 Shades of Grey

"When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever."

Added read if you're interested.

The Help

"Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home with a degree from Ole Miss, but her mother won't be happy until she has a ring on her finger. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue so she can't keep a job. It's 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and a way the women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another."

For June

The Hunger Games

"Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place."

For March... bonus points if you read the series. :)

Books to Read

So, I've decided to take a couple months off from reading any specific books. I haven't had a whole lot of time to read for fun lately and October - December is a pretty hectic time around my house. But, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to read... oh no. I'm asking for a Kindle or a Nook for Christmas this year so by January I hope to have a good library going. I've asked for reading suggestions, and this is what I've come up with:

The Miss Julia Novels by Ann B. Ross

The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne

Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck (Third book in the Tiger Saga)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Yes, I know I've already posted about this book, but I'm going to give it another good try before giving up on it completely.)

The Janet Evanovich Series that all have numbers in the title

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

That's just a few, and I plan on blogging about some of those. If you have more ideas, please comment below so we all can benefit. :)

Other books/series I've read that I liked:

The Southern Vampire Novels by Charlaine Harris (These are the books that True Blood is based on) 

Tiger's Curse and Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck

The Alex Cross Series by James Patterson

The House of Night Novels by P.C. Cast (That's if you're interested in the vampire schtuff)

The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory

The Giver by Lois Lowry (Haven't read this one since grade school? Read it again, you'll be amazed at how different it is reading it as an adult.)

Happy reading, and I'll talk to you again in January. :)

Eat Pray Love

 

" By the time she turned thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern, educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want - a husband, a house in the country, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love and the complete eradication of everything she ever though she was supposed to be.

To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, left her loved ones behind and undertook a year-long journey around the world, all alone. Eat Pray Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year."

For October...

Tiger's Curse

"The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world.

But that's exactly what happened.

Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever."


This book will be for August.