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.

Water for Elephants

"A story of impossible love and a way of life lost forever. Orphaned, penniless, Jacob Jankowski jumps a freight train in the dark, and in that instant transforms his future... By Morning, he's landed a job with the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brother's Most Spectacular Show on Earth. By nightfall, he's in love. In an America made colourless by prohibition and the Depression, the circus is a refuge of sequins and sensuality. But behind the glamour lies a darker world, where both animals and men are dispensible. Where falling in love is the most dangerous act of all..."


For June. :)

Sh*t My Dad Says

"After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him."


This will be the next book to read from March-May. :)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

"Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption."

I'm going to start reading this book soon. Please read it as well and post back what you think. I think I'll change books in March. Happy Reading!