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Anonymous wrote:For one under the fun, summer beach read category - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. Just finished it the other night and couldn't put it down. Fun, easy read.

Not OP, but I'm glad you liked it - I think I'm going to try Eligible this summer!

NP. I haven't read Eligible yet but Sittenfeld is one of my FAVORITE authors. Try her other book American Wife -- fiction based on the life of Laura Bush -- it's a fun, easy, juicy page turner.

She's one of mine too! Any recommendations for similar reads now that I've read all of hers?

The Girl with all the Gifts

What She Knew
• An eight year old goes missing, just a few feet from where his mother was. He seemingly just vanished into thin air, without a single piece of evidence left behind.

Many blame his mother while others are strongly suspected by the authorities.

The reader's own suspicions fluctuate from character to character until the ending.

Book's suspenseful pace starts off with a bang, then moves quickly throughout. The final chapters move at breakneck speed and the conclusion is really unexpected.

I lost a lot of sleep staying up late reading this A++ book.
And so will you.

Orphan #8
• As a child, a little girl grows up in Orphanages in the 1920s.
Back then, the children were used so that unscrupulous physicians could perform in humane medical experiments on.

Well when she gets older she works as a nurse and finds herself caring for the aging Dr. who performed such experiences on her.
Interesting now, the tables are turned per say and it is up to the nurse to seek revenge from this evil former physician who performed unthinkable experiments on her as a child......So horrible in fact that the nurse still bears the physical scars & after effects 35 years later and may even be dying herself over all the residual damage done unto her back then.

http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Rules-Love-Novel-Rumi/dp/0143118528

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
by Elif Shafak

OP, here. Thank you! I am not looking for light or so-called beach reads, just something utterly engrossing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For one under the fun, summer beach read category - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. Just finished it the other night and couldn't put it down. Fun, easy read.

Not OP, but I'm glad you liked it - I think I'm going to try Eligible this summer!

NP. I haven't read Eligible yet but Sittenfeld is one of my FAVORITE authors. Try her other book American Wife -- fiction based on the life of Laura Bush -- it's a fun, easy, juicy page turner.

Margaret Atwood's trilogy Oryx and Crake. Sooooo good.

Second Station Eleven.

Loved Book Thief

Jane Smiley's triology (Iowa)

Kate Atkinson's Life after Life and God in Ruins

Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Invention of Wings

Orphan Master's Son

Longbourn

Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies

Just a few of my faves!

Orphan Master's Son

Anonymous wrote:I just started Modern Lovers by Emma Straub. It's good. Definitely better than I expected, given how I've learned not to expect much whenever a book is promoted beyond all get-out. (Exhibit A: Sweetbitter. Which I thought suckedass).

Really. That is such a vile expression.

Anonymous wrote:Liane Moriarty books are awesome: Big Little Lies, Whag Alice Forgot

Have you read Gone with the Wind? I read that for the first time a couple summers ago and absolutely loved it. I couldn't put it down. Huge book and I carried it with me everywhere.

FFS

+1 for the nightingale.

This is not light-hearted at all, but The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah was amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Liane Moriarty books are awesome: Big Little Lies, Whag Alice Forgot

Have you read Gone with the Wind? I read that for the first time a couple summers ago and absolutely loved it. I couldn't put it down. Huge book and I carried it with me everywhere.

Oh my gosh, are you me? ?

I love Liane Moriarty. And I think Gone with the Wind is so good it's annoying.

I read Gone with the Wind during medical leave a couple years ago and couldn't believe how good it was!

Anonymous wrote:I would appreciate any and all recommendations. Has anyone recommend Kate Morton? Recommend?

I tried to read one of the Kate Morton books but it was so slow I couldn't get through it. I know other people like it.

I just read The Light Between Oceans and found it compelling.

I just started Modern Lovers by Emma Straub. It's good. Definitely better than I expected, given how I've learned not to expect much whenever a book is promoted beyond all get-out. (Exhibit A: Sweetbitter. Which I thought suckedass).