The Girlfriend Curse

Fiction by Valerie Frankel


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A fun --and funny-- romance story.



Other books I've read recently by this author: It's Hard Not to Hate You
(I've also read The Accidental Virgin, which was funny and engaging as well.)

Dilemma

Subtitled: A Priests's Struggle with Faith and Love.
Nonfiction by Father Albert Cutie.


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Okay, first off... Is this dude not the HOTTEST priest ever???

Sorry. It had to be said.

But seriously, folks....

I was interested in this guy's story. I mean, leaving the priesthood for love? What's more romantic than that? (Besides the whole Prince Edward/Wallis Simpson thing.)

Anyways, this was a good book, although I skimmed some parts. I was definitely more interested in the romance than the spiritual crisis. Sorry. Just being honest.

A Woman Like That

Fiction by Susan Richards Shreve


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This was a great book which I read in one day. Seriously.

It's not new (copyright 1977) and there's not much information about it on the page at barnesandnoble.com. But this was a really absorbing story about a tragic bunch of people.

I recommend it.

Roses

Fiction by Leila Meacham.


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Good book. This is definitely what one calls an "epic saga."

Click to check out another good book I recently read by this author: Tumbleweeds

You Had Me at Goodbye

Fiction by Tracey Bateman.


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A nice lighthearted romance story.

The Sisters

Fiction by Nancy Jensen.


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Good story; the ending was not as I'd expected. It swept over a long period of time a little too quickly though.

Daddy's Gone A Hunting

Fiction by Mary Higgins Clark.


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A good quick read. Mary Higgins Clark is always fun.



Other books I've read recently by this author: The Lost Years

Unexpectedly Milo

Fiction by Matthew Dicks.


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Milo is a strange but likeable guy, and this is a funny and interesting story.

Call it "quirky."

The Dovekeepers

Fiction by Alice Hoffman.


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I've been working on reading this for three weeks. It's got a great premise; it's a historical novel about the fortress of Masada, where 900 Jews fled Jerusalem after it was destroyed by the Romans in  in 70 A.D.

But I just canNOT get interested in this book. I'm giving up halfway through.

Sorry. It's just too sad. Maybe if I were more intellectual...

The Giver

Youth fiction by Lois Lowry.


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My eighth-grade daughter is reading this book, so I thought I'd read it too.

It's one of those futuristic-oppressed-utopian-society books.

It definitely makes you think.