[Ilikemyscarf]

Career Paths in Psychology - something something Sternberg.

[iSHi]

Originally Posted by Deel

i'm reading..............this thread .

anyone care to summarize Girls of Riyadh for me?
i need a good book to read for the month off of school coming up

4(or was it 5) friends. Who are from Riyadh. True story of their lives. I thoght it was going to be like bashing the shariah laws and all that, but it was the complete opposite. Good read.

[Spice]

Anyone read Girls of Riyadh?

[iSHi]

Spice, do you read threads or just post?! lol

[Spice]

Originally Posted by iSHi

Spice, do you read threads or just post?! lol

like omigawdd! your so funny and stuff.

Anyway, there was no mention of the book in the last few pages, and Im not sure I'd want to read the entire thread.

[iSHi]

Originally Posted by iSHi

thought i had posts in here, must've been pre-crash.


Girls of Riyadh was great. I'll post others later.

Page 9, Which is the page before this one.

[Spice]

Damn.
sleep deprived

Anyway, Im going to drop by the library tomorrow and see if I can find the book,

[Faithy]

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes...

I miss reading my novels

[Bluestar]

Eric by Terry Pratchett

[shadha]

So yayyyyyy, with my job, I am able to bring home two books for up to 14 days for free. Yesterday I took home a NYT Bestseller, The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright. Beautiful book. He writes very similarly to Nicholas Sparks but without all the sappiness. I finished it within a few hours, great read, highly recommended.

"From Publishers Weekly
In the wake of his bestselling Christmas Jars comes a sweetly crafted story from Wright, a Virginia businessman. Jack and Laurel Cooper are two hardworking, loving Christian pillars of the community who die in each other's arms one night in the bed-and-breakfast that they own and operate. The event calls their three grown children home for the funeral, including their youngest son, a fugitive from the law who must face an outstanding warrant for his arrest and confront his one true love, now engaged to another man. As events unfold around the funeral, the three children discover a treasure trove of family history in the form of Wednesday letters-notes that Jack wrote to his wife every single week of their married lives. As they read, the children brush across the fabric of a devoted marriage that survived a devastating event kept secret all these years. It's a lovely story: heartening, wholesome, humorous, suspenseful and redemptive. It resonates with the true meaning of family and the life-healing power of forgiveness all wrapped up in a satisfying ending."



Tonight I brought home another NYT Bestseller, The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards.

"This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love."--- Sounds incredible! I'm so excited to dig in.



I also picked up the bestseller, Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos.
"From Publishers Weekly

Philadelphia cafe manager Cornelia Brown drifts effortlessly through her unattached life, unapologetic for idealizing romance and breathlessly recommending The Philadelphia Story—to the reader and everyone else. Eleven-year-old Clare is a child of divorce whose mother, a successful party planner, is quickly going to pieces. In alternating chapters of Cornelia's first person and Clare's free and direct third, poet de los Santos, making her novel debut, tells the story of their finding each other. That Cornelia, early on, immediately falls for Cary Grant doppelgänger Martin Grace is no surprise; his relation to Clare, revealed a third of the way in, isn't really either. As she discovers maternal instincts she wasn't sure she had, Cornelia works up the courage to face her own feelings for Clare with honesty. As Martin exits, Cornelia's childhood friend Teo enters, but neither makes much impact, and Clare's rather serious issues get reduced to Clare-did-this, Clare-thought-that episodes. The two main characters exist for one purpose: to enact a cross-generational, strong-but-vulnerable-and-loving, screenplay-ready femininity. Chick lit? You bet: with rights sold in at least eight countries, and, indeed, to Paramount—Sarah Jessica Parker will star and coproduce with Sideways's Michael London. The book is fine, but for this property, it's a case of waiting for Carrie to walk in."---- Sounds fun.





shadha-

[Deel]

Shadha, i don't get Love Walked In
but let us know how the others go

[shadha]

Lol, you don't get the plot?

I started the memory keepers daughter last night-- it's starting off as a slow read. The author is very detailed, which isn't my cup of tea. Describe within a couple of words, a few sentences at most, but not paragraphs. I'm hoping it's just the beginning of the book boredom syndrome.


shadha-

[slime]

winter break reading list:

i put I am America by Stephen Colbert on hold.
also this: Amazon.com: Jennifer Government: Books: Max Barry cuz it looked interesting

any recommendations? i'd like to read some non-fiction political stuff

[shadha]

Oki. I can't bring myself to read past page 67. The Memory Keepers Daughter is just ridiculously detailed to the point of pure boredom. It's such a shame because the actual plot itself is so deep and thrilling.


shadha-

[Rain]

Originally Posted by shadha

Lol, you don't get the plot?

I started the memory keepers daughter last night-- it's starting off as a slow read. The author is very detailed, which isn't my cup of tea. Describe within a couple of words, a few sentences at most, but not paragraphs. I'm hoping it's just the beginning of the book boredom syndrome.


shadha-

you should just scan through those paragraphs.