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  What are you reading in August 2008?

  I just finished reading The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike (I didn't really like it.)
  
  Last night I just started reading Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman.

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  Jeanette S 

  Well so far this month I have read:
  Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
  Darkest Pleasure By Gena Showalter
  The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
  I am now finishing up Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  My next book in to read is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  
  

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    Melissa 

    Thanks Jeanette S, it sounds like a good book even if it is a tear-jerker. I think I will read it.

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  Melissa 

  I just finished reading Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman. It's a novel following the struggles of a newly divorced mother of two boys back in 1959/60. A nice read.
  
  Last night I started reading A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve.
  
  Jeanette S, what is The Painted Kiss about, the title caught my attention.

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    Jeanette S 

    The Painted Kiss is about a wealthy family with 3 daughters. The daughters after being introduced to an artist, 2 become involved in the world of art. This is a sad love story about a woman that never gives up on the man she loves and how she is devoted to him.
    Keep the kleenex beside you if you are going to read this one.

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  Jeanette S 

  I just finished Maid Marian by Elsa Watson.
  This was a really good book. I enjoyed the Robin Hood tale from Maid Marians perspective.

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    Melissa 

    I started reading Darkwater by Dorothy Eden.

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  Melissa 

  I just finished reading The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman last night and I really liked it! It’s an intriguing story revolving around two women named Esther, the grandmother Esther the white and the granddaughter Esther the black, and their family of misfits. Esther's son/father tries to drown himself every Summer. The landscaper Chen has been in love with Esther the white for over 20 years but has never said anything about it. Esther the white is full of ghosts from the past. Esther the black just wants to escape her grandmother’s control. This was a great read full of the stuff that makes families come together in time of need but also about the events that tears them apart at the seams.
  
  Before that I read Darkwater by Dorothy Eden. It’s a historical mystery novel. An interesting/intriguing read of the life of a young girl about to turn 21 years old and her adopted family who took her in after her parent’s death. Full of mysterious characters and suspenseful twists and turns. One of those books that leaves you wondering 'What is going on?' until the last few pages. I enjoyd reading it.
  

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  llachar (edited)

  The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed - Judy Shepard
  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
  Madame Secretary - Madeline Albright
  The Wisdom of Whores: : Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS - Jennifer Pisani
  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
  The Unforgiving Minute - Craig Mullaney
  The Argument - Matt Bai
  Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
  A Splendid Exchange: how trade shaped the world William Bernstein
  Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the 2nd Millennium - R Findlay & K O'Rourke
  South of Broad - Pat Conroy

  everything on the above list was very good. Cutting for Stone is gut-wrenching and also gory in parts.

  now reading
  three books on economics and
  The Family by Jeff Sharlet
  The Sand Castle - Rita Mae Brown

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