Empty Spot in My Purse
Today’s Mail: a red package from Netflix (the documentary Grizzly Man); a form letter from Merry Maids seeking my business (nope, I like the independent cleaners); bills and statements; statements and bills.
Bummer!
I’m waiting for my review copy of The Overachievers. I’m writing a book review on it for the August issue of Whole Life Times – which I’m super excited about – and my big, grand plan was to read it on the airplane this week. I have two 5-hour plane rides coming up. Two – and no book!
What am I going to do all squished up in that little blue seat?
So help! Recommend some great reads – your favorites – and I’ll try to get my hands on them before I leave. There's a big, empty spot waiting in my purse. The books can be something old or something new (hey, they can even be something borrowed or something blue (you know, as in sad)). Actually, I think Something Borrowed and Something Blue are actual book titles, but anyway, whatever you suggest, make sure it’s something good.
P.S. If you want to check out a few of my all time favorite books, click here. I’ll be updating this list by the end of the summer.

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The Red Tent,Anita Diamont(?)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen(?).
Where are you going, anyway?
8:25 PM
My Sister's Keeper
The Kite Runner
Bitter is the New Black
Prep
Torch
all the "Shopaholic" books
These are all GREAT, not all are literary masterpieces, but you asked for good, and these are GOOD!
9:00 AM
Vanishing Acts is pretty good fiction
The Devil Wears Prada author has a new book out - I can't think of the title
Psychodynamic Psychiarty in Clinical Practice - just kidding
9:47 AM
We just read "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" in book club and it was pretty good. If you read it then perhaps we can chat about it on the 12th!
4:00 PM
A recent favorite of mine was Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake." Her book of short stories - "Interpreter of Maladies" - is also great.
"Overachievers" looks interesting.
9:03 AM
Oh what to choose, what to choose . . .
All time favorites, "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Amy Tan, "Wicked" by Gregory MacGuire (disclaimer - it takes about 50 pages to get going), "Kite Runner" (as mentioned above), "East of Eden", "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck, "A Sweetness to the Soul" and "Love to Water my Soul" by Jane Kirkpatrick and "The Time Travelers Wife" by Audrey N____?
Good luck with this one!
11:00 PM
Thank you for these awesome recs. I just added a bunch of books to my "To Read" list.
9:03 PM
I'm a sun-phobic, heat-intolerant quintessential skinny white-girl--so of course, I love to every summer lie on my white linen slip covered sofa and read books on Africa: Mating (Norman Rush); Mortals (Norman Rush); The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver); The Constant Gardener (John LeCarre). Just a thought.
2:09 AM
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