Summer all booked up?By Janis Fontaine, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Diane Bollinger Can't wait to read:Naked Prey by John Sandford and John Grisham's The King of Torts. Just finished reading: "I should say something intellectual, but I just
read a Mary Higgins Clark novel. One thing that's changed a lot is the love of
reading." (It's hard to compete with television and video games.) Can't wait to read: Mary Kay Andrews' Little Bitty Lies, coming out July 8. "It's the story of a woman whose husband leaves her and she has him declared dead, and then it gets interesting." Just finished: Persuader by Lee Child. The former military policeman Jack Reacher returns in another fast-paced thriller that "sucks you in from the first page. I stayed up until 3 a.m. finishing it." Angela Manfredi Can't wait to read: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek and Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor. She "just went to Barnes & Noble and got my summer reading fix. I am a big fan of biographies. I read mostly nonfiction." She also picked up a book on Monet and one on Leonardoda Vinci. But lest you think Angela is too cerebral, she also bought The Secret Lives of Cats by Ron and Val Lindahn. Tricia Cox Just finished:The Face by Dean Koontz. "It's really good. Back in his old style." Also recommends: Harlan Coben's No Second Chance and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Plus: "Want to be scared out of your wits?" Read Jinn by Matthew Delaney. "It's that good! You won't want to put it down, and when you do, you'll hear all the bumps in the night!" Kristin Nichols, Boynton Beach Can't wait to read: Janet Evanovich To the Nines. "And, of course, all the kids are anxiously awaiting the new Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Just finished:The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Highly recommends: Alice, I Think by Susan Juby. A first novel by a Canadian writer about a little girl who thinks she's a Hobbit. "Very funny. I loved it." This is a book that parents and kids could read together. Greg Rice Can't wait to read:A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein. "I like dirty, used houses, and this book is about how architecture and our working and living environment influences our daily life. I'm getting ready to remodel a little 1925 cottage and thought it might be useful." Just finished: Jimmy Buffet's A Pirate Looks at Fifty. "I read it at Atlantis -- the perfect setting! I'm not a fluff fiction guy. I can't tell you the last time I read a novel. I'm more interested in autobiographies and biographies." janis_fontaine@pbpost.com |
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