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Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
Beth Lisick
William Morrow, 2008
beth lisick rocks!
+ HELP yourself to BETH LISICK's insight!
+ Quite readable and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny
+ Fun, smart, laugh-out-loud read
+ One of the better books I've read in a while
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Remember Me?
Sophie Kinsella
The Dial Press, 2008
First Time Kinsella Reader
+ I loved it!
+ Loved it
This was my first Sophie Kinsella book and it won't be my last. The story was well written and kept me turning the pages even while stopped in traffic. Really enjoyed the situation the heroine found herself in.
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Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love
Cathy Day
Free Press, 2008
A Great Book for Everyone
+ Football + Love = Indianapolis
+ A Must-Read For Anyone Trying To Understand Modern Life
+ An inspiring, thought-provoking read -- even if you're a dude
+ Beautifully honest look at dating...and football
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Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
Marie Brenner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Got a sibling?
+ A Classic Memoir
+ The best summer read ..or for any season.
What a remarkable read. Families are always complicated and sometimes wonderous
and Marie Brenner has seen it, felt it and shares it all. I can't wait to get into bed each night
to treat myself to a few more chapters.
I'll hate to see the last page coming.
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First Impressions: What You Don't Know About How Others See You
Ann Phd Demarais, Valerie Phd White
Bantam, 2005
Very Well Written Book
+ Very insightful book.
+ Brilliant and simple
I bought this book after listening to Dr. Demarais on NPR. This is a very well written and easy to read book with good concepts that you need to put into practice. Therefore, I wish the authors come out with an abridged audio version to listen to again and again because you need to get these ideas ...
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Dirty Girls on Top
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
St. Martin's Press, 2008
Couldn't wait to read this book
+ Dynamic Dirty Girls
+ Great sequel
I couldn't wait to start the book and wasn't disappointed. One thing I love about Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is the way she describes a character's thoughts. She can capture ordinary, typical thoughts similar to my own and get them down on paper so accurately and so eloquently. She did this throughout ...
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Certain Girls: A Novel
Jennifer Weiner
Atria, 2008
Weiner Delivers a Range of Emotions and Likeable Characters - Recommended!
+ Lacks the magic
+ Another exquisite book; this time the story of Cannie Shapiro from Good in Bed continues...
+ A Beautiful Act of Insight
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Manic: A Memoir
Terri Cheney
William Morrow, 2008
Frightening and Riviting
+ Terri Cheney's profound, shocking, and insightful tale
This is a riveting first-person account written by a successful person who breaks down myths regarding mental illness, bipolar disorder and other mental mythologies.
The reader is hastily dragged at manic speed through episodes of the author's life. Hard to believe, yet, apparently true, the ...
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Sweet Love
Sarah Strohmeyer
Dutton Adult, 2008
From S. Krishna's Books
+ It's all about relationships
+ Sweet Love by Sarah Strohmeyer
+ Good beach read!
+ Not her typical story line
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The Beach House
Jane Green
Viking Adult, 2008
The Beach House
+ It Was Like I Was There Myself!
+ Good Book But The Wrong Country!
Good book - entertaining but not too deep. The perfect book to read at the beach!
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Girls in Trucks
Katie Crouch
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Great read!
+ i liked it....
honest look into the life of a girl struggling with insecurity and solitude in a world with a seemingly perfect population.
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Love the One You're With
Emily Giffin
St. Martin's Press, 2008
pretty good.
+ read it in a week!
+ Couldn't put it down
+ I love Emily!
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A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy
Sara Bongiorni
Wiley, 2007
Good read that makes you think
+ Engaging read
I really enjoyed reading abut this family's attempt to avoid buying from China. The way in which they approach the challenge was very realistic...the reluctant husband, the concerned, but not too "militant" wife, and the friends and relatives who were a mix of supportive and ridiculing. It was very ...
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The Gatecrasher
Madeleine Wickham
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
Neither Devil Nor Angel
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed all the Sophie Kinsella novels, I decided to try the Madeleine Wickhams. So far I've read Cocktails for Three and The Gatecrasher. Although they are not as light in tone, they are enertaining and are quite fast reads. Her older books are harder to find in ...
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A Good Indian Wife: A Novel
Anne Cherian
W.W. Norton & Company, 2008
loved this book
+ Well done, very realistic
+ An Indian-American Romance
I really enjoyed this book. I felt it gave insight into the Indian family, culture and arranged marriage. I hope if she writes another she is more descriptive of the food as I had no idea what things were that they ordered in restaurants. I was reminded of Amy Tan's books that explored the Chinese ...
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