June's Book of the Month!!!

Okay, girls, time for nominations! :)

Please do a post nominating 1-3 books that you're wanting to read so we can vote!

Please do this by Wednesday midnight.

Thanks so much!!!

Can't wait to see what you girls come up with!!! :)

The Love Season

I'm pretty much on a mission this summer to read everything Elin Hilderbrand has ever written.

Seriously.

Her stories are so engrossing and non-stop.

Love them.

This one was no different. This whole novel was centered around ONE DAY.

I read this whole thing while I was flying Friday. It was great, I highly recommend it. :)

:(

I feel crappy because I haven't been a faithful Book Nooker the past few months....I have tried, I really have! However, I went from working 2 days a week to 3, often 4, sometimes 5 days a week and so, there went my stolen moments of "me time"! :( AND, my husband broke a vertebrae in his back last weekend water skiing, and it has been INSANELY busy for me: working, taking care of his every need, our 2 lil boys, and ALL the household chores. I just want all of you that post and review books on here know that I appreciate all your posts. Some of the books discussed here are ones that I have eyeballed and wondered if I would like, but uneasy to give them a try not knowing if they were good;) ps I gave The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo a good shot, I got 75ish pages in, though, and had to let it go.......just not an "escaping" read to me:( Books have to grab me and hold me (with not much thought process involved apparently, LOL) or I just can't do it...funny, though, because I did enjoy Olive Kitteridge and some others didn't love it...oh, well..just sharing. Keep up the posts, ladies, I do enjoy and appreciate them!

Those Who Save Us

I started reading this book next since I already owned it. I'm on page 95 and I think it's pretty good so far. The book alternates between the story of mother Anna during WWII and the current story of her daughter Trudy and their difficult relationship. How is everyone liking the other book? I have it downloaded on my Kindle so I will moving on to it next.

Sarah's Key

Based on recommendation from someone in this group (I believe it was Candace) I bought this book and recommended it as my other books club's book for May. It was the one selected (it barely beat out Let the Great World Spin). I just finished it this morning and oh my gosh I so loved this book. I was hooked from the very first chapter. I loved the alternating chapters in the beginning and usually books like that I'm interested in one story more than the other and can't wait to finish the chapter so I can get back to the really good story. That was not the case with this book, I was interested in both the past and present story. If there is anyone that has not read this book yet I definitely recommend it.

A Summer Affair and Summer People

Elin Hilderbrand is my new FAVORITE author.

No doubts. No questions. No kidding.

She is A-MAZING.

This book...

touched me so... I could identify with every character's inner struggles and turmoil. The events were so real, the story... unforgettable.

When I finished this book sitting in my chair on the beach, late Saturday afternoon, I literally hugged it to my chest and kissed it. I'm pretty sure I've never kissed a book before.

'Summer People' is what I picked up a few hours after I finished 'A Summer Affair'.

It's also SO GOOD!!! I can't get over this author and her ability to created these dynamic characters and weave a story SO PERFECTLY.

I HIGHLY recommend both of these as well as 'Barefoot', which I blogged about last week.

I intend to read every book this author has written.

They are THAT. GOOD.

Let the Great World Spin

So, I kind of had to cheat and read this one last week because it is due back to the library on Monday and I couldn't renew it because so many people want it. I REALLY liked it. Not sure if it's going to wow a lot of you so I wanted to give everyone a head's up. It's got some dark subject material and it isn't really a "happy" book. It's centered in New York City in the 70s and deals with slew of different characters similar to the storyline in "Olive Kitteridge". Unlike Olive though, all the characters are connected somehow (except a few, which I'm still trying to figure out how/why they were included). Each character is explored in depth and seems so real. I thought it was fantastic and hope you do too :-)

Somebody PLEASE!!!!

Tell me 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' gets BETTER!

PLEASE!!

I paused in the middle of 'The Glass Castle' yesterday to start this book and it's killing me so far!

I think I read around 30 pgs last night and I finally put it down, because I realized I was reading, but not taking in any of the information. I was having to read pages over and over.

This book has gotten so much excellent praise, I feel like it HAS to start getting good at some point.... I'd just like to know when that point is...

Barefoot

Girls.

Read this. You won't regret it. It's excellent from the very start. The characters are dynamic and engaging and very easy to identify with.

I loved every sentence of this book and I can't wait to read more from this author!!

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Has anyone started???? I know it's the weekend and people are proabably out doing something fun :-), but I've started and it's good. Really good. The first 50 pages were kind of rough...I thought it was going to be kind of boring, but I think they set the stage for stuff to come, because once I got into it, I can't put it down. Hopefully you like it too :-)