Sundays at Tiffany's

This was a really cute book about a woman who falls in love with the imaginary friend that she had as a child. It was really interesting just to imagine an imaginary friend. It talked in the book about how all children forget about their imaginary friend as soon as the friend leaves them. I know as a child I had an imaginary friend named Carrie. I know this only because my mom has told me, but yet I can not remember 1 little thing about her. Isn't that weird???
This book was another quick read, but was romantic. I always like reading James Patterson love stories.

Elizabeth Berg

I read another Elizabeth Berg book while I was on vacation for 4th of July. It was Pull of the Moon. This was about a woman who had decided to go out on her own for a while and do a road trip. It is about her finding herself again.

While I was on jury duty I had a lot of time to read. I read 3 Elizabeth Berg books in about 1 week. I told you, they are easy reading.

1. Joy School - This book was the sequel to the first book that I read of Elizabeth Berg's. It was about a young girl who is living with her Army dad in a new city. She is making new friends and finding love for the first time.

2. Open House - This book is about a woman whose husband has walked out on her and her 12 year old son. It is about her finding herself again without a man and finding some new friends and love along the way.

3. The Year of Pleasures - This book was about a woman who was moving to a new town after her husband died from cancer. He was the love of her life and she is pretty much lost without him. She finds her way back to some old college friends and makes some new friends in this new little town. It is a pretty good book.

After reading several of her books in a row, I still like them, but they are seem to be about kind of the same thing. They seem to all be about someone finding themselves and finding love. I need a little break from her right now.

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

This was a very moving and interesting book. It was about a school shooting in which the jocks of the school were shot and killed by a kid that they had picked on his whole school life. It made me really think about how kids are treated in school and how many of them get picked on. The week that I was reading this book I was having to set up appointments for a bunch of high school kids to get their fingerprints done so that they could work for us. They were all working for the tech department. Some were very shy and quiet and then there were a couple that were really loud and rude. I kept thinking the whole time they were in the office that the quiet ones were probably just like the shooter and could snap at any moment. The loud ones were like the jocks who were killed. This was a book that you should definately read as it really makes you think about what high school is like for some kids.

Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg

This book was about a young girl that lives with her military dad and teenage sister. Her mom died a few years earlier and left her with her abusive dad. It is just about her life. The daily life of a teenage girl who is friends who a girl next door. It is about her growing up and learning to live with her dad and make him happy. It was a very easy read (I read it in 1 day), but it now has me hooked on this author. I can't wait to read another one of her books!

The Rescue

This was another book by Nicholas Sparks. It was about a woman that was rescued in a car crash by a volunteer fireman. Her little boy does not speak and she stays at home to take care of him and teach him while also working night hours at a diner. It was Nicholas Spark's typical book where they fall in love with each other.

Sex, Romance and the Glory of God

This was a book that I got S to read while I was reading the Intimate Issues one. He wanted me to read it so that I could know what it said. It said all of the same things that my book had mentioned, it was just a lot shorter. This would be a good book for a guy to read though if he is not much of a reader.

As Nature Made Him

This book was kind of weird. I saw the guy on Oprah a few years ago, so when I saw the book on my sister's bookshelf I thought I would give it a try. It was about a little boy who had had a circumcision back in the 50's and something had gone wrong with it, so his parents decided to raise him as a girl. The problem was that he had a twin brother and he always had this feeling that there was something not right with him. Finally, when he was 15 his parents told him the truth about what had happened and he decided to go back to living as a boy. He has had several surgeries to repair everything and now he is married and has 3 adopted children. It was kind of a weird book and hard to read because there was a lot of medical stuff in there that I don't really get into. But overall, it was a good story.