book recommendations needed!

[softrock_star]

um, so packing a toddler for a week on a caribbean island is way more difficult than it initially seems. like, there's a suitcase for me, dave & nika, and then there's two for violet. and her clothes are tiny! it's really the diapers, swim diapers, formula (no organic whole milk in the caribbean), bedding, playpen, and toys! that are taking up all

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[girlwithacurl]

Read "The Tale of Desperaux" or "The Journey of Edward Tulane" to Violet. Both are very good and uplifting, though Edward Tulane has a very different feel to its uplift. Kind of bittersweet?

Go back and read Anne of Green Gables for fun if you haven't already. I just read it to Allie and it was fun to read again.

Cordelia's Honor by Louis McMaster-Bujold and start the Miles Vorkosigan series that I promise you will enjoy. And yes, I know every teenager in the world has read the Twilight series and its oh so pop-culture right now - but if you haven't read them they are fun and lusty and pretty easy reads.

[ponks19]

What kind of books do you usually like to read?

The last few completions for me have been:

The Twilight Saga

Beyond the Sky and the Earth

The Gum Thief

Watchmen

[ponks19]

Forgot to add...Beyond the Sky and the Earth was my Dominican read over Christmas and I really enjoyed it (although it did make me learn a bit more than I wanted to know about one of my colleagues - she wrote it)

[sholanda]

oh, twilight. it's good for beach reading.

and i like john steinbeck. east of eden was good, i think grapes of wrath was better.

have you read barbara kingsolver? love her.

the time traveller's wife was really good. audrey heffnegger or something is her name.