[SmilingBluEyes]

This one is GREAT ( I am reading right now)

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...04108323&itm=1

Closer to the Light: Learning from Near Death Experiences of Children
Melvin L. Morse, With Paul Perry, Foreword by Raymond A. Moody

FROM THE PUBLISHER
The skeptics have had their say; now listen to the experts. In hundreds of interviews with children who had once been declared clinically dead, Dr. Morse found that children too young to have absorbed our adult views and ideas of death, share first-hand accounts of out-of-body travel, telepathic communication and encounters with dead friends and relatives. Finally illuminating what it is like to die, here is proof that there is that elusive "something" that survives "bodily death."
"New information on what may await us after death...Responsible, highly readable, and certainly thought-provoking."


(It's a good one!)

[thumperRN]

Anyone like Janet Evanovich? LOVE her Stephanie Plum series!! Can't wait for the next one!!! They are so hilarious - ex-lingerie salesman turned bounty hunter. There were several times, I thought I'd pee myself!!

[psychonurse]

Well I have been reading Patricia Cornwell...reading "The Last Precinent" right now. I read these out of order but that is okay, the next one of hers that I need to read is "Predator" but I will wait. I have Steven Kings "The Cell" to read and Grishams "The Broker". I am really a big fan of Ann Rules just finished the book on the Green River Killer...not sure what I am going to read next....

[Meerkat]

OK..I'm in the middle of Memoirs of a Geisha. It's ok, but a bit tedious.
Just finished The Glass Castle, which I LOVED. It's a memoir of a girl whose parents were vagabonds, naturalists, anarchists and their beliefs led them to seriously neglect their children. Case in point: ONe time the girl's uncle fondles her, and when she tell her mother, the mother says 'Oh poor Stanley. He's so lonely. You know, women make such a big deal out of this, but molestation is a crime of perception. If you don't think you were hurt, you weren't." Really out there stuff. And somehow this girl beat it all to become a great author.

[WickedRedRN]

Originally Posted by thumperRN

Anyone like Janet Evanovich? LOVE her Stephanie Plum series!! Can't wait for the next one!!! They are so hilarious - ex-lingerie salesman turned bounty hunter. There were several times, I thought I'd pee myself!!

I LOVE her! Stephanie Plum makes me laugh out loud..people think I am nuts when I just bust out, but I can't help it, she is so FUNNY!

[bethin]

Originally Posted by Meerkat

OK..I'm in the middle of Memoirs of a Geisha. It's ok, but a bit tedious.
Just finished The Glass Castle, which I LOVED. It's a memoir of a girl whose parents were vagabonds, naturalists, anarchists and their beliefs led them to seriously neglect their children. Case in point: ONe time the girl's uncle fondles her, and when she tell her mother, the mother says 'Oh poor Stanley. He's so lonely. You know, women make such a big deal out of this, but molestation is a crime of perception. If you don't think you were hurt, you weren't." Really out there stuff. And somehow this girl beat it all to become a great author.

Oh, I loved The Glass Castle!! Another great book is Lucky by Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones. It's her story of how she was raped as a college student, how her family reacted and how she perserved to point out her rapist on a street and see him through a conviction. In the book she says "no one can save you but yourself." Wise words.

I'm really getting into The Historian. I'm up to page 50 of 700 pages! I can tell it's going to be a really good mystery.

[bethin]

Originally Posted by thumperRN

Anyone like Janet Evanovich? LOVE her Stephanie Plum series!! Can't wait for the next one!!! They are so hilarious - ex-lingerie salesman turned bounty hunter. There were several times, I thought I'd pee myself!!

I love that series! I love it so much that when I was working during the week I would request the day off when her newest book came out. I'm a sucker for Ranger. He makes me melt.

[donster]

I just started "Nurses, The Human Touch" by Michael Brown, RN. I'm a couple of chapters in, and it's wonderfully researched and well written.

[DDRN4me]

My philosophy texts and Plato. Can't wait till the semester is over so i can enjoy some "fluff" reading.... I love Patricia Cornwell; as well as the Sue Grafton series (M is for Murder, etc.. my respite family has the latest one waiting for me as i am working for them this weekend!)

[JBudd]

Originally Posted by cyberkat

Are the fairy tales similar to the ones like "Wicked"? Rewriting the tales seems to be the trend these days. along with the Templar/Vatican/Conspiracy books.

I haven't read "Wicked". These are in the genre of Elemental Masters, Earth, Fire, Air and Water. Fire masters make friends with salamanders, Water with merfolk, etc. Can be good or evil. One even has a takeoff on Lord Peter Wimsey, from Dorothy Sayers' mysteries! Has a thinly disguised Lord Peter being an Air Master , as a secondary character, not the protagonist.