Need some good summer reads!

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Hi!

Just finished nursing school yesterday! I'm so excited to be finished and to hopefully get some semblance of a life back. :loveya: I love reading, and I am really glad to have the free time to read something other than textbooks and journal articles. Can anyone suggest some fun books for the summer? I would like to get my hands on something with a medical or nursing focus, but that's got more of a humorous or light feel to it. Thanks for any suggestions and happy summer!

_Erin

Specializes in Psych..

Every time I hear something about the flu on the news, I think about The Stand, by Stephen King. I love that man's writings, and I plan on re-reading The Stand very soon.

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Sorry, not on goodreads.com. I meant to include Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson novels, too) Hope you enjoy whatever books you read:)

(Sorry if I replied to this wront, still new to the message thread posting)

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Stellina615 - Congrats of finishing NS! I totally can relate - I remember being so siked to read a fiction book again. Lots of good suggestions out there - one of my favs is Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum series - so funny and a great summer read. Also good - Secret Life of Bees, The Lovely Bones, The Glass Castle, and any Mitch Albom books (for a good cry!) Best of luck to you, and have a great summer!

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Specializes in Rehab, Infection, LTC.

i just finished The Appeal by john grisham and loved it! i'm currently reading his new one, The Associate.

my boss and i love to read so we swap books constantly. every summer we try to pick a couple authors we havent read yet and then i pick all their books up at our used book store and we read them all summer. i've started us out on john grisham this yearso far and i think im gonna add robert ludlum to that list too.

i'm a huge fan of john sanford too!

and of course anything by....

patricia cornwell

tess gerriston

iris johansen

tami hoag

i love this thread! great ideas in here.

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Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

Congrats on finishing NS! You earned a month of doing nothing but reading for pure pleasure!

I want to throw in some names I haven't seen and am very surprised by it:eek: Nora Roberts is an incredible writer! Angel Falls, Montana Sky, High Noon, then there are her series books, Seaswept is the start of one of my favorites. I love that her characters are not always perfect. My husband even enjoyed her Lifetime movies over the last two seasons, but the books are 20x better.

Julie Garwood is another favorite of mine. Love, love, love her historical stuff, not as much the newer books.

Stefanie Plum series was just recently mentioned by a previous poster (by Janet Evanovich.) I always read her books straight through, where else can you read about a gun toten granny, a 6'4 cross dresser and Lulu. Need I say more? Oh, yeah. Ranger and Joe :D

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