Molly....You go girl Glad to see everyone making use of the areas for their interests.

if a male can get a couple of words in sideways, my wife and her sister go to rumage sales quite often and she brings me books by the bagfull, any and all kinds. I sometimes find myself reading what you are calling chic-lit books and some of them are very well written. I can enjoy any kind of book if it has a decent story and is well written. Currently i probably have about a thousand pocket type books and about 500 hardcovers, i have everything and anything from westerns to science friction to romance to spy stories to alternate future stories, you get the picture i think. Being retired i have lots of time for reading so i sometimes read a couple of books per day. As long as my eyes hold up i will continue to do so. I have quite a few talking books also but i don't seem to enjoy them as much. Have a good day.

she doesn't get them from garage sales, at least not very often. Where i live, (michigan, north of detroit) we have rummage sales usually run by local churches where everything and anything can be bought. Stuff is donated so prices are generally low. You can get a supermarket type brown paper bag full for a dollar, which will average 6 or 8 interesting books per bag. Both my wife and her sister drive dodge caravan mini vans so they can haul a lot of bags of whatever they buy. They enjoy doing it so what the hay, half of their fun is sorting thru the stuff after they haul it home.

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KIL recommended Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.. Books in the series -  One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to get Deadly, Four the Score, High Five, Hot Six, Seven Up, Hard Eight, Visions of Sugar Plums(this one is a x-mas one but it part of the series), To the Nines, Ten Big Ones, Eleven on Top, Twelve Sharp I'm going to check them out when I get a chance.

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Wow thats a long series!  I still havent been to the library yet but when I go Ill prob get the one you suggested and maybe one of these. 

I cant wait to go to Mich. on vaca in Sept.  There is a used book store thats super cheap and my cousins have a lot of credit there.  Dont get them for free anymore but the fee is really minimal.  My cousins are always like...go nuts!  And it has a pretty good selection.  Last year when I was there the library was also having a book sale...I scored pretty good.

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I'm reading "To the Nines". I know it's a little out of order but I was helping my friend unpack today and that's the book she has so I'm borrowing it.

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how do you like the book so far Island?

And I'm reading eleven on top - and I never knew here was a place that existed where nearly everyone owned a gun, even old ladies going to funerals have guns to pull out on each other when one of them gives their grand daughter the evil eye...

MY coworkers don't say anything, but I wonder what they must think when I's sitting there snickering and sometimes guffawing. I also am reading J.D.Rpbb - Remmeber When which seems to be pretty good. 

Between the two, I've been having dreams now of mystry murders and stalkers who mail me pictures of my friends and threaten to kill them and some wide shouldered bo0yfriend to crumble into tears on. I kept wondering why I was having these stupid dreams, then I remmebered ... oh, I'm reading these two books and both have stalkers in them and boyfriends and guns and stuff.....    

I keep wanting to go to the library but I haven't had a chance yet. I need to check out the used book stores too.

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And I'm reading eleven on top - and I never knew here was a place that existed where nearly everyone owned a gun, even old ladies going to funerals have guns to pull out on each other when one of them gives their grand daughter the evil eye... MY coworkers don't say anything, but I wonder what they must think when I's sitting there snickering and sometimes guffawing.

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warning! do not read the Evanovich books around other people b/c they will start to think that you are going crazy b/c you are laughing so much

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KateisLost wrote:  warning! do not read the Evanovich books around other people b/c they will start to think that you are going crazy b/c you are laughing so much Yeah, it was funny... I started reading the book at my friend's house. We were all in the living room and two of my friends were watching tv when I opened the book and started reading. It was about a minute and I started laughing and my friend was impressed that it was that funny so soon. She said "you just opened it and you're laughing already?". Even though she had the book, she hasn't read it yet because she's got tons of books.

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just wait till you read the rest of the books, you will be LOL

I read a really fun book called "Time Off for Good Behavior" by Lani Diane Rich.

Kinda of a good book to read right now for me as the main character just turned 32 (Im not quite there yet btw) and is starting to figure out that she doesnt want her life to keep going the way it is, and how to change it.

I really appreciated how Wanda cursed a lot and still got the great guy in the end.  I guess there is hope for me yet.

Ok I read Evanovich 1, 2, and 3.  I got 1 & 2 from a used book store in Mich. and I broke down and bought 3.  I owe the library money right now so I cant check anything out and now all I want to do is read the rest of the series.  I got about a dozen books when I was up there and Ive already finished them all.

Now what do i do?