i <3 my kindle

I just finished The Help and loved every moment of it! I'm going to try and read a book a week to make up for the three and a half years of business school that prevented me from reading for pleasure!

So, please help me find my second kindle book!

Everyone keeps telling me to read Water for Elephants but I am just not digging the premise for some reason....not really into the circus....ehh....am I just being silly?

TIA!

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I just started reading 'The Help' the other day, and I'm absolutely loving it!

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Posted by JAAMS

I just started reading 'The Help' the other day, and I'm absolutely loving it!

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Jenn, I am so jealous you are just starting it! You will enjoy it soooooooooooooooooo much! Have fun!!! xo

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Loved the help... absolutely loved it... i would do a G2G to see that movie...

and Water for Elephants is nothing like the description... ITS AWESOME!!!!

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Posted by AngnShaun

Loved the help... absolutely loved it... i would do a G2G to see that movie...

and Water for Elephants is nothing like the description... ITS AWESOME!!!!

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There is a movie of The Help?!?!?!? ANG?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

Okay, and you pushed me over the edge - I am buying W f E right now and diving in! Thanks!

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PS - how do you picture skeeter in your head? is she pretty but awkward?

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Posted by AngnShaun

Loved the help... absolutely loved it... i would do a G2G to see that movie...

and Water for Elephants is nothing like the description... ITS AWESOME!!!!

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Okay so I must live under a rock because I had no idea they were making a movie....I just watched the trailer on youtube and I CAN NOT WAIT....

This is definitely g2g-worthy!

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I picture her like average... Not ugly per se... If it weren't for her hair and height she wouldn't be seen basically

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READ WATER FOR ELEPHANTS!!! IT IS AMAZINGGGGGG... I JUST FINISHED. TRUST ME.

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Posted by AngnShaun

and Water for Elephants is nothing like the description... ITS AWESOME!!!!

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ITA. And I really want to see the movie!

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water for elephants is only $4.17 !!!!!!

i going to buy it now!!!!!
i'll buy the help later

i gotta finish Ecstasy (A Contemporary Romance) by Bella Andre

it was free!! its super sexyyyyyyyyy. lol

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RAISING JAKE BY CHARLIE CARILLO WAS GREAT!!

TONS OF QUEENS REFERENCES WHICH I LOVED!!

IF ANYONE WANTS TO BORROW IT LET ME KNOW. YOU WILL HAVE IT FOR 14 DAYS

From Publishers Weekly
Sammy Sullivan, a crusty old rewrite man at a New York City tabloid, and his teenage son embark on a weekend of male bonding in Carillo's witty, insightful second novel. After rough-edged Sammy is fired and his son, Jake, gets expelled from his elite private school, father and son, who've grown apart, decide to spend the weekend revisiting places that hold the key to Sammy's past and may shed light on Jake's future. Along the way, Sammy confronts painful memories of his religiously obsessive mother and introduces Jake to the boy's long-estranged grandfather while both try to figure out what's next. In this coming-of-age tale, there's often a question of who is parenting whom. Carillo, a former reporter for the New York Post, has an easy way with breezy prose and likable characters. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Product Description
'The best kind of journey, one you don't want to end...funny, moving.' --Mike Lupica, New York Times bestselling author of Heat
In Charlie Carillo's funny, insightful novel, a divorced man gets to know his seventeen-year-old son in a tale that rewrites the book on quality time together. . .

Sammy Sullivan is working his way down the ladder of success. Divorced and pushing fifty, his relationships have the longevity of a fruit fly. But how many men can get themselves fired and have their only son expelled from prep school all in one day? Now, after almost eighteen years, he and Jake may finally get to know each other. (That's if his ex-wife--the super-achiever Sammy can only dream of being--doesn't find out.) Jake knows virtually nothing about his roots. So, Sammy shows him the old neighborhood in the far reaches of Queens. But it's been thirty years. The older woman Sammy lost his virginity to now uses a walker to get around. Most of his hangouts are long gone. It's dreary, born-to-lose stuff. But Jake is on a mission. Wise beyond his (and his dad's) years, he doesn't want his father to miss out the second time around on the good things he blew the first time. And they've got a whole weekend together--a journey where Sammy will confront his, dysfunctional childhood and Jake will face a past he never knew he had.

This isn't your typical father-son story--one is still growing up. The other is his son.

'In the tradition of Tom Perotta, Carillo explores the strength of the family bond, the power of forgiveness, and the hope that comes from embracing second chances. . .truthful, and hilarious.'--Alison Grambs, author of The Smart Girls Guide to Getting Even

'I don't like funny, touching novels because they make me wish I'd written them myself. I enjoyed Charlie Carillo's book from beginning to end and now I'm miserable.' --Sherwood Kiraly, author of Diminished Capacity

'A literary romp through the minefields of a totally normal, and totally abnormal, family. . . I actually laughed out loud and kept turning the pages to make absolutely sure that all worked out at the end.' --Cathy Lamb, author of Henry's Sisters

'Scathingly hilarious and truthful.' --Sally Jenkins

Queens-born Charlie Carillo, like his protagonist Sam Sullivan, worked at the New York Post as a journalist for many years. He is also the author of My Ride with Gus and divides his time between New York City and London, England, where he works as an independent television producer.

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I read The Help on my honeymoon. Loved it! Read it in 2 days!

I am reading some horror book right now and trying to get into it.... 'Under The Lake'.

I guess I'm going to have to get 'Water For Elephants' next!

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I bought Water for Elephants last night and I'm really enjoying it so far! Only on chapter 3 but happy I took the plunge! Thanks all