By Mandie

August 1, 2011 8:51 AM | Link to this

The Help. It was SUCH a good book.

By ohiodale

August 1, 2011 9:55 AM | Link to this

‘Water for Elephants’ and ‘Unbroken’ were the two best books I have read this summer.

By April

August 1, 2011 10:35 AM | Link to this

I’ve only read a few. Blackveil by Kristen Britain.

By Patti

August 1, 2011 10:51 AM | Link to this

The Paris Wife.

By A hooker in Dayton

August 1, 2011 3:02 PM | Link to this

My horizontal Life

By JKL

August 1, 2011 3:26 PM | Link to this

“Seven Days at the Links of Utopia.” Great book and a life changer.

By Joanie

August 1, 2011 3:53 PM | Link to this

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See. Now reading Founding Gardeners, non-fiction about the influence of agriculture on the early development of the US.

By Retired Sgt

August 1, 2011 4:14 PM | Link to this

“A Stolen Life” by Jaycee Dugard…and I love the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books

By Jack W.

August 1, 2011 4:27 PM | Link to this

“The Green Book,” by The Dayton Daily-I mean, Mohommar Ghadafi.

By Ron

August 1, 2011 4:30 PM | Link to this

Two good ones this summer…Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers. Also Liberty Defined

By Ron

August 1, 2011 4:34 PM | Link to this

Oh I almost forgot…The Big Short by Michael Lewis. If you want an inside view of the mortgage meltdown, this is the book, an amazing story. I love books, how can you pick just one. They all have their own story to tell.

By Bob

August 1, 2011 5:27 PM | Link to this

“Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal” by Christopher Moore. Jesus’ best friend from childhood, Biff, is resurrected and told to write a new gospel. He spills the beans on how Jesus learned who he was, how he gained his powers from the three wise men, and why bunnies are associated with Easter.

By Mick

August 1, 2011 6:17 PM | Link to this

“Worth Dying For” and “61 Hours” - both by Lee Child. These are the latest in the Jack Reacher series; can’t get enough of this guy.

By Harley Ryder

August 1, 2011 6:20 PM | Link to this

Me and My Hog.

By jack

August 1, 2011 7:44 PM | Link to this

Jugs…get one every month…no seriously The Glorious Cause by Middlerkauf, Big read on how the American Revolution debt was paid so the new country would not default. think Louisiana Purchase

By Saul Alinsky

August 1, 2011 8:19 PM | Link to this

I re-read my own book…”Rules for Radicals”..it’s the road map for the downfall of the U.S. capitalist system. One would think it’s used by liberals/”progressives”/socialists/communists….but it also has been…surprisingly…used by Republicans…because they’re in cahoots with us much more than one would know. It’s all about power…and the power weened from a society that is collapsing. It’s a good read….even the Tea-Partiers have succomed to it…as evidenced by the vote yesterday. I’m still amazed that the book has done so well in the destruction of a society. It was there for all to read…but Oprah/Dancing with the Stars/Regis and Kathy Lee were more important……as I directed and predicted.

By Debbie

August 2, 2011 5:14 AM | Link to this

Johns Story. The gospel according to John the Baptist.

By Matt

August 2, 2011 9:43 AM | Link to this

ESPN:Those Guys Have All the Fun… great book, not about sports as much as it’s about taking an idea and making it become a reality

By JF

August 2, 2011 5:43 PM | Link to this

Best Kept Secret by Amy Hatvany.

By Jenni Phillips

August 2, 2011 11:27 PM | Link to this

Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo. Quick, yet inspirational read. Especially good for something recently experiencing a death in their life letting them see from a child’s perspective what the possibilities are in heaven.

By Sara Gruen

August 3, 2011 5:29 AM | Link to this

“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen. It is a compelling story about abuse in a Nursing Home, with an underlying story about the Florida Republicans who say, “You can come and stay as guests, but when the water runs low…you gotta go” Sara uses a clever twist referring historically to John Smith of Plymouth Rock days, when he told the natives. You have an historical claim to your land, we have a biblical one… or something close to that. Anyway it all works out toward the end of the story… the Elephants get all the water and the Nursing Home shuts down and the sick and dying elderly return to their families …but with no water. Her new book, to be released soon,”Water for Chocolate” is about those who control the water taking candy from babies so they can have just a little more… It’s obviously science fiction…I mean come on!

By @sara gruen

August 3, 2011 6:20 AM | Link to this

I liked “List” by Eve Angel. @SaraGruen: You almost had it right. It was John Winthrop not John Smith. He was a Puritan, and the Governor of Massachusetts. In order to procure the land from the heathen natives he declared the land to be a vacuum. He said the Indians had not “subdued” the land and only had a “natural right to it, not a legal one.” The reference to water shortages in Florida, should they occur, was mentioned in the State House there when legislators in 2009 worried about the population influx from past years having a bearing on water rights in Florida. They took Winthrop’s words and re-arranged them to suggest, “We who are native to Florida have a natural right to our water..you guests don’t.” The legislature argued about who would get water if shortages occurred. You can look at it the way Winthrop did by making it a modern day issue. Assume aliens came here and said to Governor John Kasich, “We come long distance…we take your land.” The Governor could make the argument, “We have had an unnatural right to the land, but claim it in God’s name because we are going to subdue it ……by Fracking” It’s all in the science fiction book by Howard Zinn, “A people’s history of the Untied States.”

By c'mon man

August 3, 2011 6:38 AM | Link to this

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