Without a doubt, the best book Kimberly Adkins has read this
summer is Holding Her Own by Marie Nicole Ryan.
Teble Brewer: I absolutely adored Julia Spencer-Fleming’s I Shall
Not Want. This entire series is fabulous and I can’t wait for the
next book. Spencer-Fleming does such an amazing job of building a
community of characters that you really care about.
Shannon Dauphin: My favorite book of the summer: My Several
Worlds, the biography of Pearl S. Buck. She paints amazing
tapestries with words.
The best book JT Ellison read this summer (so far, the real
reading commences August 22) is John Connolly's THE REAPERS.
Kim Grooms: Feet First by Leanne Banks
Monica McCabe: Vampires and more vampires! With the cancellation
of Moonlight I've been forced to get my fix with books. J.R. Ward's
Dark Lover, and Lover Eternal. Erin McCarthy's Vegas Vampires
series, and Katie McCalister's A Girls Guide to Vampires. Have I had
enough yet? Heck no. I'm going after the third in the J.R. Ward
books!
Trish Milburn: So far, the best book I've read this summer has
been The Host by Stephenie Meyer. I've loved her YA books (the
Twilight series), so I was actually a little nervous that I might
not like her first foray into adult books. And while it took me a
little bit to get into it, it being so different, it ended up being
fantastic. I literally stayed up all night to finish it. Finished at
6 a.m.! And another thing that proves to me it's a powerful book --
it made me cry at one point, and I never cry at books for some
reason. Movies, yes. Books, no. Don't know why.
Gwen Moore: The best book she's read in awhile was her book
club's July selection, Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day
Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound
Them Together by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, and Lynn Vincent
Beth Pattillo: Best book I've read this summer--Comfort by Ann
Hood. Hood delivers a haunting memoir/reflection of the death of her
five year-old daughter from a virulent form of strep. The first
chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Not for the faint of
heart, but ultimately transcendent.
Ramona Richards: Thank God for recorded books. This summer I have
gone through Jeff Lindsay's Dexter in the Dark, three Amanda Quicks,
a Margaret Maron, and a Catherine Coulter. Loved them all, but
probably the most enjoyable was Coulter's The Scottish Bride. It was
the one that made me cry the hardest.
Annie Solomon: The only book I read this summer was one of J.R.
Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series--Lover Unbound. I
particularly liked it because she takes a hero with a decidedly
kinky (creepy) sex life and makes him sympathetic.
Mary Varble: Best books I've read this summer: Because I can't
name just one, Hide by Lisa Jackson. This one is so vivid I can
still visualize scenes from it as if I'd seen it on TV or in a
movie.
Phantom in the Night, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love which is a
romantic and sensual feast.
Sandra Wales read one non-fiction book, "The Assassin's
Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln." She
also read Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" and Lois McMaster Bujold's "The
Curse of Chalion." "Hamlet" was a re-read.
Jody Wallace: Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss. The Decoy Princess
by Dawn Cook.
Phyllis Bourne Williams: My favorite book of the summer was
Fiance At Her Fingertips by Kathleen Bacus. It was refreshing,
entertaining and laugh-out-loud funny.
