Picture this: A tall, slim, gorgeously tanned girl in outrageously
oversized sunglasses (all the rage this season) and a chic new Malia
Mills bikini (love their designs, btw) saunters across the pool deck,
kicks off her Manolo flats and spreads her Herm�s beach towel on a
chair. You stare, itching with envy. After settling back in her chaise
and ordering a cocktail, she reaches into her Putu by J. MacLear bag,
and pulls out...pregnant pause...a Danielle Steele novel?!?
You flop back, fascination over, bubble burst.
Just because you're into fashion doesn't mean you like to be spoon-fed
easily-digested pap. But what is a girl to do when her peers are into
recycled plots and predictable endings? Come here, of course. To avoid
looking like an airhead, feed your mind with these books that won't
leave your brain as soon as you close their covers. (Oprah's got
nothin' on this bibliophile.) Feel free to add, comment, or
contradict. Five years' worth of book club and this writer can
definitely take the criticism:
Amy's Top Summer Reading Picks:
Waiting by Ha Jin
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garc�a M�rque
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Happy reading, Jackie O' Einstein!
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