Okay I have already ordered both the Secret Life of Bees and The Watchmen from Amazon.com so there is no going back now, we have to read both books at some point.
I also ordered the book The Godfather, given that I just saw the movie for the first time on Saturday and was so taken by it that I really want to read the book.
I was just wondering what you guys thought about making that one of our books in November or December. I wasn't sure if you guys would want to read a mobster book but I really really do and it would be a new genre for us to tackle.
I will end up reading it one way or another but if anyone else wanted to give it a shot I can hold off reading it until we read it together.
Either way, just curious.

so I was looking up some "light hearted" books online to see if I could find a good one to also do in December.

I really liked this one called To Catch A Pirate by Jade Parker.

It is a young adult novel and 320 pages. All about a girl who is out to sea with her dad when they are over run by pirates. One of them, James I think his name was, tries to take her necklace and when she pleads for him not to he accpets a kiss instead. Then a year goes by and she goes out in search of him to get back her fathers treassure.
The line at the end of the review says that he is in danger of stealing something "far more valuable this time...her heart."

It sounds really cute and fun and who among us doesn't like pirates?

Sorry, but gag. I like pirates, give me Jack Sparrow any day, but I've already seen Pirates of the Caribbean, I don't need to read about it too. How about Thornton Wilder's Theophilus North or The Eyre Affair by Fforde, or Buyology by Lindstrom. This last one is different from everything else we've read because it's nonfiction. But I think it would be interesting nonetheless. But perhaps the majority of you don't like economics stuff like I do.

I'm not sold the Wilder's book. But THe Eyre Affair is suppossed to be a funny book so that one might be fun to read. Also Buyology sounded really interesting and funny as well. Buyology is shorter but it was also a little more expensive on Amazon.

My books came in today and I am so excited. The Watchmen looks so different from anything else I've read so I can't wait to see how much I like it. I've also heard that with the Secret Life of Bees, the movie is better then the book, so I'm excited to read it and form my own opinon.
But the best part is that the Godfather book was among them!!! It is bright red and shiny and I am soooooooooooooo excited and can't wait to read it and finish it and put it on my bookshelf!!!

It has been a good 11 years since I've read A Christmas Carol, but the copy I saw on Amazon only had 62 pages.
I LOVE the movie A Christmas Story (I like the part where he daydreams about going blind from his mom making put the soap in his mouth after swearing ) so that would be really fun to read.
There is also a novel for Miracle on 34th St, it is supposed to be really good as well. And I think it and Christmas Story are about the same length.
Either one will do for me, I'm just excited to read the Godfather.
December can't come fast enough as far as I'm concerned.

Not to get too far ahead of ourselves but Stephen King wrote a good article about the 10 best books he read in 2008.
#10 was THE GOOD GUY by Dean Koontz. I know that Kate is a fan of Dean Koontz but I have never read him before (don't worry Kate, I haven't forgotten about Odd Thomas). Here is the review on Amazon
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Bestseller Koontz (The Husband) delivers a thriller so compelling many readers will race through the book in one sitting. In the Hitchcockian opening, which resembles that of the cult noir film Red Rock West (1992), Timothy Carrier, a quiet stone mason having a beer in a California bar, meets a stranger who mistakes him for a hit man. The stranger slips Tim a manila envelope containing $10,000 in cash and a photo of the intended victim, Linda Paquette, a writer in Laguna Beach, then leaves. A moment later, Krait, the real killer, shows up and assumes Tim is his client. Tim manages to distract Krait from immediately carrying out the hit by saying he's had a change of heart and offering Krait the $10,000 he just received. This ploy gives the stone mason enough time to warn Linda before they begin a frantic flight for their lives. While it may be a stretch that the first man wouldn't do a better job of confirming Tim's identity, the novel's breathless pacing, clever twists and adroit characterizations all add up to superior entertainment.
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Anyway, just a thought

As I have stated in the past I mostly get ideas on books to read from the movies I watch. And last night I watched ABOUT A BOY and BRIDGET JONES' DIARY. So here are my thoughts;
1. I suggest that we read BRIDGET in feburary. Feburary is the month with valentine's day in it and BRIDGET was based off of PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE, which is only one of the greatest classic love stories. Problem being that I have already read it and I am pretty sure Kate has to. So for a twist we could read BRIDGET.
2. I would love to read something by Nick Hornby. He is another english author and he has had four of his books turned into movies; ABOUT A BOY, HIGH FIDELITY, FEVER PITCH and some movie I've never heard of (til I looked him up before making this post) called AN EDUCATION. So I am thinking that probably anything written by this guy will be funny and worth the read.
FEVER PITCH was written as a non-fiction novel, based off of Hornby's own love of "football" it has some writing in it but also a lot of essay's written about different matches. He does talk about the teams highs and lows and how they effect him, but I don't believe there is any girl in the book. Hornby, did however adapt the book for film and that's where the romantic story line came from.
I love the movie ABOUT A BOY, however in the special features they did say that the last third of the movie was written by the directors with help from Hugh Grant, so I am interested to see how the book ending differs from the movie.
And althrough I wasn't too crazy about the movie HIGH FIDELITY, I can see where the book could be really fun to read.

Now since I picked GODFATHER for this month, we can save these suggestion for some other month down the rode, I just wanted to throw it out there since I was thinking about it.