I'm looking for a good beach book....

[lawschoolmom]

I'm going to the beach in about 2 1/2 weeks. I need a really good beach book to read. Any recommendations?

 

[cybermom]

What do you call a beach book? Is it different from what you usually read?

I've been currently working through Phillipa Gregory's books. They're period historical based novels. The ones I've read have been set around King Henry VIII's court. The Constant Princess is about Princess Catherine of Aragon, his first wife. Portrait of an Unknown Woman centers around Archbishop Woolsey's family. The Bolyn Inheritance was really good and covered two of his latter wives-Anne of Cleves and another one (can't remember her name at the moment-Katherine but of what I don't remember).

They're really good if you like a bit of romance, history, and girly stuff. They aren't overly fluffy, but you don’t' have to think too hard.

Since I've become stuck on these 1500-1600 English period novels, I'm now reading Karen Harper's The Last Boleyn which about Anne's older sister Mary and her time at court.

If you do want something "fluffier", I read a couple of Mary Balog's novels. They also were period set romance novels around the 1600-1800's. They all live happily ever after in the end.

 

[DanC]

The 5 volume trilogy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[lawschoolmom]

I have read all of the Phillipa Gregory novels! I am seriously one of her biggest fans! I was really into these books in college, when I was studying that time period of history. I think my fave PG was the Wideacre series that she wrote years ago....if you haven't checked those out, you should because they are WONDERFUL and lots of fun!

I think a "beach booK" is just a fun book...not TOO heavy...something with shorter chapters that can be picked up and put down relatively easily. I also read pretty quickly, so I might need more than one book! Haha!

 

[JerryP]

How about the alphabet books, Kinsey Millhone is the character.
"Kinsey Millhone is a fictional female private investigator created by Sue Grafton, and is the protagonist of Grafton's "alphabet mysteries" series of novels." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Millhone

Spencer Mysteries by Robert Parker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Parker

John D. McDonald's Travis McGee books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee

Perry Mason books by Earl Stanley Gardner or better yet his Donald Lamb and Bertha Cool books under the pen name A.A. Fair. http://world.std.com/~dgp/aafair.html

Loius Lamour westerns - always saves the girl, kisses the horse and rides off into the sunset. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L'Amour

 

[cybermom]

I have read all of the Phillipa Gregory novels! I am seriously one of her biggest fans! I was really into these books in college, when I was studying that time period of history. I think my fave PG was the Wideacre series that she wrote years ago....if you haven't checked those out, you should because they are WONDERFUL and lots of fun!

I think a "beach booK" is just a fun book...not TOO heavy...something with shorter chapters that can be picked up and put down relatively easily. I also read pretty quickly, so I might need more than one book! Haha!

I'm so excited to hear there's more of her to read. My little library branch didn't have those but I'll check another branch.

I'd still suggest Mary Balog as a beach book. The books are a lot like Phillipa's only less complicated. I read two and stared a third, but by then I realized they wer pretty much all the same basic story. Girl meets guy of the "dom" and thinks it'll never work. Works out-happily ever after.

I just wish I had time for the beach! Mostly I only get "bath" books!

 

[diGriz]

...I need a really good beach book to read. Any recommendations?

On the Beach

 

[callmeCrazyButt]

Any book this guy http://mobile.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/71514/hasselhoff_qjgenth.jpg puts out has GOT to be a good read, beach or not. LOL

 

[aaahchuu]

Jimmy Buffett:
A Pirate Looks at Fifty - loved it
A Salty Piece of Land - about to read soon

 

[JerryP]

Jimmy Buffett:
A Pirate Looks at Fifty - loved it
A Salty Piece of Land - about to read soon

Jimmy Buffett can write more than songs?????? (that I enjoy by the way) Thanks, I'll have to check it out.

 

[MSPRISSYSMOM]

Dean Koontz, he is the author, thrilling, exciting, keeps you on edge as well.
Most of his books I can read in about 5-6 days.