The beach is a great place to read, and over the next three days, I'm going to chronicle what these vacationers here at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina are reading.
Beach reads are classicly trashy novels, so these are in no way recommendations - just a survey of the first 10 readers and their books over three days.
1. Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment
by James Patterson. A young adult science fiction thriller. Kids with powers.
2. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares. A young adult first novel about magical pants and the girls who where them. Now a major motion picture.
3. The Other Side Of The Story
by Marian Keyes. Life and love with three thirty-somethings in London and Dublin.
4. Second Time Around
by Nancy Moser. A magical realism look at we might do with our lives given anothe chance.
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon. An autistic lad finds a dog impaled on a pitchfork. What ensues is far more than a murder mystery.
6. The Measure of a Man
by Gene A. Getz. A senior pastor's account of how a man can walk in Christ's footsteps.
7. A Little Magic
by Nora Roberts. Three magical short stories set in Ireland from the author of more than 100 novels.
8. Prince Charming
by Julie Garwood. Sweet, funny romance.
9. The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory. Historical fiction retelling of Ann Boleyn's story.
10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5)
by J.K. Rowling. Not really that surprising is it? With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince just a month away.
