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5 Minutes for Books: Your Favorite Summer Read

September 7, 2009 by Jennifer Donovan

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With it being Labor Day weekend, it’s officially the end of summer. Even if your kids went back to school weeks ago, that last long-weekend of the season signals the absolute no-turning-back end of summer.

With that in mind, I thought I’d use the column this week to discuss your favorite summer reads, and to share our team’s favorite books that they reviewed this summer.

My favorite book reviewed has got to be After You, which I just reviewed this week.

Dawn’s is also a recently reviewed book: Catching Fire.

Lisa enjoyed The Knight, another anticipated sequel.

Melissa finally read The Thirteenth Tale, and is glad she did.

Carrie’s was a nonfiction book on Friendship.

Lauren’s best read whose review posted this summer is Things Left Unspoken.

But Lauren also mentioned that she just finished Rooftops of Tehran for our October 6 Bookclub, and she liked that one best. Click through the links, and perhaps you’ll join us? Blogger or not, you can participate in the comments or by writing our post.

Our last Bookclub selection was the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and it was also universally mentioned as a favored selection of the summer.

What about you? What was your favorite read for the summer??

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About Jennifer Donovan

Jennifer Donovan has been a part of the 5 Minutes for Mom team since 2007. She writes product reviews, covers events, and manages the 5 Minutes for Books weekly column and website. She lives in Houston and blogs at Snapshot about life with her family.

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11 Comments

  1. Deanna/ibeeeg says

    September 11, 2009 at 2:15 am

    My favorite summer read? hmmm…I have read many good books this summer.
    For my favorite I will choose Hunger Games.

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  2. Lorie Shewbridge says

    September 9, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Mine was “The Mighty Queens of Freeville”

    Summer is still here in Florida though… 🙂

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  3. edj says

    September 9, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    The 13th Tale. gothic, twisting, good fun

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  4. Fonda says

    September 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    Gardenias For Breakfast by Robin Jones Gunn was my favorite read of the summer.

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  5. Pam says

    September 9, 2009 at 7:55 am

    Hands down my favorite summer read was The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.

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  6. Stephanie says

    September 8, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    My favorite read of the summer: “Too Small To Ignore” by Wess Stafford. It was powerful, inspirational, and educational. I highly recommend it.

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  7. Amy says

    September 8, 2009 at 10:40 am

    A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Check out my review here: http://amyliz2008.blogspot.com/2009/07/walk-in-woods.html.

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  8. julie says

    September 8, 2009 at 1:09 am

    I would agree Catching Fire was awesome..along with change in altitiude by anita shreve.

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  9. Michelle M. says

    September 7, 2009 at 11:22 am

    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was my favorite summer read. I actually read it twice in one week!

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  10. angie says

    September 7, 2009 at 11:13 am

    I actually received the honor of reading a book not even on market yet called Fearless was a great read

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  11. Mandy says

    September 7, 2009 at 8:27 am

    How Children Learn by John Holt

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