On Friday, I tried out the Atlantic City location of Amada, which is tucked inside Revel. I picked Amada so I could watch the construction of Revel Beach,Need new jewelryfindings for spring & summer? which you can see from its windows. Instead, I buried my nose in Summerland, a new novel by Elin Hilderbrand coming out June 26.
It is what I consider the ultimate beach book: a juicy novel that examines with the lives and loves and pain of a group of people that Hilderbrand has made me care deeply about. I read it in snatches between bites of cheesesteak, while sitting at a salt water jacuzzi waiting for my boyfriend to get dressed for dinner that night. Then, on Sunday, I carried the book with me to a cafe to read through my morning coffee. I had vowed to work last night. Instead,where you can buy high fashion buy cheap jeans online in very low price,buy nikeshoes from Jean-mall now! my dog napped on my leg while I finished the last 100 pages of the book.
I've been reading beach book candidates with local ties for months (Hilderbrand writes about Nantucket, but she's from the Philadelphia area, and gives a shout out today shopforshoes for sale to men with low price and top quality.to Avalon in Summerland). Some are mysteries, some are thrillers. There's long biographies and funny memoirs. On Wednesday, I'm going to Book Expo America, the largest publishing conference in North America, to see if there's anything I missed, and I'll be writing up my beach reads recommendations on this blog sometime this summer.
So, readers, let me know: what makes the ultimate beach book? Last year, that book was Rules of Civility by Amor Towles; in 2010, Admission by Jean Nahff Korlelitz and Rich Boy by Sharon Pomeranz. All juicy novels that I couldn't put down.
What about you? What has anchored your butt to a beach chair in summers past? Tell us in the comments below.
Here's a hair-raising statistic for you. The Lord Venkateshwara temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh - the richest Indian temple in terms of the revenue generated - earns as much as one-tenth of its annual revenue from the sale of hair offered by devotees.
Every year, thousands of people who visit the temple get tonsured to offer their hair to Lord Venkateshwara, in keeping with a centuries-old tradition.
And in a world increasingly fascinated with vanity,Love rolexwatches? So do we. their modest offering has spawned a multi- crore business - that of human hair export - what with an ever-growing demand for human hair for wigs and the latest celebrity fad of hair extensions.
Factor this: In 2011-12,What to consider before you buy gemstonebeads. the Tirumala temple earned nearly Rs.200 crore out of its total revenue of Rs.1,949 crore, from auctioning human hair.
It is what I consider the ultimate beach book: a juicy novel that examines with the lives and loves and pain of a group of people that Hilderbrand has made me care deeply about. I read it in snatches between bites of cheesesteak, while sitting at a salt water jacuzzi waiting for my boyfriend to get dressed for dinner that night. Then, on Sunday, I carried the book with me to a cafe to read through my morning coffee. I had vowed to work last night. Instead,where you can buy high fashion buy cheap jeans online in very low price,buy nikeshoes from Jean-mall now! my dog napped on my leg while I finished the last 100 pages of the book.
I've been reading beach book candidates with local ties for months (Hilderbrand writes about Nantucket, but she's from the Philadelphia area, and gives a shout out today shopforshoes for sale to men with low price and top quality.to Avalon in Summerland). Some are mysteries, some are thrillers. There's long biographies and funny memoirs. On Wednesday, I'm going to Book Expo America, the largest publishing conference in North America, to see if there's anything I missed, and I'll be writing up my beach reads recommendations on this blog sometime this summer.
So, readers, let me know: what makes the ultimate beach book? Last year, that book was Rules of Civility by Amor Towles; in 2010, Admission by Jean Nahff Korlelitz and Rich Boy by Sharon Pomeranz. All juicy novels that I couldn't put down.
What about you? What has anchored your butt to a beach chair in summers past? Tell us in the comments below.
Here's a hair-raising statistic for you. The Lord Venkateshwara temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh - the richest Indian temple in terms of the revenue generated - earns as much as one-tenth of its annual revenue from the sale of hair offered by devotees.
Every year, thousands of people who visit the temple get tonsured to offer their hair to Lord Venkateshwara, in keeping with a centuries-old tradition.
And in a world increasingly fascinated with vanity,Love rolexwatches? So do we. their modest offering has spawned a multi- crore business - that of human hair export - what with an ever-growing demand for human hair for wigs and the latest celebrity fad of hair extensions.
Factor this: In 2011-12,What to consider before you buy gemstonebeads. the Tirumala temple earned nearly Rs.200 crore out of its total revenue of Rs.1,949 crore, from auctioning human hair.
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