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I'm in. Just give me plenty of time to read it. I used to read one of those romance novels types of books in an afternoon. The larger classics like "Tale of Two Cities" took about a month and the book "Count of Monte Christo" too me all summer (I think I remember it was something like 4,000 pages).
Now that I have kids though it all depends on how busy things get. Summer will be less kid crazy for me hopefully though. I'm not into mystery a lot but I go through phases of what I like to read.
My suggestion for a future book is "The Black Tulip" It's written by the same author as "The Three Musketeers", "Man in the Iron Mask" and "Count of Monte Christo". "The Black Tulip" though is much shorter and a fairly light read. It's a basic romance story but with the suspense of his other stories. If I remember right it didn't even take me a week to read the last time. That was 10 years ago though.
Some other possibilities are some of the new Caldicott Award books. Yes they are written for upper elementary students but there's often a lot of more subtile parts to the stories that we would catch that a 7th grader wouldn't. For example "The Giver". There's a lot to discuss there including issues of medications for mood alteration and euthanasia. It all depends on what kinds of discussions you are looking for.
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