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Archive through April 04, 2005

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Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
Scout, yes, I find the people in Italy to be very friendly, welcoming and great conversationalists. But there also is a passionate, blunt side....that I love, but some Americans find off-putting. Also they do everything at their own pace...there are lines almost everywhere and it annoys even people that grew up there.

I started reading a book yesterday morning, but found it was about the sexual abuse of a child and just wasn't up for it. So this morning I picked up "Invitation to Provence" by Elizabeth Adler, so far a fast and easy read, which is about what I am up for at the moment!

Our library is now closed for a couple of weeks while they move into their new building. I went and got a stack to tide me over....just like the reading junkie I am. I kept thinking "I know this is a lot, but is it enough?"

Scout
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01-20-2005

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I know what you mean, Yesitsme. You don't want to be without something to read!
I'm starting my next Sophie Kinsella book, "Can you keep a secret".

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I am never without something to read! LOL

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 7:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
Started the 3rd book in Adriana Trigiani's Big Stone Gap series this morning. I liked the first 2, so am sure I will like this one. Have two of her other books outside the series waiting for me to finish this one!

Read "I'm a Believer" by Jessica Adams over the weekend. Hmmmm....I didn't love it. Guy's girlfriend dies and appears to him and others after her death.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 7:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I read the ones out of the series, Yes, and I loved them. I know I am going to have to get the Stone Gap series.

I am reading Cross Your Heart And Hope To Die by Nancy Martin. It's third in her Blackbird Sisters Mysteries. I love them. I really enjoyed the last book I read, By Summer's End by Pamela Morsi.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Does anybody else have books stashed all over their house that they are currently reading? I usually have one that travels back and forth to work with me, one in the bathroom, one in the bedroom or kitchen...the frustrating thing is when I can't find the one I am most interested in...LOL!

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Finished, "Can you keep a secret" over the weekend. Another thanks to Mamie for a great recommendation!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
You're welcome.It is a very cute book. They are making a movie out of it with Kate Hudson in the lead.

Roxip, I have books all over the place but I try to stick to reading one. I get too confused otherwise! I was in a book club but I couldn't read that slowly and I would start reading something else at the same time and I just couldn't juggle it all in my brain! Must have killed off a few too many brain cells in the 70's....LOL

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Well, I think I killed a fair few in the 80s too...that's probably why I don't read the intense books that a lot of you read - I can't hold the thought!

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Read Islands by Anne Rivers Siddon and enjoyed it, what a twist of an ending!

Does anyone else find that you need a day or two between books to absorb the ending and clear your mind of the story and characters before you dive into another one? I read a book about every 2 weeks and need that time between books.



Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
The only time I read multiple books is if one of them is non-fiction. I don't really like non-fiction books, so I tend to read them slowly and sometimes don't finish. I almost never put down a fiction book without finishing it, even if I don't like it. And no delay between fiction... I put one down and pick up the next.

Kate Hudson is a great choice for that movie. I think that will be a fun one.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 8:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I started reading Me & Emma last night. It's about two young sisters living with a mom who's kind of out there since the death of their father and their abusive stepdad. Serious subject but there are light moments between the girls and their imagination. It's told in the voice of the older sister. I've almost read it all already!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I finished Me & Emma. I really enjoyed it even though it had such a horrendous subject matter. A surprise ending.

I am now reading Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult. It's about a woman finding out that she was kidnapped by her father from her mother many years ago. It's told by 4 different people so you have different voices to it. I'm loving it. I really loved her book Sister's Keeper. I really recommend that one. It's about a girl who is conceived and born to help save the life of her sister and the turns that takes throughout her life. Good one.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
Jodi Picoult is the author of that book about the sexual abuse of a child that I just put down last week after only reading a couple of chapters(the book is Perfect Match.) I had never read one of her books before, but it did seem like she was a good writer. I will read it in the next few weeks, probably, but just couldn't stomach it last week.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 9:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I haven't read that one but I do enjoy her writing very much.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I just got back from a wonderful half-priced book store. They had so many used and half-price books. I spent $35 and got 6 for myself and one for my daughter. I got 4 Marian Keyes books, a Jane Heller and Big Stone Gap. I am reading Mean Season right now and I can't remember the author's name. It's alright. I have so many books now to read and a few still coming on order. I think it's time to slow down. Hi, my name is Mary and I'm a bookaholic!

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I'm starting a book called, "The Time Traveler's Wife". I ordered it after reading the description off Amazon's bestseller list. (I'm blaming Mamie for my new book ordering addiction!)
Anyway, it sounds very intriguing. A love story where the husband (they describe him as an adventuresome librarian) keeps traveling through time involuntarily but keeps meeting up with the love of his life at all the various points.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
I'm still going through the Adriana Trigiani books I hadn't read. Read Lucia, Lucia this weekend and loved it. I started the Queen of the Big Time this morning and so far I am really enjoying it.

Oh, you book buying addicts.....I wish I lived close to you so I could borrow! Our library is still closed, but I still have several left in my stash. They have about a week more that they can stay closed without me going nuts!

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
It's all Mamie's fault, I swear! She made me buy them. I think her words were "come on, just try it once, you know you want to" - and now I'm hooked. But I still love my library, too.
Maybe they'll get yours finished earlier than expected. If not, maybe you want to try to order just one...

What type of books are Trigiani's?

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
A. Trigiani writes nice books about Italian families. The Big Stone Gap books are about an Italian American woman who lives in this small town in Va. and finds out that the guy that she thought was her father wasn't, but her mom left Italy at 17 pregnant and her birth father still lives there. Subsequently we meet him and the Italian part of the family, but mostly the books focus on her life in Big Stone Gap. The book I started this morning is about one of 5 sisters who lives on a farm in PA with her family and aspires to go to college and become a teacher. Sort of an Italian Little House on the Prairie.

That Mamie is pretty much a dealer. I read more since I started listening to her recommendations. She hasn't gotten me into the book buying yet, but if I start to do it it will definitely be her fault. And yours now since you have started the "just try one..." Though I may have to hit a used bookstore before my cruise... I have to take a stash of paperbacks. I think I may have a couple from last summer that I have saved, but that won't be enough.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I've trapped you all in my web! My master plan for book domination has succeeded! Bwaaahhh...

You will love The Time Traveler's Wife. It's very different but I really liked it. I love how Trigiani lovingly portrays family life. Now that I have bought Big Stone Gap, I need to go get the other 2. I am not getting into Mean Season so I may have to put it down and pick from the other 30 books I have stashed! LOL

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Oh Mamie Nooooooooo - I thought I might finally have read a book before you, Oh Great Literary Master. You are the only person I know whose "books left to read list" is smaller than "already read" books.

Yesitsme, you hooked me with the Italian Little House line! They're now on my to-read next list.

Where are you going on your cruise?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Yes, please tell us about your cruise. I live vicariously through your travel!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I decided to put down Mean Season for a while and read The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again by Nancy Thayer, even though I haven't read the first one.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
This cruise will take me to Cozumel and Grand Caymen (where I have already been), to Costa Maya (where I have not been but from what I understand is an island run by the cruise lines) and Belize (the place I chose the itinerary for... I haven't been there yet and I can't wait to go.) Two of my girlfriends are going with me, one for her first cruise (I don't let my friends live vicariously through my travel for long...watch out...I may make you come!) I had planned to go to Peru for the spring, but doing my taxes I got nervous that I was going to have to pay too much (I am self-employed), so had to try to budget! When we get back (we go the first week of May) I will start looking over the budget and figuring out how to get to Peru for the fall!

LOL....I knew the Little House reference would get you! Actually when I was reading it this morning that's what it reminded me of. I'm a bit bummed that I have a meeting tonight and won't be able to read it. Maybe I will take it in case I get bored.