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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, June 07, 2004 - 6:43 am
I just found a copy of YaYa Sisterhood at the Goodwill (99cents) I'm still hoping to find a copy of the Secret Life of Bees!!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, June 07, 2004 - 9:46 am
I'm reading a strange, but compelling book - The Smartest Guys in the Room - which is an account of what went wrong with Enron. I spent the weekend on the beach at Galveston totally amazed at the level of corruption inside that company and wondered how it lasted as long as it did. Amazing! And I haven't even gotten halfway through the book yet...(but then again we all know the ending...LOL).
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, June 07, 2004 - 3:45 pm
I am reading Daughters Keeper by Ayelet Waldman. It's a mother/daughter relationship going through a drug bust and the legalities following.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 1:08 pm
Booklovers, don't forget Bloomsday, June 16th: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: -- Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: -- Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit! Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak. Buck Mulligan peeped an instant under the mirror and then covered the bowl smartly. -- Back to barracks! he said sternly. He added in a preacher's tone: -- For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One moment. A little trouble about those white corpuscles. Silence, all. He peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points. Chrysostomos. Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm. -- Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely. Switch off the current, will you? He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages. A pleasant smile broke quietly over his lips. ...and so on....thank you Mr. Joyce.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 8:29 am
I finished the Eve Arden bio and really enjoyed it. It was fun reading about her trip to my home town...must have been strange for this California girl to arrive in March in the middle of a blizzard, and leave in May with snowflakes in the air. No mention of the nine year old stalker so it looks like I am free and clear. I am trying to mix up my reading a bit so if I read a biography, I will try to follow it up with fiction, and if I read something historical, I will try to follow it up with something contemporary. That way I won't get myself in a rut...which I am inclined to do. (Last year I read a bunch of Nelson DeMille in a row!) I was in the mood for a woman's voice and a family saga of some sort...so I decided to take on "The Shell Seekers" by Rosamunde Pilcher. I didn't much care for the last book I read by her, but I heard that even her fans didn't like that one much. So I am giving her another try. I hear that this one is her best...and so far we are getting along just fine...but I am only 50 pages in. This is her last chance to impress me.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 5:50 pm
I think that one was pretty good, Mary.. I finished The Song of Names which was quite good and set in the Jewish community in London during and after WWII and was quite different. Now reading Caddy for Life about Tom Watson's caddy, who has ALS..
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 7:52 pm
The Rule of Four
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 7:59 pm
Let me know how that is Pup. I am reading Some Kind Of Miracle by Iris Rainer Dart. She wrote Beaches but I am having a hard time getting into this one.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 8:05 pm
Right now I'm reading Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh and The Woman With the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Margaret Starbird. Sea: Is Therapy worth getting on the library wait list? Or can it wait for paperback?
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 14, 2004 - 9:24 pm
LK.. depends how into Kellerman you are.. I usually must read them asap.. and I collect his books as well. I thought it was good.
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 4:31 am
LK - I read Holy Blood Holy Grail like 10 years ago - interesting book. I love Kellerman - but keep in mind i've been reading his stuff since the mid 80's when his first book came out so I'm a tad biased. Mamie - so far it's good. Renaissance manuscript, 4 guys at Princeton. Characterization is better than brown's books. And there is a good balance between character and plot - which despite my love of davinci I find lacking in Brown's writing. I'm roughly 100 pages into the book - I'll give a final "review" later.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 5:09 am
I'm finding myself making notes in HB,HG. There are several points I want to research. I have all of Kellerman's books, but in paperback. I'll probably hold off--I have so many books here all already. I, too, am interested in The Rule of Four, and can't wait to hear what you have to say, Puppy.
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 6:30 am
Dark End of the Street by Ace Atkins.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 9:50 am
In honor of Bloomsday: Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 11:21 am
LOL, Tisha!! OH that scent is one reason I won't eat kidneys..
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 8:08 pm
I am now reading Joe Jones by Anne Lamott.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 11:39 pm
I'm a big Anne Lamott fan..
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 5:02 am
Me too! Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies is one of my all time favorites. I liked her latest, Blue Shoe very much.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:08 am
I really liked Blue Shoe. This is an older book and I am really enjoying so far.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:25 pm
I've read all of her books. I finished the book about the caddie, will probably send it to my brother. Started at 1am and after an odd night of sleep on and off, finished a novel this morning.. huh.. looks like I put it down somewhere and it isn't right here.. OK, found it on the stairs where I put down my workout shoes and socks, this book and the next book and left them while I got the mail and then checked out the mail.. Alice McDermott's novel Child of my Heart which was very well done, strangely appealing and equally repelling.. Beginner's Luck by Laura Pedersen is next for me.. looks very very interesting.. I have high hopes for this!!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:32 pm
DH & I just got another supply of books from our friend in NY. Only one was directed toward me: Burton L. Macks, Who Wrote The New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth. My to read pile is now as high as I am tall.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:35 pm
Seamonkey, I also liked Child of My Heart. I was very taken in by her and like you said, repelled by the relationship. But it was very well written.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:39 pm
Yes, I think I will explore her further, as she has written other acclaimed books.. LK.. good thing we can store books horizontally, huh?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:21 pm
I'm about 1/3 of the way through Colleen McCullough's "Morgan's Run." I love it! It's during the Amercian Revolution, but the main character is in England and through a rather bizarre chain of events ends up deported to Botany Bay, Australia as a convict. Wonderfully long book for summer! I've also got "Anna Karenina" and "Portrait of a Killer" waiting...along with at least 10 other books I'm hoping to get through this summer! LOL
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Friday, June 18, 2004 - 12:38 pm
Barbara Delinsky's The Summer I Dared is a great summer read! I can remember reading Harlequin romances she wrote probably 20 years ago. This book takes place in Maine among the lobster fishermen. A bizarre ferry accident changes the lives of 3 who survive. Very enjoyable.
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