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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 6:05 am
I'm just getting around to reading To the Nines by Evanovich. I always love to visit with Stephanie, Lula, Granny and the whole gang! These books are quick reads and always good for a few really good laughs.
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Noodle
Member
05-08-2004
| Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 6:29 am
Oh TISHELA!!! great great resource at Labyrinth Books! I did see one title from my recent salebooks orgy over there for a few $ more, but they have a huge selection. Do you know if they have any traditional sale/ mark 'em way down times? What I adore about Daedelus is that they keep marking things down and postage is never more than 4.95. That just kills me. No, wait that just kills my bookshelves..hee hee
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 6:48 am
Heh- I'm on an Adriana Trigiani "kick" right now. I've finished the first two Big Stone Gap books. I have the third checked out, but I checked out her The Queen of the Big Time at the same time and there's a wait at the library for that one so I only get it for a week (I get Mile Glass Moon for three). Then, on top of that, heehee, I also checked out her Lucia, Lucia on CD so I listen to that anytime I drive anywhere. It's 8 CDs and I'm near the end of the 5th now. I'm only 75 pages into The Queen of the Big Time. Trigiani's characters are always Italians/Italian families. This one is about an Italian farm family in Pennsylvania in the 1920s. I'm liking it a lot so far but haven't gone all out reading day and night like I did with the Big Stone Gap books. Not because it's not a good book, just because I don't have the time! Lucia, Lucia I like a little more than The Queen of the Big Time, but that's probably just because I'm further into it. That one is set in the 1950s in New York. Very good story. And I love the woman's voice reading it on the CD- very easy to listen too (as opposed to Luke Perry reading The Smoke Jumper..Ugh!) I hope she puts out more soon. I do this- I find an author I like then read ALL their books as fast as I can, then I'm left feeling a little lost when I'm done- LOL. I did it with the Harry Potter series- read all of them back to back but had to wait for the most recent to get to the library. I did it with the Nicholas Sparks books too but with more spacing in between them. Oh! And with Sopie Kinsella too.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 7:46 am
I just got through reading "Tales From A Broad" by Fran Lebowitz. This book is fiction based on fact about a woman from New York who moves to Singapore for her husband's job. Being an expat here in Singapore, I could really relate to the story and in parts I was holding my side because I was laughing so much. I'm not sure if everyone else would get as much out of it as I did, but I think it's a funny book and a mostly true account of expat life in Singapore.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 7:11 am
Well, I take back what I said about not getting into The Queen of the Big Time. I just finished the book after reading for about two hours last night and two this morning already. A warning: The epilogue made me cry. Books don't do that to me very often. It was a great book.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 8:18 am
I am reading Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah. It's probably considered a chick lit book but I love books about sisters because my sister and I are so close.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 11:26 am
Jeffrey Deaver. The Vanishing Man or something like that. He can have pretty implausible twists, but is usually still a great read if you can just accept that! I just finished In Her Shoes by Jennifer Wiener (author of Good in Bed). LOVED IT, even though the ending seemed a bit too contrived. Highly recommended. HI SEAMONKEY!!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 11:28 am
Mamie, In Her Shoes is about the relationship between two sisters. I really do recommend it. I know what you mean about books about sisters. My sister is my best friend. We are only 18 months apart in age and we are so close!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 11:43 am
I finished Between Sisters. I really enjoyed it. Hermione, you should check that one out and I will definitely get In Her Shoes. That's the name of the movie that Cameron Diaz is filming, I wonder if it's the same? I am now reading another Kristin Hannah book called The Things We Do For Love.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 11:47 am
I'll look for that, Mamie, thanks!! I can see Cameron Diaz playing Maggie, the younger sister, if it is the same story. I just checked IMDB and it IS the same story and Cameron IS playing Maggie! Oh, I think this will make a good movie. I hope they do justice to it. Speaking of sisters, I'm off to visit mine. I'll catch ya later. 
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 5:30 pm
Currently reading Gravelight by Marion Zimmer Bradley and King of Torts by JOhn Grisham (well, listening to it...). The former is a good read and I'll look for others in that series; the latter is a good listen.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 8:35 am
I've never read anything by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Is she fantasy/sci-fi? I like John Grisham and LOVED A Painted House, which most of his fans did not like. I thought it really showcased his skills as a storyteller. The mental imagery he created in that story was amazing. I could really see it all happening.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 9:47 am
I would put MZB in the fantasy realm; she's probably best well-known for Mists of Avalon. Gravelight is one in a series (got it at a book sale before realizing it was a series) with parapsychology roots. It centers around a "gate" to the other world that has been left open without a guardian. This results in a plethora of mystical hauntings and such that draw a couple of parapsychology researchers (one of whom is the descendant of a being form the other world). Two other people, a woman searching for her roots and a man running from his past also show up and all four come together to deal with the open gate. I gather other books in the series deal with other descendants of the being from the other world -- I'm off to Barnes and Noble today to find out. 
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 11:08 am
I read and enjoyed Gravelight. I just refound it (two more days until I can buy shelves) and will likely reread it at some point. After getting a chapter in, my bedroom ate Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. I found it last night, and started it again. It's my first Discworld story, and now I cannot wait to read the remainder of the canon.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 11:13 am
I'm reading Phoenix/Maine by Nancy Payne. The lone survivor of a plane crash in a Maine blizzard makes the decision not to return to his former life, but to let everyone think he perished in the crash, and start over.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 11:17 am
Gravelight sounds really good! I'll have to put it on my list! Prisoner, have you read the Left Behind series? That's also on my list. So many books, so little time! Mak, let me know if you like the one you are reading. It sounds interesting. There is a young adult book called Hatchet about a boy who survives a plane crash that is a good read and one of the books I always get the reluctant teenage boys to try. Well, I'm off for some quality niece/nephew time. Later!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 11:19 am
H: I've read all but the last book. I was really disappointed in the decline in the writing quality.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 11:25 am
Lkunkel, in the Left Behind series? That's the one you feel declined? Would you recommend the first few, at least? So many times, sequels are disappointing. I LOVED Dune, but found the sequels on the boring side. I really gotta get!! BYEEEEE! 
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 12:12 pm
H: the first five books aren't bad. By book six, tho, it became more of a writing mill. By books ten and eleven, I struggled to the end. I just haven't had the enthusiasm to read book 12.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 5:11 pm
Herm, read Left Behind, started the next, but couldn't get into it at all -- I think the writing declined much earlier in that series than others do. I picked up Witchlight an B&N today. I really wish Amazon had these in MS Reader format; I'm spoiled with the instant gratification of the download...
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 5:45 pm
I've read the left behind series - yes all of them - and agree with LK. the first of them are good. then they got formulaic and just began cranking them out and they lost quality.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 6:02 pm
I read the Left Behind series and agree with everyone. But the last one was uplifting to read and overall I thought the books were a good lesson on Revelations.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, July 18, 2004 - 11:39 am
I finished The Things We Do For Love and I highly recommend. I even cried but then again, I cry easily. I have started Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, July 18, 2004 - 12:43 pm
I just finished "A Patchwork Planet" by Anne Tyler. The only reason it took me so long was that I didn't want it to end. I highly recommend this book. One reason that I don't join book clubs is that eventually someone will ask me to chose a book. I know that my reading tastes often differ from the norm, so I would be reluctant to do chose a book for someone else. However, I have no qualms whatsoever about recommending this book. It is rich with characters. Next up...one of the books left for me by "Uncle Jim". "A Time of War" by Michael Peterson. Some one on Amazon.com described it as "Wouk meets Uris meets DeMille." Three of my favorite authors so I'm sold.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Sunday, July 18, 2004 - 9:00 pm
I just finished reading The Story of Pi and The Poisonwood Bible. Both books were very interesting, but Pi was outstanding in my opinion. I haven't read a book that powerful in years. I learned that it is going to be made into a movie by the same director who brought us Sixth Sense. M. Night Shalyman. I'm completely guessing at that last name. Should be a good flick.
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