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Archive through May 24, 2004

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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 7:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I also have Name All The Animals on order and I am going to order Caddy For Life for my dh. The Nun book sounds very interesting, being a Catholic school girl myself, I always wanted to be a nun.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I finished Good Grief and I loved it! Am now reading A Song I Knew By Heart by Bret Lott. He wrote the book Jewel which was an Oprah book club book. This one is about a woman who after losing her husband 6 years before, loses her only son. She decides to leave Massachusetts where they have lived for 40 odd years and go back to South Carolina where she grew up. Her daughter-in-law decides to go with her and it's about how their relationship grows even stronger.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I finished the Caroline Kennedy bio and will be starting Aloft this weekend; my class starts Monday!!

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Sea, how was the Caroline Kennedy bio?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Mary, I thought it was worth reading.. learned more about her mother and just how much chaos Caroline has had to deal with and continues to deal with..

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
Speaking of nuns(kind of), I read Changing Habits by Debbie Macomber. It was fiction about 3 nuns who all eventually left their orders. It was quite enjoyable.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Well, I missed the class, but LOVED the book.. read Aloft in two days.. just kept getting back in bed with the book and the cat and reading!!

Now reading another memoir, Borderlines by Caroline Kraus, which is fascinating so far.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I loved Bel Canto.

Now I'm starting an older book by Alice Hoffman, Second Nature.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 9:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I'm devouring "Finding Fish" by Antwone Fisher at the moment. It's fabulous, horrifying and inspiring all at the same time! Wish I didn't have a job so I could stay up all night tonight and finish it!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Ah yes, plenty of fans here at TVCH for Antwone and his wonderful/terrible/important memoir!!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, May 10, 2004 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I just started the Steve Martin book and I am loving it already! I can just picture him talking as I read but so far the main character is a hoot!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, May 10, 2004 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I finished Borderlines and am reading Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns by Cheryl L. Reed.. what an eyeopener, in a good way!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
CONFESSIONS OF A MASTER JEWELL THIEF
I can hardly put it down.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 4:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Finished the Steve Martin book and it was funny. I caught myself quite a few times laughing out loud. I now have started The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks and it looks like it will be a quick read like all his other books.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Mamie, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I laughed out loud a few times, too.

I have started Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I'm learning so much about the lives of Iranian women and really loving their spirits.

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
Catching up on some of my favorite series. Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry is the last of the 4 part series on the Berrybender clan. I found the ending very satisfying, unlike some of his novels. He always kills off my favorite characters in tortuous and uncerimonious fashions.

Also, Alexander Smith's The Full Cupboard of Life. This is the 5th of the Precious Ramotswe series. Another very enjoyable book, hopefully there will be many more in this series.

I'm in the middle of The Touch by Colleen McCullough. I guess she wrote The Thornbirds. I grabbed it from the library thinking it would be a mediocre romance, but it's quite good. Much better written than I'd expected.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, May 17, 2004 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
I finished "Space" by James Michener. I LOVED this book. I learned so much (such as the occurance of the supernova in 1054) and enjoyed giving my mind over to expanded thinking when it comes to life in the universe. I found it absolutely fascinating to look at the science vs religion viewpoints and how people work to reconcile them.

Just this morning, I finished "Wind at My Back" which is the autobiography of Pat O'Brien. I really enjoyed his clever wit, his humor and his charm. It was a most interesting time to live. It was hard to imagine a time without television, let alone talking movies. It was time when gangsters ruled, and money flowed, then dried up, and then flowed again. An interesting tale written in 1965.

This morning I started "Eden Close" by Anita Shreeve. So far I like it...and it has potential for me to like it a lot.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 9:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I started reading The Death And Life Of Charlie St. Cloud last night and started loving it right away. It's about Charlie, who loses his younger brother in an accident, and finding the way to find love and go on.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 6:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Mak.. I found Reading Lolita in Tehran to be quite a learning experience too..

Mary.. I also liked Space.. read that long ago, I guess.

I finished the book about nuns and left it with my friends on Orcas Island (I also bought a second copy of Secret Life of Bees and gave that to my friend.. she was LOVING it and not wanting to finish it but was about done.. since the day I flew home (yesterday), her daughter had surgery, I'm sure she finished SLOB and was planning to pass it on to her daughter right away.

Anyway, I followed up the nuns with Open Heart which is written by an author who developed some odd pains that later were determined to be signs of life threatening coronary blockage.. his doctors weren't diagnosing it.. he was quite the athlete, swimmer, low cholesterol, etc.. and he credits his friends from childhood.. a psychiatrist, a cardiologist and another doctor with knowing him as a person, listening well and becoming alarmed enough to get him to the right place for a proper diagnosis and treatment.. he needed quintuple bypass.. anyway the bulk of the book is about the medical system and.. well.. good book..

Now reading Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer..

Oh and while I was on Orcas Island, I read 5 or so small books of Orcas lore and history..


Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 21, 2004 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Along time ago, when I said I had gotten the book "Eden Close" and said I was looking forward to reading it because I had enjoyed "The Pilot's Wife" by the same author, someone here said that I would enjoy "Eden Close" even more.

Well, I found it hard to believe at the time...but I wanted you to know that who ever that was....was right! I couldn't put it down!

I am now starting Tom Brokaw's "A Long Way from Home".

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, May 21, 2004 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I enjoyed that one, Mary...

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, May 24, 2004 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
I finished the Brokaw book in two days...unheard of for me. It's not that it was that good, it's that there wasn't much to it. For a self-proclaimed "chatterbox", he doesn't have a whole lot to say.

He does best when he is talking about his parents and grandparents, and waxing nostalgic about "America's Greatest Generation", but a story teller he is not.

As for his own life...don't expect to learn anything except that he was a typical boy of that generation. He went to school, he played sports, he went fishing and hunting with friends, he had part time jobs, and he liked girls.

There are no amusing anecdotes, and he rarely mentions his two brothers. He appears to have only superficial relationships, and there is very little substance. If Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble tell you if you liked Walter Cronkite's book, you will like this one, don't believe them. Walter's book is memorable, and Tom's book is utterly forgettable. I had expected so much more. Can you tell I was disappointed?

I am now reading one of those amazing treasures. The book is called The Wedding Dress: Stories from the Dakota Plains by Carrie Young. I highly recommend it. It is a book of seven short stories about the Norwegian immigrants of Minnesota and North Dakota. They are poignant, amusing, and unforgettable. The people have substance, and the stories are well told.

Garrison Keilor says," Carrie Young's beautiful book is a testament to our ancestors on the prairie...truthful, funny, modest of manner, and full of feeling.

I would have to agree. I have just finished the sixth of the seven stories and am saving the final for tonight. I am sad to see the end coming so soon. One lady on Amazon.com said she stills remembers these people four years later, and I know I will too.


Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, May 24, 2004 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
One of my first favorite books was by James Michener and I think it was called "The Tell." (I could be wrong - now I will have to go and look it up.) Basically it was the history of Israel, starting from an archeological dig that found evidences of an early caveman settlement. It was an awesome book.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, May 24, 2004 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Roxip, could you be thinking of "The Source". I have that book, but haven't read it yet. Perhaps I should think about moving it to my "must read soon" pile.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, May 24, 2004 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
I just finished The Wedding Dress: Stories from the Dakota Plains by Carrie Young. Even the last story was awesome. I'll give you a little taste of Twilight and June

Twilight Smith could always depend on Pete Hanson, his neighbor on the adjoining farm, to drive over in his pickup truck and ply him with all the news he didn't want to hear. When Pete drove up one crisp April morning to inform him that Twilight's long time girlfriend June Ness had driven off the day before, straight from the schoolhouse where she was teaching, and married Ralph Solveig, a farmer from the next township, Twilight opened his cupboard and smashed to the floor every cup on the shelf. It was not as bad as it sounded, because none of the cups had handles on them, and in any case Twilight stopped short of reaching up to the high shelf where his mother's fine bone china was stored.

I haven't decided what to read next...this is going to be a tough act to follow.