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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, March 08, 2004 - 3:15 pm
Bel Canto was okay. It does get better as you go on but I wasn't that impressed with it.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 9:42 am
I finished "A Reporter's Life" by Walter Cronkite last night. I totally loved this book. "Uncle" Walter is a person that I would love to be seated next to at a dinner party, and now I feel as though I have been. He has so many stories to tell, from the laugh out loud hilarious exploits, to the almost surreal at being at the forefront of the important events of our time. This has to be one of the best biographies I have ever read. I highly recommend it. I have started "Space: by James Michener. I have been wanting to read this book for years and finally happened on a a good used copy this year. I love historical fiction, and have read quite a bit about the emergence of our space program. I am looking forward to nice, long read that will take me into spring.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 10:34 am
A friend of mine brought over a bunch of books, not sure if I'd like them all but an now reading Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 9:42 pm
Well, I am reading In The Lake Of The Woods for my literature class. This is my second time reading it and it just drives me crazy! Has anyone else read it? I noticed it was once a NY times Best Seller.....
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 5:59 am
I finished Idyll Banter by Chris Bohjalian, a collection of his newspaper columns about his life in small-town Vermont. I live in a small New England town, too, so can relate to most of what he writes about. It was good...at times funny, sad, bizarre, and poignant. Now I'm reading a murder mystery, The Student Body by J. S. Borthwick.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 3:45 pm
I finished The Turtle Warrier which was incredibly sad but also powerfully loving and very well written. Set on farms in northern Wisconsin .. which serve as refuge and prison for those on them or returning to or escaping from them. Started another novel last night.. another pain-filled yet love-filled world, this one in the Adirondacks, small town. Allison McGeee's Was it Beautiful?. Uh, I seem to be halfway through it.. had some trouble sleeping, so I read.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 9:24 pm
I finished Stone Kiss which I enjoyed. I will have to read more of her writing and I am now starting on Prozac Nation.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 12, 2004 - 12:38 pm
Finished Was it Beautiful? and now going to non-fiction.. ohn Stossel's Give Me A Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... The picturea alone are worth the price of admission.. I love seeing famous people back in their younger days.. snork!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 12, 2004 - 2:14 pm
Let me know how the Stossel book is because I'm very interested in that one.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 12, 2004 - 6:52 pm
I'm liking it so far..
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, March 12, 2004 - 8:10 pm
I had to quit reading the murder mystery when the first body was found. It was just too sad to me, too much like a true story that happened last year. Now I'm reading Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins. The first chapter was so weird, I thought it might be too weird (even for me, lol). The story is picking up now, and I do love his writing style.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 9:01 am
I have read one Tom Robbins book, Skinny Legs and All. Although interesting, at first I couldn't get past all the inanimate objects that talked. I picked it for my book club, and only one person made it through the book. I think he is an acquired taste.
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 9:12 am
reading Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 8:07 pm
Finished Give Me a Break and will be taking on a novel by Oscar Hijuelos, A Simple Habana Melody (from when the world was good)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 8:40 pm
I just started reading The Time Traveler's Wife and I love it! The whole concept of the story and it's a wonderful love story. I really recommend it.
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Midlifer
Member
04-16-2003
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 12:04 pm
Has anybody heard of the Mary Russell series, by Laurie King? The first book of the series is The Beekeeper's Apprentice and I am LOVING it! Mary Russell is an apprentice to Sherlock Holmes after he retires. Time frame is World War I.
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Crazydog
Member
09-21-2001
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 12:48 pm
I just finished Michael Crichton's "Prey", about an out-of-control artificial intelligence swarm of nanoparticles. I love fast-paced thrillers... now I am reading "The First Counsel" by Brad Meltzer.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 7:35 pm
I finished Villa Incognito. I didn't like it. It was just too weird and not humorous like the first Robbins book I read. Now I'm reading Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death by Barbara Johnson. It's witty and a light read. I recognize many of the jokes in it, because I've received them in e-mail.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 10:16 pm
CD.. I liked Prey, and all of his books, really.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 10:51 am
This morning, I read My Stroke of Luck by Kirk Douglas. Next up is Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi. Midlifer, that sounds like a good series. I always notice Laurie King in the library, because my DD's name is Lorie King, but I haven't read anything by her yet.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 12:00 pm
Oh Mak1, please let me how you liked Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi. I have read Stones from the River and The Salt Dancers by her and really liked them both. I think I have one other on the "to be read soon" bookshelf, so I would be really interested in what you think of this one.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 10:50 am
Ironfrog.com I wanted to share this site with all of you. This may not be the right thread for it, but I didn't think it would merit its own thread. It shows a map of known "library cats" around the world. Some have their own websites, lol.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 7:56 pm
A Simple Habana Melody was quite interesting.. different.. Now resting a bit with some chick lit, Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 19, 2004 - 10:06 pm
I loved The Time Traveler's Wife! I am now starting P.S. I Love You.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 10:47 am
Anyone read the Forsyte Saga?
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