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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 9:07 am
I haven't read it but for me, I enjoy Ann Rule's books.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 3:15 pm
I am going to begin reading Light On Snow by Anita Shreve. I'll start before Lost is on and afterwards.
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Nino
Member
09-20-2004
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 12:43 pm
I just finished Trace by Patricia Cornwell this afternoon. I usually love her Scarpetta books, but this one lacked a little something for me. Of course, I'm glad I read it, but I expected a bit more from it. Dana, I'm with Mamie, Ann Rule is the best in my book when it comes to true crime. I've read 10 or 15 books by her, and they've all been great. I love true crime books! Rule has a great crime files series with several different cases in each book. I recommend any of them.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, October 22, 2004 - 2:07 pm
I finished Light On Snow. It was a very quick read and very simplistic. I enjoyed it. I am now reading Nights Of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 12:07 am
Definitely Ann Rule for true crime! Tisha, I'm happy to have a positive review of Known World. I do have it in my pile. I actually postponed the Jennifer Weiner book realizing I was going to Mystic and it was a hardback that I would be keeping, vs taking a paperback that I could leave for bookcrossing.. so I took the next two books by the author of Milk Run.. (Fish Bowl and As Seen on TV)and struggled through the second one.. not bad, just not my type of book.. I bookcrossed that at Curves in Cambridge Mass and it was read in a day by a Harvard student who said it was a nice relief fromm heavy studies and she was sending it to her mom. The other one I finished and bookcrossed here. Also bookcrossed Missing.. I read another book about autism by an autistic, Temple Grandin.. that will go to Australia along with the book about Asperger Syndrome. My friend's son has been formally diagnosed as having Asperger . I treated myself to the latest Laura Pedersen book.. I love her stuff! I bookcrossed Book of Salt to Reiki while in Mystic. Did get to read the Jennifer Weiner, Little Earthquakes and am bereft that I'll now have to wait for her to write another book!! I highly recommend her books! She's very good. All three of her books have been optioned.. one is to be an HBO miniseries, one a movie starring Shirley Maclaine and the other is optioned already. Finished Dave Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Denim and Corduroy which was ok. Now reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach .. coincidentally, this was the book given to Nate by Lisa's neice that ended up having the photo in it that solved the murder case.. it is barely holding my interest, but I'll finish it. I'm not sure what to think about Jonathan Kellerman collaborating with his wife.. I hate to take him away from his Alex Delaware books.. but of course he may be bored or something.. dang..
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 11:30 am
I was so excited to have a Seamonkey sighting in this thread!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 4:05 pm
Now we want a Mamie sighting in Oakland ..
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 5:14 pm
I haven't checked in here for a while, it's good to find a list of things to request for the library now. I'm trying to remember some of the things that I've been reading since I last posted. I have been checking out all the Stephanie Plum books from the library just because they are so awesome, even the second time around. The librarian recommended a series by Nancy Bartholomew about a stripper/P.I.. Anyone tried those? I enjoyed Shoot the Moon as well. Another good one is Bet Your Bottom Dollar by Karin Gillespie. It's about the gang of women who run a dollar store in a tiny southern town. The southern dialogue was great, never too over the top and very funny. The plot was entertaining and I was disappointed that this is the only Bottom Dollar book. Somewhat Chick Lit-ish was The Dim Sum of Everything. I thought it was funny that the Chinese young woman in the book hid her Hello Kitty obsession because she was afraid it made her too stereotypically Asian. So she's secretly squirreling away Hello Kitty items everywhere. The Piano Teacher was much better than I'd expceted. It looked like a fluffy old southern lady novel, but it was much better than that. The ending was downright gripping. Now I am reading Halos by Kristin Heitzmann. So far, pretty good.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:18 am
Sea? I thought we wanted a Mamie sighting in HERE??? Wandering off confused again....
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:25 am
But Lk, I've been off educating the Generics! How was Something Rotten? I haven't gotten it yet.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 10:26 am
It was great. I hate finishing his books!!!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:09 pm
I'm fine with any sightings in HERE, but when I'm in Oakland I want to meet Mamie face to face, quackle in hand 
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:21 pm
I am reading the Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. It is as good as the series was on PBS.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 7:25 pm
I just got Shopaholic and Sister from the library. I picked it up Saturday afternoon and was done by Sunday afternoon. Very good book...and I can just see the next in the series. I'm pretty much positive there will be one And I liked the sister. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 8:29 pm
Of course, there has to be Shopaholic and Baby!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 1:33 pm
I finished Stiff and went right into Kent Haruf's sequel to Plainsong, Eventide, another quiet study of relationships/people in a small Colorado town. I like Haruf's writing very very much. I read it overnight.. wanted to continue on with this cast of charcters. Now starting another novel, The Red Moon, by Kuwana Haulsey.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 1:35 pm
I really enjoyed Plainsong so I must get the sequel. I finished the Binchy book and I enjoyed it. It was the first book I had read of hers. I am now going to start Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 2:48 pm
The Field by Lynn McTaggart... quantum physics for the layman. Gotta love those subatomic actions - I'll let you know!
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 4:05 pm
Halos was excellent. I was tickled to see Shopaholic and Sister at the library yesterday. But then I started it today and remembered how much Becky annoys me. Isn't this the 4th book? I really want her to have a little self control by now.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 6:54 am
Mamie, I didn't realize that Maeve Binchy had a new book out. I like her a lot. I will have to look for that one. I'm headed to the library sometime today and I will look for it. Dahli, The Field sounds like a great Christmas gift for my Carl Sagan loving friend. Tell me if you think it is.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, October 29, 2004 - 3:01 pm
I'm just reading Nicci French's latest two books, Land of the Living, and Secret Smile. Both are excellent psychological thrillers based around a bad event happening to a woman and others not believing her. They've actually caused me to sleep very badly, they're so disturbing! Good job they're real page turners and they're over with relatively quickly! I highly recommend them.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Friday, October 29, 2004 - 10:43 pm
I stayed in bed much of the morning and finished Red Moon.. very good book. Now I'm starting a freebie I got through bookcrossing.com, Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W. Fuller. The author released a batch of these to bookcrossers who requested them, with the intention that we would read them and then free them either in the wild or pass them along.. not really started, yet.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 6:20 am
Today I'm planning to finish The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. I've heard what a great author she is, and I haven't been disappointed!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 10:03 am
I finished the last of my Jennifer Weiner books and I enjoyed it. I am now starting An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg. It's going to be a movie with Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez and I still can't get over that pairing.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 02, 2004 - 8:15 am
I finished An Unfinished Life, that sounds a little funny, and I really liked it. I am still unsure of casting Jennifer Lopez but we'll see. I am going to start Skipping Christmas by John Grisham and I think by the looks of it, I will probably finish it in a day.
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