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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 16, 2005 - 12:07 pm
I've done that too. But sometimes I start reading the first few lines and I'm not sure if I've read it or it has the same plot as another book that I've read.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Monday, May 16, 2005 - 3:19 pm
Mamie, could we bribe you with praise to post your top 10 you would recommend out of the 234? Pretty please with sugar on top? I love your recommendations and need some suggestions for good summer reads. Just finished reading Dorothea Benton Frank's "Pawleys Island" and it is one of the best books I have read in the last few years. It leaves you wanting more.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 16, 2005 - 3:23 pm
Beachcomber, I will have to think on that! I like so many of them! I was wondering about Pawley's Island. Have you ever read any of her other books? I always want to order them and then change my mind. I like the books about the Carolinas and the surrounding areas.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, May 16, 2005 - 3:33 pm
Halfway through Ya Yas in Bloom -- LOVING every minute of it! 
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 8:12 am
I have read all of Dorothea Benton Frank's books and love them all and especially the way she will bring up characters in past books as dropping by a shop or a function in the newer books. I am a native South Carolinian and love all of her books about the Low Country section of SC and the interesting characters she creates. I would definitely recommend them as great summer reads because they are all about coastal towns and you feel like you are right there on the beach.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 8:33 am
Thanks Beachcomber. Have you ever read Mary Alice Monroe? I really like her books. I just read The Four Seasons and I really enjoyed The Beach House too. I am reading Judith Michael's The Real Mother now. It's about a woman who has to move back home to raise her 2 teenage sisters and 10 year old brother after her father dies and mother is put in a nursing home. There is also a brother who has left home who will be coming home and stirring things up.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:14 pm
I am reading The Book Club by her right now and have ordered the other two based on your recommendations. You are better than Oprah!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:46 pm
Now if I only had Oprah's money!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 3:51 pm
And by the way, you are reading a book of hers that even I haven't read yet!
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 6:05 pm
The Book Club book has started off good and is about a book club of 5 diverse women with a flavor of Desperate Housewives to it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 10:28 am
I am so excited because I just ordered Sophie Kinsella's new book The Undomestic Goddess. It doesn't come out until July but hey, I love her!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - 11:36 am
I love Sophie Kinsella....I will be on the lookout for that one when it comes out. I just finished Slightly Single by Wendy Markham. Lightweight, easy read. Girl in love with actor who's "just not that into her" and yet she hangs on. Meets other guy that appreciates her, yet still hangs on to the boyfriend. I am not the type to do this, but have had enough friends that have so it seemed real familiar!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 3:37 pm
Beachcomber, as per your recommendation, I ordered Pawley's Island today. I was thinking about ordering Shem Creek too.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Friday, May 20, 2005 - 5:25 pm
Can't wait to see what you think about it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, May 20, 2005 - 6:37 pm
I finished The Real Mother and it was just okay. The brother talked in this weird way that really bugged me. I had bought my daughter The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants books and she read all three in 2 days. I picked up the first one, The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, and was so enthralled by it, I read it in 2 and a half hours. I will now read the other 2. I know it's young chick lit but it is good chick lit!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 12:35 pm
I just finished Diary of a Blues Goddess by Erica Orloff. It's set in New Orleans and is the story of a woman who is a wedding singer but wants to sing the blues. It was pretty enjoyable, though at times there were so many characters that I got confused (not hard for me to do.)
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 8:31 pm
My favorite Pants book is the third one, although I think the girls should be in college in that one. A lot of my junior high students like the books, and that one is a little much for them. I can't wait for the movie!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 23, 2005 - 7:14 pm
Finished all the Traveling Pants books and I just loved them! Not just for teen-aged girls. I am not starting Raising Hope by Katie Willard. It's about two very different women who have to raise a child together.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Monday, May 23, 2005 - 8:18 pm
Just finished As Seen on TV by Sarah Myloski?? It was pretty cute and a fast read. A girl deals with her mother's death, father's aloofness, and trying to fit her issues into her relatioship all while being on a reality TV show Sex and the City style. A little too much graphic sex talk, but if you get past that a pretty good story. Up next, Sleeping Over by Stacey Ballis.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 6:32 am
Read Jemima J by Jane Green yesterday. I really enjoyed it. It's about an overweight woman who during the course of the story loses her weight and basically becomes her own fantasy. Meets a guy in CA over the internet (she is in England) and after the weight loss travels to meet him.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 8:42 am
Jen, I've read them both. I enjoyed Sleeping Over much more.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 5:54 pm
I loved Jemima J! I am now reading her new book, To Have and to Hold. So far, so good. I also just finished a good one about a 29 yr. old widow, Starting From Square Two by Caren Lissner.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 3:22 pm
I finished Raising Hope and it was a very sweet book about family and how they can be made of very different people. I really liked it. I am going to start The Goodbye Summer by Patricia Gaffney. I really liked her book The Saving Graces so I have high hopes for this one. Of course, tonight is big tv night so I might not get too much reading done.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 4:43 pm
Mamie, I hated The Real Mother. I really tried, since the story seemed good, but the writing was just awful. I just finished The Backup Plan by Sherryl Woods. Not bad, it was trying for a deeper, Afghanistan-war-torn-country-journalist-dealing-with-stress thing, but that part of it didn't really succeed to me. I enjoyed the old southern family dynamics and how it can be to come back home and things not work out like you'd planned. I think I read Goodbye Summer and enjoyed it very much. I can't remember any details though, but it sounds so familiar. I'm also going to read the Mitford series from the beginning again. Enjoyable, but since I've read them, I won't have to concentrate too hard.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:26 pm
Not1, I agree about the writing. I think I read something else that Judith Michael wrote and liked it but didn't you just hate the way the brother talked?
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