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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 10:23 pm
I love Debbie MacComber. She has another series that I liked, too, can't remember the name right now ...
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 8:15 am
I enjoyed the Big Stone Gap trilogy. Definitely read those. I'm reading PS I Love You, by Cecelia Ahern, right now and loving it. Another Irish author, and I was surprised to see she was around 22 when she wrote this. Great character development. Basic story is a 30-year old woman's husband dies and he leaves her a series of letters with something that she has to do each month. It's very touching, but also funny.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 8:33 am
Mamie, you are a reading machine!! I love reading your recommendations. I loved Lucia, Lucia and highly recommend the Big Stone Gap trilogy.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 9:08 am
Beach and Lady, I will definitely read Big Stone Gap! Yesitsme, love PS I Love You. Read Rosie Dunne, her new book. That's good too. Did you know that she is the Prime Minister's daughter?
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 9:55 am
Yesitsme, I wish I had kept a list of books and their authors that I've read. I can usually remember the author better than the title. I know I've read Debbie Macomber before, but I just can't remember which one. I want to try to find the PS I Love you, also. I really enjoyed Rosie Dunne. I agree with Beachcomber - Mamie, you are definitely one of the best book "recommenders". Most people I know that read a lot usually only read one kind of book, but you seem to have a variety of interests, which makes your recommendations intriguing.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 11:59 am
Thanks guys! I do tend to lean towards women's fiction but I sometimes find something else that catches my eye. I've been lucky and have liked more than I have not liked. I'm just glad that you all like the books that I have recommended. I don't want you coming after me in the middle of the night with torches, screaming for my head! LOL
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 12:02 pm
I'll definitely read Rosie Dunne. I am enjoying this one so much that I will read anything she writes. I love that someone so young writes so well....and especially already understands the complexities of people and relationships. I love the family and friends in the book. Very true to life in how they love each other, but also know just how to irritate each other. Mamie, I noticed just this morning about who her dad is. I wonder if she will ever write a book that has characters based on that side of her life. You guys would laugh if you saw the scraps of paper with authors that I tote along with me. One day I need to combine them and type them up alphabetically. But the list is incredibly helpful. I go to the library, pull one out and start going through the list. What I need to start doing is making a note of which of you has commented about them. Then again, I try to write about it here so you know if you did recommend it, I probably got the idea to read it from you! It has been a while since I read one that I hated, so you guys generally steer me in the right direction (and other than the few that I pick up because the interesting cover intrigues me, most of them are due to your recommendations.)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 12:25 pm
I have a notebook right next to the computer with a huge list of book titles. I either read about them in a magazine, or at the Barnes & Noble site or they come up in my book clubs and just grab me.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 2:05 pm
I used to keep a notecard with my favorite authors in my library bag but it must've fell out of the bag cause I haven't seen it in months and I know I'm missing out on some folks.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 9:17 am
I finished The Tea House On Mulberry Street. I really enjoyed it. Filled with quirky characters. I've said it before but I really love the Irish and British writers. I started Hello, It's Me by Wendy Markham. It's about a woman who's husband dies and she keeps calling his cellphone to hear his voice. It think she's going to end up with the rich guy in the book. Isn't that the way it always happens?
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 6:56 pm
mamie, when my b-i-l died, my sister would call his cell phone to hear his voice on his message, too. i think she did it for several months.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 9:09 pm
Tabby, I can totally understand wanting to hear the voice. In this book, she actually hears her husband trying to get a message to her, or does she really? The book was just "eh". I can't say that I recommend it. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. I have started reading Otherwise Engaged by Eileen Goudge. It's about two lifelong friends, one a magazine writer and one an innkeeper who end up trading lives for a bit. I really am liking it very much already. Hope it keeps up!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, March 18, 2005 - 1:04 pm
I finished Switcheroo by Olivia Goldsmith this morning. Basic plotline is a woman finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman who looks just like she looked 10 years ago. I started off not really liking it because of the direction it took, but ended up liking it OK. I think it is because she writes pretty well in spite of the fact that she and I have different views of men and women and relationships. I just had to remind myself of the title and did a search on her name to find a list of her titles and saw that Olivia Goldsmith died last year at age 54 from complications from a facelift. A novel in itself.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 18, 2005 - 2:17 pm
I have her book Dumping Billy in my book drawer. Have had it for awhile but haven't read it yet.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 1:32 pm
Just finished Summer in the City. It was really good. Better than her Paris book. It started off slow, and the changing from points of view every other chapter kept me from reading through so quickly. It slowed me down, causing me to take breaks. It is about a man in NY switching apartments and jobs with a woman in London for a month or so. Drama, takeover, love, and redemption. Cute!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 4:26 pm
I finished Otherwise Engaged and really enjoyed it. I am starting on Blue Blood by Susan McBride. It's a fun mystery and the main character is a girl who grew up in Texas society and she's helping an old friend accused of murdering her boss at Jugs. I love murder mysteries that are fun and witty. This one reminds me a lot of the Blackbird sister mysteries by Nancy Martin that I really enjoy. I also have the second McBride book titled A Good Girl's Guide To Murder, which I will probably start right after this one. It looks to be a fast read.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 5:09 am
Has anyone talked about the Katie MacAlister books like The Corset Diaries or Men in Kilts? They are absolutely hysterical, and I highly recommend them. She also has a "vampire" series, of which I just bought my first, but I haven't gotten into it as much as the others.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, March 21, 2005 - 9:33 am
I'll have to check those out, Prisoner. A long time ago, I read a vampire series that I really liked. I can't even think of the title but the vampire fell in love with a regular woman. They are probably all like that though, right? LOL It wasn't played for laughs but very sensual and you were rooting for them to be together. Name escapes me. Perimenopausal moment!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 7:46 am
This week's book is Playing With Boys by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (author of "The Dirty Girls Social Club.") I had a hard time getting into it because it's one of those where the narrating character switches every chapter and I kept getting confused, but I am enjoying it now. Our library is closing soon for a couple of weeks to move into a new building, and I am finding that I am like a junkie having to plan for her fix during that time!!! I have a feeling I am going overboard.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 7:55 am
I finished my Debutante Dropout mysteries and loved them. A lot of fun. I am now starting A New Lu by Laura Castoro. It's about a 50 year old woman who writes a column in a 50ish magazine, has just divorced her husband and finds out she's pregnant.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 7:15 pm
Mamie, I just want to say that you are an incredibly voracious reader. It's really amazing!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:03 pm
I'm making up for all the years of raising little ones. Now that they are older, I have time for myself at night to read.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:38 am
And now Mamie you have to keep it up because I depend on you for my reading list!!!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:11 am
Mamie, Vee's right, you are a voracious reader. I always thought I was fast, but I feel like I'm in the slow group when I see what you've read! Yesistme is right, though, keep it up because now I have a stack of books to read per your recommendation! I ordered (which was fun) "Can you keep a secret" by Sophie Kinsella, and I started reading "P.S. I love you" by Cecelia Ahern". I decided to put that away for now because it started out sad and I wanted something on a lighter note. My son is in Europe (that sounds so cool to say) on springbreak (when I tell people that he's gone for springbreak, they say, "where, Florida?" and I get to answer - oh so nonchalantly - "No - Europe". Ha. Anyway, I have lots of time to read this week, but I'm also missing him, so I just want to read light, fun things.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 9:47 am
Scout, what a great experience for him! I know how you feel, it's hard to think of them so far away from you. You must read fun things! Can You Keep A Secret is lots of fun. The book I'm reading right now, A New Lu, is very funny. I'm really enjoying it. Don't worry all. I won't stop reading! After years of Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, etc., it's my turn! Not that I didn't love reading those books with my kids (some of my best memories) but it's great to read "adult" books!
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