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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 10:55 am
OK, I will be the one to break it to you. Evidently your posts didn't make the cut. I'm sure that mine got deleted by accident.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:00 am
I thought we were well on the way to our own literary career. (Not too sure about Yesitsme though )
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:06 am
LOL. Now you have crushed me!!! And yes, I do think you guys write fiction well. We all know that I would buy it. Well, I would check it out of the library!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:13 am
LOL I would never crush you on purpose. We have our women's book group here and we stand united.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:15 am
I still think we have a career ahead of us, Mamie, but I think we're going to have to leave Yesitsme out of our acknowledgements section for not recognizing pure, raw talent.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:42 am
I think you are probably amazingly talented...jewels just waiting to shine. And come now....I said I would check it out of the libary. I may even buy it. Though actually you should send me a preview copy. And how could you even consider leaving me out of the acknowledgments? I know I am your inspiration!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:45 am
You would be in the dedication! This book is dedicated to Yesitsme, who said she would borrow it from the library. That's a true friend.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:21 pm
Okay, you're definitely in my dedication, too, Yesitsme. The "jewels waiting to shine" part was pure (and truthful) poetry. Mamie, don't forget to add a little on to your dedication: "This book is dedicated to Yesitsme, who said she would borrow it from the library and 'might' even buy it." Better still, since Yesitsme is both our inspiration and our poet, I vote we three co-author (my name first).
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:34 pm
I think we should come up with some great pseudonym.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:53 pm
Oh let's! And I volunteer to be last. As I see it, something like "And introducing Yesitsme, inspiration, poet, and brilliant co-author." You know, if we had our main character be a composite of the three of us, that could be quite entertaining! I figure somewhere there is a survey that gives authors points for books most checked out of the library. And since I am notorious for having to renew everything I get, that probably adds more points. My purpose in life! And that reminds me....I need to call and renew a book that is due today!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 1:09 pm
"Scout" is a pretty great pseudonym, but I'm open to suggestions. So we have a story about three women who meet up on a book message board and have a running dialogue of wise and pithy comments that are occasionally about books. We could write it up in post format. I, for one, would definitely check a book like this out of the library and maybe even buy it.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 1:56 pm
I would too! That sounds great. As long as it had a good cover. I realized the other day that I am very drawn to books with good covers. Colorful, flashy, but not real Harlequin-romance looking. Well, it is time for that yearly mammogram. I'm off to get squished. Lucky me! Seriously I just talked with a lady today that has breast cancer so I do consider myself lucky to be in a world where routine screening is available.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 2:30 pm
So, no cover with buxomy women and men with long hair and ripped shirts? Darn! I think a book like that would be wonderful and I would BUY it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 6:11 pm
I just finished a wonderful book called The Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King. It is such a good book and I recommend it very highly. It's about a group of women who have been friends since high school and gather together every year. If you don't cry at the end of this book, I'd be so surprised! I am going to start Rosie Dunne by Cecelia Ahern next. She wrote P.S. I Love You, which I also highly recommend.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 2:42 pm
I'm still thinking of book covers! Thanks for the recommendations, Mamie. You always keep me with new names on my list!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 3:09 pm
So, no bodice ripping?
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 7:05 am
Well, we can have bodice ripping if we have a more subtle book jacket. There just has to be some mystery!!!! And I am all for bodice ripping in the text...especially if the character is based on me!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 8:56 am
When they make our book into a movie, I want to have James Newton Howard score the soundtrack. He wrote the music for "The Village" and it has the most beautiful violin tracts I've ever heard. Of course, it's kind of sad and mournful and usually the kind of music for when something extremely sad happens, so maybe they can play it at the end of the story as my computer slowly dies...
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 1:08 pm
I've never heard it....I guess now I will have to find "The Village." A sad and mournful computer death...that works. I'm someone who thinks that people should stay for the credits of movies, so we have to come up with something that makes them stay put.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 4:58 am
The library called with another Marian Keyes book - "Sushi for Beginners". Didn't you recommend that one, Mamie? I was wondering how it compared to "Watermelon" and some of her others?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 8:50 am
I enjoyed Sushi for Beginners very much. I think I liked Watermelon a little more but it is still a cute one.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 9:29 am
I'm still waiting on the "Bakers Tower" book you mentioned. Our library can be a bit slow! "Sushi for Beginners" and "Bakers Tower" - sounds like I'm reading cookbooks.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:07 am
I am still readingRosie Dunne. I haven't had as much time to read this week. It's a very cute story about a boy and a girl that grow up as best friends but you know the underlying feeling that they will be together one day. They've married others at this point but they have to get together! It's told in Meg Cabot's style of letters, emails, instant messages.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 10:26 am
That sounds good, Mamie. I'll add it on my list.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 12:06 pm
When I went to pick up "Sushi for Beginners", the library also had the "Rosie Dunne" book - so I'll have two new ones. Hopefully, the weather will be too nice to read, though, over the weekend!
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